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Papers relating to the British Literary & Scientific Life Assurance Co.
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Contains letters from C. Douglas Hope to William Tooke and Thomas Crofton Croker on the British Literary and Scientific Life Assurance Co., with copies of their replies (Jul 1842), and correspondence on excising mentions of the Literary Fund from the Assurance's promotional materials between Crok...
Contains a letter on Literary Fund donations from Edmund Baker to Richard Yates (8 Aug 1805) with an 'Alphabetical List of persons relieved by the Literary Fund', as well as one letter to Yates from Robert Gray (17 Apr 1823) and three from Francis Dawes Danvers (11 Oct 1823; 11 Oct 1824; 13 Apr 1...
Literary Fund Corporation Documents (1844-1904) & Resolutions of Thanks to Officers of the Fund (1828-1882)
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Contains two groups of documents. The first group relate to the administration of the Literary Fund - to financial matters, governance and interactions both with government and with other societies. The second group consists of a series of brief resolutions made by the Committee of the Literary ...
Resolution of thanks to Sir James Clark, Baronet, M.D. for his services obtaining the Title of Royal & the Grant of the Imperial Crown for the Corporation
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Contains two groups of letters. The first, containing documents dated between 1843 and 1845, includes Fund resolutions and letters from Sir James Clark relating to Clark's successful attempt to obtain for the society the right to add 'Royal' to its title. The papers in the second group, dated bet...
Advertising Donations in London & Provincial Papers
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Collection of documents and correspondence centring on the Literary Fund's secretary, Octavian Blewitt, relating to the distribution of advertisements detailing the recent donations the Fund had received and the nature of the Fund's work. Includes letters from Charles Wentworth Dilke, responses f...
Contains numerous documents detailing the costs of printing the Literary Fund's Annual Reports and the associated discussions. Includes communications with other societies and with printers, reports from sub-committees on costs, and papers relating to a motion put forward by Anthony Trollope in ...
Petition to Parliament for a Remission of the Legacy Duty
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Contains letters and drafts of a petition to Partliament relating to the possibility of abolishing the Legacy Duty in the case of organisations such as the Literary Fund.
Petition to Parliament against the Charitable Trusts Bill
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Contains details of two attempts to petition against Charitable Trust Bills in Parliament. The first (from 1852) is represented by a draft petition from the Literary Fund and press clippings from The Times and the second (from 1881) consists principally of printed letters from John Derby Allcrof...
Contains letters from correspondents including Samuel Berry, Peter Rasbotham and Henry Robert Addison relating to an amateur theatrical performance for the benefit of the Literary Fund, which took place on 18 Mar 1853. Also contain two clippings from the Guardian anticipating and reviewing the pe...
Sir Richard P. Jodrell's Offer of a Prize of £50 for a Poem on the Visit of the Queen of England to the Tomb of Napoleon I
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Correspondence between Sir Richard Paul Jodrell and Octavian Blewitt regarding Jodrell's offer to set up a poetry prize to be administered by the Literary Fund.