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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1858 and 1859. 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 stewardships, correspondence with stewards, letters declining stewardships, 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.

1858 (Chairman: Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Palmerston and Octavian Blewitt, with resolutions from the Committee inviting and thanking Palmerston.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Henry Unwin Addington, Henry John Adeane, the Duke of Argyll, Thomas Lawrence Behan, Henry George Bohn, Edward Herbert Bunbury, George Busk, Charles Buxton, Thomas Chambers, James Crowdy, Henry Warwick Cole, Charles Phipps, Henry FitzRoy, Thomas Graham, Matthew James Higgins, Kirkman D Hodgson, James Hunt, Charles Kean, William Kent, Lord Lyndhurst, Robert Lush, Lord Macaulay, Alexander Macmillan, John Henry Mandeville, Baron Marochetti, John Miles, John Mitchell, [?] Moseley, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, John Oxley, Antonio Panizzi, Count Platen (Swedish Minister), Abraham Wildey Robarts, Thomas Roberts, Sir Cusack Patrick Roney, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Edward John Shepherd, Joseph Stubs, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Edward Thomas, the Turkish Ambassador (Constantine Musurus), Sylvain Van de Weyer and Thomas M Weguelin.

3: Correspondence with stewards, namely Henry John Adeane, William Beattie, Edward Herbert Bunbury, George Busk, Charles Buxton, Henry Warwick Cole, Henry FitzRoy, , Matthew James Higgins, Peter Hood, James Hunt, William Kent, Robert Lush, Alexander Macmillan, John Henry Mandeville, Baron Marochetti, Joseph J Miles, John Miles, John Mitchell, [?] Moseley, John Oxley, Henry Reeve, Thomas Roberts, Edward John Shepherd, Joseph Stubs, Edward Thomas, Sylvain Van de Weyer and Thomas M Weguelin.

4: Letters declining stewardships from the Earl of Airlie, W J Alexander, Matthew Talbot Baines, the Master of Balliol (Robert Scott), Augustus Barrington, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Lord Belper, Frederick Bentley, Count Bernsdorff, John Rouse Bloxam, Sir John Peter Boileau, Lord Boston, Sir George Bowles, Henry Brand, Sir James Brooke, Henry Thomas Buckle, General [?] Buckley, Higford Burr, Viscount Bury, George Byng, Somerset Calthorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, Thomas Carter, Peter Cator, William James Chaplin, Robert Chomley, William George Clark, George Clive, Sir Thomas Cochrane, George Edward Lynch Cotton, F R Daldy, James Dearden, Henry Browne Downing, Lord Dufferin, E C Egerton, Viscount Eversley, Thomas Fellowes, Robert Ferguson, J H H Foley, the Earl of Gifford, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Edward Meyrick Goulburn, J Hamilton Gray, Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Earl Grey, Thomson Hankey, Lord Henniker, Henry Hobhouse, Hugh Hornby, Thomas Henry Huxley, the Bishop of Jamaica, Thomas James, Alexander William Kinglake, Charles Kingsley, Arthur Kinnaird, Herbert Kynaston, J M Longford, F K Leighton, Sampson Low, T M Mackay, J A Shaw Mackenzie, Lord George Manners, Joseph Marryat, Joseph Martineau, Sir James Matheson, Sir William Middleton, Sir Henry St John Mildmay, Arthur Mills, the Bishop of Norwich, Ralph Bernal Osborne, James Parker, Sir Lawrence Peel, Edward Leigh Pemberton, Sir Hugh Playfair, Spencer Ponsonby, Sir John Ramsden, the Master of St John’s College Cambridge (Ralph Tatham), Lord Sandon, Colonel [?] Saunderson, C B Scott, J F P Scrivener, Alexander Noel Sherson, Samuel Smiles, Edward Stanley, Henry Fox Talbot, John Towneley, James Aspinall Turner, Charles John Vaughan, Sir Harry Verney, W Graham Vivien, the Dean of Wells, the Marquess of Westminster, Spencer Wigram, Charles Williams, John Walpole Willis, Sir Charles Wood, Christopher Wordsworth and Charles Baring Young.

