This sub-series contains surviving ledgers and letter books recording the affairs of the Literary Fund. The surviving volumes do not constitute a complete record, but the information they contain can often be supplemented by referring to the main run of Minute Books (Loan 96 RLF 2/1), the Annual...
Ledger recording payments to beneficiaries relieved by the Literary Fund between 1791 and 1823
Scope & Content:
Small, vellum-bound ledger detailing payments made to applicants to the Literary Fund during the early years of its existence. Opens with ‘An Alphabetical List of Persons relieved by the Literary Fund’, which provides an index to the numbered records of payments which follow. In the second hal...
Records payments made to the Literary Fund’s House Fund between 1805 and 1820. The house in question was 36 Gerard Street in Soho, the leasing of which was made possible by a donation from the Prince of Wales. Further details regarding the Fund’s properties can be found in the administrative d...
Royal Literary Fund Annual Register of Grants Volume 1
Scope & Content:
Contains records of every grant made by the Literary Fund between 1790 and 1891, arranged chronologically by the date of the meeting at which the grant was agreed. Includes totals of grants per year, a running total of monies disbursed by the Fund and occasional notes on exceptional cases.
Royal Literary Fund Annual Register of Grants Volume 2
Scope & Content:
Contains records of every grant made by the Literary Fund between 1892 and 1951, arranged chronologically by the date of the meeting at which the grant was agreed. Includes a running total of monies disbursed by the Fund and occasional notes on exceptional cases.
Royal Literary Fund Alphabetical List of Subscriptions, Donations, and Legacies, as entered in the Receipt Book from 1882 to 1894
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Contains an alphabetical record of subscriptions, donations and legacies to the Royal Literary Fund paid between 1882 and 1894. This book is custom-printed and is marked on the front as Vol. VIII; however, no other similar volumes were to be found in 2013.
Carbon copy letter book employed by Arthur Llewelyn Roberts, the Fund’s Secretary, who served between 1884 and 1919. The earliest letter in the volume is dated 5 January 1887; the latest (which is on page 34 of the 740 numbered pages in the volume) is dated 28 April 1898. Those written to incl...
Details the Royal Literary Fund’s cash transactions between January 1894 and June 1905. Volumes I and II were not found in the archive in 2013. The volume is indexed to ledgers which were also not found in 2013.