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Case file

Loan 96 RLF 1/412
Mr James Baker, and Mrs Sarah Baker, his widow

Mr James Baker

Applications

8 (6 successful)

Date period

May 1820-20 Feb 1826

Awards

  • May 1820 (£20)
  • 25 Apr 1821 (-)
  • 25 Nov 1821 (£10)
  • 26 Oct 1822 (£10)
  • 30 Dec 1823 (£10)
  • Nov 1824 (rejected)
  • 6 Feb 1825 (£5)
  • 4 Feb 1826 (£15 - to Sarah Baker)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Actor
  • Miniature Painter

Author's works published

Travel Writing

Also named in file

Mrs Sarah Baker (dependent)

Timeline

1820

James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund, with signed testimonial from Benjamin Brecknell, John Bradley, John Taylor, John Kelk, Newton & Son and a second signed John Fuller and John Baker-Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield

May 1820
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Receipt, signed R J Newton for James Baker

23 May 1820
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James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund

5 Jun 1820
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1821

Receipt for return of books, signed James Baker

14 Apr 1821
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James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund

25 Apr 1821
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James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund, endorsed by Luke Booker, William Ward, Viscount Dudley and Ward, and William Thomas Fitzgerald

25 Nov 1821-28 Nov 1821
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1822

James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund

7 Jan 1822
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James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund, endorsed by John Fuller, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Clarke, John Bradley and Robert and James Newton

26 Aug 1822
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1823

James Newton to the Literary Fund

5 Feb 1823
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Receipt, signed William Jerdan for James Baker

13 Feb 1823
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James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund, endorsed by John Fuller, Thomas Clarke, John Kelk and Robert and James Newton

30 Dec 1823
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1824

Receipt, signed James Baker

24 Jan 1824
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James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund

26 Jan 1824
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James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund

26 Jan 1824
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James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund, endorsed by R Nicholl, John Fuller, Thomas Clarke and William Mudford

Nov 1824
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Robert and James Newton and John Kelk to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Nov 1824
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1825

James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund

6 Feb 1825
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James Baker to Messrs Robert and James Newton

6 Feb 1825
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James Baker to Messrs Robert and James Newton

28 Feb 1825
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James Newton to Joseph Snow

9 Mar 1825
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James Baker to the Committee of the Literary Fund

6 Apr 1825
Loan 96 RLF 1/412/21
1826

William Jackson to Joseph Snow, endorsed by Joseph Robinson and Edward Wilkinson, surgeons

4 Feb 1826
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William Jackson to Joseph Snow

13 Feb 1826
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Sarah Baker to Joseph Snow

18 Feb 1826
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William Jackson to Joseph Snow

20 Feb 1826
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