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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1842 (at which Prince Albert presided) and 1843. 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, correspondence with stewards, letters accepting and declining honorary invitations, letters from members able and 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.

1842 (Chairman: Prince Albert):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from the Marquess of Lansdowne, Thomas Aymot, Sir Henry Ellis, George Edward Anson, the Duke of Sutherland, Sir James Clark and Octavian Blewitt.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Thomas Massa Alsagar, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Robert Bell, Beriah Botfield, the Marquis of Breadalbane, John Ivatt Briscoe, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Thomas Campbell, the Bishop of Chichester (Ashurst Gilbert), The Chisholm, the Duke of Cleveland, William Clowes, Thomas Coates, Charles Robert Cockerell, Charles A Cooke, John Dickinson, the Archbishop of Dublin (Richard Whately), Lord Francis Egerton, Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Patrick Fraser, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol (James Monk), George Bellas Greenough, Sir Henry Halford, Philip Hardwick, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Henry Hallam, Henry Thomas Hope, John Thomas Hope, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, George Payne Rainsford James, Viscount Jocelyn, John Mitchell Kemble, the Bishop of Llandaff (Edward Copleston), John Gibson Lockhart, the Marquis of Londonderry, Thomas Longman, William Magnay, Viscount Mahon, Robert Maugham, Henry Hart Milman, Thomas Moore, Roderick Impey Murchison, the Marquis of Normanby, George Parbury, Bryan Waller Proctor, John Edmund Reade, Lord Redesdale, the Earl of Ripon, Francis Rivington, Samuel Rogers, Andrew Spottiswoode, Lord Stanley, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Sharon Turner, Benjamin Webster, William Whewell, David W Wire, George William Wood and William Knight (this last too late).

3: Letters declining stewardships from Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Samuel Bagster, Francis Baily, Sir George Baker, Lord Balcarres, the Duke of Beaufort, Sir John Beckett, Sir Felix Booth, Lord Brougham, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, John William Burgon, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Lyndhurst), the Earl of Clare, the Earl of Clarendon, John Collett, Sir John Doratt, Charles Lock Eastlake, the Marquis of Exeter, Benjamin Fellowes, William Ferguson, Sir James Flower, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldmid, Sir George Grey, Thomas Hamilton, Thomas Harrison, W Varlo Hellyer, the Bishop of Hereford (Thomas Musgrave), Robert S Holford, William Hood, Charles Howard, John Johnson, FitzRoy Kelly, Charles Webb Le Bas, Edward Frederick Leeks, Lord Leigh, William Charles Macready, James Madden, Richard Marshall, John Masterman, John Miles, John Petty Muspratt, Sir Robert Peel, Count Carlo Pepoli, Louis Hayes Petit, George Richardson Porter, Lord Prudhoe, Lord John Russell, the Bishop of Salisbury, William Shackell, Frederick Shaw, Sir Martin Archer Shee, [?] Smythe, Charles Tilt, William Tite, George Tomlinson, Travers Twiss, John Van Voorst, Sir Richard Vyvyan and E B Wilbraham,

4: Correspondence with stewards, namely Thomas Massa Alsagar, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Robert Bell, Beriah Botfield, John Ivatt Briscoe, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Thomas Campbell, the Bishop of Chichester (Ashurst Gilbert), The Chisholm, William Clowes, Charles Robert Cockerell, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Lord Francis Egerton, Sir Philip Grey Egerton, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol (James Monk), George Godwin, Sir Henry Halford, Henry Hallam, Sidney Herbert, John Cam Hobhouse, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, George Payne Rainsford James, Viscount Jocelyn, John Mitchell Kemble, Charles König, the Bishop of Llandaff (Edward Copleston), John Gibson Lockhart, the Marquis of Londonderry, Thomas Longman, Viscount Mahon, Henry Hart Milman, Thomas Moore, Roderick Impey Murchison, the Marquis of Normanby, Lord Redesdale, the Earl of Ripon, Samuel Rogers, Lord Stanley, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Thomas Noon Talfourd, William Whewell, George William Wood and David W Wire,

5: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Lord Ashley, Baron Brünnow, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Baron Charles de Canitz, Lord Colborne, Edward Everett, Robert Ferguson, [?] Holland, Sir Edmund Knatchbull, Henry Gally Knight, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir Charles Lemon, Charles Locock, Donald Maclean, Richard Monckton Milnes, Joseph Neeld, the Marquis of Northampton, Durant St André (French Consul General), Francis Simpkinson, Robert Vernon Smith, Lord Teignmouth, Sylvain Van de Weyer and William Wordsworth.

