Address to the Queen on her Escape from Maclean’s Attempt on her Life
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Contains two drafts of an address to Queen Victoria after an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean, with related correspondence from Charles Shaw and Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby and acknowledgements from Reginald B Heygate, for the Home Secretary, Sir William Harcourt, and from Harco...
Contains a list of writers with surnames beginning with the letters ‘O’, ‘P’ and ‘Q’ about whom Arthur Llewelyn Roberts received enquiries, as well as letters from Bernard Mallet, Frederick Sydney Parry, Malcolm G Ramsay, Henry Higgs, Roderick S Meiklejohn, Sir Harry R Reichel, Frederick William...
Report of the Registrars & Treasurers on the Re-investment of a Portion of the Funded Property
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Contains a report by the Registrars and Treasurers of the Literary Fund (at this time John Manners, William Smith, Benjamin Ward Richardson, Anthony Trollope and Frederic Ouvry) on reinvesting part of the Fund’s resources, with a follow-up report and three letters from Ouvry.
Royal Literary Fund Annual Register of Grants Volume 1
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Contains records of every grant made by the Literary Fund between 1790 and 1891, arranged chronologically by the date of the meeting at which the grant was agreed. Includes totals of grants per year, a running total of monies disbursed by the Fund and occasional notes on exceptional cases.
Royal Literary Fund Annual Register of Grants Volume 2
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Contains records of every grant made by the Literary Fund between 1892 and 1951, arranged chronologically by the date of the meeting at which the grant was agreed. Includes a running total of monies disbursed by the Fund and occasional notes on exceptional cases.
Contains letters from Sir William Thomas Knollys and Herbert Fisher to Octavian Blewitt, requesting information on two writers who applied for aid to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales, with one copy of a reply from Blewitt.
Copies of letters from A Allice to Charles Goldsmith (12 Jan 1853), regarding his promotion, W Bowles on Charles Goldsmith (6 Oct 1842) and William Maloney on Hugh Goldsmith (9 Jan 1858