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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1840 (the dinner of the 50th Anniversary) and 1841. The records are organised by year. For each year, there are a number of folders detailing different aspects of the dinner: these include correspondence on the selection of the chairman, letters accepting and declining stewardships, letters accepting and declining honorary invitations, letters from members unable to attend and papers detailing the dinners’ administration, including lists, committee correspondence and copies of the stationary created for each dinner. The contents of the individual folders are listed below; contents are also listed on the front of the folders themselves. Generally, the correspondence files are arranged in alphabetical order.

1840 (Chairman: Sir Robert Harry Inglis):

(The numbering of the folders for this year begins with 2; based on the pattern established by other years, this probably indicates that a folder of correspondence respecting the chairmanship is missing)

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Edmund Beales, the Archbishop of Dublin (Richard Whately), Lord Fitzalan, Robert Holland, Serjeant Chadwicke Jones, George Cornewall Lewis, John Lane, Sir William Lloyd, Thomas Norton Longman, William Massey, Charles Augustus Murray, W Mill, John Murray, Viscount Powerscourt, Walter Prideaux, William Scrope, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Thomas Stapleton, Lord Dudley Stuart, Henry Tufnell, John Stewart, Lord Western, Richard Westmacott and Sir Gardner Wilkinson.

3: Letters declining stewardships from John Allen, George Edward Anson, Charles Babbage, Sir George Baker, William Beattie, Charles Webb Le Bas, Lord Braybrooke, the Marquis of Breadalbane, John W Burgeon, William Burton, Colonel Chesney, Sir James Clark, Sir Astley Cooper, Charles Purdon Cooper, Allan Cunningham, Edward J Dent, Charles Lock Eastlake, Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Mountstuart Elphinstone, the Bishop of Exeter (Henry Phillpotts), Major Forbes, James Baillie Fraser, William Ewart Gladstone, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, J E Grey, George Bellas Greenough, Edward Hawkins, the Bishop of Hereford (Thomas Musgrave), Rowland Hill, Lord Holland, Thomas B Hughes, Sir Richard Jenkins, Edward Jesse, FitzRoy Kelly, John Michael Kemble, James Sheridan Knowles, the Marquis of Londonderry, John Lonsdale, John William Lubbock, J Madden, Augustus De Morgan, William Mountford Nurse, Richard Owen, John Parkington, Count Carlo Pepoli, G R Porter, John Gage Rokewode, Sir William Symonds, Patrick Fraser Tytler, William Turnbull, Robert Vaughan and George William Wood.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Archibald Billing, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Sir Henry Halford, [?] Kynaston, John Gibson Lockhart, W Leslie Melville, Cusack Patrick Roney, Thomas Noon Talfourd, James Endell Tyler, Patrick Fraser Tytler, Charles Wheatstone and [?] Williamson.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Lord Abinger, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, General Alava, Bulkeley Bandinel, Charles Barry, J W Bellamy, Count Magnus Bjornstjerna, J G Bridges, [?] Brodie, Baron Brünnow, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Baron Bülow, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, the Archbishop of Canterbury (William Howley), Edward Cardwell, the Prince de Castelcicala, Baron de Cello, William Frederick Chambers, John Taylor Coleridge, James Colquhoun, [William?] Cotton, John Anthony Cramer, John Wilson Croker, Earl de Grey, Lord Ellenborough, [?] Evans, Michael Faraday, Sir William Follett, Matthew Forster, John Fox, [?] de Gersdorff. Ashurst Turner Gilbert, Anthony Grayson, Joseph Henry Green, Robert Hyde Greg, Sir Josiah John Guest, John Gurwood, George William Hall, Sir Stephen Love Hammick, Renn Dickson Hampden, Philip Hardwick, Edward Hawkins, Robert Stagner Holford, Henry Holland, Henry Thomas Hope, [?] de Hummelauer, Richard Jenkins, George Jones, Henry Gally Knight, Henry Kynaston, [?] Lenormant, Marques de Lisboa, Thomas Henry Lister, the Bishop of London (Charles Blomfield), the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Lyndhurst, John David Macbride, William Charles Macready, Count Mandelsloh, [?] Mavrocordato, Baron de Moncorvo, Baron Münuchausen, [?] Murphy, Nouri Offendi, J Horsley Palmer, Sir Woodbine Parish, John Patteson, Louis Hayes Petit, [?] Prevost, John Radford, [?] Rees, Sir John Rae Reid, Edward Rice, Joseph Loscombe Richards, Samuel Rogers, Lord John Russell, Adam Sedgwick, Frederick Shaw, Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth, the Earl of Shelburne, [?] Fowler Short, William Smyth, Lewis Sneyd, Sir George Staunton, [?] Stevenson, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Colonel Sykes, the Turkish Ambassador, Charles Hampden Turner, Sharon Turner, Thomas Watson, Benjamin Webster, Lord Wharncliffe, [?] Wheelton, Christopher Wordsworth and Philip Wynter.

