Application Form, George Douglas Stoddart, Sydney Stoddart, Ann Stoddart and Alice Stoddart, with note by Octavian Blewitt on reverse confirming valid marriage certificate was produced
Mr Williams, Lord Montmorres & Mr Grenfell’s Bet to be decided by the Club
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Contains details of a bet made between David Williams, Hervey Raymond Morres, Viscount Mountmorres, and Pascoe Grenfell regarding ‘the last Character in which Mr Garrick appeared on the Stage.’ Mountmorres and Grenfell correctly identified this character as Don Felix in The Comedy of the Wonder,...
Address to the Queen on her Escape from Maclean’s Attempt on her Life
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Contains two drafts of an address to Queen Victoria after an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean, with related correspondence from Charles Shaw and Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby and acknowledgements from Reginald B Heygate, for the Home Secretary, Sir William Harcourt, and from Harco...
Contains a list of writers with surnames beginning with the letters ‘O’, ‘P’ and ‘Q’ about whom Arthur Llewelyn Roberts received enquiries, as well as letters from Bernard Mallet, Frederick Sydney Parry, Malcolm G Ramsay, Henry Higgs, Roderick S Meiklejohn, Sir Harry R Reichel, Frederick William...
Report of the Registrars & Treasurers on the Re-investment of a Portion of the Funded Property
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Contains a report by the Registrars and Treasurers of the Literary Fund (at this time John Manners, William Smith, Benjamin Ward Richardson, Anthony Trollope and Frederic Ouvry) on reinvesting part of the Fund’s resources, with a follow-up report and three letters from Ouvry.
Contains letters from Sir William Thomas Knollys and Herbert Fisher to Octavian Blewitt, requesting information on two writers who applied for aid to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales, with one copy of a reply from Blewitt.