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Royal Literary Fund: Treasurers’ Reports and Registrars’ Reports
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This box contains the Royal Literary Fund’s Registrars’ Reports from 1839-1895 and the Treasurers’ Reports from 1840 to 1887. The Registrars’ Reports give details of the General Committee members, Registrars and Treasurers who attended each Committee meeting and list vacancies on the Committee ...
Contains the Auditors’ Reports of the Royal Literary Fund for the years between 1820 and 1904. These consist principally of double-entry records detailing the Fund’s incomings (including donations, subscriptions, profits from stocks and monies raised at the anniversary dinners) and outgoings (in...
Royal Literary Fund: Annual Reports of Grants and Analysis of Cases, 1839-1879
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This box contains two sets of records, both principally prepared by the Funds’ secretary between 1839 and 1884, Octavian Blewitt. The Annual Reports of Grants tabulate anonymised information on the applicants who were relieved during each year, outlining the breakdown of different types of auth...
Royal Literary Fund: Analysis of Cases, 1880-1899 and Correspondence regarding Colonel Blood’s Daggers
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This box contains analyses of the cases submitted to the Royal Literary Fund between 1880 and 1899. These records record information on the applicants whose cases were presented to the committee each month. The cases are divided into ‘new’ (first-time applicants) and ‘old’ (those who had appli...
This box contains three bound folders of documents relating to the financial affairs of the Literary Fund, consisting principally of accounts, receipts and related correspondence. 1: Receipts for Dining Contains receipts for Fund Dinners held between 1800 and 1841, as well as a small amount of...
Royal Literary Fund: Reforms of Charter and Dickens Dispute
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Contains documents relating to reform of the Royal Literary Fund’s charter and bye-laws in 1840s and the 1850s; records regarding attempts by a group led by Charles Wentworth Dilke, Charles Dickens and John Forster to reform the Fund; and documents regarding the dissolution of the Guild of Liter...
Royal Literary Fund: Miscellaneous Books and Documents
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Contains a small number of books and documents which were previously unplaced: 1: Account books with Messrs Coutts & Co, dated 1788-1820 and 1855-1867. 2: Account book with Devaynes, Dawes, Noble & Co, dated 1807-1810 3: Account books with Ransom & Co dated 1811-1823, 1824-1826, 1...