Details cash transactions made by the Royal Literary Fund between June 1905 and April 1920. A letter from Coutts & Co dated 8 February 1906 is inserted at the fourth opening.
The Annual Reports contain information regarding the Literary Fund's finances, subscribers and officers. They also contain varying additional documentation, including descriptions of the Fund's work, copies of its charter and statistical tables. Also present are materials relating to the Fund's ...
The first report is very short: 1792 (8 pp.): 'Constitution of a Society to Support Authors in Distress'; List of Officers and Subscribers (with amounts donated) All subsequent reports in this volume contain an 'Account of the Institution of the Society for the Establishment of a Literary Fund...
Bound volume containing the reports for 1807-1813 inclusive. Also included at the beginning is an additional 41 pp. pamphlet of subscription lists and accounts prepared in April 1807, probably due to the previous report (1805/1806) being a combined one. Reports contain an 'Account of the Instit...
Bound volume containing the reports for 1815-1820 inclusive. For 1814, only the Poems are included: 1814 (20 pp.): 'Poems for 1814' by William Thomas Fitzgerald, Samuel Birch and Allan Cunningham The following reports contain an 'Account of the Institution of the Society for the Establishment ...
Bound volume containing the reports for 1821-1827 inclusive. The following reports all contain 'Of the Origin, Progress, and Operations of the Society', by Charles Symmons, James Anderson and John Bowyer Nichols, dated 3 Mar 1821, the 'Charter of the Society' and the 'Bye-Laws of the Society.'...
Bound volume containing the reports for 1828-1839 inclusive, with the exception of 1833, when no new report was produced. The following reports all contain an address on the purposes and practices of the Literary Fund and the 'Bye-Laws of the Society.' Each report also lists the Fund's officers...
Bound volume containing the annual and anniversary reports for 1840-1844 inclusive. This volume contains Annual Reports for each year including a list of the officers of the corporation (Patron, President, Vice-Presidents, Council, Committee, Registrars, Treasurers, Auditors, honorary officers,...
Bound volume containing the annual and anniversary reports for 1845-1848 inclusive. The documents for each year contain an Address to the Anniversary (detailing the aims and history of the Fund), a list of the officers of the corporation (Patron, President, Vice-Presidents, Council, Committee, ...