Project / Collection: Royal Literary Fund / Name: Committee and Officers of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790- / Digitised Content: No - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Project / Collection Royal Literary Fund Name Committee and Officers of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790- Digitised Content No

Reference (shelfmark):: Loan 96 RLF
Title:: Archive of the Royal Literary Fund
Scope & Content:: The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is a British benevolent fund for published authors in financial difficulties. First mooted by the dissenting minister, philosopher and educationalist David Williams in the 1770s, the Literary Fund was established in 1790 and has operated continuously since that date...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1790-1990s
Extent:: 3773 files

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