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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1848 and 1849. 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.

1848 (Chairman: Algernon Percy, Duke of Northumberland):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from George Payne Rainsford James, the Duke of Northumberland and Octavian Blewitt, with the Committee’s resolution of thanks.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from William Francis Ainsworth, Archibald Alison, Sir Edward Belcher, Lord Campbell, Thomas Dale, Viscount Ebrington, William Empson, G H Francis, Montagu Gore, Bevis E Green, the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, James Heywood, George Payne Rainsford James, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, Francis Mahoney, John Mortimer, Sir William Napier, Baron Parke, Robert Roniere Pearce, Arthur Percival, Robert Phillimore, David Roberts, Thomas Robinson, James Augustus St John, J S Scholes, William Makepeace Thackeray, Richard Chenevix Trench, Eliot Warburton, John Walter, Sir Gardiner Wilkinson and Lord Wrottesley; with additional correspondence from William Francis Ainsworth, Archibald Alison, Lord Campbell, Viscount Ebrington, William Empson, Montagu Gore, James Heywood, George Payne Rainsford James, Francis Mahoney, the Bishop of Manchester, Baron Parke, Arthur Percival, Robert Phillimore, David Roberts, Thomas Robinson, James Augustus St John, John Walter and Eliot Warburton.

3: Letters declining stewardships from Henry Wentworth Acland, Thomas Kerchever Arnold, John Barlow, Joseph Bonomi, Sir Gordon Bremer, James Challis, Richard Cobden, Charles Dance, Earl De La Warr, George Dodd, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, A Fullerton, John Fullarton, Earl de Grey, Sir John Hall, the Bishop of Hereford, William Hosking, John Jackson, Owen Jones, A H Lagard, Samuel Lee, Harry G Liddell, Prince Löwenstein, Westland Marston, George Moberly, Abraham Lindo Mocatta, Sir Moses Montefiore, Francis Graham Moon, Lord Morpeth, Edward Osborn, the Bishop of Oxford, William Henry Percy, the Earl of Radstock, George Herbert Rodwell, Sir David Scott, Edward James Seymour, Samuel Sharpe, William Smith, George Smith, William Henry Smyth, A Sutherland, Henry Taylor, J Pitt Taylor, Thomas Thornley, the Marquess of Westminster and John W Woodfall.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Admiral Sir Charles Adam, Lord Bolton, Sir Augustus Clifford, the Archbishop of Dublin, Sir James Duke, William Ewart, M. de Isturiz (the Spanish Minister), Sir Charles Malcolm, Henry Alworth Merewether, Sir Charles Pasley, the Bishop of Salisbury, Sylvain Van de Weyer and Henry George Ward.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Sir Martin Archer Shee, William Pulteney Alison, Earl Amherst, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, the Earl of Auckland, Sir George Back, Charles Baldwin, Sir John Barrow, Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley, George Bancroft, John George Behrends, Lord Bexley, Beriah Botfield, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, J Romeyn Brodhead, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Baron Brünnow, the Duke of Buccleuch, William Buckland, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Thomas Cabbell, Prince Callimaki (Turkish Ambassador), the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge (Robert Phelps), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dean of Carlisle, Sir George Carroll, Prince Castelcicala, Baron de Cetto, Sir William Chatterton, the Bishop of Chichester, the Dean of Chichester, the Duke of Cleveland, Lord Colchester, James Colquhoun, Lord Colville, Earl Compton, Lord Albert Conyngham, William Francis Cowper, Sir Cresswell Cresswell, John Wilson Croker, William Cubitt, William Joseph Denison, John Dickinson, Count Dietrichstein, James Dundas, Sir Henry Hope Edwards, the Earl of Ellesmere, Richard Ellison, Mountstuart Elphinstone, the Bishop of Ely, William Erle, the Marquis of Exeter, Sir Charles Fellows, Sir Edmund Filmer, Mathew Forster, Sir Augustus Foster, Lord Glenelg, Baron de Goldsmid, the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company, Sir James Gordon, Chevalier Hebeler, Sidney Herbert, Sir Benjamin Heywood, [?] Hill, Sir John Stuart Hippesley, Robert S Holford, Henry Thomas Hope, Count Kielmansegge, Sir Edward Knatchbull, G Krehmer (Russian Consul General), George Cornewall Lewis, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Marques de Lisboa, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of London, Sir John William Lubbock, Charles Manners Lushington, William Charles Macready, Lord John Manners, the Lord Mayor (John Kinnersley Hooper), William Leslie Melville, [?] Milne, Viscount de Moncorvo, Conde de Montemolin, William Mure, Prince Louis Napoleon, Joseph Neeld, John Ayrton Paris, [?] Pattison, Sir Robert Peel, Josceline Percy, Louis Hayes Petit, Sir Frederick Pollock, the Earl of Radnor, Baron Rehausen, Count Revel, the Bishop of Ripon, Samuel Rogers, Baron Rolfe, the Earl of Rosse, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Rutland, Sir Edward Ryan, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Duke of Somerset, Earl Spencer, Andrew Spottiswoode, Sir George Staunton, Robert Stevens, Baron Stratenus (Netherlands Charge d’Affairs), Lord Dudley Stuart, the Count of Syracuse, George Thackeray, Henry Tufnell, Horace Twiss, David Williams, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby, the Bishop of Winchester, Bishop Wiseman and the Archbishop of York.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: John Britton, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Edward Forbes, Henry Foss, John Richardson Major, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Brettell, Sir John Hanster, James Augustus Hessey, James Holmes, Robert Maugham, Albert Smith, Thomas Stapleton, Thomas Thorp and Martin Farquhar Tupper.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: Thomas Aymot, Robert Blackmore, William Brockedon, Thomas Crofton Croker, Edward Foss, John Newman, Thomas Noon Talfourd, William Tooke, Charles Robert Cockerell, Richard Ford, Benjamin Gompertz, John Hatchard, Richard Johns, Thomas Kelly, John Petty Muspratt, Henry William Pickersgill, Sir William Charles Ross, William Shaw, John Hume Spry, Travers Twiss and Lady Chantrey.

