Loan 96 RLF 5/5/10

Contains acceptance letters from Henry Reeve, William Forsyth, John P. Gassiot, Thomas O'Hagan, Baron O'Hagan, James Craigie Robertson, Hayter Lewis, J C Parkinson, Charles Merivale, Henry Hucks Gibbs, Leslie Stephen, Austin Dobson, Henry Craik, Edward Maunde Thompson, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Frederick Willis Farrer, William Fraser Rae, Thomas Norton Longman, Alfred de Martin, Frederick Locker Lampson, William Stebbing, Rowland Edmund Prothero, William Samuel Lilly, Charles John Leaf, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, Sidney Lee, Alfred Ainger, Arthur Elliot, Wilbraham Egerton, Earl Egerton of Tatton, Marion Harry Spielmann, Sir Lewis Morris, Maurice Hewlett and Adolphus William Ward. Also contains refusals and resignations from Thomas O'Hagan, Baron O'Hagan, William Macpherson, Edward Augustus Bond, Frederick Pollock, Henry Maxwell Lyte, John Henry Grain, Robert Markham-Townshend, Esmond Fitzmaurice and Walter Leaf. Most of these relate to the Committee of the Literary Fund, although some pertain also to the Council and a few to the Honorary Solicitor. Also contains other related letters from Anthony Trollope, Joseph Williams Blakesley, George Godwin, Julian Sturgis, Frederick Willis Farrer, Arthur Llewelyn Roberts, John Henry Grain, C Knight Watson, John W Hales and Frederick Clifford.