5: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Beriah Botfield, John Ivatt Briscoe, William Francis Cowper, Sir John Francis Davis, the Earl of Ellesmere, William Ewart, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, W H Gore Langton, Sir John Login, Charles Wykeham Martin, Sir Denham Norreys, J H Philipps, Philip Sydney Pierrepont, Sir Henry Rawlinson, Robert A Slaney, Jared Sparks, Russell Sturgis, James Whiteside, James Wilson and James Wyld.

6: Letters declining honorary invitations, from the Austrian Minister (Count Appongi), Thomas George Baring, Joshua Bates, Baron Bentinck (Netherlands Minister), Lord Bolton, the Brazilian Charge d’Affaires, Lord Broughton, Henry Lytton Bulwer, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Chichester, Sir George R Clark, Sir Augustus Clifford, George Elwes Corrie, [?] Cradock, George M Dallas, Admiral van Dockum (Danish Minister), the Archbishop of Dublin, the Earl of Durham, the Bishop of Ely, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Benjamin Disraeli), Lord Feversham, Baron de Goldsmid, Charles Cavendish Greville, Viscount Hardinge, Sir William Heathcote, Sidney Herbert, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Sir John Cox Hippesley, Kirkman D Hodgson, Henry Thomas Hope, Thomas B Horsfall, Count Kielmansegge, the Provost of King’s (Richard Okes), Lord Leigh, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Londesborough, the Bishop of London, the Duc de Malakoff (French Ambassador), the Bishop of Manchester, Lord John Manners, Thomas Mayo, Henry Alworth Merewether, Count de Montalembert, Joseph Napier, Prince Nicolas of Nassau, the Duke of Norfolk, Charles Atmore Ogilvie, George Ormerod, the Bishop of Oxford, George Peabody, Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Sir George Pollock, the Earl of Radnor, M. de Rémusat, the Earl of Ripon, the Bishop of Ripon, the Earl of Ross, Baron Rothschild, Lord John Russell, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Solicitor General (Hugh McCalmont Cairns), Lord Southampton, the Speaker of the House of Commons (John Evelyn Denison), Lord Stanley, the Duke of Sutherland, Sir John Edward Swinburne, William Henry Sykes, Lord Teignmouth, Sir James Emerson Tennent, William Frederick Fownes Tighe, Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, F W Vernon Wentworth, Lord Wensleydale, Edward Wigram, the Bishop of Winchester and the Archbishop of York.

7: Letters from officers and members attending: Robert Bell, Richard Bentley, John Dickinson, John Richardson Major, William Frederick Pollock, William Smith, William Tooke, Frederic Pratt Barlow, George Bell, Thomas Brettell, F Chapman, The Chisholm, Edward Shepherd Creasy, Jonah Cressingham, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, Daniel Cronin, William Cureton, Horatio Grosvenor Day, Octave Delapierre, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Robert Fisher, Robert Gilbert, William Rathbone Greg, Thomas G Hall, George Willoughby Hemans, John Hodge, Daniel Hurst, John Delaware Lewis, Thomas Longman, David Mather Masson, Charles Merivale, Edward Meryon, James B Mozley, Sir Charles Pasley, William Rivington, Captain [?] Sayer, William Makepeace Thackeray and Edward Owen Tudor.

8: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: Bolton Corney, Charles Wentworth Dilke, John Bowyer Nichols, Richard Chenevix Trench, Thomas Bell, William Bodham Donne, Benjamin Gompertz, Lewis Gompertz, James Heywood, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, John Robert Kenyon, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, the Provost of Oriel (Edward Hawkins), Bryan Waller Procter, Frederick Salmon, Adam Sedgwick, William Smith, Samuel Lyon De Symons, William Hepworth Thompson and Sir Gardiner Wilkinson.

9: Circulars to officers, members, subscribers and stewards; dinner tickets; invitation card to stewards; honorary invitation card; list of persons invited to be steward; ticket list; honorary invitations list; correspondence with speakers, namely Edward Shepherd Creasy, Sir Henry Ellis, John Winter Jones, Richard Monckton Milnes, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Sir Charles Pasley, Count Platen, Sir Henry Rawlinson, James Whiteside, Henry Reeve, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Jared Sparks, Constantine Musurus and Sylvain Van de Weyer; toast list; plan of tables; donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports.

