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Contains documents relating to formal addresses made by the Literary Fund to members of the Royal Family, influential aristocrats and foreign leaders and dignitaries. Also contains four files of acknowledgements from representatives of the Royal Family and Leopold II, King of Belgium. - Addre...
Contains two addresses to Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of Hastings, together with copies of details from the Minutes with cross-references and correspondence from Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, James Christie, Richard Yates and Hastings himself.
Address to the King on the Death of the Duke of Kent
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Contains documents relating to the death of the Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, including a newspaper clipping from the London Gazette on the Literary Fund’s address to him, printed prospectuses and subscription lists for a ‘Public Tribute to the Memory of the Duke of Kent’ , a letter to the Treasu...
Contains a letter from Sir Benjamin Hobhouse to Richard Yates on the propriety of the Literary Fund addressing George IV on his accession, drafts of the resulting address, a copy of the London Gazette dated 30 Mar 1820 containing numerous such addresses, including the Literary Fund’s, and a lett...
Contains a draft of an address by the Literary Fund to ‘the Ambassador from the State of Tripoli to the Court of G.B.’, with a note addressed from Charles Symmons to John Bowyer Nichols, and a letter from Edward Adolphus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, enclosing the Ambassador’s reply, a letter tran...
Contains drafts of an address by the Literary Fund to William IV on his accession to the throne, as well as correspondence relating to this from Joseph Snow, Edward Adolphus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, John Ilderton Burn, John Caley, John Britton, John Bowyer Nichols, George Woodfall and Edward ...
Contains three letters from Edward Adolphus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, to Whittington Henry Landon relating to the Literary Fund’s address to Queen Victoria on her accession, and a response from Whitehall thanking Somerset for the address.
Address to the Duchess of Kent, on the Queen’s Marriage
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Contains a copy and drafts of an address made by the Literary Fund to Princess Marie Luise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Kent, with related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, John Bruce, Henry Ellis, John Bowyer Nichols and Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne,...
Address to the Queen & Prince Albert, on their Marriage
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Contains drafts of an address from the Literary Fund to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their marriage, a press clipping detailing the speech and related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, Edward Raleigh Moran, William Jerdan, Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne, and Wil...
Contains a draft of an address from the Literary Fund to Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough, with related letters to Octavian Blewitt from James Emerson Tennent and F N Waterfield.