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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1852 and 1853. 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.

1852 (Chairman: John Campbell, Lord Chief Justice):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Rosse, the Duke of Argyll and John Campbell, with the Committee’s resolutions of invitation and their resolution of thanks to Campbell.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Henry Robert Addison, Archibald Alison, Wolverley Atwood, George Bentley, R W Browne, Joseph Cauvin, Sir Alexander Cockburn, Edward Shepherd Creasy, Hepworth Dixon, John William Farrer, Francis Henry Goldsmid, Thomas Grissell, John Hampden Gurney, Samuel Carter Hall, Charles Hill, Daniel Hurst, John William Kaye, Sir FitzRoy Kelly, Lord Leigh, Lord Londesborough, Richard Wheatley Lumley, William Maxwell, George Melly, Richard Monckton Milnes, Augustus De Morgan, John Murray, Robert Pashley, George Peabody, the Queen’s Advocate (Sir John D Harding), George Smith, Lord James Stuart, Lord Truro, Sydney Whiting and Charles Wordsworth; with additional correspondence from Archibald Alison, Hepworth Dixon, Sir FitzRoy Kelly, Lord Londesborough, George Melly, Joseph Napier, George Peabody and Lord James Stuart; and letters about arrears owed by Charles Wordsworth from Octavian Blewitt, William Tooke and Charles Wordsworth.

3: Letters declining stewardships from [?] Adams, G C Addison, the Earl of Albemarle, Edward Antrobus, Thomas Ayscough, Richard Baggallay, Mordaunt Barnard, R Baxter, Thomas Bazley, William Bodkin, William Bovill, William Bowman, John Bridges, Ryder Burton, John Barnard Byles, Robert Chambers, John Champneys, Henry Cockburn, John Campbell Colquhoun, [?] Corbett, [?] Cox, J E Cox, Sir Philip Crampton, Sir Archer Croft, James Cunliffe, Capel Cure, William Cureton, George Webbe Dasent, Herbert Davies, R Denman, Stanley Lees Giffard, Sir Richard Glyn, Viscount Goderich, J Halswell, Thomson Hankey, John Hardwick, George Bartlett Hart, John Russell Hind, George Hitchcock, Thomas Hodgkin, Thomas Howell, Hugh Hughes, Robert Hunt, Lord Ingestre, John Jennings, Cuthbert W Johnson, J P Kennard, Richard Torin Kindersley, Charles Kingsley, James Sheridan Knowles, A V Kirwan, J Herbert Koe, Henry Letheby, Lord Lewisham, Mark Antony Lower, Nevil S Maskelyne, Sir John Heron Maxwell, [?] Mays, John Carnac Morris, [?] Mundy, Edwin Norris, George Painter, Sir Edwin Pearson, George Phillimore, [?] Phillips, Lyon Playfair, Arthur B Pollock, Henry Pownall, J Prater, George Cecil Renourad, A G Roberts, Lord Robertson, B C Robinson, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Rothschild, J J Bate Rowley, Richard Scrapton Sharpe, the Earl of Sheffield, William Shepherd, James Sherman, J H Smith, W H Smith, Edward Solly, C J Stewart, John Stuart, Charles Benjamin Tayler, [?] Thompson, [?] Turner, T vardon, Spencer Walpole, Robert Walpole, [?] Whitmarsh, F Wilbraham and Edward Wilbraham.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, W F Campbell, Sir Robert Comyn, the Danish Minister, Sir John Francis Davis, Colonel Fremont, Charles Hardinge, Francis Kilvert, Mirza Ibrahim Malcolm, Sir Charles Pasley, [?] Pauli, Lovell Reeve, J L Ricardo, Sheffer Khan, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Henry Stevens, Thomas Noon Talfourd and James Whiteside.