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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1846 and 1847. 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.

1846 (Chairman: John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Prince George of Cambridge, the Bishop of Lincoln, Sir Henry Ellis and Benjamin Bond Cabbell, with the Committee’s resolution of thanks and the Bishop’s acknowledgement.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from John Leycester Adolphus, Charles Parr Burney, the Marquis of Bute, Sir William Chatterton, the Dean of Chichester, Viscount Curzon, Archdeacon Dealtry, the Bishop of Ely, Thomas Campbell Foster, Richard Gilbert, the Bishop of Hereford, John Hodgson, Walter Farquhar Hook, Philip H Howard, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, William Longman, Henry Edward Manning, John Morris, the Dean of Peterborough, Sir William Charles Ross, Benjamin Parsons Symons, Ralph Tatham, George Thackeray, Archibald Campbell Tait, Thomas Thorp, George Virtue and Forbes Winslow; with additional correspondence from John Leycester Adolphus, Charles Parr Burney, the Marquis of Bute, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Sir William Chatterton, the Dean of Chichester, Archdeacon Dealtry, Thomas Campbell Foster, John Hodgson, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Henry Edward Manning, John Morris, the Dean of Peterborough, George Brown Francis Potticary, the Bishop of Ripon, the Dean of Rochester, Sir William Charles Ross, Thomas Spyers, Benjamin Parsons Symons, Archibald Campbell Tait, Ralph Tatham, Thomas Thorp and Forbes Winslow and a late letter from George Townsend.

3: Letters declining stewardships from William Ashley, the Earl of Cawdor, the Marquis of Chandos, [?] Chaplin, Archdeacon Clerk, [?] Copeland, Thomas Dale, C B Dalton, Benjamin Disraeli, William Fallofeild, Sir Walter Farquhar, the Marquis of Granby, Earl de Grey, Charles Goddard, George Grote, Richard Harrington, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Hatchard, Francis Hodgson, George Hudson, George Augustus Lamb, [?} Laurie, Lord Lindsey, George Moberley, Robert Montgomery, Lord Morpeth, T B Murray, Sir William John Newton, the Bishop of Oxford, Lyon Playfair, Thomas Robinson, H S Roots, [?] Shepherd, John Sinclair, Sir James South, John Hume Spry, Lord John Thynne, J G Ward, George Wilkins and the Earl of Winchilsea.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Robert Browning, William Buckland, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Thomas Carter, the Bishop of Chichester, G J Dupuis, the Earl of Ellenborough, Frederick Ellis, John Grover, William Ewart, James Halsey, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandaff, George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer, Lord Sandon and Lord Dudley Stuart.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Earl Amherst, the Austrian Ambassador, the Lord Chief Baron (Sir Frederick Pollock), George Bethell, Lord Bexley, M. de Bielke (Secretary of the Danish Legation), John James Blunt, Beriah Botfield, Baron Brenner, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Baron Brünnow, the Duke of Buccleuch, Baron de Cetto, [?] Chaplin, Benedict Chapman, the Bishop of Chster, the Earl of Chichester, the Duke of Cleveland, Lord Colborne, Lord Colchester, John Taylor Coleridge, James Colquhoun, Lord Colville, Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Baron Dedel, the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Francis Egerton, William Erle, John Evans, the Marquis of Exeter, Sir Henry Foulis, the French Ambassador (the Count de Saint-Aulaire), William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Glenelg, the prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company, G R Green, Sir John Hall, Renn Dickson Hampden, Sidney Herbert, Sir John Hippesley, Robert S Holford, Henry Thomas Hope, Baron de Hügel, Count de Jarnac, Count Kielmansegge, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, George Krahman, Baron de Langen, the Chancellor of Lincoln, the Lord Mayor (John Johnson), Lord Mahon, the Duke of Manchester, Lord Metcalfe, Baron de Moncorvo, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Baron Nicolay, the Duke of Northumberland, Alfred Ollivant, Richard Owen, Lord Palmerston, Sir Charles William Pasley, John Patteson, John Ayrton Paris, the Dean of Ely (George Peacock), Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Ripon, the Bishop of Rochester, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Rutland, Durant St André (French Consul General), the Bishop of Salisbury, James Scholefield, the Earl of Shrewsbury, George P Smythe, the Duke of Somerset, the Spanish Minister (Duke de Sotomayor), the Duke of Sutherland, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Dwarkananth Tagore, Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Sylvain Van de Weyer, [?] Vaughan, John Wilder, David Williams, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby, the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Worcester.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: John Barrow, John Bruce, Charles Wentworth Dilke, James Duncan, John Russell, William Tooke, William Beattie, Robert Bell, James Silk Buckingham, Thomas John Burgoyne, Sir James Clark, Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke, John Dickerson, George William Lovell, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, Robert Mushet, Frederick Pollock and George S G Stonestreet.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: Richard Bentley, Robert Blackmore, William Bockden, Charles Dickens, Lord John Manners, Richard Monckton Milnes, John Newman, John Noble, George Byrom Whittaker, Charles Barry, George Robert Wythen Baxter, Bayle Bernard, John Bostock, John Dalrymple, John Forster, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Thomas Kelly, William Charles Macready, Henry Hart Milman, Major Moor, John Petty Muspratt, Count Carlo Pepoli, Henry William Pickersgill, Frederick Salmon, William Shaw, Sir Percy Florence Shelley, William Smyth, Fetherston Stonestreet, Alexander Robert Sutherland, Horace Twiss, Travers Twiss, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson, Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson and Effingham Wilson.

