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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1850 and 1851. 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.

1850 (Chairman: Thomas Noon Talfourd):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, the Earl of Ellesmere, Thomas Babington Macaulay, the Earl of Carlisle, the Secretary of Gardiner’s Benevolent Fund, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Thomas Crofton Croker, Henry Hallam and the Bishop of Oxford’s housekeeper, with resolutions from the Committee respecting those to be asked and thanking Talfourd.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Henry Alford, [?] Amos, Charles Cardale Babington, Richard Bethell, David Bogue, Sir Edward North Buxton, Benjamin Bond Cabball, George Cathcart, John Churchill, Sir Robert Buckley Comyn, Charles Cowan, Edward William Cox, William Cubitt, Sir John Francis Davis, R Edkins, Herbert Edwardes, Sir Robert Fitz Wygram, J P Fletcher, William Forsyth, Charles S Greaves, Thomas Hatchard, Sir George Head, Herbert Ingram, George Payne Rainsford James, James Amiraux Jeremie, Henry Keating, Abbott Lawrence, Edward Moxon, Charles Atmore Ogilvie, Sir Thomas Phillips, Edmund Phipps, Henry Rawlinson, Alfred Bate Richards, the Earl of Rosse, R Wellesley Rothman, Sir Edward Ryan, Robert Saunders, Edward James Seymour, Frederic Carpenter Skey, Thomas Spalding, Robert Stephenson, James Emerson Tennent, Edmund Waller, Thomas Webster and Erasmus Wilson; with additional correspondence from Henry Alford, [?] Amos, Charles Cardale Babington, Robert Bell, Richard Bethell, Sir Edward North Buxton, Benjamin Bond Cabball, Sir Robert Buckley Comyn, Charles Cowan, William Cubitt, Sir John Francis Davis, Herbert Edwardes, Sir Robert Fitz Wygram, J P Fletcher, Charles S Greaves, George Payne Rainsford James, James Amiraux Jeremie, Abbott Lawrence, Lord Londesborough, Charles Atmore Ogilvie, Sir Thomas Phillips, Alfred Bate Richards, the Earl of Rosse, James Emerson Tennent and Thomas Webster.

3: Letters declining stewardships from W J Alexander, Edward Badeley, Matthew Talbot Baines, Henry Beaufoy, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Bosworth, George Hull Bowers, Edward Chapman, Wilkie Collins, William Cooper, William Cureton, Robert Curzon, William Fergusson, Vincent Figgins, William Fisher, Thomas Gaisford, Robert Gilbert, Edward Gridlestone, George Gough, Francis Grand, Thomas Duffus Hardy, Abraham Hayward, the Biship of Hereford, Lord Edward Howard, Henry Howarth, C F Huth, Edward Jesse, J F Kenyon, Richard Torin Kindersley, William Charles Macready, the Earl of Malmesbury, Henry Melvill, John Miles, Henry Hart Milman, D R Mories, R Dundas Murray, Hugh M’Neile, A K Newman, Sir Edward Pearson, Samuel Morton Peto, Baden Powell, Sir John Richardson, Franc Sadleir, H Shepherd, James Sherman, John Simon, Henry Charles Sirr, Sir James Stephen, Richard Stephens, John Stuart, Baldwin Walker, George Robert Waterhouse, William Whateley, Edward Williams, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby and [?] Wrangham

