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Contains correspondence about subscriptions and donations from or regarding individuals with surnames beginning with R. Correspondents include Rammohun Roy, Randolph Robinson, Joseph Esmond Riddle, Francis Rivington, John Edmund Reade, William Pleydell-Bouverie, Earl of Radnor, William Parish R...
Contains correspondence about subscriptions and donations from or regarding individuals with surnames beginning with S. Correspondents include Edward Adolphus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, Seth William Stevenson, William Sawyer, Percy Bolingbroke St John, Gustavus Solling (letters on behalf of), ...
Loan 96 RLF 5/12/18 Subscriptions & Donations: Letter T 2 Jul 1811-31 Mar 1884 1 file (10 documents) Contains correspondence about subscriptions and donations from or regarding individuals with surnames beginning with T. Correspondents include George Ranking (on Richard Twining), James ...
Contains correspondence about subscriptions and donations from or regarding individuals with surnames beginning with U or V. Correspondents include James Sprent Virtue, Coutts & Co (for Elizabeth Van De Weyer), Henry Vaughan, Victor W B Van De Veyer and Arthur Vaizey.
Contains correspondence about subscriptions and donations from or regarding individuals with surnames beginning with W. Correspondents include Frederick Webb, Robert Walsh, Charles Callis Weston, William Tooke, William Wingfield, Robert Whiston, James Whiteside, D Williams, Edward Wigram, Samue...
Contains files pertaining to the Literary Fund’s financial matters, consisting of two main groupings. The first details donations and subscriptions to the Fund by individuals and organisations, principally during the nineteenth century. The second deals with arrears owed by prominent members and...
Presents of Books to be sold for the benefit of the Fund
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Contains letters offering donations of books from Hervey Raymond Morres, Viscount Mountmorres, Cadell and Davies, John Sherwen, George Ensor, William [Tylney Spurdeus] and William Sawyer.
Promised Donation from the Booksellers’ proposed Newspaper
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Contains two letters from Charles Rivington on the formation of a new newspaper by an association of booksellers and their intention of donating part of its profits to the Literary Fund.