8: Minutes of Anniversary Committee; minutes of stewards; list of persons invited to be stewards; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; Charles Wentworth Dilke’s suggestions of stewards; dinner ticket; card of honorary invitation; correspondence with speakers, namely William Buckland, Henry Hallam, the Bishop of Llandaff, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Henry Edward Manning, Thomas Noon Talfourd and John Walter; poetical address by Maria Abdy (declined by committee); plan of tables, subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; printed list of subscriptions and donations; result of dinner.

1847 (Chairman: Chevalier Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, Baron Brünnow, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen and the Count de Saint-Aulaire with the Committee’s resolution of thanks and Chevalier Bunsen’s acknowledgement.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from John Couch Adams, George Biddell Airy, David Thomas Ansted, Baron Brünnow, Thomas Coates, Eyre Evans Crowe, J A Emerton, Edward Forbes, Richard Ford, George Robert Gleig, Thomas Colley Grattan, Sir Josiah John Guest, William Hale Hale, William John Hall, James Augustus Hessey, James Holman, William Howitt, Alexander William Kinglake, John Labouchere, Edwin Lankester, Peter Mere Latham, Sir Charles Lemon, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Lord Mayor (Sir George Carroll), Charles Meyer, Lord Palmerston, Sir John Henry Pelly, Frederick Pollock, John Tidd Pratt, Joseph M Rainbow, John Scott Russell, Albert Smith, William Charles Townsend, Richard Chenevix Trench and Sylvain Van de Weyer, with additional correspondence from David Thomas Ansted, Eyre Evans Crowe, J A Emerton, Richard Ford, George Robert Gleig, James Augustus Hessey, James Holman, William Howitt, Alexander William Kinglake, the Bishop of Lichfield, Sir George Carroll, Charles Meyer, John Scott Russell, William Charles Townsend, Richard Chenevix Trench and Sylvain Van de Weyer and a copy of a letter from Octavian Blewitt to Sir John Henry Pelly on an unpaid donation.

