Letters to Richard Yates and Joseph Snow regarding the Literary Fund Club, from George Ranking, James Christie, Joseph Clarke, Benjamin Hobhouse, [?] and Abraham Salame.
Letters to Richard Yates and Joseph Snow regarding the Literary Fund Club, from correspondents including Joseph Clarke, Henry Sass and Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
Contains a letter from John Bowyer Nichols to Richard Yates, a printed circular advertising the annual meeting of the Literary Fund Society, a letter on the dinner, a letter from Richard Yates to Joseph Snow and a copy of the ‘Rules and Regulations of the Literary Fund Club’, detailing elections...
Contains two clippings on the 1830 meeting of the Literary Fund in Greenwich, the minutes of the Club from November 1830 to May 1831, a printed circular advertising the 1830 Club dinner and correspondence relating to this dinner, mostly addressed to Joseph Snow, from correspondents including Joh...
Correspondence relating to the 1834 Literary Fund Club dinner, mostly addressed to Joseph Snow, from correspondents including A.J. Kempe, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Robert Lemon, Andrew Spottiswoode, William Jerdan, Thomas Tegg, Thomas Cadell, Owen Rees, James Moyes and John Dickinson.
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...
Offer of the Presidency to Lord Rawdon, afterwards Marquis of Hastings
Scope & Content:
Contains copies of letters from the Literary Fund to Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, Lord Rawdon, asking him to join the Literary Fund and requesting that he assume the title of President, with replies from Rawdon acceding to the former but demurring form the latter.
Contains a letter from Robert Merry stating that he has not been able to obtain an answer from Francis Godolphin Osborne, Duke of Leeds, regarding the presidency of the Literary Fund.
Contains the texts of letters from Thomas Bracken and Septimus Collinson regarding an unsuccessful attempt to contact William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland, in order to invite him to become President of the Literary Fund.