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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1856 and 1857. 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.

1856 (Chairman: Prince George, Duke of Cambridge):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, James Macdonald, Colonel Clifton and the Duke of Cambridge, with the Committee’s resolution of thanks to the Duke of Cambridge.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Sir Archibald Alison, Lord Auckland, Lord Aveland, Joshua Bates, Captain [?] Burton, Edward Cardwell, Major General William Cator, Sir George Cayley, David Barclay Chapman, Robert Windsor Clive, Patrick Colquhoun, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, Sir Francis Doyle, Robert Wilson Evans, Viscount Falkland, Sir William Fraser, Viscount Grey de Wilton, Henry Hallam, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gilbert Henderson, John Pemberton Heywood, Thomas B Horsfall, Chandos Wren Hoskyns, W H Gore Langton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Sir George Nicholls, Frederic Ouvry, James Robinson Planché, Lord Ravensworth, Major General [?] Rawton, Sir Henry Rawlinson, William Anderson Rose, John Ruskin, Humphry Sandwith, Samuel Sidney, Lord Southampton, Earl Spencer, William Spottiswoode, Robert Stephenson, Viscount Sydney, William Henry Sykes, William Frederick Fownes Tighe, James Aspinall Tobin, Marquis Townshend, Sylvain Van de Weyer and William Wells; with additional correspondence from Sir Archibald Alison, Lord Aveland, Joshua Bates, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Robert Windsor Clive, Patrick Colquhoun, Sir Francis Doyle, Robert Wilson Evans, Viscount Falkland, Gilbert Henderson, Chandos Wren Hoskyns, W H Gore Langton, Frederic Ouvry, Charles F Robinson, William Anderson Rose, John Ruskin, Samuel Sidney, Lord Southampton, William Spottiswoode, Viscount Sydney, William Henry Sykes, Edward Owen Tudor and William Wells.

