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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1860 and 1861. 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.

1860 (Chairman: Connop Thirlwall, the Bishop of St David’s):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Octavian Blewitt, Baron Brünnow, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of St David’s, John Thirlwall and Louis Stokes, with a resolution of the Committee to Baron Brünnow and a report to the Committee by Octavian Blewitt.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Archibald Alison, Harold Browne, Thomas Brown, Frederick Bentley, Sir John Peter Boileau, Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, William Coulson, R H Cobbold, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, George Chambers, Edward Heneage Dering, Viscount Dungannon, George Edward Eyre, Robert Nicholas Fowler, George Grote, Joseph Dalton Hooker, James Lempriere Hammond, Philip Charles Hardwick, Thomas Henry Huxley, Sir Hugh Hill, Sir John Hammer, John Jervis, Francis Jeune, William Longman, Sampson Low, John Robinson McClean, Frederick Denison Maurice, Henry Longueville Mansel, John Lothrop Motley, David Nutt, Sherard Osborn, Charles B Pearson, John Henry Philipps, John Peyps, James Anderson Rose, Henry John Rose, David Rowland, Leonard Schmitz, William Selwyn, the Bishop of St Asaph, Sir James Emerson Tennent, George Stovin Venables, James Williams, Robert Whiston and John Selby Watson.

3: Letters declining stewardships from Gilbert Ainslie, Charles Bowyer Adderley, Benjamin Austen, Alfred Barry, the Master of Balliol (Robert Scott), Lionel Beale, Joseph Bosworth, Josiah Bateman, Henry Hervey Babur, John Ernest Bode, James Scott Bowerbank, W J Beaumont, Henry Bailey, Thomas Bateson, Archdeacon [?] Bevan, Thomas Myddelton Biddulph, William Bradbury, Samuel Clark, Gordon Clark, George T Clark, the Earl of Chichester, Jonah Cressingham, Lord Chelmsford, the Earl of Carnarvon, George Cubitt, Warren de la Rue, John Dent Dent, John Coucher Dent, Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, Archdeacon [?] Davies, Viscount Eversley, Archdeacon [?] Evans, William Earle, Thomas Fuller, T Field, James Anthony Froude, Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon, George Grove, T C Geldart, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Thomas F Gibson, John Griffiths, the Earl of Gifford, the Dean of Gloucester, Sir Ivor Guest, Charles Gore, Henry Howarth, John Higg, Thomas Hughes, Lord Henley, D J Heath, William Hopkins, John Gellibrand Hubbard, Thomas Hugo, John Saul Howson, the Bishop of Hereford, John Hodge, Lord Arthur Hervey, James Orchard Halliwell, Archdeacon [?] Hughes, Walter Farquhar Hook, Richard Jennings, George Johnson, John Delaware Lewis, John Locke, William Nanson Lettsom, J M Langford, the Bishop of Llandaff, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, James Leman, Sir Leopold McClintock, Francis Metcalfe, Friedrich Max Müller, Frederick Meyrick, Sir Frederick Madden, [?] Marsden, David Morris, William Nathaniel Massey, Edward Masison, Henry Hart Milman, W Morgan, Townsend Mainwaring, Viscount Midleton, the Duke of Marlborough, the Bishop of Norwich, J A Ormerod, Robert Pemberton, Thomas T Perowne, [?] Pulling, George Pryme, Edward Hayes Plumptre, Edwin Palmer, Sir Lawrence Peel, Richard Nathaniel Phillipps, Lieutenant Colonel [?] Powell, G Stanley Poole, the Dean of Peterborough, [?] Rowden, W F Raymond, W Russell, Martin Archer Shee, E A Smedley, William Tite, Henry Fox Talbot, Alfred Turner, Charles Benjamin Tayler, Nicholas Trübner, R Lister Venables, William Sandys Wright Vaux, George R Weld, [?] Worsley, Philip J Wingfield, John Eardley Eardly Wilmot, Lloyd Watkins, Brooke Foss Westcott, Charles Wordsworth, the Bishop of Worcester, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Llewellyn Wynne, Charles Wynne, G H Whally, John Webb, Spencer Horatio Walpole, William Aldis Wright, Henry Walford, Sir Erasmus Williams and Ralph Nicholson Warnum.

