Loan 96 RLF 5/13

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 officers of the Fund and also includes one file on new investments made by the Fund in 1874. The individual file names are as follows:

Donations:

- Presents of Books to be sold for the benefit of the Fund

- Donation from Hyderabad

- Promised Donation from the Booksellers’ proposed Newspapers

- Donation from the Executors of Isaac Hawkins Esq.

- Donation from the Book Club at Brigg

- Subscriptions of the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV

- Donation from the Committee of the Stock Exchange

- Donations from the Committee of the Fund for British Prisoners in France

- Donation of the Executors of Swan Downer Esq.

- Subscription of the Stationers’ Company

- Subscription of King William IV

- Receipt of the Mids. Dividend 1830, by Mr Burn, Treasurer

- Donations of G P R James Esq. & the Earl of Mulgrave

- Donation from the Westminster Library

- Donation of H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent

- Donation of Adelaide, the Queen Dowager

- Donation from the Masquers & Mummers at Prior’s Bank

- Subscription of Her Majesty Queen Victoria

- Donations from the Trustees of the Cholmondeley Charities

- Mr C Edwards Lester’s Proposed Contribution from the United States

- Donation from the Percy Society

- Proceeds of an Amateur Performance by the 16th Lancers in the Theatre Royal Manchester

- Donation of the Literary Executors of Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart.

- Henry A Bright Esq.

- The Proceeds of the Rev. L Vernon-Harcourt’s Work on the Deluge

- Donation of the Trustees of the Macaulay Testimonial Fund

- Donations of His Majesty the King of the Belgians

- Donation from the Society for the Relief of Prisoners for Small Debts

- Dickens “Centenary Fund”

- Anonymous and Miscellaneous Donations

Arrears:

- Arrears of Mr Henry Leave, Collector

- Arrears of Mr Charles Oliver, Collector

- Arrears of Mr Jerdan, Member of Committee

- Arrears of Rev W H Landon, Secretary

- Arrears of William Shaw & William Holmes Esq.

- Arrears of S R Townshend Mayer

- Arrears of Mr Charles Shaw, Member of Committee

- Re: Investments 1874