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Contains letters accepting election or re-election to the Committee of the Literary Fund from George Stovin Venables, Patrick Colquhoun, Benjamin Ward Richardson, John Winter Jones, Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, Joseph Williams Blakesley, Frederick Locker, Edward Augustus Bond and Russell...
Contains acceptance letters from Henry Reeve, William Forsyth, John P. Gassiot, Thomas O'Hagan, Baron O'Hagan, James Craigie Robertson, Hayter Lewis, J C Parkinson, Charles Merivale, Henry Hucks Gibbs, Leslie Stephen, Austin Dobson, Henry Craik, Edward Maunde Thompson, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, ...
Contains letters accepting positions on the Council of the Literary Fund from Hugh Downman, [?] Clinton, Sir George Thomas Staunton, Charles Baldwin, Chandos Leigh, Baron Leigh, Frederick Beilby Watson, Blanche Donne, George Croly, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Mountstuart Elphinstone, John Richardson M...
Contains correspondence relating to the position of Treasurer of the Literary Fund from Thomas Morris, Edward Brooke, George Ranking, John Ilderton Burn, Charles Baldwin, Sir Frederick Pollock, Richard Monckton Milnes, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Ouvry, George Godwin, Samuel Birch, Mountstuart El...
Contains correspondence relating to the position of Registrar of the Literary Fund from Thomas Dale, Charles Symmons, James Anderson, George Croly, William Fallowfield, Thomas Crofton Croker, James Prior, Frederick Pollock, Patrick Colquhoun and William Cooke.
Contains correspondence relating to the Anniversary Committee of the Literary Fund, which co-ordinated the Anniversary Dinners, written by Edward Thomas, Charles Lewis Gruneisen, Charles John Leaf, John Mitchell, William Bodham Donne, Frederick Locker, George Godwin, Octavian Blewitt, John Murra...
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Clerks, Secretaries and Collectors
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Contains documents relating to Literary Fund’s Clerks, Secretaries and Collectors. The Clerk (later the Secretary) ran the day-to-day affairs of the Fund, the position becoming increasingly important as the nineteenth century progressed. This box contains nine folders relating to these positions...
Contains documents relating to the tenure of Edmund Baker as Collector and Clerk of the Literary Fund, between 1800 and 1807. These include letters from Baker to Thomas Dale, Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham, the Committee of the Literary Fund and Richard Yates detailing his work collecting and encou...
Assistant Collector (later Collector and Clerk) – Mr Charles Lamborn
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Contains application letters for the post of Assistant Collector from Charles Oliver, William Burt and James Salmon and a Treasurer’s Report by John Reeves, George Ranking and Richard Yates on the candidates for the position, which resulted in the appointment of Charles Lamborn. Also contains a...
Includes a correspondence between Henry Leave and John Britton with respect to the position of Collector for the Literary Fund, a letter from Charles Monro to Richard Yates and two documents relating to Leave’s Bond, all from 1819. Also includes correspondence from 1821 and 1822 relating to Leav...