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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1854 and 1855. 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.

1854 (Chairman: Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Ellesmere, Viscount Mahon, Charles John Baker and Sir Henry Ellis, with the Committee’s resolutions of invitation and their resolution of thanks to Mahon.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Jules Benedict, Michael Bland, George Ferguson Bowen, John Collingwood Bruce, James Buchanan, Peter Carthew, William George Clark, Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Alexander Baillie Cochrane, James Copland, Joseph Dickinson, John William Donaldson, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, William Fairbairn, John Fenwick, Lord Feversham, Francis France, John Lewis Fytche, William Stephen Gilly, Viscount Goderich, George Godwin, William Rathbone Greg, Augustus Guest, Thomas G Hall, D Griffiths Jones, William Knighton, William Lassell, Robert McAndrew, Thomas Babington Macaualy, Charles Merivale, the Bishop of Ossory & Ferns, John Henry Parker, James Ridgway, Martin Joseph Routh, Thomas C Savill, William Smith, Edward Swaine, Thomas Webester and Joshua Wilson; with additional correspondence from Jules Benedict, Michael Bland, John Collingwood Bruce, George F Bowen, Peter Carthew, William George Clark, Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Joseph Dickinson, John William Donaldson, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, William Fairbairn, Francis France, John Lewis Fytche, Viscount Goderich, George Godwin, William Rathbone Greg, Thomas G Hall, D Griffiths Jones, William Knighton, William Lassell, Robert McAndrew, Charles Merivale, John Henry Parker, John Perowne, Martin Joseph Routh, William Smith, Edward Swaine and Sir John Edward Swinburne.

3: Letters declining stewardships from Hippolyte Baillière, William Henry Bartlett, [?] Bell, Francis Bennoch, John Blackie, Sir John Peter Boileau, High H Bonelli, William Bowman, Arichibald Boyd, Thomas Brassey, Reginald Bray, Frederick Buckland, W Hutchins Callert, Viscount Campden, the Earl of Carnarvon, Thomas Chambers, Thomas Chapman, Temple Chevallier, Henry Wilkinson Cookson, E H J Cranford, James Crossley, Robert Curzon, James John Downes, Robert Elwes, Robert Ferguson, Robert Fisher, Richard Ford, George Carr Glyn, Messrs Grant & Griffith, Sir William Heathcote, [?] Hooker, John Hooper, Hugh R Hughes, Robert Hunter, Percival Norton Johnson, J E Kempe, William Money Kyrle, the Bishop of Lincoln, [?] Locock, the Vice-Provost of King’s, Henry Richards Luard, John David Macbride, Patrick McMahon, Steuart Macnaghten, Charles Wykeham Martin, John Stuart Mill, Samuel Morley, Friedrich Max Müller, Colonel Mundy, Viscount Newark, Frederick Nicholl, William Nind, Joseph Alfred Novello, [?] Parkes, Richard Partridge, John Patteson, Charles George Perceval, John Phillips, John Propert, Edward Rigby, Philip J Salomons, William Sewell, Samuel Sharpe, William Henry Smyth, George Virtue, John Washington, Edmund Waterton, James Whatman, Henry Annesley Woodham, Henry Arthur Woodgate and Joseph Brooks Yates.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Meer Jafur Ali Khan (Bahadoor of Surat), Meerza Ally Ackbar Khan, Prince Gholam Mahomed, Prince Feroze Shah, John Dickinson, the Provost of Eton (Edward Craven Hawtrey), Sir Charles Pasley, Sir Thomas Erskine Perry, the President of the Royal College of Physicians (John Ayrton Paris), William Reid, Lord Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Russell Sturgis and James Whiteside.