4: Correspondence with stewards, namely Archibald Alison, Frederick Bentley, Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, Edward Heneage Dering, Robert Nicholas Fowler, George Grote, Philip Charles Hardwick, James Lempriere Hammond, Sir John Hammer, Henry Longueville Mansel, Sherard Osborn, Charles B Pearson, Henry John Rose, the Bishop of St Asaph, Leonard Schmitz, George Stovin Venables, James Williams and John Selby Watson.

5: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, Joseph Napier, William Henry Sykes and Russell Sturgis.

6: Letters declining honorary invitations, from the Austrian Minister (Count Appongi), Joshua Bates, Charles Buxton, Lord Bolton, the Brazilian Minister (Count de Carvalho Moreira), Count Bernstorff, the Marquis of Breadalbane, M. de Bille (Danish Minister), Beriah Botfield, Baron de Cetto, the Bishop of Chichester, William Francis Cowper, Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Alexander Baillie Cochrane, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Lord Dynevor, the Earl of Derby, Sir James Duke, Sir John Francis Davis, Earl de Grey, George M Dallas, G Digby Wingfield Digby, the Bishop of Durham, Prince Duleep Singh, the Bishop of Ely, the Earl of Ellenborough, William Ewart, the Marquis of Exeter, William Erle, the Dean of Ely, the Ambassador of France (Chevalier de Persigny), Samuel Gurney, Viscount Hardinge, Sir John Cox Hippesley, Henry Thomas Hope, Sir William Heathcote, Sidney Herbert, Charles Abel Heurtley, the Dean of Hereford, the Provost of King’s (Richard Okes), Count Kielmansegge, Sir FitzRoy Kelly, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of London, Lord Leigh, Henry Alworth Merewether, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord John Manners, the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Northwick, the Marquis of Normanby, the Provost of Oriel (Edward Hawkins), the Bishop of Oxford, Count Platen, Philip Sydney Pierrepont, George Peabody, the President of the Royal College of Physicians (Thomas Mayo), G Montagu Warren Peacocke, H E A Rücker (Hanse Town Minister), Baron Rothschild, Lord John Russell, John Dawson Rawdon, Sir Edward Ryan, John Rolt, Sir John Stuart, the Marquis of Salisbury, Andrew Spottiswoode, Sir John Edward Swinburne, Lord Stanley, the Speaker of the House of Commons (John Evelyn Denison), the Duke of Sutherland, the Turkish Ambassador (Constantine Musurus), William Frederick Fownes Tighe, Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, Count Vitzthum, Sylvain Van de Weyer, the Bishop of Winchester, Edward Warner, Edward Wigram, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby, F W Vernon Wentworth, James Whiteside and the Archbishop of York.

7: Letters from officers and members attending: Joseph William Blakesley, Lionel Booth, Jonah Cressingham, James Crowdy, Augustus Guest, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Daniel Hurst, Charles Phipps Eyre, Charles Merivale, Charles B Pearson and the Dean of Westminster (Richard Chenevix Trench).

8: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: William Ferneley Allen, Joseph Baxendale, James Booth, David Barclay Chapman, Horatio Grosvenor Day, John Dickinson, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Charles Robert Cockerell, Charles Lewis Gruneisen, Benjamin Gompertz, John Gould, John Robert Kenyon, William Kent, T M Mackay, John Murray, John Bowyer Nichols, R C Nichols, William Smith and John Edward Taylor.

9: Minutes of anniversary committee; correspondence with officers, namely Richard Monckton Milnes, list of persons invited to be steward; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; honorary invitation card; circulars to officers, members, subscribers and stewards; dinner ticket; correspondence with speakers, namely Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Joseph Napier, Charles Merivale, Lord Dungannon, William Selwyn, Robert Cooke, John Lothrop Motley, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Stovin Venables, Robert Bell, Sherard Osborne and Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; toast list; plan of tables; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports.