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Sir Elkanah Armitage, Charles Baldwin, the Belgian Minister (Sylvain Van de Weyer), Lord Bolton, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, M. Drouet, C Gridlestone, Charles Hardinge, M. Dronin de Lhuys, Robert Hussey, M. de Marescalchi, Joseph Napier, Francis Pigott, Sir George Pollock, Paulia Ralli, M. Sampago, Edward Henry Stanley, Sir George Staunton, James Whiteside and David Williams.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from George Biddell Airy, Henry Wentworth Acland, Earl Amherst, [?] Adams, M. Amaral, Archibald Alison, the Earl of Burlington, Viscount Barrington, Lord Bexley, the Bishop of Bangor, the Master of Balliol (Richard Jenkyns), M. De Berg, Baron Brünnow, John Ivatt Briscoe, David Baillie, Beriah Botfield, the Mayor of Bristol, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, General Santa Cruz, Edward Cardwell, George Cathcart, John Taylor Coleridge, [?] Chatterton, Baron de Cetto, the Dean of Carlisle, Cresswell Cresswell, the Bishop of Chichester, Sir Augustus Clifford, (Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge), Sir George Carroll, Prince Castelcicala, Sir William Chatterton, the Dean of Chichester, Lord Colchester, J Cumming, the Archbishop of Dublin, Viscount Ebrington, the Earl of Ellesmere, Richard Ellison, Sir Charles Abraham Elton, the Bishop of Ely, William Ewart, Sir Edward Filmer, George Forbes, Matthew Forster, [?] Garbett, Baron de Goldsmid, the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company, Lord Gough, Edward Goulburn, the Marquis of Granby, the Duke of Hamilton, Viscount Hardinge, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Sir Francis Bond Head, Baron Hebeler, Sidney Herbert, James Heywood, Sir John Hippesley, Henry Hoare, Robert S Holford, John Thomas Hope, William Jacobson, Baron Koller (Austrian Minister), G Krehmer, M. Droyn de Lhuys, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Mayor of Liverpool, the Bishop of Llandaff, John Gibson Lockhart, Sir John William Lubbock, Sir Edmund Lyons, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Henry James Sumner Maine, the Bishop of Manchester, M. de Marescalchi, Thomas Farncomb (the Lord Mayor), Mehmed Pacha (the Turkish Ambassador), William Hodge Mill, [?] Miller, Richard Monckton Milnes, Viscount de Moncorvo, Sir Moses Montefiore, William Mure, Sir Charles Napier, Earl Nelson, the Bishop of Oxford, Frederick Charles Plumptre (Vice-Chancellor of Oxford), Robert Palmer, Baron Parke, Sir Charles Pasley, Sir George Brooke Pechell, the Dean of Peterborough, the Master of Peterhouse, Francis Pigott, Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir George Pollock, John Potter, [?] Prynne, the Earl of Radnor, Paulia Ralli, Lestock R Reid, the Bishop of Ripon, Baron Rothschild, Lord John Russell, Jesse Watts Russell, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Bishop of Salisbury, M. Sampago, Count Schimmelpenninck, Lord Seaton, the Master of the Stationers’ Company, Sir George Staunton, [?] Stokes, Lord Dudley Stuart, the Duke of Sutherland, Sir John Edward Swinburne, [?] Tatham, Thomas Thornely, Sir Charles Trevelyan, Henry Tufnell, John Walter, Sir Frederick B Watson, Thomas Wilde, David Williams, the Bishop of Winchester, the Dean of Windsor, Baron Wydenbruck, the Archbishop of York and Edward Zohrab.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: Thomas Aymot, Richard Bentley, Henry Foss, Edward Gandy, William Henry Harrison, Sir Richard Paul Jodrell, Thomas Brettell, Louis Fenwick de Porquet, George Godwin, Kenneth Macaulay, Thomas Cautley Newby, Albert Smith, Forbes Winslow and Erskine Neale.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Barrow, Robert Blackmore, John Newman, John Leycester Adolphus, Richard Harris Dalton Barham, Joseph Baxendale, Sir Francis Beaufort, Henry George Bohn, Charles Parr Burney, George Castleden, Charles Robert Cockerell, Richard Sawrey Cox, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Beriah Drew, Richard Ford, Richard Frankum, Benjamin Gompertz, Thomas Hartwell Horne, John Howell, Richard William Jelf, John Heneage Jesse, Thomas Kelly, William Longman, James Murray Martin, John Minter Morgan, John Petty Muspratt, Thomas Cautley Newby, Thomas Penrose, George Potticary, Stephan Jordan Rigaud, [?] Robinson, Charles Rivington, J S Scholes, George Virtue and Sir Thomas M Wilson.

8: Circulars to officers, members and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation card; list of persons invited to become stewards; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; minutes of meeting of stewards and anniversary committee; toast list; correspondence respecting toasts and speeches from Robert Bell, Sir John Francis Davis, John C B Davis, Herbert Edwardes, Charles Hardinge, George Payne Rainsford James, Abbott Lawrence, Joseph Napier, the Bishop of Norwich, Edmund Phipps, Henry Rawlinson, Frederic Carpenter Skey, Edward Henry Stanley, William Tooke, Sylvain Van de Weyer and James Whiteside; correspondence respecting musical arrangements from James Bruton; plan of tables; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; statistics of dinner; printed list of donations announced; results of the dinner.