6: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Charles Barry, Chevalier de Benkhausen (Russian Consul General), Lord Bexley, Lord Braybrooke, Lord Brougham, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the Marquis of Bute, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Viscount Canterbury, the Earl of Carlisle, Baron de Cetto, William Frederick Chambers, the Bishop of Chester, the Earl of Clarendon, John Taylor Coleridge, Chevalier Colquhoun (Hanse Town Minister), John Anthony Cramer, William Joseph Denison, Charles Tennyson-d’Eyncourt, Thomas Erskine, James Bucknall Estcourt, Michael Faraday, Baron de Gersdorff, William Ewart Gladstone, Earl de Grey, Thomas Grenville, George James Guthrie, Lord Haddington, Sir Henry Hardinge, Earl Jermyn, Count Kielmansegge, Alfred Latham., Baron Libzeltern, the Marquess de Lisboa, the Lord Mayor (John Pirie), Stephen Lushington, James Cosmo Melvill, Baron de Moncorvo, Commodore Napier, Baron de Newman, the Duke of Northumberland, Sir Gore Ouseley, Lord Palmerston, Sir Robert Peel, the Bishop of Peterborough, Wilson Philip, [?] Pidduck, Count de Pollon, Baron Rehausen, the Duke of Richmond, George de Rabandy, the Bishop of Rochester, Baron de Rothschild, Jesse Watts Russell, the Duke of Rutland, the Count de Saint-Aulaire, M Salomé, Lord Sandon, Vice Chancellor Shadwell, Sydney Smith, the Duke of Somerset, Robert Spankie, Adam Sedgwick, the Speaker (Charles Shaw-Lefevre), the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Sir George Staunton, Sir Robert Stopford, the Duke of Sutherland, Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, [?] Tricoupi, Henry Tufnell, Henry Montagu Villiers, Lord Western, Lord Wharncliffe, Vice Chancellor Wigram, Thomas Wood and the Bishop of Worcester.

7: Letters from officers and members attending: John Barrow, Richard Bentley, James Duncan, John Forbes, Henry Foss, Thomas Gaspey, William Henry Harrison, John Murray, John Newman, John Gough Nichols, George Byrom Whittaker, Sir Richard Jodrell, John Adolphus, Thomas Arnold, William Buckland, George Frederick Carden, Richard Sawrey Cox, Robert Cooke, Colonel Gurwood, John Howell, John Heneage Jesse, John Lane, George William Lovell, Samuel Lover, Kenneth Macaulay, Robert Decrez M’Cracken, John Petty Muspratt, John Henry Parker, L Fenwick de Porquet, George Potticary, James Prior, John Russell, Robert Benton Seeley, William Selwyn, John Frederick Stanford, John Coote Stirke, Henry Washbourne and William S Woodburn.

8: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: Charles Baldwin, Edmund Beales, William Beattie, Laman Blanchard, Edward Brewster, Henry Caslon, Messrs Chapman and Hall, Sir William Chatterton, Henry F Chorley, Octavius E Coope, Thomas Crofton Croker, Charles Wentworth Dilke, George Dollond, Robert Fisher, George Robert Gleig, John Harris, John Hatchard, Charles Hatchett, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Matthew Davenport Hill, Rowland Hill, Robert Hollond, James Holmes, Daniel Hurst, Charles Kean, Thomas Kelly, Charles Kemble, Charles Knight, William Charles Macready, Samuel Roffey Maitland, John Herman Merivale, Sir Moses Montefiore, John Bowyer Nichols, William Gill Paxton, Henry William Pickersgill, Sir George Philips, William Frederick Pollock, Walter Prideaux, W H Roper, William Shaw, Robert William Sievier, John Hume Spry, William Smyth, Thomas Stevenson, Edward Stewart, Charles Hampden Turner, Horace Twiss, James Walsh, Effingham Wilson and [?] Wood.

