Loan 96 RLF 5/21

Contains a small number of books and documents which were previously unplaced:

1: Account books with Messrs Coutts & Co, dated 1788-1820 and 1855-1867.

2: Account book with Devaynes, Dawes, Noble & Co, dated 1807-1810

3: Account books with Ransom & Co dated 1811-1823, 1824-1826, 1826-1839 and 1837-1850.

4: Small transaction book containing details of the estate of Thomas Newton, containing letter from John Bowyer Nichols to Richard Yates dated 27 July 1821.

5: House Fund Account Books 1805-1821, in slipcase

6: Accounts for the Anniversary Dinners held between 1851 and 1854; synopsis and abstract of receipts and expenditures between 1825 and 1852; account of the grants made in 1890 and two undated balanced of accounts.

7: Three letters to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts from Sidney Lee (25 and 27 October 1899) and Alexander Gordon (30 October 1899) regarding David Williams.

8: A small number of enquiries by scholars regarding the case files of the Literary Fund, dating from between 1973 and 1983.

9: The text of ‘A Vision of the Prior’s Bank: A Christmas Revel, enacted at Fulham’ dated 1839 and performed by Mr John Barrow, Mr Giffard, Mr Hook and Mr Crofton Croker, with a satirical menu and a leaflet on donations to the Literary Fund from the same event.

10: Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, dated 24 January 1846, detailing a twenty pound donation to the Fund from an anonymous ‘Friend to Literature’, requesting that the Fund acknowledge this donation in the Times.

11: Letter from Collyer-Bristow & Co to the Secretary of the Literary Fund, dated 13 March 1915 and detailing a donation of £100 from the estate of Miss M J James.

12: Copy of part of the text for an exhibition on the Literary Fund.