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Assistant Collector (later Collector and Clerk) – Mr Charles Lamborn
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Contains application letters for the post of Assistant Collector from Charles Oliver, William Burt and James Salmon and a Treasurer’s Report by John Reeves, George Ranking and Richard Yates on the candidates for the position, which resulted in the appointment of Charles Lamborn. Also contains a...
Includes a correspondence between Henry Leave and John Britton with respect to the position of Collector for the Literary Fund, a letter from Charles Monro to Richard Yates and two documents relating to Leave’s Bond, all from 1819. Also includes correspondence from 1821 and 1822 relating to Leav...
Contains applications for the office of collector from Charles Payne, Charles Berkeley, R Kennerley, Thomas Bedder (with recommendation letters from William Frend and William Sixmore) and Joseph Snow (with recommendation letters from Charles Kemble and George Yeats), with related letters from Ow...
Contains applications for the post of Secretary of the Literary Fund from George Miller (two letters, with a printed list of testimonials), Thomas Harral (four letters, with a later note from Octavian Blewitt on Harral’s deserting his family), Edward Kempson, Octavian Blewitt (three letters, wit...
Contains an 1836 letter from William Moxon to the Committee of the Literary Fund offering his services as Secretary gratuitously, a pair of similar 1837 letters from Francis Mahoney to Thomas Crofton Croker and two 1855 letters from a Miss Howard, with responses from Octavian Blewitt and Charle...
Contains letters of application for the post of Secretary of the Literary Fund from John Van Horn (with printed affidavit), H W Dewhurst, Octavian Blewitt, G.H. Smith, Whittington Henry Landon (recommended by William Jerdan) and James Stennett (with recommendation letter from Wieles Leigh Cliffe...
Contains letters relating to applications for the post of Secretary of the Literary Fund from George Miller, William Freeling Jerdan (supported by his father, William Jerdan) and Octavian Blewitt (with picture). Blewitt was appointed, with sureties provided by William Tooke, George Herbert and E...
Clerk (later Secretary) – Mr Arthur Llewelyn Roberts
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Contains correspondence from 1881 and 1882 with respect to the position of Clerk, including applications from Eustace Owen (with supporting letters from Herny Aikin, Frederick [Onselen?] F. Waldegrave Brewster, Thomas Clifford, Saxby & Farmer, B W Day, Engall Sanders & Co and H I Sanders...
Contains letters relating to the security asked of Charles Oliver in order for him to become Collector of the Literary Fund, one from John Gray, one from Oliver himself. Includes a handwritten contents list by Nigel Cross.
Contains applications for the post of Collector of the Literary Fund from A J White (recommended by Samuel Thornton) and John Hilder. Hilder was appointed, with John Clark standing surety (his worth attested to by Henry Pigeon); Hilder’s application was supported by Bingham Richards. The file ...