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Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1862 and 1863. 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.

1862 (Chairman: Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, from Earl Stanhope, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, William Henry Harrison, Henry Reeve and Earl Granville, with resolutions of the Committee inviting Bulwer Lytton and Granville and thanking Granville for his contributions.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Joseph Angus, Arthur Ashpitel, John Boulderson Barkworth, Richard Beamish, Henry George Bohn, Henry Arthur Bright, Sir Bernard Burke, Henry Montagu Butler, Viscount Campden, the Earl of Chichester, Charles John Clay, Cowper Coles, Jonah Cressingham, John Dickerson, Earl Ducie, Charles Lewis Gruneisen, George Jessel, Edward Repps Jodrell, Edward Shirly Kennedy, Ralph Robert Wheeler Lingen, William John Lysley, William Macpherson, Clement Markham, Herman Merivale, Alexander Oswald, Sir Joseph Paxton, John Pritchard, Richard Quain, Peter Ralli, Sir Henry Rawlinson, Michael Emmanuel Rodocanachi, the Dean of Salisbury, Charles Jasper Selwyn, Gustavus Solling, Henry Southgate, James Spence and R H Wyatt.

3: Letters declining stewardships from the Earl of Airlie, W J Alexander, Lord Arundel of Wardour, John Bacot, W C Baldwin, Thomas George Baring, Alfred Barton, William Edward Baxter, the Earl of Bessborough, Robert Birley, Captain [?] Blakiston, Edgar Alfred Bowring, T W Bramston, H G de Bunsen, D Higford Burr, Sir John Barnard Byles, D W B Carpenter, Peter Carthew, George F Chambers, John Duke Coleridge, Lord Dufferin, W J Eastwick, Viscount Fielding, Thomas Fellowes, Joshua W Fitch, Charles James Foster, Sir Charles Fox, Thomas Rokewood Gage, T F Gibson, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, James Chisholm Gooden, J R Ormsby Gore, Edward Meyrick Goulburn, Charles S Greaves, Gathorne Hardy, Sir Edmund Walker Head, Thomas Emerson Headlam, Lord Arghur Hervey, Washington Hibbert, Edmund Hodgson, Sir James Weir Hogg, W Houghton, Robert Ingham, Thomas R Jefferson, J E Johnson, George T Kemp, Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, Charles Joseph Latrobe, Richard P Long, Lord Lovaine, J Holt Mackenzie, the Duke of Manchester, Russell Henry Manners, Horace Marryat, J Garth Marshall, Richard Mayne, Arthur Milman, Octavius Morgan, Lord Naas, Evan Nepean, Charles Thomas Newton, Timothy Smith Osler, James Paget, Francis Turner Palgrave, Sir Roundell Palmer, [Harry Smith?] Parkes, Robert Hogarth Patterson, Lord Petre, Charles Pressly, Joseph Preswick, Henry Thoby Prinsep, Deam Ramsay, the Bishop of Rochester, [?] Robinson, Thomas Salt, George Gilbert Scott, William Shee, Samuel Smiles, James Stansfeld, [?] Storrer, the Duke of Sutherland, Alfred E Taylor, Henry Thring, William Tite, John Tyndall, Thomas Vardon, [?] Waley, Henry Washbourne, Lord Wharncliffe, Henry Whitmore, Monier Williams, the Bishop of Worcester, Western Wood and Frederick John Wood.

4: Correspondence with stewards, namely Arthur Ashpitel, John Boulderson Barkworth, Henry Arthur Bright, Sir Bernard Burke, John Hill Burton, Viscount Campden, the Earl of Chichester, Charles John Clay, Cowper Coles, Jonah Cressingham, Thomas Blizard Curling, James Anthony Froude, Charles Lewis Gruneisen, Edward Repps Jodrell, Edward Shirly Kennedy, Henry Parr Hamilton (Dean of Salisbury), William Macpherson, Clement Markham, Herman Merivale, John Pritchard, Richard Quain, Sir Henry Rawlinson and Michael Emmanuel Rodocanachi.

5: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Henry John Adeane,Manockjee Cursetjee, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, Matthew H Marsh, Joseph Napier and Thomas Sutton Western.

