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1. Loan 96 RLF 5/13

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13
Title:
Funds: Arrears + Donations
Scope & Content:
Contains files pertaining to the Literary Fund’s financial matters, consisting of two main groupings. The first details donations and subscriptions to the Fund by individuals and organisations, principally during the nineteenth century. The second deals with arrears owed by prominent members and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1796-8 Jun 1936
Extent:

1 box (38 folders)

2. Loan 96 RLF 5/13/38

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13/38
Title:
Re: Investments 1874
Scope & Content:
Contains minutes and correspondence relating to changes in the Literary Fund’s investment policies in 1874. The Fund moved away from government securities seeking higher rates of interest.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1874-18 Nov 1874
Extent:

1 file (17 documents)

3. Loan 96 RLF 5/13/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13/2
Title:
Donation from Hyderabad
Scope & Content:
Contains a letter from James Kirkpatrick detailing a collection at Hyderabad on behalf of the Literary Fund.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1804
Extent:

1 file (1 document)

4. Loan 96 RLF 5/13/24

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13/24
Title:
Henry A Bright Esq.
Scope & Content:
Contains ‘correspondence relating to a portion of the Fund raised at Liverpool at the celebration of the Shakespeare Tercentenary’ from Henry A Bright.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1864-11 Jun 1864
Extent:

1 file (5 documents)

5. Loan 96 RLF 5/13/29

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13/29
Title:
Dickens “Centenary Fund”
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence from Clement Shorter, J A Burrell, W Hugh Spottiswoode, A George Jolley and Farrer & Co. relating to the Dickens Centenary Fund, which the Literary Fund was asked to consider administering. The role was found to be incommensurable with the charter.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1912-20 Feb 1912
Extent:

1 file (13 documents)

6. Loan 96 RLF 5/13/30

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13/30
Title:
Anonymous and Miscellaneous Donations
Scope & Content:
Contains letters relating to donations to the Literary Fund from (or from the estates of) Charles Wayte, ‘A Friend of Literature’ (‘believed to be John Kenyon’), Septimus Berdmore, Smith, Elder & Co., James McGrigor Allan, Miss M J James, Queen Alexandra’s Arts Fund and Jaakoff Prelooker.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1826-8 Jun 1936
Extent:

1 file (17 documents)

7. Loan 96 RLF 5/13/18

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13/18
Title:
Subscription of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence regarding Queen Victoria’s subscription to the Literary Fund from officials in the Privy Purse Office including Sir Henry Wheatley, Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, W J Harrison, Sir Thomas Biddulph, Doyne C Bell and Walter M Gibson.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1838-12 Apr 1899
Extent:

1 file (45 documents)

8. Loan 96 RLF 5/13/21

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13/21
Title:
Donation from the Percy Society
Scope & Content:
Contains letters, printed documents and receipts relating to donations to the Literary Fund from the Percy Society on its being wound up. Also contains lists of the society’s members and publications and details of its accounts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852
Extent:

1 file (19 documents)

9. Loan 96 RLF 5/13/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13/10
Title:
Subscription of the Stationers’ Company
Scope & Content:
Contains five letters from Henry Rivington and Charles Robert Rivington regarding the Stationers’ Company’s ongoing subscription to the Literary Fund.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1824-3 Mar 1884
Extent:

1 file (5 documents)

10. Loan 96 RLF 5/13/11

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/13/11
Title:
Subscription of King William IV
Scope & Content:
Contains three letters relating to King William IV's subscription to the Literary Fund.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830
Extent:

1 file (3 documents)

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