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Loan 96 RLF 3/1
- Record Id:
- 040-000786154
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000786153
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001201.0x000365
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Loan 96 RLF 3/1
- Title:
- Royal Literary Fund Annual Reports Vol. I
- Scope & Content:
-
The first report is very short:
1792 (8 pp.): 'Constitution of a Society to Support Authors in Distress'; List of Officers and Subscribers (with amounts donated)
All subsequent reports in this volume contain an 'Account of the Institution of the Society for the Establishment of a Literary Fund', the 'Constitutions of the Society' and lists of the Fund’s subscribers and officers (President, Vice-Presidents, Council, Committee, Treasurers, Registrars), along with details of their financial contributions. In 1797 the Fund established a permanent fund to build up a reserve of money which was invested to produce an income – the 1799 report and all subsequent reports in this volume contain lists of subscribers to this fund and details of its spending on stocks, as well as abstract of the Fund’s cash accounts.
Reports also contain additional content as listed:
1795 (39 pp.): Poetry by Thomas Morris (1794, 1795) and William Boscawen (1795)
1799 (96 pp.): 'Transactions of the Committee', giving anonymised details of relieved applicants; 'Poetical Contributions' from Thomas Morris (1794, 1795, 1796, 1797), William Boscawen (1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799), William Thomas Fitzgerald (1797, 1798, 1799) George Dyer (1798), Thomas Busby (1799) and Henry James Pye (1799)
1800 (36 pp.): 'Poetical Contributions' from Henry James Pye, William Boscawen and William Thomas Fitzgerald
1801 (48 pp.): 'Poetical Contributions' from William Boscawen, William Thomas Fitzgerald, Isaac D'Israeli, Samuel Birch and Charles Symmons
1802/1803 (68 pp.): 'Remarks on the Cases in which Relief has been administered from the Literary Fund', by William Boscawen; 'Poetical Contributions' for 1802 from William Boscawen, William Thomas Fitzgerald, Samuel Birch, Edmund L. Swift and William Rough; Note on the estate of Isaac Hawkins; 'Poetical Contributions' for 1803 from William Thomas Fitzgerald and Samuel Birch
1804 (68 pp.): 'Remarks on the Cases in which Relief has been administered from the Literary Fund; July 1804', by William Boscawen; 'Poetical Contributions' from William Boscawen, William Thomas Fitzgerald, Henry James Pye, Henry Kett and Charles Marsh
1805/1806 (101 pp.): 'Remarks on the Cases in which Relief has been administered from the Literary Fund; July 1801', by William Boscawen; Details of the yearly disbursements from the Fund 1790-1805; 'Poetical Contributions' for 1805 from William Boscawen, William Thomas Fitzgerald and Henry James Pye; Account of the House Fund; Details of the Fund's House, 36 Gerard Street; Subscriptions to the House Fund; 'Poetical Contributions' for 1806 from William Thomas Fitzgerald, Henry James Pye, Thomas Maurice, Charles Monck and Samuel-James Arnold
At the end of the volume a verse address for the Anniversary of 1806 by Charles Monck (16pp.) and a note on the Fund's attempt to form an Ecclesiastical Committee (4 pp.) are bound in.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Literary Fund
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000680576
036-000786153
040-000786154 - Is part of:
- Loan 96 RLF : Archive of the Royal Literary Fund
Loan 96 RLF 3 : Royal Literary Fund - Annual Reports
Loan 96 RLF 3/1 : Royal Literary Fund Annual Reports Vol. I - Hierarchy:
- 032-000680576[0003]/036-000786153[0001]/040-000786154
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Loan 96 RLF
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1792
- End Date:
- 1806
- Date Range:
- 1792-1806
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Legal Status:
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