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Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s short residence at 69, Great Queen Street including letters from the apartment’s owner, C L Birch, and from Daniel Moore, Henry Rhodes and James Christie, as well as a list by Benjamin Ellis of items taken from 36, Gerard Street to 69, Great Que...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s residence at 4, Lincoln’s Inn Fields between 1820 and 1840. Includes letters from John Britton, Henry Leave, William Mountford Nurse (the property’s owner), James Christie, Philip Reeve, G. Buxton (a neighbour) and Charles Berkeley. Also inclu...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s twenty-one year lease of 72, Great Russell Street, which commenced in 1840. Includes a copy of the agreement, correspondence from John Mickle (the property’s owner), a solicitor’s letter on the agreement, extracts from the Minutes relating to t...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s searches for premises or to offers made regarding properties. The 1840 search for premises in central London is documented in letters from correspondents including Octavian Blewitt, John Newman, George Byrom Whittaker, William Kingdom, John Stew...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s leasing ‘the drawing-room floor’ at 4, Adelphi Terrace between 1860 and 1872. Contains 1860 letters from George Godwin, Thomas J. Foord (the owner of the property), Tooke, Hallows & Price Octavian Blewitt as well as the contract, a schedule...
Application to the Government for Rooms in Burlington House
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Contains a proposal from George Godwin and William Frederick Pollock that rooms be sought in Burlington House, a letter from Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope, to Octavian Blewitt enclosing a letter from Lord John Manners to Stanhope (characterised as ‘not at all encouraging’), a letter on th...
Contains correspondence between Octavian Blewitt and Samuel Andrews, the latter being the landlord of 10, John Street, which the Literary Fund leased between 1872 and 1879. Also contains a letter from William Farr and a prospectus from the Scientific Societies’ House Company, which proposed ‘to...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s residence in 7, Adelphi Terrace from the period between 1879 and 1887 (although the Fund’s residence continued after this point – see Loan 96 RLF 5/8/4). Includes a copy of the agreement between Octavian Blewitt and Hawks, Crawshay & Sons, ...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s residence in 6 & 7 Adelphi Terrace between 1890 and 1899 (although the residence continued until 1905). Includes an agreement between the Literary Fund and William Woodall acting for the Savage Club (who occupied other parts of Adelphi Terr...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s residence in Denison House between 1905 and 1921. Includes 1902 and 1903 correspondence from Charles Stewart Loch of the Charity Organisation Society relating to a shared Societies’ House, 1905 letters from F Thurston on the progress of this en...