6: Letters from members unable to attend, namely Richard Edward Arden, Charles C Atkinson, John Balfour, John Barrow, Richard Bentley, Samuel Bentley, Samuel Boddington, John Britton, Joseph Calkin, Messrs Chapman & Hall, Thomas Clarke, George Richard Corner, Bolton Corney, James Crofts, Sir Henry Ellis, James Fraser, George Greenhill, John Pritt Harley, Thomas Harrison, Edward Craven Hawtrey, William Heseltine, Matthew Davenport Hill, Adam Hilton, John Holdship, John Johnson, George William Lovell, Samuel Lover, John Richardson Major, Samuel Maunder, Sir Moses Montefiore, John Minter Morgan, John Petty Muspratt, Benjamin Oakley, Charles Pearson, William Pockering, Louis Fenwick de Porquet, William Henry Rosser, Richard Benton Seeley, William Shaw, Sir Martin Archer Shee, John Hume Spry, Edward Stewart, C J Venables, James Walsh, William Wansey and David W Wire.

7: Circulars; letters from officers and members, namely James Beattie, Thomas Crofton Croker, Sir Henry Ellis, Edward Foss, William Henry Harrison, Edward Raleigh Moran, John Murray, William Smith and William Cooke Taylor; anonymous letter suggesting donations at the dinner should be advertised; dinner ticket, honorary invitation card; minutes of subcommittee, paper of suggestions by Charles Wentworth Dilke; toast list; list of honorary invitations; list of persons invited to be stewards; list of tickets issued; results of the dinner; receipts and expenses; donations and subscriptions announced; subscription papers; plan of tables; newspaper reports; printed list of subscriptions and donations.

1841 (Chairman: Frederick John Robinson, Earl of Ripon)

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from the Marquess of Lansdowne, Sir Henry Ellis, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, the Duke of Sutherland and the Earl of Ripon.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from John Barrow, Edward Brewster, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, the Bishop of Chichester (Philip Shuttleworth), Lord Colborne, Charles Purton Cooper, Charles Dickens, William Ewart Gladstone, John E Grey, William John Hall, Sir William Lloyd, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Kenneth Macaulay, Samuel Roffey Maitland, John Herman Merivale, Richard Monckton Milnes, Henry Reeve, the Bishop of St David’s (Connop Thirlwall), Sir John Edward Swinburne, Robert Vaughan and James Walsh.