9: Circulars to stewards, officers, members and honorary visitors; correspondence with Charles Wentworth Dilke, Edward Foss, John Murray and Cusack Patrick Roney; minutes of the subcommittee; minutes of stewards’ meeting; dinner ticket; honorary invitation ticket; list of persons invited to become stewards; list of honorary invitations; ticket list; toast list; bill of fare; plan of tables; songs, glees &c.; contributions of stewards; produce of honorary tickets; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; printed list of subscriptions and donations; produce of the dinner.

1843 (Chairman: George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, the Duke of Sutherland and Sir Henry Ellis.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from William George Carter, Samuel Cartwright, Sir William Chatterton, William Ewart, Matthew Forster, Robert Goff, Sir Benjamin Heywood, Frederick William Irby, Douglas Jerrold, Sir William Paul Jodrell, Lord Leigh, Charles Lever, William Leslie Melville, Joseph Neeld, Lord Palmerston, Count Carlo Pepoli, George Richardson Porter, the Bishop of Salisbury, Lord Sydney and Nicholas Wiseman.

3: Letters declining stewardships from Sir Thomas Dyke Acland,Sir Edmund Antrobus, Henry Arbuthnot, the Earl of Auckland, Francis Baring, the Earl of Beverley, Archibald Billing, Edward Blore, Lord Braybrooke, William Buckland, Sir John B Garde Buller, Charles Buller, Lord Campbell, Temple Chevallier, Henry F Chorley, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Cottenham, Lord Courtney, Sir John Easthope, John Elliotson, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Sir Edmund Filmer, Sir James Flower, Charles Richard Fox, Sir Francis Head, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Lord Greenock (Charles Murray Cathcart), Sir George Grey, Sir Benjamin Hall, Samuel Carter Hall, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Julius Charles Hare, John Stevens Henslow, Sir Ralph Howard, James Hudson, Captain Lamont, Sir Gregory A Lewin, the Earl of Lincoln, William Charles Macready, Lord Morpeth, the Bishop of Norwich, Sir Francis Palgrave, Lord Prudhoe, John Edmund Reade, Sir John Rae Reid, Edward Rice, H P Saunders, Frederick Shaw, Lord FitzRoy Somerset, James Henthorn Todd, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Travers Twiss, Charles Pelham Villiers, Jacob Waley, Samuel Warren, Lord Wharncliffe, B Williamson, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby, John Stuart Wortley and Lord Wrottesley.

4: Correspondence with stewards, namely Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Samuel Cartwright, William Ewart, Matthew Forster, Robert Goff, Sir Benjamin Heywood, Frederick William Irby, Douglas Jerrold, Lord Leigh, William Leslie Melville, Joseph Neeld, Lord Palmerston, George Richardson Porter, James Prior, the Bishop of Salisbury, Lord Sydney and Nicholas Wiseman.

5: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Charles Baldwin, A de Berg, Baron Brünnow, Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Charles Dickens (listed, but letter missing), Lord Francis Egerton, Edward Everett, Julius Charles Hare, the Bishop of Lincoln (John Kaye), M. Mosquera (New Granadan Minister), Count de Reventlow (Danish Minister), the Bishop of St David’s (Connop Thirlwall), General Sancho (Spanish Minister), Lord Sandon, Lord Dudley Stuart and Thomas Turton.

