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Contains a printed schedule of meeting dates for the Literary Fund Club between November 1819 and May 1820, a letter to Richard Yates from William Clayton and two letters to Yates from James Christie.
Correspondence relating to the Literary Fund Club, principally addressed to Henry Leave, from William Miller, Joseph Clarke, John Crowder, Abraham Salame, George Pearson, William Jerdan, Richard Yates, James Christie, Charles Devon, Owen Rees, Richard Blanshard, Patrick Kelly, James Moyes, Thoma...
Letters to Richard Yates and Joseph Snow regarding the Literary Fund Club, from George Ranking, James Christie, Joseph Clarke, Benjamin Hobhouse, [?] and Abraham Salame.
Letters to Richard Yates and Joseph Snow regarding the Literary Fund Club, from correspondents including Joseph Clarke, Henry Sass and Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
Contains a letter from John Bowyer Nichols to Richard Yates, a printed circular advertising the annual meeting of the Literary Fund Society, a letter on the dinner, a letter from Richard Yates to Joseph Snow and a copy of the ‘Rules and Regulations of the Literary Fund Club’, detailing elections...
Contains two clippings on the 1830 meeting of the Literary Fund in Greenwich, the minutes of the Club from November 1830 to May 1831, a printed circular advertising the 1830 Club dinner and correspondence relating to this dinner, mostly addressed to Joseph Snow, from correspondents including Joh...
Correspondence relating to the 1834 Literary Fund Club dinner, mostly addressed to Joseph Snow, from correspondents including A.J. Kempe, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Robert Lemon, Andrew Spottiswoode, William Jerdan, Thomas Tegg, Thomas Cadell, Owen Rees, James Moyes and John Dickinson.
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Presidents, Vice Presidents and Honorary Officers
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Contains documents relating to the appointments and duties of the Literary Fund’s senior officers. These are mostly letters of acceptance for positions, although some, such as those in the folder of documents on bankers, contain more involved correspondence. Most of the folders in this box conta...
Offer of the Presidency to Lord Rawdon, afterwards Marquis of Hastings
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Contains copies of letters from the Literary Fund to Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, Lord Rawdon, asking him to join the Literary Fund and requesting that he assume the title of President, with replies from Rawdon acceding to the former but demurring form the latter.