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Earl Amherst, Lord Ashburton, the Lord Chief Baron (Sir Frederick Pollock), Joshua Bates, Baron Bentinck, Viscount Brackley, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Sir Edward Buxton, Benjamon Bond Cabbell, Hugh Cairns, the Archibishop of Canterbury, Sir Edward Cardwell, Señor de Castillo y Lanzas (Mexican Minister), Sir William Chatterton, the Bishop of Chichester, Lord Colchester, Count Colloredo, George Elwes Corrie, Sir John Francis Davis, Octave Delapierre, Sir Edward Dering, Sir Henry Dryden, the Earl of Ellesmere, Richard Ellison, the Bishop of Ely, William Erle, W J Evelyn, William Ewart, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (William Ewart Gladstone), the Marquis of Exeter, Earl Fitzwilliam, the French Ambassador (Count Walewski), Baron de Goldsmith, Lord William Graham, George Grote, Sir John Kerle Haberfield, Sir John Hall, Sir John Hanbury, Charles Hardinge, Lord Henniker, Sidney Herbert, M. Herbet (the French Consul General), the Dean of Hereford, James Heywood, Robert S Holford, Henry Thomas Hope, Thomas B Horsfall, John Kenyon, Ser Edward Kerrison, Count Kielmansegge, the Provost of King’s (Richard Okes), Count de Lavradio (the Portuguese Minister), Lord Leigh, the Bishop of Lichfield, Lord De L’Isle, Lord Londesborough, the Bishop of London, Sir John Lubbock, the Bishop of Manchester, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Joseph Napier, the Bishop of Norwich, Benjamin Oliveira, the Bishop of Oxford, General Oxholm (the Danish Minister), Lord Palmerston, George Peabody, Samuel Morton Peto, Edmund Phipps, John Dorney Harding (the Queen’s Advocate), Pantia Ralli, the Bishop of Ripon, Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Rutland, Sir Edmund Ryan, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Dean of St Paul’s, Thomas Sansom, Lord Seaton, Sir Hamilton Seymour, F L Slows, Andrew Spottiswoode, Sir George Staunton, George John Steer, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir James Emerson Tennent, Thomas Thornely, William Tite, M. Tricoupe (Greek Minister), Lord Truro, the Turkish Minister, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Count Vitzthum (Saxon Minister), Prince Vogorides, Benjamin P Symons (Warden of Wadham College), John Wagg, Edward Warner, David Williams, Sir Hedworth Williamson, Lord Willoughby D’Eresby and Edward Zohrab.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: Charles Baldwin, Robert bell, Richard Bentley, Henry Foss, John Richardson Major, John Murray, John Bowyer Nichols, John Russell, Henry Alford, Henry Blackett, Thomas Brettell, Thomas Brown, Jonah Cunningham, Thomas Fisher, John Fenwick, Stephen Watson Fullom, Sir George Head, Daniel Hurst, John Richardson Major, William Spence, Henry Stevens and Thomas Trundle Storks.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Barrow, Bolton Corney, Charles Dickens, Edward Gandy, Peter Levesque, William Tooke, George Bentley, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Robert Fisher, Benjamin Gompertz, John Petty Muspratt, Arthur J Newman, Samuel Richards, Thomas Robinson, Charles A Saunders, G A Spottiswoode, Samuel Lyon De Symons, William Makepeace Thackeray, Martin Farquhar Tupper and Edward Wyndham.

8: Circulars to officers, members, subscribers and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation card; list of persons invited to be steward; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; toast list; Lord Mahon’s programme; correspondence with speakers, namely George Ferguson Bowen, Sir Henry Ellis, Whitwell Elwin, Lord Goderich, Edward Craven Hawtrey, William Lassell, Lord Mahon, John Murray, Sir Charles Pasley, George Peabody, William Smith, Lord Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Henry Stevens and James Whiteside; plan of tables; list of subscriptions and donations; subscription papers; newspaper reports; printed list of donations; results of the dinner.

