The Corporate Seal & the Prince Regent's Approval of it
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Contains correspondence between Thomas Pelham, Earl of Chichester, and Sir Benjamin Bloomfield relating to the Prince Regent's approving in May 1819 a design for the corporate seal of the Literary Fund. Also includes a copy of the design with heraldic description and a letter from Thomas William ...
Details the Royal Literary Fund’s cash transactions between January 1894 and June 1905. Volumes I and II were not found in the archive in 2013. The volume is indexed to ledgers which were also not found in 2013.
Details cash transactions made by the Royal Literary Fund between June 1905 and April 1920. A letter from Coutts & Co dated 8 February 1906 is inserted at the fourth opening.
Contains a letter from Edward Adolphus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, resigning from the Presidency of the Literary Fund, a second letter stating his willingness to receive a deputation from the Committee and a later correspondence between the Duke and Octavian Blewitt in which Blewitt thanks the D...
Clerk (later Secretary) – Mr Arthur Llewelyn Roberts
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Contains correspondence from 1881 and 1882 with respect to the position of Clerk, including applications from Eustace Owen (with supporting letters from Herny Aikin, Frederick [Onselen?] F. Waldegrave Brewster, Thomas Clifford, Saxby & Farmer, B W Day, Engall Sanders & Co and H I Sanders...
Annual Report Acknowledgements from Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V
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Contains letters from courtiers in the Privy Purse Office acknowledging receipt of annual reports sent by the Royal Literary Fund to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. Correspondents include Sir George Grey, Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, [?] Harrison, Doyne C Bell, John Longden, ...
Cases Referred by Prime Ministers: Lord Palmerston
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Contains letters from William Law, Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Charles Clifford and Augustus [?] to Octavian Blewitt relating to applications to Palmerston for aid from the Civil List and the Royal Bounty Fund.