8: Circulars to officers, members and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation card; list of persons invited to be stewards; list of tickets issued; list of honorary invitations; toast list; correspondence respecting speeches from the Duke of Northumberland, John Leycester Adolphus, Sir Augustus Clifford, the Archbishop of Dublin, Viscount Ebrington, Henry Hallam, George Payne Rainsford James, C Edwards Lester, Sir Charles Malcolm, Henry Alworth Merewether, Sir John Rolt, John Russell, Albert Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray and Martin Farquhar Tupper; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; plan of tables; newspaper reports; printed list of donations; results of the dinner.

1849 (Chairman: Henry Hardinge, Viscount Hardinge):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, Lord Stanley, Viscount Hardinge and Charles Hardinge, with the Committee’s resolution of thanks.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Archibald Alison, David Baillie, Richard Harris Dalton Barham, Thomas Bell, Henry George Bohn, Viscount Brackley, A W Davis, Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Ellenborough, Sir Charles Abraham Elton, John Finlaison, John Forster, Robert William Grey, Arthur Hall, Thomas Hamilton, Sidney Herbert, Walter Charles James, John Kenyon, Mark Lemon, Benjamin Lumley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Leslie Melville, William Mure, Thomas Cautley Newby, Charles Pridham, Alfred Bate Richards, John Rolt, the Earl of Shelburne, John Palgrave Simpson, William Spence, Edward Henry Stanley, Count Strzelecki, Benjamin Travers, J Warre Tyndale, James Whiteside, Thomas Peers Williams and James Wyld; with additional correspondence from Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Archibald Alison, David Baillie, Richard Harris Dalton Barham, Thomas Bell, Viscount Brackley, [?] Daniel, A W Davis, Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Ellenborough, Sir Charles Abraham Elton, John Forster, Robert William Grey, Sidney Herbert, Walter Charles James, John Kenyon, Mark Lemon, Benjamin Lumley, William Leslie Melville, William Mure, Charles Pridham, Alfred Bate Richards, John Rolt, the Earl of Shelburne, John Palgrave Simpson, William Spence, Edward Henry Stanley, Count Strzelecki, J Warre Tyndale, James Whiteside and Thomas Peers Williams.