1861 (Chairman: Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duc d'Aumale):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Richard Monckton Milnes, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Octavian Blewitt, the Duc d’Aumale, M. A Couterié, M. Joly and Henry Reeve, with a resolution from the Committee to the Duc.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Sir William Armstrong, Henry Austen Bruce, the Belgian Minister (Sylvain Van de Weyer), Beriah Botfield, James Crossly, Sir Edward Cust, Sir Proby Cautley, Frederick Chapman, Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, Horatio Grosvenor Day, Benjamin Disraeli, Paul du Chaillu, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, C S Forbes, M. Fechter, Frederic W Gibbs, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Lord Hatherton, George G Vernon Harcourt, John Benjamin Heath, Robert S Holford, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, Thomas Longman, Musurus Bey, Matthew H Marsh, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, John Lothrop Motley, Joseph Napier, Benjamin Oliveira, Count Platen, Thomas T Perowne, Sir Thomas Erskine Perry, Sir John Pakington, the Earl of Powis, Baron de Rothschild, Herbert Randolph, Charles W Reynolds, Earl Spencer, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Sir John Simeon, the Earl of Shelburne, Martin R Sharp, Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, Edward Twisleton, Anthony Trollope, Lord Taunton, Henry Baker Tristram, George H Virtue and Lord Wodehouse.

3: Letters declining stewardships from W J Alexander, the Austrian Ambassador, the Brazilian Minister, Count Bernstorff, Baron Brünnow, John Ernest Bode, George Barrington, the Marquis of Bath, the Master of Balliol (Robert Scott), Frederick Byng, George Wodehouse Currie, William Cotton, Lord Robert Cecil, J C Cobbold, the Duke of Cleveland, John Forbes Clark, Lord Colchester, Baron de Cetto, Lord Clyde, the Bishop of Carlisle, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Chichester, Charles Darwin, the Earl of Dunraven, Lord Delamere Octave Delepierre, Sir David Dundas, Viscount Eversley, William Earle, Sir Herbert Edwards, Augustus Wollaston Franks, James Anthony Froude, Charles Richard Fox, Sir Ivor Guest, the Earl of Gifford, Earl Grey, Leonard Horner, John Saul Howson, Charles Richard Hoare, E K Karslake, Count Kielmansegge, Sir John Kincaid, Sir John Lawrence, John Malcolm Ludlow, John Dillwyn Llewellyn, Lord Lyttelton, the Bishop of London, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Lord Lyveden, Franklin Lushington, George Cornwall Legh, Henry Hart Milman, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir Frederic Madden, Friedrich Max Müller, William Nathaniel Massey, Sir Francis Graham Moon, the Duke of Northumberland, Evan Nepean, J A Ormerod, Sir Robert Peel, Henry John Roby, the Bishop of Rochester, Rutherford Russell, [?] Rowden, the Duke of Rutland, the Master of the Rolls (Sir John Romilly), Samuel Leigh Sotheby, the Duke of Somerset, Thomas Edward Stonor, A J R Stewart, Walter Sneyd, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Charles Jasper Selwyn, the Spanish Minister, Nicholas Trübner, John Tyndall, Count Vitzthum, Lord Valletort, Basil Wood, Henry Wellesley, the Bishop of Worcester, Sir Charles Wood and Brooke Foss Westcott.

4: Correspondence with stewards, namely Sir William Armstrong, Beriah Botfield, James Crossly, Sir Edward Cust, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir Proby Cautley, Horatio Grosvenor Day, Paul du Chaillu, Lord Enfield, C S Forbes, M. Fechter, Sir Francis Goldsmid, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Walter Farquhar Hook, M J Higgins, Robert S Holford, John Benjamin Heath, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, Count Lavradio, Richard Monckton Milnes, Matthew H Marsh, Joseph Napier, Benjamin Oliveira, Sir John Pakington, Count Platen, Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, Earl Spencer, Martin R Sharp, Sir John Simeon, the Duke of St Albans, Henry Baker Tristram, Anthony Trollope, Lord Taunton and Lord Wodehouse.

5: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Sir John Peter Boileau, Joshua Bates, Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, M. A Couturié, George Denman, Algernon Egerton, Sir Henry Holland, M. Joly, the Prince de Condé, Kenneth Macaulay, G Montagu Warren Peacocke, Edmund Peyps, the Comte de Paris, the Duc de Chartres, Sir Henry Rawlinson, William Henry Sykes, Robert A Slaney, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Russell Sturgis and Lord Henry Vane.