3: Letters declining stewardships from Sir Frederick Abbott, R W Bacon, Michael Edward Bagnold, [?] Balfour, the Master of Balliol (Robert Scott), Frederic Pratt Barlow, the Duke of Beaufort, Sir John Bell, the Earl of Belmore, Sir George Bukeley, Sir Robert Gore Booth, C Holte Bracebridge, Henry Bradbury, Major General [?] Broke, Lord Broughton, William Brown, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir George Buller, [?] Burder, the Earl of Carnarvon, Thomas Chambers, Lord Robert Cecil, Sir James Chatterton, Viscount Chelsea, Sir Robert Hare Clarges, Sir George Russell Clarke, Lord Colville, Viscount Combermere, Thomas Constable, Sir Willoughby Cotton, William Francis Cowper, the Earl of Dartmouth, the Duc d’Aumale, [?] Denman, Sydney Dobell, Richard Donner, Sir Howard Douglas, Lord Dufferin, Sir James Dundas, the Earl of Eglinton, the Earl of Falmouth, Sir James Ferguson, James Fergusson, Marmion E Ferrers, Sir John Forster FitzGerald, Francis Savile Foljambe, Sir Stephen Glynne, Sir Francis L H Goodricke, Cosmo Duff Gordon, Hugh Gough, J Hamilton Gray, Robert Hyde Greg, George Grote, Sir James J Hamilton, Thomas Hankey, the Earl of Hardwicke, Sidney Herbert, the Bishop of Hereford, Lord Hervey, Edmund Hodgson, Hugh Hornby, James Macnaghton Hogg., [?] Hooker, Colonel [?] Hutchinson, Hedworth Jolliffe, Richard Lambert Jones, Sir John Lister Kaye, Robert Hartley Kennedy, [?] Kerr, Sir Edward Kerrison, Nigel F Kingscote, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, the Bishop of Lincoln, Colonel [?] Lindsay, Henry Richards Luard, the Lord Mayor (David Salomons), Arthur Mills, J Remington Mills, William Monteith, Peter Murray, Sir William Napier, C E Oakley, Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, H J Pye, Lord Raglan, William Rathbone, the Duke of Richmond, George Ridley, the Bishop of Salisbury, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Sir James Simpson, John Simpson, Earl Somers, Viscount Somerton, Augustus Stafford, H Dorrien Streatfield, George Edmund Street, Joseph William Thrupp, William Tite, Sir Thomas Trowbridge, the Earl of Verulam, Samuel Warren, James Watson, the Marquis of Westminster, James Whatman, Graham Willmore, John Eardley Eardly Wilmot and the Dean of Windsor.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Sir John Awdry, William Ferguson Beatson, George M Dallas (the U.S. Ambassador), Octave Delapierre, Lord Dynevor, J W Flower, William Hallowes, William Lawrence, Sir John Login, Theodore Martin, Joseph Napier, Richard Owen, the Bishop of Oxford, George Peabody, G Montagu Warren Peacocke, Russell Sturgis, Lord Teignmouth, Lord Harry Vane.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Ashburton, the Attorney General (Sir Alexander Cockburn), Thomas George Baring, the Earl of Bessborough, the Marquis of Blandford, Philip Bliss, Beriah Botfield, the Brazilian Minister, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Bury, Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Sir Archibald Campbell, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Baron de Cetto, the Earl of Chichester, the Bishop of Chichester, the Dean of Christchurch, the Duke of Cleveland, Sir Augustus Clifford, George Elwes Corrie, Lord Dacre, John Evelyn Denison, the Archbishop of Dublin, Sir James Duke, the Earl of Durham, the Earl of Ellenborough, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Bishop of Ely, the Provost of Eton (Edward Craven Hawtrey), W J Evelyn, William Ewart, Lord Feversham, Sir Edmund Filmer, Lord Adolphus FitzClarence, Lord Foley, J H H Foley, Earl Fortescue, Lord Glenelg, Sir Edward Gooch, the Earl of Granard, Earl Grey, Sir John Kerle Haberfield, Sir John Hall, George Alexander Hamilton, the Hanse Town Minister, Colonel [?] Harcourt, Edward Hawkins, Herbert Ingram, Count Kielmansegge, John Kenyon, the Provost of King’s (Richard Okes), the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Count de Lavradio, Lord Leigh, Lord Londesborough, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Lovaine, Sir John Lubbock, John David Macbride, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord George Manners, Lord John Manners, Sir James Matheson, Meer Jafur Alee Kahn Bahadur of Surat, Mirza Ali Ackbar Khan Bahadur, Henry Alworth Merewether, the Mexican Minister, Sir Henry St John Mildmay, Sir William M E Milnes, Richard Monckton Milnes, Sir Graham Montgomery, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Northumberland, the Bishop of Norwich, Lord Overstone, General d’Oxholm (Danish Minister), Sir John Pakington, Lord Palmerston, Comte de Persigny (French Ambassador), Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Lord Petre, Sir George Pollock, the Queen’s Advocate (John Dorney Harding), the Earl of Radnor, the Bishop of Ripon, [?] Rushout, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Rutland, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Earl of St Germans, the Master of St John’s (Ralph Tatham), Lord St Leonard’s, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Sardinian Minister, Andrew Spottiswoode, Lord Stanhope, Lord Stanley, the Master of the Stationers’ Company, Lord James Stuart, the Swedish Minister, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Sir Frederic Thesiger, the Turkish Ambassador, Count Vitzthum, the Duke of Wellington, James Whiteside, David Williams, the Bishop of Winchester and the Archbishop of York.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: John Auldjo, Robert Bell, George Bentley, John Dickinson, John Bowyer Nichols, William Frederick Pollock, Henry Reeve, William Tooke, D H Altschul, Thomas Brettell, Robert Cooke, Jonah Cressingham, Newton Crosland, Stephen Watson Fullom, John Gould, William Rathbone Greg, Charles Lewis Gruneisen, T G Hall, James Hartley, George Willoughby Hemans, Daniel Hurst, John William Kaye, Charles J Latrobe, Charles Merivale, Sir Charles William Pasley, George Potticary, Frederick Salmon, and Messrs Spalding & Hodge.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Barrow, Charles Wentworth Dilke, John Richardson Major, John Leycester Adolphus, Joseph Baxendale, Sir Edward Belcher, Francis Bennoch, Thomas Brown, Samuel Cartwright, John Clark, Sir James Clark, Bolton Corney, James William Gilbart, Benjamin Gompertz, John Labouchere, J Halsey Law, Sir Francis Graham Moon, Colonel [?] Mundy, Henry William Pickersgill, James Ridgway, Philip Salomons, Charles A Saunders, Samuel Lyon De Symons, George Taddy Tomlin and Samuel William Wayte.

8: Circulars to officers, members and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation card; minutes of anniversary committee; correspondence respecting stewards from Robert Bell, J W Bristow, Robert Cooke, Henry Foss, John Murray and Charles Macfarlane; list of persons invited to be steward; list of ticket issued; list of honorary invitations; correspondence with speakers, namely George Godwin, Joseph Napier, Richard Owen, Lord Ravensworth, Henry Reeve and Sylvain Van de Weyer; toast list; plan of tables; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; printed list of donations.