3: Letters declining stewardships from [Henry Wentworth?] Acland, Archibald Billing, Edward William Binney, Samuel Birch, Sir Gordon Bremer, [?] Bromet, Lord Campbell, James Challis, William Chambers, Temple Chevallier, William Dougal Christie, Lord Colchester, Thomas Dale, Earl De La Warr, Abel Rons Dottin, Alexander Fullerton, John Peter Gassiot, Viscount Goderich, J Hamilton Gray, Samuel Gurney, Sir John Hall, Thomson Hankey, Sir Edmund Walker Head, Henry Lancelot Holland, Walter Farquhar Hook, Leonard Horner, Elijah Barwell Impey, Robert Kinnaird, W Küper, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Pemberton Leigh, Lord William Pitt Lennox, Peter Levesque, John Lucas, William Marsden, Westland Marsden, William Leslie Melville, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Morpeth, William Mulready, Viscount Newry and Morne, the Bishop of Oxford, Robert Rouiere Pearce, Robert Phillimore, Lyon Playfair, Ambrose Poynter, Henry James Prescott, John Ruskin, Whitworth Russell, Edward James Seymour, Richard Sheepshanks, George Smith, W H Sykes, Joseph Toynbee, Dawson Turner, Abraham John Valpy, John Walter, Eliot Warburton, Robert Aris Willmott and Horace Hayman Wilson.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from [?] Arndt, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Lord Bolton, Stratford Canning, John Dickinson, the Archbishop of Dublin, J J Ellis, William Ewart, Danile Gurney, George Granville Harcourt, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Chevalier Hebeler, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, George Payne Rainsford James, the Bishop of Lincoln, Prince Löwenstein, Friedrich Max Müller, William Mure, the Bishop of St David’s, Sir John Edward Swinburne, [?] Weber, the Dean of Westminster and Fletcher Wilson.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Earl Amherst, the Governor of the Bank of England (W R Robinson), the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (James Morris), Charles Barry, A G Hartford Battersby, Joseph Baxendale, Lord Bexley, Beriah Botfield, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Sir Benjamon Brodie, the Marquis of Bute, Prince Castelcicala, the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge (Robert Phelps), Baron de Cetto, the Bishop of Chichester, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Cleveland, M. Cochelet (French Consul General), Lord Colborne, John Taylor Coleridge, James Colquhoun, Lord Albert Coyngham, John Wilson Croker, William Joseph Denison, Charles Tennyson-d’Eyncourt, Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Ellenborough, the Bishop of Ely, Lord Glenelg, Henry Hallam, Sidney Herbert, Sir Benjamin Heywood, Sir John Stuart Hippesley, Henry Holland, Senor Isturiz (Spanish Minister), Edward Auketell Jones, Henry Mowtray Jones, David S Ker, Count Kielmansegge, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, Baron Koller, George Krehmer, William Lawrence, the Bishop of Llandaff, John Gibson Lockhart, the Bishop of London, Sir John William Lubbock, Charles Manners Lushington, Lord Mahon, Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron de Moncorvo, Conde de Montemolin, Thomas Moore, Sir Charles William Pasley, Louis Hayes Petit, John Ayrton Paris, Sir Frederick Pollock, the Earl of Radnor, Count Revel, the Bishop of Ripon, Samuel Rogers, Lord John Russell, Jesse Watts Russell, the Duke of Rutland, the Bishop of Salisbury, Count Schimmelpenninck, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Sir George Staunton, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Lord Teignmouth, [?] Tucker, Henry Tufnell, the Duke de la Victoria, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson, Sir James Wigram, David Williams, the Bishop of Winchester, Robert C Winthrop, Thomas Wood, William Wyon, Thomas Wyse and E. Zohrab (Turkish Consul General).

6: Letters from officers and members attending: Richard Bentley, Charles Wentworth Dilke, James Duncan, Edward Forbes, Henry Foss, George Payne Rainsford James, John Murray, John Leycester Adolphus, Henry Cartwright, Richard Frankum, George Godwin, Richard William Jelf, John Mitchell Kemble, Thomas Longman, George Brown Francis Potticary, Sir Percy Florence Shelley and Forbes Winslow.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Britton, Thomas Crofton Croker, Charles Dickens, John Newman, John Bowyer Nichols, John Russell, William Tooke, George Robert Wythen Baxter, James Beattie, James Silk Buckingham, Henry Fothergill Chorley, George Combe, Richard Sawrey Cox, Benjamin Gompertz, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, Henry Reeve, Frederick Salmon, William Smyth, Henry Stebbing, Travers Twiss and Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson.

8: Correspondence respecting the tavern from Thomas Bacon, Messrs Bathe and Breach and Sir Henry Ellis; circular; minutes of Anniversary Committee; minutes of stewards’ meeting; list of persons invited to be stewards, Charles Wentworth Dilke’s suggestions of stewards; dinner ticket; list of tickets issued; list of honorary invitations; correspondence respecting speeches from Edward Foss, Thomas Noon Talfourd, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, the Archbishop of Dublin, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, George Payne Rainsford James, the Bishop of Lincoln, Viscount Sandon and William Whewell; toast list; plan of tables; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; printed list of donations; results of dinner.