1855 (Chairman: Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Sir Henry Ellis, Richard Monckton Milnes, Sir Charles Phipps, the Marquis of Normanby, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Octavian Blewitt, the Archbishop of Dublin and Samuel Wilberforce, with the Committee’s resolutions of invitation and thanks to Wilberforce.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Richard Edward Arden, Charles Austin, Sir John W Awdry, Francis Bennoch, Edward Bickersteth, Henry Blackett, John Boyd, Thomas J Boyd, Sir Bernard Burke, Edward Cardwell, George H Christie, E H Cradock, Newton Crosland, James Crossley, William Cureton, the Earl of Durham, Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, Whitwell Elwin, Oliver William Farrer, Robert Fisher, Francis Galton, Charles Hardinge, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, Sir Richard Paul Jodrell, James Edward Austen Leigh, Henry George Liddell, Lord Londesborough, John David Macbride, Charles Wykeham Martin, Theodore Martin, Thomas Baker Morrell, James Bowling Mozley, Charles Edward Mudie, James Patrick Muirhead, Charles Neate, Lawrence Oliphant, the Provost of Oriel (Edward Hawkins), G Montagu Warren Peacocke, Sir George Pollock, George Potticary, Thomas Symes Prideaux, Henry Rogers, H Danby Seymour, Goldwin Smith, Samuel Leigh Sotheby, Stephens Lyne Stephens, Edward Stokes, John Timbs, George Tomlin, the Duke of Wellington and Richard Heber Wrightson; with additional correspondence from Richard Edward Arden, Sir John W Awdry, Edward Bickersteth, Sir Bernard Burke, Edward Cardwell, James Crossley, William Cureton, Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, Whitwell Elwin, Oliver William Farrer, Francis Galton, John Gould, Charles Hardinge, Edward Hawkins, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, James Edward Austen Leigh, Lord Londesborough, John David Macbride, Thomas Baker Morrell, James Bowling Mozley, John Murray, James Patrick Muirhead, Lawrence Oliphant, Edmund Peyps, Sir George Pollock, George Potticary, Thomas Symes Prideaux, Henry Rogers, Goldwin Smith, Samuel Leigh Sotheby, Richard James Spiers, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Edward Stokes, John Timbs, George Tomlin, the Duke of Wellington and Richard Heber Wrightson.

3: Letters declining stewardships from the Warden of All Souls, John Edmund Anderton, T J Arnold, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, the Master of Balliol (Robert Scott), Sir George Barrow, Arthur Bigge, James Charles Blomfield, Archibald Boyd, G Bramwell, Thomas Brassey, Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, Frederick Calvery, the Earl of Carnarvon, Thomas J Carter, Lord Robert Cecil, Henry Burgess Whitaker Churton, [?] Clerke, John Cornington, William John Conybeare, Robert Curzon, the Earl of Dartmouth, J Coucher Dent, Louis d’Eyncourt, the Earl of Eglinton, Robert Elwes, the Dean of Ely, William Evetts, Charles Old Goodford, Robert A Gordon, Edward Meyrick Goulburn, Charles H Hitchings, William Hodgson, William Hood, George Henry Sacheverell Johnson, Alexander Keith Johnson, Alexander King, Henry S King, William Money Kyrle, J Baily Langhorne, William Lee, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Marquis of Londonderry, Henry Richards Luard, Nevil Story Maskelyne, H J Maude, Thomas Mayo, the Lord Mayor (G H H Philipps), Henry John Milbanke, Joseph Johnson Miles, Charles Mozley, James Nasmyth, Arthur J Newman, Sir George Nicholls, Sir Francis Palgrave, Francis Turner Palgrave, Thomas Parker, Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Sir Henry Peyton, David Pugh, Richard William Randall, Sir George Henry Rose, the Bishop of Salisbury, Leonard Schmitz, William H Smith, Albert Smith, Richard Spooner, Augustus Stafford, Sir James Stephen, H Dorrien Streatfield, Edward Strutt, William Tite, William Sandys Wright Vaux, George H Virtue, Samuel Warren, James Watson, S W Wayte, William Wells, Bingham John Whippy, H H Wilkins, John Wilkinson, John Eardley Eardly Wilmot and William Wilson.