6: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Henry Unwin Addington, the Marquis of Abercorn, Sir Banjamin Brodie, Sir John Duncan Bligh, Sir John Burgoyne, the Earl of Bessborough, the Marquis of Bristol, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Chester, William Francis Cowper, Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lord Camoys, Earl Clanwilliam, Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Alexander Baillie Cochrane, Sir Claude de Crespigny, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Derby, the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Dormes, Lord Ducie, Lord Denman, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir John Francis Davis, G Digby Wingfield Digby, Lord Dynevor, Lord Egerton of Tatton, the Earl of Elgin, the Marquis of Exeter, William Ewart, Lord Elcho, Viscount Falkland, F J Savile Foljambe, Lord Feversham, Fulke Greville, Sir James Graham, E R Ormsby Gore, William Ewart Gladstone, Sir William Heathcote, Viscount Hardinge, Lord Herbert of Lea, Henry Herbert, Thomas B Horsfall, Joseph Warner Henley, Abraham Hayward, Sir William Hylton Jolliffe, Lord Kingsdown, the Provost of King’s (Richard Okes), the Bishop of Lincoln, Henry C Lowther, Henry George Liddell, Antony Lefroy, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Lord Leigh, Lord Lindsay, the Duke of Manchester, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord John Manners, Henry Alworth Merewether, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir William Miles, Sir Graham Montgomery, Arthur Mills, , Lord Northwick, Colonel [?] North, Charles Newdigate Newdigate, the Vice Chancellor of Oxford (Francis Jeune), Charles Atmore Ogilvie, George Ormerod, , the Provost of Oriel (Edward Hawkins), Sir Frederick Pollock, Philip Sydney Pierrepont, Lord Palmerston, Lord Petre, George Peabody, Ashley G J Ponsonby, Lord John Russell, John Dawson Rawdon, Sir Matthew White Ridley, the Earl of Rosse, William Stuart, Andrew Spottiswoode, Lord Stanley, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Bishop of St David’s, R Duncombe Shafto, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Sheffield, the Bishop of Salisbury, Sir Charles Trevelyan, William Frederick Fownes Tighe, Alfred Tennyson, Lord Talbot de Malahide, John Walpole Willis, Edward Warner, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby, Edward Wigram, the Marquis of Westminster, Lord Wharncliffe, Thomas M Weguelin, James Whiteside, the Archbishop of York, Charles Baring Young and the Earl of Zetland.

7: Letters from officers and members attending: Hanry Alford, Robert Cooke, James Crowdy, Jonah Cressingham, Henry Foss, Robert Ferguson, Augustus Guest, John Hampden Gurney, William Rathbone Greg, Ernest Hawkins, Daniel Hurst, George Willoughby Hemans, Theodore Martin, John Mitchell, William Macpherson, Charles Merivale, William Frederick Pollock, Sir James Prior, Thomas Roberts, Henry Reeve, James Anderson Rose, Charles Shaw, Sir Walter Stirling, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, George Smith, William Hepworth Thompson and Edward Owen Tudor.

8: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: William Ferneley Allen, Frederick Bentley, Thomas Lawrence Behan, Thomas Brettell, George Cruikshank, Daniel Cronin, Charles Wentworth Dilke, James Dearden, N de la Fluerièrè, Matthew Forster, George Grote, Lewis Gompertz, Benjamin Gompertz, John Robert Kenyon, Charles Manby, John Bowyer Nichols, Richard Owen, Thomas Page, Samuel Smiles, William Smith, William Tooke and John Selby Watson.

9: Correspondence with officers relating to the dinner, namely Richard Monckton Milnes and Henry Reeve; list of persons invited to be stewards; ticket list; list of honorary invitations; honorary invitation card; circulars to officers, members, subscribers and stewards; dinner ticket; toast list; correspondence with speakers, namely William Makepeace Thackeray, Richard Monckton Milnes, Henry Reeve, Lord Hatherton, Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, the Duc d’Aumale, Lord Startford de Redcliffe, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Anthony Trollope, Sir Edward Cust, Paul du Chaillu, and the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot; plan of tables; donations and subscriptions announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports; letter from M J Higgins complaining of the quality of the dinner; resolution of the General Committee thereon; letter of complaint from William Makepeace Thackeray.