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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1844 and 1845. 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 (with additional correspondence with stewards filed with the accepts), 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.

1844 (Chairman: Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, Marquis of Northampton):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from the Marquis of Northampton, J H Halliday and Sir Henry Ellis.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from the Earl of Auckland, Sir Benjamin Guy Babington, Sir John Barrow, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Thomas Brown, Charles Parr Burney, Thomas Stephens Davies, George Dollond, Charles Dolman, Benjamin Gompertz, Thomas Graham, John Thomas Graves, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Samuel Carter Hall, Henry Parr Hamilton, Luke James Hansard, George Granville Harcourt, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Thomas Horsfield, Lebbens Charles Humfrey, John Lingard, Lord John Manners, Gideon Algernon Mantell, John Masterman, Matthew O’Brien, Benjamin Oliveira, Richard Owen, Sir Charles William Pasley, William Haseldine Peyps, Jonathan Pereira, Colonel Sabine, Augustus P Saunders, Adam Sedgwick, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Travers Twiss; with additional correspondence from Sir Benjamin Guy Babington, Henry Parr Hamilton, Lord John Manners, Adam Sedgwick, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Colonel Sabine.

3: Letters declining stewardships from Charles Babbage, Francis Baily, Peter Barlow, Martin Barry, Robert Batty, Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche, John Bostock, William Bowman, William Thomas Brande, Lord Braybrooke, W J Broderick, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, William Buckland, Sir John B Garde Buller, Earl Cathcart, William Frederick Chambers, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Lyndhurst), Samuel Hunter Christie, the Earl of Clarendon, Gideon Colquhoun, Richard Sawrey Cox, T B Curling, William Freeman Daniell, the Bishop of Ely, William Fallofeild, [?] Farebrother, John Flather, Sir James Flower, Charles Forster, Thomas Galloway, Gordon Willoughby Gyll, John Harris, Sir Francis Head, the Bishop of Hereford, John Hogg, John Hoppus, Sir James Clark Jervoise, [?] Lee, the Bishop of Lichfield, Edward Hawke Locker, Lord Lowther, Sir John W Lubbock, [?] Mayo, W H Miller, {?] Moon, Lord Morpeth, Sir Edward Parry, Richard Partridge, Baden Powell, Lord Prudhoe, John Edmund Reade, Sir John Rae Read, Edward Rice, the Duke of Richmond, James Clark Ross, Sir Charles Scudamore, the Earl of Shelburne, John Pye Smith, W H Smyth, R H Solly, Sir James South, John Taylor, Thomas Tegg, Robert Bentley Todd, Martin Farquhar Tupper, John Van Voorst, John Wainewright, F P Walesby, Jacob Waley, Lord Wharncliffe, Robert Willis, Sir John Page Wood, John Stuart Wortley and Lord Wrothsley.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from The Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Lord Bolton, Baron Brünnow, the Archbishop of Dublin (Richard Whately), G E Eyre, Sir John Hall, Chevalier Hebeler (Prussian Consul General), D MacLean, Richard Monckton Milnes, Sir Harris Nicolas, John H Philipps, Count De Reventlow (Danish Minister), Lord Stanley, Thomas Noon Talfourd and Fletcher Wilson.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Charles Ballwin, James C C Bell, A de Berg, Lord Bexley, Count Magnus Bjornstjerna, Beriah Botfield, Sir Benjamin Brodie, George Butter, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, the Bishop of Chichester, The Chisholm, Lord Colborne, John Taylor Coleridge, James Colquhoun, Charles Dickens, Edward Everett, William Ewart, the French Ambassador, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Glenelg, George Bellas Greenough, Colonel Gurwood, Henry Hallam, John Hardy, Jonathan Hayne, Sidney Herbert, Henry Thomas Hope, Richard William Jelf, Count Kielmansegge, Sir Edmund Knatchbull, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Llandaff, Lord Mahn, Baron de Moncorvo, Thomas Moore, Roderick Impey Murchison, Sir Charles Napier, the Netherlands Minister, Baron de Newmann, Sir Harris Nicolas, Onley Savill Onley, Sir Gore Ouseley, Sir Robert Peel, M. del Pozzo, Baron Lionel de Rithschild, the Duke of Rutland, Durant St André (French Consul General), Baron Gersdorff (Saxon Minister), the Duke of Somerset, Andrew Spottiswoode, Sir George Staunton, W Strahan, the Duke of Sutherland, Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Henry Montagu Villiers, David Williams and Serjeant Wrangham.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: John Auldjo, John Barrow, Richard Bentley, Robert Blackmore, John Britton, Thomas Crofton Croker, James Duncan, Charles Wentworth Dilke, John Forbes, John Murray, John Noble, John Russell, William Tooke, Sir William Betham, Archibald Billing, Thomas John Burgoyne, Henry Colburn, Bolton Corney, Richard Frankum, George Godwin, Richard Johns, George T Kemp, John Lane, Robert Maugham, William S Orr and James Prior.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: Thomas Gaspey, John Newman, George Byrom Whittaker, James Anderton, William James Atkinson, Charles Barry, Joseph Baxendale, William Beattie, Francis Beaufort, [?] Bosworth, Joseph Calkin, Samuel Cartwright, William Clowes, Thomas Coates, John Wilson Croker, Beriah Drew, Robert Ferguson, Robert Fisher, James Holmes, Thomas Hartwell Horne, John Edward Johnson, Charles Lever, Samuel Lover, Major Moor, Harvet Mortimer, Charles Augustus Murray, Robert Mushel, Charles Pearson, Claude Perring, Henry William Pickersgill, Henry Reeve, John Hume Spry, George Townsend, Sharon Turner, G Vandenhoff, Colonel Wildman and Henry John Todd.