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from William Allen, Earl Amhesrt, Arthur Anderson, the Marquis d’Azeglio (the Sardinian Minister), Thomas George Baring, Sir Frederick Pollock, Charles Barry, Joshua Bates, Baron de Cetto, Baron Bentinck, Count Blandoff, Lord Broughton, Baron Brünnow, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prince de Cavini, the Dean of Carlisle, Sir William Chatterton, , the Bishop of Chichester, Lord Colborne, Lord Colchester, John Taylor Coleridge, George Elwes Corrie, Cresswell Cresswell, Sir William Cubitt, J C Bancroft Davis, the Earl of Derby, Henry Drummond, the Archbishop of Dublin, Sir James Duke, the Earl of Eldon, Richard Ellison, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Sir Charles Abraham Elton, the Bishop of Ely, [?] Empson, William Erle, the Provost of Eton (Francis Hodgson), the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Benjamin Disraeli), Marquis of Exeter, the French Ambassador (Count Walewski), James William Gilbart, Lord Glenelg, Baron de Goldsmid, the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company, George Grote, Sir John Kerle Haberfield, William Hale Hale, Sir John Halle, Charles Hardinge, the Earl of Harrowby, Sidney Herbert, James Heywood, Sir John Stuart Hippesley, Robert S Holford, Señor de Isturiz, Richard William Jelf, Count Kielmansegge, M. Kichmer, John Labouchere, Alfred Latham, Count de Lavratio, T B Lawrence, Austen Henry Layard, George Cronwall Leigh, the Bishop of Lichfield, Lord Lindsay, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of London, [?] Lowther, Charles Manners Lushington, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Lyttleton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord John Manners, Baron Martin, Sir Moses Montefiore, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Sir Charles Napier, the Marquis of Normanby, the Duke of Northumberland, the Bishop of Norwich, George Ormerod, the Marquis of Ormonde, C W Packe, Lord Palmerston, John Ayrton Paris, Baron Parke, [?] Pauli, Samuel Morton Peto, Edmund Phipps, Philip Pusey, Pantia Ralli, Baron Rehausen, the Bishop of Ripon, the Earl of Rosse, the Duke of Rutland, Sir Edmund Ryan, the Master of St John’s College Cambridge (Ralph Tatham), the Bishop of Salisbury, David Salomons, W R Compton Stansfield, Sir George Staunton, Lord Dudley Stuart, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons (Caeser Hawkins), Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tenterden, Thomas Thornley, the Turkish Minister (Constantine Musurus), the United States Consul (Colonel Aspinwall), John Walter, Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, David Williams, Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, the Bishop of Winchester, the Archbishop of York and George Frederick Young.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: Bolton Corney, John Forbes, Patrick Fraser, Thomas Gaspey, George Godwin, William Henry Harrison, Sir Richard Paul Jodrell, William Tooke, Henry Alford, John Leycester Adolphus, Sir George Head, William Longman, Arthur J Newman, John Bowyer Nichols, William Richard O’Byrne, Charles Rivington and William Spence.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: Robert Blackmore, Thomas Crofton Croker, Charles Dickens, Edward Gandy, John Richardson Major, Ernest Bunsen, George Cruikshank, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Stephen Watson Fullom, Thomas Colley Grattan, John Petty Muspratt, Thomas Robinson, Frederick Salmon, Thomas Spalding and Thomas Trundle Storks.

8: Circulars to officers, members and stewards; dinner tickets; invitations to stewards; honorary invitation ticket; letters suggesting stewards from Richard Bentley, George Godwin and Messrs Hurst and Blackett; minutes of the meeting of the stewards and the anniversary committee; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; correspondence with speakers, namely Henry Robert Addison, Henry Alford, R W Browne, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Lord John Campbell, Sir Alexander Cockburn, Edward Shepherd Creasy, Abbott Lawrence, Richard Monckton Milnes, Robert Pashley, Peter Mark Roget, A M Skinner, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Lord James Stuart, Thomas Noon Talfourd, William Makepeace Thackeray and James Whiteside; letter from J W Genge respecting musical arrangements; letter from John Kenyon respecting ladies’ tickets; toast list; plan of tables; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; results of the dinner.