3: Letters declining stewardships from Francis Badgley, the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Bexley, Charles Bowdler, Thomas Campbell, R Carleton, Francis Rawdon Chesney, [?] Chisholm, Thomas Coates, C R Cocknell, John Payne Collier, John Tricker Conquest, William Corfield, Bolton Corney, Sir Edward Cust, Earl de Grey, the Duke of Devonshire, John Doratt, Mountstuart Elphinstone, James B Fraser, Lord Gage, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Philip Hardwick, W Varlo Hellyer, the Bishop of Hereford (Thomas Musgrave), Rowland Hill, Richard Hilliard, Lord Jocelyn, John Mitchell Kemble, James Sheridan Knowles, [?] Lee, Edward Frederick Leeks, William M’Dowall, James Madden, Lord Mahon (Philip Henry Stanhope), Roderick Impey Murchison, Thomas Murdoch, Count Carlo Pepoli, George Richardson Porter, Lord Prudhoe, John Gage Rokewode, the Dean of Salisbury, H P Saunders, William Shackell, Sydney Smith, Thomas Noon Talfourd, William Tite, George Tomlinson, Robert Plumer Ward and B Williamson.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from William Buckland, Stratford Canning, Count Chreptowitch, george Croly, Octavius E Cooke, Durant St André (French Consul General), Matthew Forster, James Orchard Halliwell, Commodore Napier, the Neapolitan Charge d’Affaires, Andrew Spottiswoode, A Stevenson, William Charles Macready, J B Wells and George Frederick Young.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from William Astell, John L Anderson, Lord Ashley, Charles Barry, J W Bellamy, Chevalier de Benkhausen (Russian Consul General), Count Magnus Bjornstjerna, Beriah Botfield, Baron de Bourquenay, Count Bille Brahe, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Baron Brünnow, Baron Bülow, Sir William Burnett, the Marquis of Bute, Edward North Buxton, the Archbishop of Canterbury (William Howley), Joseph Cecil, Baron de Cetto, William Frederick Chambers, Nicholas Carrington, Sir James Clark, John Taylor Coleridge, James Colquhoun, Captaon Crombie, Leonard Currie, John Davis, the Bishop of Durham, Lord Francis Egerton, Prince Esterhazy, the Bishop of Exeter, Lieutenant Colonel Glennie, Theodore Gordon, James Alexander Gordon, Joseph Henry Green, Henry Green, George Grote, Sir Henry Halford, Henry Hallam, Quarles Harris, John Charles Herries, Sir H H Hoare, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Robert Hollond, Henry Thomas Hope, John Gellibrand Hubbard, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Sir Richard Jenkins, George Jones, Count Kielmansegge, Henry Kynaston, Count Libzeltern, the Bishop of Lichfield, Sir Joseph Littledale, the Bishop of Llandaff, Charles Locock, John Gibson Lockhart, the Lord Mayor (Thomas Johnson), Matthew Lucas, Sir James M’Grigor, Baron de Moncorvo, Lord Monteagle, Thomas Moore, Alexander Nairne, Sir Gore Ouseley, Sir Francis Palgrave, the Dean of Ely (George Peacock), Sir Robert Peel, the Bishop of Peterborough, John Henry Pelly, the Bishop of Rochester, Samuel Rogers, Baron de Rothschild, Lord John Russell, Count Pollen, Baron Schleinitz, Adam Sedgwick, Sir Martin Archer Shee, Robert Small, James Scott Smith, William Smyth, the Duke of Somerset, Joseph Somes, Sir George Staunton, the Duke of Sutherland, Colonel Sykes, the Turkish Ambasador, Charles Hampden Turner, Patrick Fraser Tytler, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Sir Henry Wheatley, Captain Wilford and the Archbishop of York.

6: Letters from members unable to attend, namely Charles C Atkinson, William Beattie, Samuel Bentley, Thomas Bish, Samuel Boddington, Joseph Calkin, John Capel, Henry Caslon, Messrs Chapman & Hall, Henry F Chorley, Thomas Clarke, Bolton Corney, John Wilson Croker, William Joseph Denison, George Dollond, Beriah Drew, Sir James Duke, Robert Fisher, James Fraser, Simon Grey, John Harris, Thomas Harrison, John Hatchard, Charles Hatchett, Thomas Hawkes, William Heseltine, Matthew Davenport Hill, Adam Hilton, James Holmes, Thomas Hartwell Horne, John Howell, John Johnson, Sir Charles Lemon, Stephen Lushington, William Alexander Mackinnon, John Richardson Major, W Leslie Melville, Sir Moses Montfiore, Francis Graham Moon, John Petty Muspratt, Richard Ravenhill Oakley, Charles Pearson, Henry William Pickersgill, Walter Prideaux, Frederick Salmon, David Salomons, William Scrope, Robert Benton Seeley, Benjamin Shaw, William Shaw, Robert William Sievier, Edward Stewart, John Coote Stirke, Lord Dudley Stewart, Sharon Turner, Horace Twiss, Henry Washbourne, Sir Gardner Wilkinson, David W Wire and Lieutenant Colonel Wood.

7: Circulars; letters to accompany honorary invitations; list on honorary invitations; list of persons invited to be stewards; dinner ticket; honorary invitation card; correspondence with officers, namely John Barrow, Robert Blackmore, Henry Foss, John Murray, Cusack Patrick Roney, William Cooke Taylor, William Tooke and George Byrom Whittaker; anonymous letter complaining that there are no booksellers on the list of stewards; minutes of stewards and subcommittee meeting; directions for stewards; toast list; ticket account; anniversary accounts; plan of tables; Treasurers’ report; subscription papers; newspaper reports; printed list of subscriptions and donations.