8: Circular; minutes of Anniversary Committee and stewards; list of persons invited to be stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation card; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; correspondence respecting speeches from Edward Foss, Charles Parr Burney, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Henry Gally Knight, the Marquis of Northampton, Richard Owen, Sir Charles William Pasley, and Thomas Noon Talfourd; toast list; songs, glees &c.; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; plan of tables; newspaper reports; results of dinner.

1845 (Chairman: Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from George Payne Rainsford James, Octavian Blewitt, the Earl of Ellenborough, Thomas Aymot and Sir Henry Ellis, with the Committee’s resolution of thanks.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Charles Cardale Babington, George Robert Wythen Baxter, William Thomas Brande, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Thomas Clarke, Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke, [?] Darling, Benjamin Disraeli, Andrew Doyle, [?] Holland, William Charles Macready, Samuel Mullen, Alexander Nasmyth, Cosmo Orme, John William Parker, David Salomons, Sir Percy Florence Shelley, George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe, James Emerson Tennent, Robert Bentley Todd, Seymour Tremenheere, Francis French, Martin Farquhar Tupper and Sir John Page Wood; with additional correspondence from George Robert Wythen Baxter, William Thomas Brande, Thomas Clarke, Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke, [?] Darling, Benjamin Disraeli, Andrew Doyle, John Forbes, Cosmo Orme, Sir Percy Florence Shelley, George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe, James Emerson Tennent, Robert Bentley Todd, Francis French and Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson.