1859 (Chairman: The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone, MP):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, William Ewart Gladstone and Richard Monckton Milnes, with resolutions of the Committee inviting Gladstone to chair and thanking him for doing so.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from the Warden of All Souls (Francis Knyvett Leighton), W B Beaumont, Joseph William Blakesley, R H Cheney, Edward Clowes, the Earl of Coventry, Harries Creed, Raikes Currie, G Digby Wingfield Digby, William Ellis, the Dean of Ely (Harvey Goodwin), Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt, Frederic William Farrer, William Forsyth, Charles Lewis Gruneisen, Samuel Gurney, Ernest Hawkins, Thomas Hughan, Sir Walter Charles James, R W Johnson, Samuel William King, Lord Kingsdown, John Frederic Leary, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, John Delaware Lewis, William Longman, Ashurst Majendie, James Ranald Martin, John Robert Mowbray, Sir Stafford Northcote, William Paynter, William Frederick Pollock, Edwin Prodgers, C W Giles Puller, the Earl of Ripon, James Craigie Robertson, the Bishop of Salisbury, Alfred Seymour, the Solicitor General (Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns), James Spicer, Sir John Stuart and Clement Tudway Swanston.

3: Letters declining stewardships from C H W a’Court, William Ashley, William Atherton, Joseph H Baxendale, W B Beaumont, Sir George A Beaumont, Lord Belper, George Cavendish Bentinck, Frederick Bentley, Lord Berners, William Henry Blaauw, John Ernest Bode, Joseph Bosworth, James Scott Bowerbank, William Bradbury, T W Bramston, Sir Richard Bromley, Lord Broghton, the Duke of Buccleuch, John Barnard Byles, the Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Robert Cecil, the Dean of Chichester, Lord Churston, Frank Crossley, the Earl of Darnley, William Deedes, George Denman, John Coucher Dent, Edward Edwards, James Anthony Froude, Thomas Field Gibson, Earl Gifford, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Sir Stephen Glynne, William Gresley, Brampton Gurdon, Edward Bruce Hamley, Sidney Herbert, Robert Herbert, Sir John Herschel, Lord Alfred Hervey, James Heywood, W F Higgins, Sir Hugh Hill, Sir Alexander Acland Hood, Hugh Hornby, George Johnson, Howel Jones, Sir John Lister Kaye, J E Kempe, Charles Kingsley, J M Langford, R Liddell, the Bishop of Llandaff, Lord Londesborough, Charles Manners Lushington, Lord Lyttleton, Henry Longueville Mansel, Robert Montgomery Martin, Sir William Middleton, Humphry St John Mildmay, David Nutt, Ralph Bernal Osborne, Edwin Palmer, Wilson Patten, Sir Lawrence Peel, Sir Thomas Erskine Perry, Richard Nathaniel Phillipps, Lord Raglan, Colonel [?] Rowley, A G Robarts, Sir Frederic Rogers, the Master of the Rolls (Lord Romilly), Henry Cadogan Rothery, [?] Rowden, Augustus Saunders, Vernon Smith, P Tritton, Lord Wharncliffe, Henry Whatman, Christopher Wordsworth and Richard Yapp.

4: Correspondence with stewards, namely Joseph William Blakesley, James Booth, John Bonstead, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Harries Creed, the Earl of Coventry, William Ellis, Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt, Frederic William Farrer, Ernest Hawkins, Thomas Hughan, Sir Walter Charles James, R W Johnson, Samuel William King, Francis Knyvett Leighton, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, John Delaware Lewis, John Robert Mowbray, Sir Stafford Northcote, Richard Owen, William Paynter, C W Giles Puller, the Earl of Ripon, James Craigie Robertson, the Bishop of Salisbury, Alfred Seymour, James Spicer, Sir John Stuart, J Montgomery Treherne and Thomas Wright.

5: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from William Ewart, Herbert Ingram, Kenneth Macaulay, G Montagu Warren Peacocke, Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, Russell Sturgis and James Wilson.