6: Letters declining honorary invitations, from Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Charles Francis Adams (the US Ambassador), Henry Unwin Addington, Count Appongi (the Austrian Minister), the Brazilian Minister, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Beriah Botfield, Baron Brünnow, Lord Bolton, Joshua Bates, Jules Cloquet, the Bishop of Chester, Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, the Duke of Cleveland, Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Bishop of Chichester, Baron de Cetto, the Earl of Durham, Lord Dynevor, George Denman, Earl de Grey, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Danish Minister, the Earl of Derby, the Viceroy of Egypt (Mehmet Ali), the Bishop of Ely, Viscount Enfield, Lord Egerton of Tatton, the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Ellenborough, William Ewart, Viscount Falkland, Signor [?] Gallenga, Sir Francis Goldsmid, the Greek Minister, Charles Old Goodford, Viscount Hardinge, Sir William Heathcote, Sir Hugh Hill, J W Hubbard, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Kingsdown, Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, Count Kielmansegge, Lord Lindsay, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of London, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, A Larking, Lord Leigh, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord John Manners, Prosper Mérimee, Prince Napoleon, M. Rapet, M. Dufau, the Marquis of Normanby, Lord Northwick, the Duke of Northumberland, the Prussian Minister, Sir John Pakington, Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, G Montagu Warren Peacocke, the Portuguese Minister, Baron Rothschild, John Rolf, Earl Russell, Russell Sturgis, Léon Say, M. du Sommerand, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Duke of St Albans, Sir John Stuart, Earl Spencer, Andrew Spottiswoode, William Stuart, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Speaker of the House of Commons (John Evelyn Denison), Sir Edward Sabine, Lord Stanley, William Henry Sykes, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, the Turkish Ambassador, Alfred Tennyson, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Sir James Emerson Tennent, Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, Count Vitzthum, Count Wachtmeister, Lord Wodehouse, the Duke of Wellington, John Walpole Willis, Edward Wigram, Edward Warner, James Whiteside and the Archbishop of York.

7: Letters from officers and members attending: Frederick Lowry Barnwell, Thomas Brettell, Daniel Cronin, Richard Bentley, Edward Foss, Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Daniel Hurst, Thomas Hughan, Henry Reeve, Thomas Roberts, Sherard Osborn, John Selby Watson and John Wilkie.

8: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: James Booth, Thomas Somers Cocks, Robert Cook, Charles Wentworth Dilke, William Fairbairn, James William Gilbart, George Grote, Benjamin Gompertz, Edward Hawkins, Richard Jennings, William Kent, Robert Lush, Theodore Martin, John Bowyer Nichols, Richard Owen, James Craigie Robertson, William Spottiswoode, Sir John Simeon, Thomas Spalding, William Smith, Henry Dick Woodfall, Effingham Wilson and Sir Gardner Wilkinson.

9: Correspondence respecting exhibition building and taverns, including resolutions of the General Committee, minutes of the Anniversary Committee, an extract from the Times and letters from Benjamin Bond Cabbell, [?] Veillard, Elkington & Co., Octavian Blewitt, [?] Bull, [?] Strange, Henry Reeve, William Henry Harrison and J R Sanford; minutes of anniversary committee; correspondence with officers, namely Richard Monckton Milnes, Henry Reeve and William Henry Harrison; circulars to officers, members, subscribers and stewards; invitation card to stewards; honorary invitation card; dinner ticket; list of persons invited to be stewards; list of honorary invitations; ticket list; toast list; correspondence with speakers, namely George Godwin, William Henry Harrison, Cowper Coles, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, Earl Granville and Herman Merivale; plan of tables; subscriptions and donations announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports.

1863 (Chairman: Philip Stanhope, Earl Stanhope):

1: Correspondence regarding the chairman, including an extract from the Minutes of the Committee and four letters from Earl Stanhope to Octavian Blewitt.