6: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Gilbert Ainslie, George Biddell Airy, Lewis Sneyd, Lord Amherst, George John Archdall, Charles Babbage, Bulkeley Bandinel, Chevalier de Benkhausen (Russian Consul General), Lord Bexley, Beriah Botfield, [?] Bridges, John Ivatt Briscoe, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Duke of Buccleuch, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Edward Cardwell, the Prince de Castelcicala, the Bishop of Chichester (Philip Shuttleworth), Sir James Clark, Thomas Coltman, Lord Colborne, James Colquhoun, Admiral Lord Colville, William Cotton, John Cotton, John Anthony Cramer, John Wilson Croker, M. Dedel (Netherlands Minister), William Joseph Denison, Sir James Duke, Durant St André (French Consul General), the Bishop of Ely, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Henry Goulburn), the Marquis of Exeter, Michael Faraday, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, M. [Fatique?] (Venezuelan Minister), the French Ambassador, William French, J W Freshfield, Sir William Follett, Thomas Milner Gibson, William Ewart Gladstone, John Graham, Baron de Gersdorff, Sir James Graham, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir Henry Halford, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Renn Dickson Hampden, George Harcourt, Sir Henry Hardinge, John Haviland, Edward Hawkins, Edward Craven Hawtrey, John Benjamin Heath, Chevalier Hebeler, Sidney Herbert, Sir John Herschel, Francis Hodgson, John Thomas Hope, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, George Thackeray, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Lyndhurst), John Kidd, Count Kielmansegge, Joshua King, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, John Lamb, John Lindley, the Bishop of Llandaff (Edward Copleston), the Lord Mayor (John Humphrey), Sir John Lubbock, Sir James Law Lushington, Viscount Mahon, Baron de Moncorvo, Thomas Moore, Roderick Impey Murchison, Sir Charles Napier, Macvey Napier, Baron de Neumann, the Duke of Northumberland, Charles Atmore Ogilvie, Sir Gore Ouseley, [John?} Patteson, Sir Robert Peel, Frederick Charles Plumptre, Sir Frederick Pollock, Baron Rehausen, Joseph Loscombe Richards, the Earl of Ripon, the Bishop of Ripon, Baron de Rothschild, Jesse Watts Russell, Andrew Rutherford, the Bishop of St Asaph, General Sancho (Spanish Minister), Adam Sedgwick, Sir Martin Archer Shee, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Lord Stanley, Sir George Staunton, Sir Robert Stopford, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Ralph Tatham, Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, M. Tricoupi (Greek Minister), the Turkish Ambassador, Sylvain Van de Weyer, James Walker, William Webb, the Duke of Wellington, the Dean of Westminster, Lord Wharncliffe, Vice Chancellor Wigram, David Williams, the Bishop of Winchester, Colonel Wood, the Bishop of Worcester, Thomas Worsley and Philip Wynter.

7: Letters from officers and members attending: John Auldjo, Richard Bentley, John Britton, Thomas Crofton Croker, James Duncan, John Forbes, George Payne Rainsford James, John Murray, John Bowyer Nichols, Robert Bell, Thomas John Burgoyne, Richard Frankum, Robert Decrez M’Cracken, Robert Maugham and John Coote Stirke.

8: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Barrow, Robert Blackmore, Charles Wentworth Dilke, John Griffin, Joseph Gwilt, John Thomas Hope, Benjamin Hopkinson, Charles Augustus Murray, John Noble, W H Roper, William Tooke, George Byrom Whittaker, George Woodfall, Richard Edward Arden, Charles Barry, Edward Brewster, Joseph Calkin, Thomas Campbell, Messrs Chapman & Hall, Thomas Clarke, William Clowes, Thomas Coates, C A Cooke, O E Coope, Bolton Corney, Richard Sawrey Cox, George Dollond, Robert Fisher, George Robert Gleig, George Godwin, Luke James Hansard, Thomas Harrison, John Hatchard, Charles Hatchett, James Holmes, John Howell, Charles König, George William Lovell, Samuel Lover, William Charles Macready, Samuel Maunder, Edward Moxon, John Petty Muspratt, Richard Ravenhill Oakley, William Gill Paxton, James Robinson Planché, Walter Prideaux, Henry Reeve, Thomas Roscoe, Frederick Salmon, John Hume Spry, Edward Stewart, Sharon Turner, Patrick Fraser Tytler, G Vandenhoff, E B Vigurs, James Walsh, Henry Washbourne, James Whishaw, Sir Gardner Wilkinson, Effingham Wilson, Captain Wood and William S Woodburn.

9: Circulars; correspondence with officers, namely Sir Henry Ellis, Edward Foss, Thomas Longman and Sir Harris Nicolas; letters from Edward Everett respecting his speech; notes of the speech; minutes of Anniversary Committee and stewards; list of persons invited to be stewards; ticket list and honorary invitation list; dinner ticket and invitation card; toast list; plan of tables; donations announced; subscription papers; songs, glees &c.; newspaper reports; results of the dinner; advertisement of donations announced.