1857 (Chairman: William Francis Cowper, ‘in the absence of Earl Granville’):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, the Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Derby, Henry Reeve, Earl Granville and William Cowper, with the Committee’s resolution of thanks to Cowper.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Henry Alford, Churchill Babington, Frederick Pratt Barlow, Henry George Bohn, Lord Bolton, Lionel Booth, the Earl of Cardigan, Henry Christmas, William Francis Cowper, Daniel Cronin, William Fridge, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Casar Hawkins, Sir William Heathcote, John Johnes, John Winter Jones, Lord Kinnaird, William Money Kyrle, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, the Bishop of Lincoln, David Livingstone, Samuel Jones Loyd, Charles Manby, David Mather Masson, Edward Meryon, George Musgrave Musgrave, Arthur Otway, Arthur Helps, Sir George Philips, Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, the Provost of Queen’s (William Thomson), W Jennings Rees, Captain [?] Sayer, Robert A Slaney, William Stuart, William Henry Sykes, W M Tartt, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Hepworth Thompson, Sir Charles Trevelyan, George S Trower, Matthew Uzielli, James Watson, F W Vernon Wentworth, Thomas Sutton Western, Sir William Fenwick Williams and James Wilson; with additional correspondence from Henry Alford, Henry George Bohn, Lionel Booth, the Earl of Cardigan, Henry Christmas, William Francis Cowper, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Casar Hawkins, Sir William Heathcote, George Willoughby Hemans, John Mounteney Jephson, Lord Kinnaird, William Money Kyrle, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, the Bishop of Lincoln, Samuel Jones Loyd, Charles Manby, Edward Meryon, Sir W B O’Shaughnessy, Arthur Otway, Sir George Philips, Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, Captain [?] Sayer, William Smith, William Henry Sykes, W M Tartt, William Hepworth Thompson, Sir Charles Trevelyan, George S Trower, Matthew Uzielli, F W Vernon Wentworth, Thomas Sutton Western and James Wilson.

3: Letters declining stewardships from the Earl of Albermarle, Charles Henry Alderson, W J Alexander, Lord Alvanley, Tussen Amhurst, John Anderson, Sir Joseph Bailey, the Master of Balliol (Robert Scott), Bulkeley Bandinel, J Gurney Barclay, Sir George Barrow, William Henry Bateson, Hamilton Beckett, Richard Benyon, the Earl of Bessborough, Sir John Peter Boileau, John F N Burnett, C Holte Bracebridge, Henry Bradbury, H Brand, Lord James Butler, Henry Calcraft, Lord Camoys, Sir Robert Walter Carden, [?] Carpenter, William George Clark, Archdeacon [?] Clerke, Lionel Leonard Cohen, C H W a’Court, Frank Crossley, George Daniel, W F Denison, John Coucher Dent, Viscount Duncan, Sir David Dundas, the Earl of Eglinton, Viscount Evesley, Sir Minto Farquhar, Robert Fortune, Edmund Forster, Sir Thomas Rokewode Gage, Lewis Gompertz, Cosmo Duff Gordon, Edward Meyrick Goulburn, J Hamilton Gray, William Gresley, Edward Greswell, Sir Benjamin Hall, Douglas Denon Heath, Lewis Hertslet, Lord Arthur Hervey, Charles Able Heurtley, Edmund Hodgson, Sir Henry Holland, Henry Edward John Howard, James Amiraux Jeremie, George D C Johnson, A Keith Johnstone, John Keble, Robert Malcolm Kerr, Alexander William Kinglake, Nigel Kingscote, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, H G Lumley, Stewart Marjoriebanks, Sir Duncan Macdougall, Joseph Masters, W C Matthison, Arthur Mills, Samuel Morley, Edwin Norris, James Adey Ogle, J A Ormerod, Ralph Osborne, Francis Turner Palgrave, Henry Paull, Spencer Percival, the Earl of Perth, Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, Frederick Charles Plumptre, Willam Pole, the Warden of Radley (W M Sewell), Lord Raglan, William Rose, Lord Sandon, Ralph Sneyd, Viscount Somerton, Sir Alexander Spearman, Robert Crichton Stuart, William Tite, George Taddy Tomlin, Granville E H Vernon, Edmund Meade Waldo, J A Warne, [?] Wellesley, Monier Williams, John Eardley Eardly Wilmot and Charles Ash Windham.

