BIB_ID
458713
Accession number
MA 14886.11
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm + envelope
Notes
One of a series of 14 letters from Edward Bulwer-Lytton to Robert Folkestone Williams (MA 14886).
Signed "EB Lytton."
Written from Knebworth.
Envelope with three postmarks (including one from Stevenage) addressed to "R.F. Willians Esq / 7 Walpole St / SW / London."
"The guild" may possibly refer to the Guild of Literature and Art, a beneficent fund for artists founded by Bulwer-Lytton and Charles Dickens in 1851.
Signed "EB Lytton."
Written from Knebworth.
Envelope with three postmarks (including one from Stevenage) addressed to "R.F. Willians Esq / 7 Walpole St / SW / London."
"The guild" may possibly refer to the Guild of Literature and Art, a beneficent fund for artists founded by Bulwer-Lytton and Charles Dickens in 1851.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Advising Williams on obtaining a pension; outlining two options: Queen Anne's Bounty and "the Pension / Fund"; noting "[t]he first is only / temporary aid & in a small sum"; advising "the second is what / you should apply / for as that is a / pension for life"; explaining who should sign "your memorial", "including Whigs," and "I will / then add my signature / & do what else I can"; referring to "the guild."
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