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1. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/8
Title:
Secretary – Mr Octavian Blewitt
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1839-16 Jul 1888
Extent:

1 file (56 documents)

2. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/10
Title:
Collector – Mr Charles Oliver
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1809-19 May 1819
Extent:

1 file (2 documents)

3. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/11

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/11
Title:
Collector – Mr John Hilder
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1836-6 Nov 1843
Extent:

1 file (12 documents)

4. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/1
Title:
Collector (later Clerk) – Mr Edmund Baker
Scope & Content:
Contains documents relating to the tenure of Edmund Baker as Collector and Clerk of the Literary Fund, between 1800 and 1807. These include letters from Baker to Thomas Dale, Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham, the Committee of the Literary Fund and Richard Yates detailing his work collecting and encou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1801-12 Dec 1835
Extent:

1 file (24 documents)

5. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/3
Title:
Clerk and Collector – Mr Henry Leave
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1819-23 Apr 1822
Extent:

1 file (19 documents)

6. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/4
Title:
Clerk and Collector – Mr Joseph Snow
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1822-16 Dec 1839
Extent:

1 file (22 documents)

7. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/5
Title:
Secretary – Mr Cusack Patrick Roney
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1835-25 Feb 1837
Extent:

1 file (17 documents)

8. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/7
Title:
Secretary – Reverend Whittington Henry Landon
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1837-9 Feb 1839
Extent:

1 file (17 documents)

9. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/12

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/12
Title:
Collector – Mr Henry Syer Bristowe
Scope & Content:
Contains an application for the post of Collector of the Literary Fund from Henry Syer Bristowe, supported by F. Massey, John Dalton and Charles Edward Bissett, with John Syer Bristowe and J. Putley standing surety. The file also contains a note by Octavian Blewitt on Bristowe’s appointment, co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1843-9 Feb 1863
Extent:

1 file (14 documents)

10. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/13

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/13
Title:
Collector – Mr Thomas James Blencowe
Scope & Content:
Contains applications for the post of Collector of the Literary Fund from Thomas James Blencowe (supported by [?] Gooch, John Blake Honnywill, Frederick J Turner, Thomas Orgez, T. J Atkins and Daniel Moore), John Rouse (recommended by Henry Reeve), Richard Elkins (recommended by Henry Foss) and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 May 1860-Jun 1865
Extent:

1 file (36 documents)

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