Contains letters, printed documents and receipts relating to donations to the Literary Fund from the Percy Society on its being wound up. Also contains lists of the society’s members and publications and details of its accounts.
Contains ‘correspondence relating to a portion of the Fund raised at Liverpool at the celebration of the Shakespeare Tercentenary’ from Henry A Bright.
Donation from the Society for the Relief of Prisoners for Small Debts
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Contains correspondence relating to a donation to the Literary Fund from the Society for the Discharge and Relief of persons imprisoned for Small Debts.
Contains correspondence from Clement Shorter, J A Burrell, W Hugh Spottiswoode, A George Jolley and Farrer & Co. relating to the Dickens Centenary Fund, which the Literary Fund was asked to consider administering. The role was found to be incommensurable with the charter.
Contains letters relating to donations to the Literary Fund from (or from the estates of) Charles Wayte, ‘A Friend of Literature’ (‘believed to be John Kenyon’), Septimus Berdmore, Smith, Elder & Co., James McGrigor Allan, Miss M J James, Queen Alexandra’s Arts Fund and Jaakoff Prelooker.