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Loan 96 RLF 5/10

Record Id:

040-002355278

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-001605978

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000827.0x000020

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

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 tenure of Octavian Blewitt (1839-1884) and is organised by the person doing the referring. The second section relates to the tenure of Arthur Llewelyn Roberts (1884-1919) and is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the writer being referred. The box also contains one folder with a few letters relating to cases from the 1950s.

Octavian Blewitt:

- Cases Referred by Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Peel

- Cases Referred by Prime Ministers: Lord John Russell

- Cases Referred by Prime Ministers: Lord Palmerston

- Cases Referred by Prime Ministers: Mr Gladstone

- Cases Referred by Prime Ministers: Lord Beaconsfield

- Cases Referred by the Queen Dowager

- Cases Referred by the Queen & Prince Albert

- Cases Referred by the Prince & Princess of Wales

Arthur Llewelyn Roberts:

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter A

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter B

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter C

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter D

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letters E & F

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter G

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter H

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letters I & J

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter K

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter L

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letters M & N

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letters O, P & Q

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter R

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter S

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter T

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letters U & V

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letter W

- Cases Referred 1884-1918: Letters dealing with multiple applicants, with other correspondence relating to referrals

- Whitehall Enquiries – 1950s

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Royal Literary Fund

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000680576
036-001605978
040-002355278

Is part of:

Loan 96 RLF : Archive of the Royal Literary Fund
Loan 96 RLF 5 : Royal Literary Fund - Administrative Documents

Loan 96 RLF 5/10 : Communications regarding Civil List pensions and enquiries from Downing Street

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-000680576[0005]/036-001605978[0010]/040-002355278

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 box (27 folders)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1842

End Date:

1980

Date Range:

1842-1980

Era:

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

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