2: Letters accepting stewardships from Sir Rutherford Alcock, Charles Francis Adams (the US Ambassador), Decimus Burton, Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, Sir Brooke Bridges, Herbert Barnard, William Blackwood, Lindesay Brine, Sir Henry Winston Barron, Benjamin Morgan Cowie, Joseph Clarke, Edward Cardwell, John Doran, Sir John Francis Davis, John Evans, Dudley Fortescue, Richard Lane Freer, Gilbert James French, James Fergusson, Augustus Wollaston Franks, Charles Lewis Gruneisen, William Goode, Lord Claud Hamilton, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, William Henry Hoare, J E Jackson, Sir Norton Knatchbull, Sir Charles Lyell, John Lubbock, the Earl of Lincoln, the Lord Mayor (William Rose), Charles Merivale, David Mocatta, Richard Monckton Milnes, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Thomas Henry Allen Poynder, Charles Ratcliff, William Howard Russell, the Bishop of Rochester, Viscount Sydney, George E Street, William H Smith and James S Virtue.

3: Letters declining stewardships from W J Alexander, Sir James Alexander, Sir Frederick Abbott, Charles Bowyer Adderley, Scrope Ayrton, the Earl of Airlie, John Lavicount Anderdon, Henry Walter Bates, Montague Burrows, Sir John Barnard Byles, William Hurley Bayly, Sir Richard Bromley, Sir George Barrow, Sir John Bowring, the Marquis of Bath, H B Browning, Edward Spencer Beesly, Viscount Bury, William Henry Blaauw, G W Brameld, W R Clark, W G Clark, William Chappell, Lord Eustace Cecil, Sir W H Cope, the Bishop of Carlisle, marquis Camden, George William Cox, Sir Francis Crossly, the Earl of Carnarvon, William Weldon Champneys, John Churchill, Viscount Chelsea, William Durant Cooper, Henry Octavius Coxe, Lord Colville, Lord Crewe, Frederick Dimsdale, Charles Darwin, Thomas Dale, Lord Delamere, Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Sir James Buller East, Eardley G C Eardley, A S Farner, Henry Fawcett, Francis Galton, John Hamilton Gray, Otto Goldschmidt, Alfred Gatty, John Glover, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Edward Girdlestone, John Saul Howson, Sir Henry Havelock, William D Haggard, Sir Edmund Head, Sir Francis Bond Head, John Hodge B B Hebeler, General [?] Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton, John Henderson, the Earl of Haerwicke, Lord Henniker, Sir Henry James, Sir Joshua Jebb, Alexander William Kinglake, Charles Kingsley, Baldwin Leighton, [?] Lee, Samuel Lysons, Frederick Lygon, H E Montgomerie, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir James Matheson, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir Rodney Mundy, John Pilkington Morris, Richard Digby Neave, Fletcher Norton Norton, Sir Charles Nicholson, Edmund Oldfield, Cholmondeley H Pennell, William Pole, James Allanson Pieton, Sir Roundell Plamer, Reginald Stuart Poole, Charles John Palmer, Charles Spencer Palmer, Lewis Pocock, John Richardson, John G Rogers, Sir John Ratcliff, William H Ridgway, J L Roget, George Rolleston, Hastings Robinson, James Reddie, Benjamin Scott, Archibald Stephens, Sir Sitbald D Scott, Earl Somers, William Henry Smyth, Godwin Smith, Bishop Spencer, Sir Justin Sheil, the Earl of St Germans, [?] Scarth, George Gilbert Scott, Clement Swanston, Charles Roach Smith, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Lord Sudeley, Ralph Tatham, Bishop Trower, Charles Fortescue Tagart, Sir Walter Caverley Trevelyan, Edward Trollope, William Tite, John Wilkinson, Albert Henry Wratislaw, Watkin E Wynne, Mackenzie Walcott, Hill D Wickham, Lord Wharncliffe, Edward Waterton, Captain Woodhead and Peter Young.

4: Correspondence with stewards, namely Charles Francis Adams, Sir Henry Winston Barron, Sir Brook Bridges, Lindesay Brine, Benjamin Morgan Cowie, Joseph Clarke, Sir John Francis Davis, Richard Lane Freer, William Goode, Lord Claud Hamilton, William Henry Hoare, James Orchard Halliwell, J E Jackson, Sir Norton Knatchbull, John Lubbock, the Lord Mayor (William Rose), Charles Merivale, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, David Mocatta, R B Matthews, the Bishop of Rochester, William H Smith and Viscount Sydney.

