Contains minutes and correspondence relating to changes in the Literary Fund’s investment policies in 1874. The Fund moved away from government securities seeking higher rates of interest.
Contains ‘correspondence relating to a portion of the Fund raised at Liverpool at the celebration of the Shakespeare Tercentenary’ from Henry A Bright.
Contains correspondence from Clement Shorter, J A Burrell, W Hugh Spottiswoode, A George Jolley and Farrer & Co. relating to the Dickens Centenary Fund, which the Literary Fund was asked to consider administering. The role was found to be incommensurable with the charter.
Contains letters relating to donations to the Literary Fund from (or from the estates of) Charles Wayte, ‘A Friend of Literature’ (‘believed to be John Kenyon’), Septimus Berdmore, Smith, Elder & Co., James McGrigor Allan, Miss M J James, Queen Alexandra’s Arts Fund and Jaakoff Prelooker.
Contains correspondence regarding Queen Victoria’s subscription to the Literary Fund from officials in the Privy Purse Office including Sir Henry Wheatley, Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, W J Harrison, Sir Thomas Biddulph, Doyne C Bell and Walter M Gibson.
Contains letters, printed documents and receipts relating to donations to the Literary Fund from the Percy Society on its being wound up. Also contains lists of the society’s members and publications and details of its accounts.