Press cuttings on debtors' court proceedings involving Gilbert Abbot à Beckett and notices of the weddings of Fanny Matilda à Beckett and Arthur William à Beckett
Application Form, Mary Anne Petrie, Eliza Mary Petrie, Julia Petrie and Jemima Petrie - with clippings on the death of George Petrie and his daughters' receiving a continuing pension
Address to the Duchess of Kent, on the Queen’s Marriage
Scope & Content:
Contains a copy and drafts of an address made by the Literary Fund to Princess Marie Luise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Kent, with related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, John Bruce, Henry Ellis, John Bowyer Nichols and Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne,...
Contains a letter from Robert Merry stating that he has not been able to obtain an answer from Francis Godolphin Osborne, Duke of Leeds, regarding the presidency of the Literary Fund.
Contains the texts of letters from Thomas Bracken and Septimus Collinson regarding an unsuccessful attempt to contact William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland, in order to invite him to become President of the Literary Fund.