5: Letters accepting honorary invitations, from Henry Unwin Addington, the Archbishop of Armagh, Henry Austin Bruce, Samuel Gurney, Mahmud Khan (the Persian Minister), Richard Monckton Milnes, Matthew H Marsh, the Queen’s Advocate (Robert Joseph Phillimore), Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, George Scharf, William Henry Sykes, R F Sketchley and Thomas Sutton Western.

6: Letters declining honorary invitations, from the Austrian Ambassador, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Baron Brünnow, Beriah Botfield, Lord Broughton, C L Cumming Bruce, John Ivatt Briscoe, the Brazilian Minister, Marquis de Cadore, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (William Ewart Gladstone), the Bishop of Chester, the Bishop of Chichester, Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, Lord Chelmsford, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Alexander Baillie Cochrane, Sir Alexander Cockburn, M. de Comyn, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl Ducie, Prince Duleep Singh, George Denman, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Earl of Derby, the Danish Minister, Lord Dynevor, the Earl of Dartmouth, [?] Edwards, William Ewart, Lord Ebury, Viscount Enfield, Lord Egerton of Tatton, Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt, Lord Feversham, Viscount Falkland, Chichester Fortescue, Baron Gros, W R Ormsby Gore, Sir William Heathcote, Lord Hatherton, the Hanoverian Minister, Sir Hugh Hill, Gathorne Hardy, Viscount Hardinge, Sir John Stuart Hippesley, John Gellibrand Hubbard, Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (the Earl of Carlisle), William John Lysley, Charles Manners Lushington, Lord John Manners, the Bishop of Manchester, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, William Townly Mitford, the Duke of Northumberland, Lord Northwick, the Marquis of Normanby, Joesph Napier, the Prussian Ambassador, John Pritchard, Lord Palmerston, Philip Sydney Pierrepont, Sir John Pakington, Sir Henry Rawlinson, Earl Russell, the Earl of Rosse, John Dawson Rawdon, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, Charles Jasper Selwyn, the Saxon Minister, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Bishop of Salisbury, Lord Stanley, William Stuart, Lord Southampton, Sir John Stuart, Evelun Philips Shirley, Alfred Seymour, Earl Spencer, the Speaker of the House of Commons (John Evelyn Denison), Russell Sturgis, the Turkish Ambassador, Sir James Emerson Tennent, William Frederick Fownes Tighe, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, Sylvain Van de Weyer, the Bishop of Winchester, Edward Warner, Lord Wodehouse, John Walpole Willis, Edward Wigram, F W Vernon Wentworth, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby, the Duke of Wellington, J W Perry Watlington and Lord Wensleydale.

7: Letters from officers and members attending: Robert Bell, Thomas Brettell, David Barclay Chapman, George Frederick Carden, Jonah Cressingham, James Crowdy, Sir Henry Ellis, George Godwin, Frederick John Goldsmid, Yeats Goldsmid, Richard Owen, John Henry Parker, Richard Quain, William Rivington, Thomas Roberts, George Augustus Sala, William Smith and Edward Thomas.

8: Letters from officers and members unable to attend: John Pelly Atkins, Wolverly Atwood, Arthur Ashpitel, Joseph William Blakesley, Daniel Cronin, Bolton Corney, Charles John Clay, Wentworth Dilke, Horatio Grosvenor Day, M. Fechter, Augustus Guest, Benjamin Gompertz, George Grote, George Willoughby Hemans, Charles Abel Heurtley, Daniel Hurst, Richard William Jelf, John Robert Kenyon, John Bowyer Nichols, George Potticary and Sir James Prior.

9: List of persons invited to be stewards; list of tickets issued, list of honorary invitations; honorary invitation card; circulars to officers, members, subscribers and stewards; dinner ticket; toast list; correspondence with speakers, namely William Nathaniel Massey, Anthony Trollope, Sir Robert Phillimore, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, William Howard Russell, Earl Stanhope, the Dean of Ripon, Richard Monckton Milnes, with letters on revisions from Earl Stanhope, Sir Charles Lyell, Anthony Trollope, Richard Owen, Lord Claud Hamilton, Sir Robert Phillimore, William Nathaniel Massey and Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; plan of tables; menu; donations and subscriptions announced; subscription papers; newspaper reports.