1853 (Chairman: Benjamin Disraeli):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Henry Hallam, Sir Henry Ellis, Benjamin Disraeli and Octavian Blewitt, with resolutions of the Committee inviting prospective chairs and thanking Disraeli.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Sir Archibald Alison, Thomas Bosworth, Thomas Brettell, W D J Bridgman, Charles Buxton, Hugh M Cairns, George Campbell, Thomas Carlyle, George Clowes, Robert Cooke, the Earl of Derby, John Dickinson, the Archbishop of Dublin, Samuel Herbert Ellis, Frederick William Fairholt, Robert Ferguson, James William Gilbart, Robert Gilbert, Lord William Graham, J B Heath, Henry Thomas Hope, [?] Huish, J R Ingersoll, Richard Jennings, J R Kenyon, Robert Gordon Latham, James MacGregor, Viscount Mandeville, Westland Marston, Viscount Newport, the Provost of King’s (Richard Okes), George Ormerod, J H Philipps, Baron Rothschild, [?] Rushout, the Marquis of Salisbury, Philip Salomons, Charles A Saunders, G A Spottiswoode, William Stirling, Russell Sturgis, Lord Adolphus Vane, John Van Voorst, Charles John Vaughan, Halford Vaughan, Charles Vignoles, Edward Wigram, Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, Thomas Wright and James Yates; with additional correspondence from Sir Archibald Alison, W D J Bridgman, Charles Buxton, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Hugh M Cairns, Robert Cooke, the Earl of Derby, Samuel Herbert Ellis, Frederick William Fairholt, J Fenwick, James William Gilbart, Robert Gilbert, Lord William Graham, J B Heath, Henry Thomas Hope, [?] Huish, J R Ingersoll, J R Kenyon, Lord Londesborough, James MacGregor, Viscount Mandeville, Viscount Newport, Richard Okes, George Ormerod, J H Philipps, the Marquis of Salisbury, Philip Salomons, Charles A Saunders, G A Spottiswoode, William Stirling, Lord Adolphus Vane, John Van Voorst, Charles John Vaughan, Halford Vaughan, Edward Warner and Sir Gardiner Wilkinson.

3: Letters declining stewardships from Joseph Arden, the Marquis of Blandford, William Brown, George Bidd, James D Howe Browne, Robert Chambers, E Chapman, the Bishop of Chester, Smith Child, Henry Wilkinson Cookson, Sir Charles Henry Coote, James Copland, Charles W Curtis, Sir Edward Dering, [?] Devereux, A Mortimer Drummond, G Du Pré, the Earl of Eglinton, Samuel Ellis, Richard Ellison, the Dean of Ely, [?] Erskine, the Bishop of Exeter, B S Follett, Peter le Neve Foster, Edmund Gurney, John Haggard, D Fraser Halle, John Harris, Abraham Hayward, Sir Francis B Head, J W Henley, Frederic Hill, Samuel Irton, John Jackson, Francis Jeune, Henry Bence Jones, Joseph Kay, Gore Langton, Robert Lee, Viscount Lewisham, the Bishop of Llandaff, John David Macbride, John Gorham Maitland, Lord George Manners, the Earl of March, Edward Miall, Viscount Newark, J Horsley Palmer, [?] Parkes, Sir Edwin Pearson, Ashley Pellatt, [?] Percy, Melville Portal, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Charles Russell, Philip Joseph Salomons, George Sandars, J F P Scrivener, James Sherman, A M Skinner, Charles Roach Smith, William Spottiswoode, Augustus Stafford, [?] Storrar, [?] Thompson, Henry Tritton, J Walton, Henry Weekes, Loftus Wigram, Sir John Eardley Wilmot, H D Woodfall and the Marquis of Worcester.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from S Annesley, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, the Marquis Massimo d’Azeglio (the Sardinian Minister), Octave Delapierre, W J Evelyn, Sir William Fraser, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Charles Hardinge, [?] Holmes, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, John Knowles, Lord John Manners, Richard Monckton Milnes, Joseph Napier, the Bishop of Ohio, W Paynter, the Queen’s Advocate (Sir John D Harding), Andrew Spottiswoode, J Banks Stanhope, Lord Stanley and the Swiss Consul General.