6: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Sir Archibald Alison, the Austrian Minister (Count Appongi), Thomas Bateson, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Earl of Bective, Count Bernstorff, the Brazilian Minister (Count de Carvalho Moreira), Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, John Ivatt Briscoe, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Carlisle, Baron Brünnow, Baron de Cetto, the Bishop of Chichester, Sir George R Clark, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, William Francis Cowper, George M Dallas, Sir John Francis Davis, John Evelyn Denison, the Marquis of Drogheda, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Earl of Durham, the Bishop of Durham, the Bishop of Ely, William Ewart, the Marquis of Exeter, the Provost of Eton (Edward Craven Hawtrey), Lord Feversham, the French Ambassador (Count de Persigny), Prince Gholam Mohumed, Sir Ivor Guest, Viscount Hardinge, Sir William Heathcote, Chevalier Hebeler, Charles Abel Heurtley, Sir John Cox Hippesley, Henry Thomas Hope, John Gellibrand Hubbard, Sir FitzRoy Kelly, Count Kielmansegge, the Provost of King’s (Richard Okes), John Labouchere, Count Lavradio (the Portuguese Minister), Lord Leigh, the Bishop of Lincoln, Sir John Login, Lord Londesborough, the Bishop of London, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John David Macbride, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord John Manners, the Earl of Mansfield, the Duke of Marlborough, Joseph Napier, E Neville, the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Northampton, Lord Northwick, Charles Atmore Ogilvie, George Ormerod, Sir Charles Pasley, Edmund Peyps, Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Philip Sydney Pierrepont, Count Platen (Swedish Minister), the Queen’s Advocate (John Dorney Harding), John Dawson Rawdon, the Earl of Rosse, M. Rücker (Hanse Town Minister), the Duke of Rutland, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir Francis E Scott, Sir James Sibbald David Scott, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Robert A Slaney, Lord Southampton, the Spanish Minister (D X Isturiz), Andrew Spottiswoode, the Marquis of Stafford, Lord Stanley, Edward Stanley, Lord James Stuart, William Henry Sykes, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Sir James Emerson Tennent, Alfred Tennyson, Lord John Thynne, William Frederick Fownes Tighe, Sylvain Van de Weyer, General Van Dockum (Netherlands Minister), Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, Count Vitzthum (Saxon Minister), Prince [Vognides?], John Walter, Thomas M Weguelin, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wensleydale, F W Vernon Wentworth, the Marquis of Westminster, James Whiteside, Edward Wigram, John Walpole Willis, the Bishop of Winchester and the Archbishop of York.

7: Letters from officers and members attending: John Dickinson, Henry Foss, Augustus Guest, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Sir James Prior, Peter Mark Roget, William Smith, the Dean of Canterbury (Henry Alford), Frederic Pratt Barlow, Robert Bell, George Bentley, Thomas Brettell, Thomas Brown, Robert Cooke, Johan Cressingham, Newton Crosland, James Crowdy, Robert Gilbert, William Rathbone Greg, John Hampden Gurney, John Mounteney Jephson, Joseph Masters, Samuel Smiles, John Henry Parker, Charles Shaw, Edward Thomas, Martin Farquhar Tupper and Edward Wilberforce.

8: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: Bolton Corney, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Patrick Fraser, Henry Reeve, William Tooke, John Dickinson, Alexander Grant, Benjamin Gompertz, Lewis Gompertz, Daniel Hurst, John Robert Kenyon, Robert Lush, Samuel Smiles, Joseph Marryat, Baron Marochetti, Horace Mayhew, Charles Pearson, Jesse Watts Russell, Thomas Robinson, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, William Spottiswoode, Samuel Lyon De Symons, William Smith, M E Savage and Sir Gardner Wilkinson.

9: Circulars to officers, members, subscribers and stewards; dinner tickets; honorary invitation ticket; list of persons invited to be steward; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; correspondence with speakers, namely Robert Bell, William Ewart Gladstone, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Lord Headley, Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Frederick Pollock, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, Sir John Stuart and James Wilson; toast list; plan of tables; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; printed list of donations announced.