3: Letters declining stewardships from George Ackerman, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Aylmer, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, George Bancroft, William Brown, Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, George Cadogan, P J Chabot, Hart Davis, Captain Eastwick, the Bishop of Ely, William Erle, Robert George Cecil Fane, Sir Walter R Farquhar, Sir Charles Fellows, William Ewart Gladstone, Charles Cavendish Greville, the Earl of Guilford, M. Guizot (the French Ambassador), the Bishop of Hereford, Samuel Hinds, Sir Henry Vere Huntley, George Jones, Henry Kingscote, the Lord Mayor (Sir James Duke), Prince Löwenstein, Sir James Law Lushington, Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm, the Duke of Manchester, Ross D Mangles, James Meek, John Stuart Mill, Sydney Godolphin Osborne, Sir Edwin Pearson, William Prout, [R Pugin?], G H Repton, Edward Rigby, Lord Robertson, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Sir John Rolf, Sir George Rose, the Earl of Rosse, the Duke of Roxburgh, John Ruskin, the Earl of St Germans, [?] Seymour, Richard Lalor Sheil, Martin Tucker Smith, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the Marquis of Stafford, Fetherston Stonestreet, Alfred Tennyson, Loftus Wigram, Sir John Bickerton Williams, Erasmus Wilson, Daniel Wilson, Sir Alexander Woodford and William Wordsworth.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Lord Arundel and Surrey, Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, Isaac Butt, William Neilson Hancock, [?] Holland, [John Shepard?] (Deputy Chairman of the East India Company), James Ingram, Sir Edmund Lyons, Sir Charles Malcolm, Richard Monckton Milnes, Sir Charles Pasley, Sir George Pollock, Clarkson Stanfield, George Rice Trevor and Halford Vaughan.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Sir Charles Adam, Andrew Rutherfurd (the Lord Advocate), Archibald Alison, Earl Amherst, the Marquis of Anglesey, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Bulkeley Bandinel, the Bishop of Bangor, Sir Frederick Pollock (the Lord Chief Baron), Lord Bexley, Philip Bliss, Lord Bolton, Beriah Botfield, Sir Henry Bouviere, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, John Ivatt Briscoe, J Romeyn Brodhead, Baron Brünnow, the Duke of Buccleuch, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, James Caermell, Viscount Canning, the Earl of Carlisle, Sir George Carroll, Admiral Cecille (the French Ambassador), James Challis, the Bishop of Chichester, Hare Clarges, Sir James Clark, Sir William R Clayton, Sir Augustus Clifford, Lord Colchester, Count Colloredo (Austrian Minister), Lord Colville, John Wilson Croker, the Duke of Devonshire, Charles Tennyson-d’Eyncourt, John Dickinson, the Marquis of Douglas, Lord Downes, Sir Thomas Downman, the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Dunsany, the Bishop of Durham, Viscount Ebrington, Sir Charles Egerton, the Marquis of Ely, the Earl of Enniskillen, William Ewart, [?] Finnis, Sir Archibald Galloway, Lord Glenelg, [?] Goodhart, Sir James Gordon, the Duke of Grafton, the Marquis of Granby, M. Guizot, Henry Hallam, the Duke of Hamilton, Julius Charles Hare, John Haviland, Chevalier Hebeler, John Stephens Henslow, Sir Benjamin Heywood, Sir John Hippesley, Robert S Holford, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, the Earl of Jersey, Count Kielmansegge, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, M. Kondriaffsky (Secretary at the Russian Embassy), Baron Koller, M. Kremer (Russian Consul General), Alfred Latham, Thomas Latter, Charles Robert Leslie, George Cronewall Lewis, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Llandaff, Lord Lorton, Sir William Lumley, Sir John Macdonald, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord John Manners, Fox Maule, Mehmed Pacha (Turkish Ambassador), the Mexican Minister, Sir William Molesworth, Viscount de Moncorvo, Sir Moses Montefiore, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, John Petty Muspratt, the Comte de Montemolin, R M Mon, Sir William Napier, Baron Nicolay, Alfred Ollivant, George Ormerod, [?] Osma (Prussian Minister), Frederick Charles Plumptre, Sir Robert Peel, the Bishop of Peterborough, the Dean of Peterborough, Louis Hayes Petit, Sir George Pollock, Baden Powell, the Earl of Radnor, [?] Richards, the Bishop of Ripon, Samuel Rogers, Lord Rokeby, Sir Henry D Ross, Lord John Russell, Jesse Watts Russell, the Duke of Rutland, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Bishop of St David’s, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Marquess of Salisbury, Count Schimmelpenninck, Viscount Seaham, Adam Sedgwick, Sir George Shee, Earl Spencer, Lord Stanley, the Master of the Stationers’ Company, Sir George Strickland, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Thomas Thornely, Franc Sadleir (Provost of Trinity College Dublin), Sylvain Van de Weyer, Henry Halford Vaughan, John Walter, the Duke of Wellington, the Dean of Westminster, Lord Wharncliffe, David Williams, the Bishop of Winchester, Bishop Wiseman, the Marquis of Worcester, the Archbishop of York and M. Zohrab (Turkish Consul General).

6: Letters from officers and members attending: Robert Blackmore, John Forbes, William Henry Harrison, James Prior, William Tooke, Sir Edward Belcher, James Silk Buckingham, Samuel Cartwright, Robert Cooke, George Cruikshank, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Sir John Hansler, James Augustus Hessey, James Holmes, Kenneth Macaulay, John Richardson Major, Henry Alworth Merewether, William Rivington, William Makepeace Thackeray and Eliot Warburton.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Auldjo, Thomas Crofton Croker, Charles Dickens, James Duncan, George Payne Rainsford James, John Murray, John Newlan, Charles Barry, Joseph Baxendale, Joseph Bonomi, William Empson, Richard Ford, Richard Frankum, James William Gilbart, George Robert Gleig, Benjamin Gompertz, John Hatchard, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Richard William Jelf, John Edward Johnson, Charles Knight, Sir William Lloyd, William Longman, William Charles Macready, John Minter Morgan, William Frederick Pollock, John Edmund Reade, Joseph Esmond Riddle, David Roberts, William Shaw and James Walker.

8: Circulars to members and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation card; minutes of anniversary committee and stewards; list of persons invited to be stewards; Charles Wentworth Dilke’s suggestions of stewards; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; correspondence respecting speeches from Archibald Alison, Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, George Cruikshank, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, John Finlaison, Charles Hardinge, James Ingram, Mark Lemon, Kenneth Macaulay, Sir Charles Malcolm, William Leslie Melville, Henry Alworth Merewether, William Mure, Sir Charles Pasley, Alfred Bate Richards, Edward Henry Stanley, Thomas Noon Talfourd, George Rice Trevor and James Whiteside; toast list; plan of tables; donations and subscriptions announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; letter to the proprietor of the tavern; results of the dinner.