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Container Reference (shelfmark) Loan 96 RLF 5

1. Loan 96 RLF 5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/1
Title:
Literary Fund Corporation Documents (1790-1844)
Scope & Content:
Box containing documents relating to the establishment and administration of the Literary Fund. Contains the following folders, arranged principally by the chronology of the earliest document they include. - Papers and letters relating to the Formation of the Society - Letters respecting Theat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790-1879
Extent:
1 box (17 folders)

2. Loan 96 RLF 5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/2
Title:
Literary Fund Corporation Documents (1844-1904) & Resolutions of Thanks to Officers of the Fund (1828-1882)
Scope & Content:
Contains two groups of documents. The first group relate to the administration of the Literary Fund - to financial matters, governance and interactions both with government and with other societies. The second group consists of a series of brief resolutions made by the Committee of the Literary ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1904
Extent:
1 box (33 folders)

3. Loan 96 RLF 5/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/3
Title:
Literary Fund Club Documents
Scope & Content:
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund Club, including a few early documents from its 1790s incarnation and a more complete (although still spotty) run of papers and correspondence dating from after the Club’s revival in 1806. The letters principally relate to the organisation of or at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1796-1834
Extent:
1 box (21 folders)

4. Loan 96 RLF 5/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/4
Title:
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Presidents, Vice Presidents and Honorary Officers
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1791-1901
Extent:
1 box (22 files)

5. Loan 96 RLF 5/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/5
Title:
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Committee, Council, Treasurers and Registrars
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1797-1935
Extent:
1 box (15 folders)

6. Loan 96 RLF 5/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6
Title:
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Clerks, Secretaries and Collectors
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1797-1919
Extent:

1 box (17 files)

7. Loan 96 RLF 5/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/7
Title:
House, 1805-1872
Scope & Content:
Contains documentation relating to the succession of houses and chambers which the Literary Fund leased between 1805 and 1872, as well as subsidiary documents on finances, the uses of the houses and on searches for suitable properties. The files are ordered chronologically by the date of the fir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1805-1896
Extent:

1 box (10 folders)

8. Loan 96 RLF 5/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/8
Title:
House, 1872-1957 + Portraits
Scope & Content:
Contains two distinct groups of documents. The first are five folders relating to the properties the Literary Fund occupied between 1872 and 1957, which follow on from the House records 1805-1872 (see Loan 96 RLF 5/7). These contain contracts, correspondence and financial records: - 10, John St...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1802-1957
Extent:

1 box (16 folders)

9. Loan 96 RLF 5/9

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/9
Title:
Addresses to Royalty etc.
Scope & Content:
Contains documents relating to formal addresses made by the Literary Fund to members of the Royal Family, influential aristocrats and foreign leaders and dignitaries. Also contains four files of acknowledgements from representatives of the Royal Family and Leopold II, King of Belgium. - Addre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817-1918
Extent:

1 box (31 folders)

10. Loan 96 RLF 5/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/10
Title:
Communications regarding Civil List pensions and enquiries from Downing Street
Scope & Content:
Contains documents, principally letters, relating to enquiries made to the Secretaries of the Literary Fund about the cases of writers who applied to the government and members of the royal household for financial aid. These fall into two main sections. The first relates to the secretarial tenur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1842-1980
Extent:

1 box (27 folders)

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