4: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Charles Baxton, the Rajah of Coorg, William Ewart, Edward Bruce Hamley, W H Gore Langton, Kenneth Macaulay, Richard Monckton Milnes, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Joseph Napier, the Prince of Oude, Edmund Peyps, the President of the Royal College of Physicians (Thomas Mayo), Sir George Pollock, Russell Sturgis and Sir James Emerson Tennent.

5: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Sir Archibald Alison, the Archbishop of Armagh, Lord Arundell of Wardour, Lord Auckland, the Austrian Minister (Count Appongi), the Lord Chief Baron (Sir Frederick Pollock), Baron Bramwell, Lord Belper, Count Bernstorff, Beriah Botfield, Viscount Boyne, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, John Ivatt Briscoe, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Hugh McCalmont Cairns, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Chichester, Count Chreptowitch (Russian Minister), the Duke of Cleveland, John Taylor Coleridge, George Elwes Corrie, John Charles Crompton, Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, the Danish Charge d’Affaires (Count Reventlow), Sir John Francis Davis, John Evelyn Denison, Sir James Duke, the Earl of Durham, the Bishop of Durham, the Earl of Effingham, the Bishop of Ely, the Earl of Erne, Viscount Falkland, Lord Feversham, Sir Thomas Fremantle, the French Ambassador (Count de Persigny), James William Freshfield, Baron de Goldsmid, Sir John Hall, Viscount Hardinge, Edward Hawkins, Chevalier Hebeler, Sidney Herbert, the Dean of Hereford, Sir James Weir Hogg, Robert S Holford, Thomas B Horsfall, Henry Thomas Hope, John Gellibrand Hubbard, General [Secunder Hushmut?], Count Kielmansegge, the Earl of Kintore, John Labouchere, the Earl of Lanesborough, , Lord Leigh, the Bishop of Lichfield, Lord Londesborough, the Bishop of London, Charles Manners Lushington, Spencer Lyttelton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord John Manners, S F B Morse, the Duke of Norfolk, Charles Atmore Ogilvie, George Ormerod, Sir John Pakington, Wilson Patten, Sir Thomas Erskine Perry, Lord Petre, Edmund Phipps, the Earl of Radnor, Sir Henry Rawlinson, John Rolt, Baron Rothschild, [?] Rushout, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Sardinian Minister (the Marquess d’Azeglio), Adam Sedgwick, Earl Spencer, Lord Stanley, Sir George Staunton, Sir James Stephen, the Earl of Suffolk, Meer Jafur Alee Khan Bahador of Surat, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister (Baron Hochschild), Lord De Tabley, Lord Teignmouth, Thomas Thornely, William Frederick Fownes Tighe, Richard Chenevix Trench, Sir Alexander M Tulloch, the Turkish Ambassador (M. Musurus), the Unites States Minister (George M Dallas), Sylvain Van de Weyer, Count Vitzthum, Baron Watson, the Duke of Wellington, Edward Wigram, John Walpole Willis, David Williams, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Worcester and the Archbishop of York.

6: Letters from officers and members attending: Richard Bentley, Robert Blackmore, Sir John Forbes, Henry Foss, Patrick Fraser, John Richardson Major, Henry Reeve, Henry Blackett, Thomas Brettell, Robert Cooke, James Copland, Jonah Cressingham, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, Newton Crosland, Robert Gilbert, William Rathbone Greg, Charles Lewis Gruneisen, James Hartley, George Willoughby Hemans, James Augustus Hessey, Daniel Hurst, James Matthews, George Parbury, Thomas Symes Prideaux, William Rivington, Messrs Spalding & Hodge and Martin Farquhar Tupper.

7: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: Bolton Corney, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Sir Henry Ellis, John Gough Nichols, William Frederick Pollock, William Tooke, Charles Baldwin, Sir Francis Beaufort, James William Gilbart, Benjamin Gompertz, Charles Merivale, George Moore, Charles Pearson, Samuel Lyon De Symons and Sir Gardiner Wilkinson.

8: Circulars to officers, members, subscribers and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation card; minutes of anniversary committee; list of persons invited to be steward; correspondence with officers, namely Robert Bell and Robert Cooke; list of ticket issued; list of honorary invitations; correspondence with speakers, namely Henry Blackett, William Francis Cowper, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Arthur Helps, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Russell Sturgis, Richard Monckton Milnes, Edward Bruce Hamley, Major [?] Bird and John Murray; toast list; plan of tables; donations and subscriptions announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports.