Contains an extract from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury relating to a bequest to the Literary Fund from Lewis Andrew de la Chaumette.
Contains two proposals for the Literary Fund to assist in creating a school for the children of authors, one from C Carwyn (25 Aug 1808) and one from William Knighton (16 Jan 1858, with responses from Octavian Blewitt dated 18 Jan 1858 and 13 Feb 1858).
Contains three reports and related correspondence relating to whether a separate House Fund should be used to meet the expenses of the Fund’s accommodation. The first report, by Richard Yates, is from 1808 and accompanied by a letter from Charles Monro. The second, by the Treasurers and Audito...
Contains an 1802 letter from ‘a subscriber’ suggesting the production of a portrait of David Williams, the Founder of the Literary Fund, with a poem addressed to Williams, and an extract from the Minutes recording the donation of a full-length portrait of Williams by John Francis Rigaud to the F...
Contains letters relating to the Literary Fund’s portrait of Richard Yates from John Bowyer Nichols, [?] Rogers, Daniel [?] and Robert Cradock Nichols.
Annual Report Acknowledgements from the Prince of Wales
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Contains 28 letters from Maurice Holzmann, writing on behalf of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to Octavian Blewitt and Arthur Llewelyn Roberts, acknowledging receipt of the Royal Literary Fund’s annual reports.
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.
Contains a letter from James Walter, Secretary and Treasurer of the Book Society at Brigg, on a ten guinea donation to the Literary Fund, with two letters thanking the Book Society for the donation.