1851 (Chairman: His Excellency Sylvain Van de Weyer):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Sir Henry Ellis, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Octavian Blewitt and Sir Robert Harry Inglis, with resolutions from the Committee inviting and thanking Van de Weyer.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Lord Ashburton, Thomas Baring, George Hull Bowers, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Ernest Bunsen, John Bernard Burke, George Wingrove Cook, George Elwes Corrie, Richard Dawes, W J Evelyn, Stephen Watson Fullom, Aaron Asher Goldsmid, George Grote, William Robert Grove, Sir John Kerle Haberfield, Thomas B Horsfall, Frederick Heath, M. de Isturiz, Count de Jarnac, William Johnston, Sir Denis Le Marchant, Henry Melvill, Herman Merivale, Charles James Monk, George Moore, R O’Byrne, Samuel Morton Peto, William George Prescott, Lovell Reeve, W Parish Robertson, John Simon, Alfred Smee, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Samuel Lyon de Symons, John Thornton, Richard Twining, Christopher Wordsworth and William Yarrell; with additional correspondence from Lord Ashburton, William Beattie, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Ernest Bunsen, John Bernard Burke, George Elwes Corrie, Stephen Watson Fullom, Thomas B Horsfall, William Johnston, Samuel Morton Peto, Sir Denis Le Marchant, Henry Melvill, Richard Monckton Milnes, Lovell Reeve, M. de Isturiz (the Spanish Minister), Travers Twiss and Christopher Wordsworth.

