Loan 96 RLF 5/7/9

Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s leasing ‘the drawing-room floor’ at 4, Adelphi Terrace between 1860 and 1872. Contains 1860 letters from George Godwin, Thomas J. Foord (the owner of the property), Tooke, Hallows & Price Octavian Blewitt as well as the contract, a schedule of furniture and the costs of the agreement. Also contains ongoing correspondence about the house, its rent and its dysfunctions, usually addressed to Blewitt, consisting mainly of letters from Ford. In 1867 J H H Doughney demanded more rent, in 1868 there were problems with the water and in 1869 and 1871 legal problems relating to payments to Doughney, detailed in letters from Doughney, Blewitt, George Godwin and Frederic Ouvry. There are further related letters from Blewitt, William Frederick Pollock and William Bodham Donne. In 1872 the house was declared unfit for habitation by the board of works, causing Blewitt ‘much trouble in removing to a place of safety the valuable records’, according to a Times article in the file, which concludes with correspondence related to these problems from representative of the Board of Words, Blewitt, George Drummond and Godwin.