Contains correspondence and documents relating to an investigation into the ‘inefficiency’ of Whittington Henry Landon’s handling of financial matters for the Literary Fund.
Letters relating to the appointments and duties of the Literary Fund’s Honorary Physicians, including letters from those who held the post in the nineteenth century, Patrick Smith Fraser, Benjamin Ward Richardson and John William Ogle, and correspondence relating to these from Octavian Blewitt, ...
Letters on the appointments and duties of the Literary Fund’s Honorary Solicitors, including letters from appointees – Daniel Moore, William Tooke, William Ouvrey, William James Farrer and Frederick Willis Farrer – and related correspondence from Literary Fund officials: Octavian Blewitt, Willia...
Contains letters relating to the security asked of Charles Oliver in order for him to become Collector of the Literary Fund, one from John Gray, one from Oliver himself. Includes a handwritten contents list by Nigel Cross.
Contains applications for the post of Collector of the Literary Fund from A J White (recommended by Samuel Thornton) and John Hilder. Hilder was appointed, with John Clark standing surety (his worth attested to by Henry Pigeon); Hilder’s application was supported by Bingham Richards. The file ...
Letters respecting Theatrical Performances & Concerts in behalf of the Society
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Folder containing enquiries about benefit performances for the Literary Fund. Includes an enquiry from and response to [?] Furs (1792), a letter from David Williams objecting to a concert proposed by Mr Busby (5 Jun 1800), an invitation to an unidentified recipient (30 Mar 1852) and further enqui...
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.
Contains an address to the King of Prussia from the Literary Fund, drafted by John Britton, related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne and Britton and three letters from the 1850s by and on behalf of Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen to Ble...