3: Letters declining stewardships from Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, William Francis Ainsworth, Lord Antrim, William Ashley, Wilberforce Bird, George Borrow, Rear Admiral Bowles, J Burns, William Frederick Chambers, Samuel Hunter Christie, the Earl of Clare, George Cochrane, Henry Davies, the Earl of De La Warr, Robert Dickson, [?] Dinisdale, Lord Ebrington, the Bishop of Ely, Michael Faraday, Captain Fitzmaurice, John Flather, Sir Augustus Foster, Richard Frankum, George Robert Gleig, Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Gordon Gyll, William Hale Hale, Thomas Hanky, William Harris, the Bishop of Hereford, John Hodgson, Edward Hollond, Walter Farquhar Hook, Sir George Hoste, H B Stafford Jerningham, Edward Jerningham, Captain Johns, John Knox, George Augustus Lamb, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Earl of Lincoln, Robert Listor, [?] Lumley, Charles Lyell, Lord Lyttelton, the Earl of March, R H Middlemass, Sir George Murray, Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, Lord Prudhoe, the Earl of Sefton, Edward James Seymour, John Sinclair, W H Smyth, John Hume Spry, A R Sutherland, Horace Twiss, Henry Montagu Villiers, George Virtue, Eliot Warburton, Albert Way, Robert Willis, William Wilson, the Bishop of Worcester, Christopher Wordsworth and Lord Wrottesley.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, John Barlow, Henry Blanshard, H R Briggs, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Lord Colchester, the Archbishop of Dublin, Frederick C Ellis, William Ewart, Sir John Hall, George Payne Rainsford James, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, Lord Mahon, Lord John Manners, Richard Monckton Milnes, Roderick Impey Murchison, Sir Charles William Pasley, the Common Serjeant, John Walter and Joseph Wolff.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Earl Amherst, the Lord Chief Baron (Sir Frederick Pollock), Lord Bexley, Beriah Botfield, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Sir Benjamin Brodie, the Duc du Broglie (French Ambassador), Charles Parr Burney, Prince Castelcicala (Neapolitan Minister), Baron de Cetto (Bavarian Minister), the Bishop of Chichester, the Duke of Cleveland, Lord Colborne, James Colquhoun, Lord Colville, Lord Albert Conyngham, William Joseph Denison, Count Dietrichstein (Austrian Ambassador), the Bishop of Durham, Sir Philip Grey Egerton, the Bishop of Ely, William Erle, Edward Everett, Charles Tennyson-d’Eyncourt, Sir Edmund Filmer, Hudson Gurney, Colonel Gurwood, Henry Hallam, John Benjamin Heath, Chevalier Hebeler (Prussian Consul General), Robert S Holford, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Lord Jocelyn, Count Kielmansegge (Hanoverian Minister), Sir Edward Knatchbull, Henry Gally Knight, Baron Koller, Sir Charles Lenon, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Llandaff, Sir John William Lubbock, [?] Lushington, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Leslie Melville, Signor Minasi (Sicilian Consul General), Baron de Moncorvo (Portuguese Minister), Thomas Moore, the Marquis of Northampton, the Duke of Northumberland, Richard Owen, Lord Palmerston, Robert Peel, the Dean of Peterborough, Louis Hayes Petit, the Earl of Radnor, Count Revenlow (Danish Minister), the Earl of Ripon, the Duke of Rutland, the Count de Saint-Aulaire, Durant St André (French Consul General), the Bishop of Salisbury, Lord Sandon, the Scandinavian Minister (Count Pollon), the Saxon Minister (Baron Gersdorff), the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Stanley, Sir George Staunton, Ferdinand Stephens, [?] Storks, Lord Dudley Stuart, the Duke of Sutherland, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Lord Teignmouth, Chevalier Tottie (Swedish Consul General), Sharon Turner, Dawson Turner, Sylvain Van de Weyer (Belgian Minister), Charles Baring Wall, Frederick Beilby Watson, the Duke of Wellington, David Williams, Fletcher Wilson, the Bishop of Winchester, the Würtemberg Minister and Edward Zohrab (the Turkish Consul General).

6: Letters from officers and members attending: John Auldjo, Hnery Foss, Edward Gandy, William Henry Harrison, John Murray, Thomas Noon Talfourd, William Tooke, Robert Bell, Bayle Bernard, Samuel Blackburne, T Brettell, Piers C Claughton, Henry Colburn, Luke James Hansard, George T Kemp, Messrs Longman & Co., George William Lovell, John Masterman, Joseph Maynard, Robert Mushel, Frederick Salmon and J H Strequeler.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: Richard Bentley, Robert Blackmore, John Barrow, John Bruce, Thomas Crofton Croker, Charles Dickens, James Duncan, John Griffin, John Bowyer Nichols, John Noble, Charles Barry, John Bostock, Thomas Hilton Bothamly, Samuel Cartwright, Henry Cartwright, Henry Colburn, Bolton Corney, Richard Sawrey Cox, John Dickinson, John Hatchard, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Thomas Horsfield, Richard William Jelf, John Edward Johnson, Charles lever, Robert Mangles, Major Moor, John Petty Muspratt, Benjamin Oliveira, Henry William Pickersgill, William Sawyer, William Shaw, John Coote Stirke, Thomas T Storks, William Turner, Travers Twiss, Patrick Fraser Tytler, Jacob Waley, David W Wire, the Countess of Blessington and Lady Chantry.

8: Circular; correspondence with officers, namely Thomas Aymot, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Sir Henry Ellis, James Duncan, Edward Foss, John Russell, and John Bowyer Nichols; copy of a letter to Mr Bacon at the Freemasons’ Tavern; minutes of stewards and Anniversary Committee; list of persons invited to be stewards; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; dinner ticket; honorary invitation card; regulations in regard to stewards; musical arrangements by C Godfrey, Colonel Walton and J W Hobbs; songs, glees &c.; correspondence respecting speeches from Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Lord Colchester, the Archbishop of Dublin (Richard Whateley), the Earl of Ellenborough, George Payne Rainsford James, John Mitchell Kemble, Roderick Impey Murchison, Sir Charles William Pasley, John Russell, Thomas Noon Talfourd, John Walter, Sir John Page Wood, A Mackay and David Macrae; toast list; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; plan of tables; newspaper report; results of the dinner; printed lists of subscriptions and donations.