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Earl Amherst, Colonel Aspinwall, Thomas George Baring, Sir Frederick Pollock, Joshua Bates, Count Blandoff, Beriah Botfield, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Sir Edward Buxton, Lord Camoys, the Dean of Carlisle, Richard Cavendish, Sir William Chatterton, Augustus Clifford, Lord Colborne, Lord Colchester, Count Colloredo, Don Juan Comyn, Sir John Francis Davis, Sir William de Bathe, Baron de Geer, M. Jules De Saux, John Dickinson, the Archbishop of Dublin, Sir James Duke, Viscount Duncan, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Sir Charles Abraham Elton, the Earl of Enniskillen, James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt, Count Flemming, the French Ambassador (Count Walewski), the Earl of Gifford, Sir John Hall, C Hanbury, Viscount Hardinge, Edward Craven Hawtrey, James Heywood, Robert S Holford, David Jones, John Kenyon, Count Kielmansegge, Sir Charles Knightly, Brownlow Knox, G. Krehmer, Lord Leigh, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord Lindsay, John Gibson Lockhart, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sir James Matheson, Sir William Molesworth, Sir Moses Montefiore, William Mure, Joseph Neeld, the Bishop of Norwich, Marquis Oldoini, John Ayrton Paris, Baron Parke, the Persian Minister, the Dean of Peterborough, Samuel Morton Peto, Pantia Ralli, Baron Rehausen, the Earl of Rosse, Lord John Russell, Sir Edmund Ryan, the Master of St John’s College Cambridge (Ralph Tatham), Lord Sondes, the Spanish Minister (de Isturiz), Sir George Staunton, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Thornely, M. Tricoupe, Lord Truro, the Turkish Minister, John Walter, Samuel Warren, James Whiteside, David Williams and the Bishop of Winchester.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: Robert Bell, John Forbes, Henry Foss, Patrick Fraser, John Richardson Major, John Bowyer Nichols, James Prior, William Tooke, Henry George Bohn, Thomas Brown, Henry Colburn, Edward Shepherd Creasy, George Darling, Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Robert Fisher, Stephen Watson Fullom, Sir George Head, Daniel Hurst, John William Kaye, Kenneth Macaulay, John Richardson Major, Robert Manning, Henry Alworth Merewether, Robert Pashley, George Peabody, George Potticary, John Parish Robinson, William Spence, Abraham John Valpy and Charles Fenton Whiting.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Barrow, Richard Bentley, Robert Blackmore, Bolton Corney, Charles Dickens, George Godwin, David Thomas Ansted, Wolverley Attwood, William Beattie, Newton Crosland, William Cubitt, Benjamin Gompertz, James Holman, Richard William Jelf, Cosmo Orme, Arthur J Newman, Thomas Robinson, Thomas Spalding, John Hume Spry, Thomas Trundle Storks, Samuel Lyon De Symons and William Makepeace Thackeray (this last missing).

8: Circulars to officers, members and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation card; minutes of anniversary committee; list of persons invited to be stewards; list of tickets issued; list of honorary invitations; correspondence with officers and members, namely Robert Bell, William Henry Harrison, W J Evelyn, the Consul General for Uruguay, Ernest Bunsen and Octavian Blewitt; correspondence regarding the speeches from William Edmonstoune Aytoun, the Marquis d’Azeglio, Sir Henry Ellis, Stephen Watson Fullom, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, J R Kenyon, Lord John Manners, Westland Marston, Richard Monckton Milnes and Lord Stanley; part of John Russell’s address; plan of tables; donations and subscriptions announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; printed list of donations; results of the dinner.