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Sir Archibald Alison, Weentworth B Beaumont, James Buchanan, the Archbishop of Dublin, Sir William Heathcote, John Gellibrand Hubbard, Richard Monckton Milnes, Joseph Napier, Denham Norrys, Russell Sturgis, Richard Chenevix Trench and Edward Wilberforce.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Lord Ashburton, the Attorney General (Sir Alexander Cockburn), the Marquis d’Azeglio, Thomas George Baring, Joshua Bates, Count Bernstorff, the Marquis of Blandford, Beriah Botfield, Viscount Brackley, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Viscount Canning, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward Cardwell, Señor de Castillo y Lanzas (Mexican Minister), Baron de Cetto, Sir William Chatterton, the Bishop of Chichester, the Duke of Cleveland, Lord Colchester, John Taylor Coleridge, Count Colloredo, Frank Crossly, Sir John Francis Davis, the Maharajah Duleep Singh, [?] Dundas, Lord Dynevor, the Earl of Ellesmere, W J Evelyn, the Earl of Falmouth, the Consul General of France, Lord Glenelg, Viscount Gough, the Marquis of Granby, George Grote, [?] Hall, Sir John Hall, Charles Amyand Harris, Edward Craven Hawtrey, J W Henley, Sidney Herbert, Sir John Hippesley, Henry Thomas Hope, Thomas B Horsfall, Count Kielmansegge, the Earl of Kintore, James Haughton Langston, Count de Lavradio, Lord Leigh, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of London, Lord Lyttelton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Chevalier de Macedo (Brazilian Minister), James Macgregor, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord John Manners, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Lord Naas, [?] North, Sir Stafford Northcote, the Duke of Northumberland, Lord Northwick, the Bishop of Norwich, George Ormerod, General Oxholm (Danish Minister), Lord Palmerston, Baron Parke, George Peabody, Sir Thomas Erskine Perry, Thomas Phinn, Edmund Phipps, Lord Pottimore, the Prussian Consul General, John Dorney Harding (the Queen’s Advocate), the Earl of Radnor, the Bishop of Ripon, Baron Rothschild, [?] Rushout, the Duke of Rutland, Sir Edward Ryan, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Sardinian Consul General, Yorke Scarlett, the Marquis of Stafford, Lord Stanley, Sir George Staunton, Lord James Stuart, Sir John Edward Swinburne, the Duke of Sutherland, Lord John Thynne, M. Tricoupe (Greek Minister), Lord Truro, the Turkish Minister (Musurus Bey), Sylvain Van de Weyer, Count Vitzthum (Saxon Minister), Count Walewski (French Ambassador), Edward Warner, James Whiteside, H W Wilberforce, Lord Willoughby D’Eresby, David Williams, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Worcester and the Archbishop of York.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: Robert Bell, Sir Robert Forbes, John Richardson Major, John Bowyer Nichols, William Makepeace Thackeray, Frederick Pollock, Thomas Brettell, Thomas Brown, Jonah Cressingham, Stephen Watson Fullom, William Rathbone Greg, James Hartley, George Willoughby Hemans, John Richardson Major, W Nind, John Perowne, John Henry Parker, Lovell Reeve, John Scott Russell, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Henry Stevens and Alexander Trotter.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Barrow, Sir Henry Ellis, George Godwin, William Tooke, Charles Edward Baldwin, George Bentley, John Fenwick, Richard Ford, Richard William Jelf, Charles Pearson, Philip Salomons, Charles A Saunders and Robert William Sievier.

8: Circulars to officers, members, and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation card; minutes of anniversary committee and stewards; list of persons invited to be stewards; regulation in regard to stewards; list of tickets issued; list of honorary invitations; correspondence respecting speeches with T E Jones, Sir Archibald Alison, James Buchanan, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, John David Macbride, Charles Wykeham Martin, Charles Neate, the Bishop of Oxford, John Scott Russell, the Bishop of St David’s and John West; toast list; plan of tables; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; results of dinner; printed list of donations.