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Letters on the appointments and duties of the Literary Fund’s Honorary Solicitors, including letters from appointees – Daniel Moore, William Tooke, William Ouvrey, William James Farrer and Frederick Willis Farrer – and related correspondence from Literary Fund officials: Octavian Blewitt, Willia...
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Committee, Council, Treasurers and Registrars
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Contains documents relating to appointments to the Committee of the Literary Fund, as well as to the Council, Treasurers, Registrars and Anniversary Committee in the nineteenth century, with one small file of later documents relating to the 1920s and 1930s. While these files mostly contain lette...
Contains a letter from French Laurence regretfully declining a post on the Committee of the Literary Fund and a letter from Charles Burney on an illness that prevented him from meeting the Fund’s subscribers.
Contains an 1802 letter from John Williams accepting an invitation to join the Committee of the Literary Fund and an 1806 resignation letter from William Boscawen.
Contains an 1810 letter from Anthony Highmore resigning from the Committee of the Literary Fund, written on a printed meeting reminder, an 1816 letter from James Christie accepting an invitation to join the Committee and an 1817 resignation letter from John Fuller.
Contains letters from George Croly, William Tooke, Thomas Amyot, Andrew Spottiswoode, Thomas Crofton Croker and Benjamin Bond Cabball accepting invitations to join or to continue to serve on the Committee of the Literary Fund and a letter from James Heywood Markland declining.
Contains letters from [Henry] Foss, Robert Blackmore, Edward Lytton Bulwer, John Murray, John Rivington and Alfred John Kempe accepting invitations to join or continue to serve on the Committee of the Literary Fund, letters from John Peyps and George Dollond declining such invitations, letters o...
Includes letters accepting invitations to join the Committee of the Literary Fund from George Godwin, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Edmund Cardwell, William Smith and Richard Chenevix Trench, resignation letters from John Bruce, John Richardson Major and Patrick Colquhoun, a letter from James Beattie ...
Contains letters accepting election or re-election to the Committee of the Literary Fund from John Manners, Anthony Trollope, Richard Owen, Alexander James Beresford Hope and Sir John Simeon, resignation letters from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Anthony Panizzi and Charles Merivale and a letter on a ...