3: Letters declining stewardships from John Anster, Thomas Kerchever Arnold, Robert Aylwin, Robert Barclay, G E Beauchamp, Sir George Beaumont, the Earl of Belfast, Jacob Bell, George Bell, Richard Beauvoir Berens, Robert Bickersleth, C Holte Bracebridge, Emanuel H Brandt, Lord Braybrooke, [?] Burrows, Andrew Caldecott, Richard Cannon, James Capel, Robert Walter Carden, William Hookham Carpenter, Charles Charrington, Francis W Cobb, James Copland, Sir Archer Croft, Henry Currie, Griffith Davies, John Deacon, L J de la Chaumette, Edward John Dent, John Disney, William Dyce, the Earl of Eglinton, Gilbert Elliot, C C Elwes, Walpole Eyre, William Fergusson, William Fisher, A A Fry, Francis Green, Philip Hanbury, Joseph Haydon, Sir George Hayter, George Hitchcock, Henry John Hodgson, John Hogg, James Holford, Richard Henry Horne, Thomas Howell, William Gibson Humphry, John Jackson, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mark Antony Lower, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Thomas M’Mahon, James Ormiston McWilliam, Charles Mare, D Coutts Marjoribanks, James Heywood Markland, Thomas Maudslay, Richard Mayne, Frederick Meyrick, Robert Minton, Sir Charles Napier, Sir William Newton, W E Painter, John Dean Paul, Sir Edward Parry, George Petrie, John George Phillimore, Richard Hotham Pigeon, H J Prescott, Abraham Wildey Robarts, [?] Rashout, John Ruskin, Denis Samuel, William Smith, William Henry Smith, Sir James Stephen, Edward Strutt, John Taylor, [?] Warburton, Samuel Warren, Henry Washbourne, Charles Hamlyn Williams, Benjamin Godfrey Windus and Edward Zohrab.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Archibald Alison, J S M Anderson, Joshua Bates, J Bruce-Pryce, Sir Robert Comyn, Baron Charles Dupin, Lord Crewe, J Bancroft Davis, John Dickinson, the Greek Consul General, M. Bartholeyns de Fosselaert, Charles Hardinge, James Heywood, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, T B Lawrence, Ashhurst Majendie, Joseph Napier, John Bowyer Nichols, the Bishop of Oxford, Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, Edmund Phipps, Henry Rawlinson, Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Dudley Stuart, Russell Sturgis, George Trower, the United States Consul (Colonel Aspinwall) and George de Viehbahn.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from the American Minister (abbott Lawrence), Earl Amherst, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Marquis d’Azeglio (the Sardinian Minister), Sir Frederick Pollock, G Brandt (Bavarian Consul General), M. de Berg, M. Blanqui, Philip Bliss, Beriah Botfield, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Baron Brünnow, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, John Campbell, the Dean of Carlisle, Sir George Carroll, Prince Castelcicala, George Cathcart, Baron de Cetto, Sir William Chatterton, the Bishop of Chester, the Earl of Chichester, the Bishop of Chichester, Sir Augustus Clifford, Lord Colchester, John Wilson Croker, Sir William Cubitt, the Earl of Dartmouth, Sir John Davis, the Archbishop of Dublin, Sir James Duke, the Earl of Effingham, the Earl of Ellesmere, Richard Ellison, Sir Charles Abraham Elton, the Bishop of Ely, the Earl of Enniskillen, William Erle, the Marquis of Exeter, Sir Robert Fitz Wygram, Lord Foley, Mathew Forster, Lord Glenelg, the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company, Sir Henry Halford, Count Kielmansegge, Count von Harrach, Chevalier Hebeler, Sidney Herbert, Sir John Stuart Hippesley, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Jules Janin, Baron Koller, William Lawrence, [?] Lawrence, Lord Leigh, the Bishop of Lichfield, the President of the Linnaean Society, Marquis de Lisboa, the Lord Mayor (John Musgrove), Sir John Lubbock, the Duc du Luynes, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Mahon, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Duke of Manchester, M. Marescalchi, Sir Chapman Marshall, Fox Maule, William Leslie Melville, General Mendoza, George Moffatt, Sir William Molesworth, Admiral Moustapha Pacha, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, William Mure, Joseph Neeld, the Bishop of Norwich, Sir Charles Ogle, William Ord, Sir Benjamin Outram, [?] Owen, John Ayrton Paris, Sir Robert Peel, Frederick Peel., the Dean of Peterborough, [?] Powell, the Earl of Radnor, Baron Rehausen, Chevalier de Rebiero, Baron Rothschild, Lord John Russell, Jesse Watts Russell, the Duke of Rutland, the Dean of St Paul’s, the Bishop of Salisbury, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Count Schimmelpenninck, Henry Ker Seymer, Lord Sondes, Sir George Staunton, Robert Stephenson, Baron Stratenus, Sir George Strickland, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Edward Sugden, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Sir John Edward Swinburne, the Swiss Consul General, Thomas Noon Talfourd, J S Trelawny, Henry Tufnell, Spencer Horatio Walpole, John Walter, Sir Frederick B Watson, Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, David Williams, Fletcher Wilson, the Bishop of Winchester, James Wyld, the Earl of Yarborough and the Archbishop of York.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: Robert Bell, Richard Bentley, John Forbes, Henry Foss, George Godwin, John Richardson Major, William Tooke, Henry Alford, Thomas Brown, Robert Ferguson, Richard Frankum, Kenneth Macaulay, John Masterman and William Makepeace Thackeray.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Barrow, Robert Blackmore, William Brockedon, Charles Dickens, Charles Wentworth Dilke, John Newman, Sir James Clark, Wilkie Collins, George Cruikshank, Wentworth Dilke, Richard Ford, James William Gilbart, Benjamin Gompertz, Thomas Hatchard, Francis Hodgson, Robert Hussey, Richard William Jelf, Charles Meyer, John Petty Muspratt, Sir Charles Pasley, Sir Thomas Phillips, Henry William Pickersgill, Thomas Robinson, David Salomons, Frederick Salmon, Thomas Trundle Storks, J Warre Tyndale, James Walker and Erasmus Wilson.

8: Circulars to officers, members and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation ticket; list of persons to be invited as stewards; letters suggesting stewards from Richard Bentley, Henry Colburn and William Longman; ticket list; honorary invitations; minutes of the meeting of the stewards and the anniversary committee; correspondence with speakers, namely Sir Archibald Alison, J S M Anderson, Lord Ashburton, the Earl of Belfast, Sir Robert Comyn, George Wingrove Cook, Sir Henry Ellis, William Robert Grove, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, Sir Charles Malcolm, Constantine Musurus (the Turkish Ambassador), Joseph Napier, Edmund Phipps, Henry Rawlinson, Edward Henry Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Sylvain Van de Weyer and William Henry Harrison; toast list; plan of tables; donations and subscriptions announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; results of the dinner.