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11. Loan 96 RLF 5/16

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Loan 96 RLF 5/16
Title:
Royal Literary Fund: Auditors’ Reports
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1820-1904
Extent:

1 box (7 folders)

12. Loan 96 RLF 5/19

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Loan 96 RLF 5/19
Title:
Royal Literary Fund: Financial Records
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1800-1927
Extent:

1 box (3 folders)

13. Loan 96 RLF 5/10

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Loan 96 RLF 5/10
Title:
Communications regarding Civil List pensions and enquiries from Downing Street
Scope & Content:
Contains documents, principally letters, relating to enquiries made to the Secretaries of the Literary Fund about the cases of writers who applied to the government and members of the royal household for financial aid. These fall into two main sections. The first relates to the secretarial tenur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1842-1980
Extent:

1 box (27 folders)

14. Loan 96 RLF 5/6

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Loan 96 RLF 5/6
Title:
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Clerks, Secretaries and Collectors
Scope & Content:
Contains documents relating to Literary Fund’s Clerks, Secretaries and Collectors. The Clerk (later the Secretary) ran the day-to-day affairs of the Fund, the position becoming increasingly important as the nineteenth century progressed. This box contains nine folders relating to these positions...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1797-1919
Extent:

1 box (17 files)

15. Loan 96 RLF 5/21

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Loan 96 RLF 5/21
Title:
Royal Literary Fund: Miscellaneous Books and Documents
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788-1983
Extent:
1 box

16. Loan 96 RLF 5/4

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Loan 96 RLF 5/4
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1791-1901
Extent:
1 box (22 files)

17. Loan 96 RLF 5/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/5
Title:
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Committee, Council, Treasurers and Registrars
Scope & Content:
Contains documents relating to appointments to the Committee of the Literary Fund, as well as to the Council, Treasurers, Registrars and Anniversary Committee in the nineteenth century, with one small file of later documents relating to the 1920s and 1930s. While these files mostly contain lette...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1797-1935
Extent:
1 box (15 folders)

18. Loan 96 RLF 5/15

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Loan 96 RLF 5/15
Title:
Royal Literary Fund: Treasurers’ Reports and Registrars’ Reports
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1895
Extent:

1 box (3 folders)

19. Loan 96 RLF 5/20

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Loan 96 RLF 5/20
Title:
Royal Literary Fund: Reforms of Charter and Dickens Dispute
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1901
Extent:

1 box (7 folders)

20. Loan 96 RLF 5/17

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/17
Title:
Royal Literary Fund: Annual Reports of Grants and Analysis of Cases, 1839-1879
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1895
Extent:

1 box (5 folders)

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