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Address to the Queen & Prince Albert, on their Marriage
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Contains drafts of an address from the Literary Fund to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their marriage, a press clipping detailing the speech and related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, Edward Raleigh Moran, William Jerdan, Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne, and Wil...
Contains a draft of an address from the Literary Fund to Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough, with related letters to Octavian Blewitt from James Emerson Tennent and F N Waterfield.
Address to the Queen & Prince Albert, on her escape from the attempt of John Francis
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Contains a draft of an address to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert after an assassination attempt by John Francis, with related correspondence from Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne to Octavian Blewitt and from George Edward Anson and [?] Graham acknowledging the address.
Contains an address to the King of Prussia from the Literary Fund, drafted by John Britton, related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne and Britton and three letters from the 1850s by and on behalf of Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen to Ble...
Contains a draft of an address from the Literary Fund to Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, thanking him for an 1843 donation of ‘One Thousand Silver Roubles’, news of which was communicated by the Russian Ambassador, Philipp Graf von Brunnow. Also contains related correspondence from Octavian B...
Letter to M. Guizot for the King of the French, with Reports
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Contains a draft of an address from Octavian Blewitt to François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, with related letters from Blewitt, [?] and Guizot (the last in French).
Address to the Queen on the Grant of the Crown as an addition to the Armorial Bearings, and of the word Royal to the Title of the Society
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Contains correspondence relating to the Literary Fund’s thanking Queen Victoria for permission to add the crown to the Fund’s armorial bearings and use the sobriquet ‘Royal’, including a draft response and letter by Octavian Blewitt and letters from Henry Wheatley and Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaur...
Letter to the Marquis d’Azeglio, with Reports &c. for the King of Sardinia
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Contains a short letter from Massimo Taparelli, Marquis d’Azeglio, to Octavian Blewitt acknowledging receipt of reports and promising to transmit them.