Loan 96 RLF 5/5/11

Contains letters accepting positions on the Council of the Literary Fund from Hugh Downman, [?] Clinton, Sir George Thomas Staunton, Charles Baldwin, Chandos Leigh, Baron Leigh, Frederick Beilby Watson, Blanche Donne, George Croly, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Mountstuart Elphinstone, John Richardson Major, Anthony Newman, Richard Monckton Milnes, John Dickinson, Edward Foss, Sir Richard Paul Jodrell, Sir Archibald Alison, Robert Stayner Holford, Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury, John Walter, Walter Farquhar Hook, Dean of Chichester, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Sir William Fairbairn, Sir Henry Lacon Anderson, Max Muller, Charles John Leaf, Russell Sturgis, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Spalding, John Couch Adams, Edmund Peyps, Sir John Hawkshaw and Thomas Brassey, a resignation letter from John Gough Nichols, and an earlier rejection from Edmund Peyps. Also contains related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, Frederick Pollock and William Bodham Donne. All bar the letter from Hugh Downman deal with the period after 1848.