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Loan 96 RLF 1/1239
Mr Joseph Timothy Haydn, and Mrs Mary Haydn, his widow

Mr Joseph Timothy Haydn

Applications

5 (5 successful)

Date period

Jan 1850-30 Apr 1878

Awards

  • Jan 1850 (£60)
  • 4 Nov 1851 (£50)
  • 2 Nov 1853 (£50)
  • 1 May 1855 (£40)
  • 24 Jan 1856 (£25 - to Mary Haydn)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Editor of The Statesman and the Dublin Evening Mail

Author's works published

Non-Fiction : Reference; also Journalism

Also named in file

Mrs Mary Haydn (dependent)

Timeline

1850

Application Form, Joseph Haydn – endorsed by R B Todd and James Sheridan Knowles

Jan 1850
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Joseph Haydn to Octavian Blewitt

Jan 1850
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James Sheridan Knowles to Octavian Blewitt

Jan 1850
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R B Todd to the Committee of the Literary Fund

5 Jan 1850
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Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll, to Octavian Blewitt

8 Jan 1850
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Stanley Lees Gifford to Joseph Haydn

8 Jan 1850
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1833

Daniel O’Connell to [Hogan?], endorsing Joseph Haydn

9 Nov 1833
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1850

Joseph Haydn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

10 Jan 1850
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Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll, to Octavian Blewitt

14 Jan 1850
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1851

Application Form, Joseph Haydn – endorsed by R B Todd, Stanley Lees Gifford and James Sheridan Knowles

4 Nov 1851
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Joseph Haydn to Octavian Blewitt

2 Oct 1851
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Joseph Haydn to Octavian Blewitt

4 Nov 1851
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James Sheridan Knowles to Octavian Blewitt

30 Oct 1851
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Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll, to Octavian Blewitt

8 Nov 1851
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Henry Reeve to Octavian Blewitt

11 Nov 1851
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Stanley Lees Gifford to Octavian Blewitt

11 Nov 1851
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Joseph Haydn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

13 Nov 1851
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James Sheridan Knowles to Octavian Blewitt

18 Nov 1851
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Schedule of payments to Joseph Haydn, some signed for by Mary Haydn and Maria Haydn

13 Nov 1851-6 Mar 1852
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1852

Joseph Haydn to Octavian Blewitt

5 Mar 1852
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1853

Application Form, Joseph Haydn – endorsed by John Barrow, Stanley Lees Gifford and Alaric Alexander Watts

2 Nov 1853
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Joseph Haydn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Nov 1853
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Stanley Lees Gifford to Octavian Blewitt

18 Oct 1853
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John Barrow to Octavian Blewitt

24 Oct 1853
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Alaric Alexander Watts to Octavian Blewitt

29 Oct 1853
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Joseph Haydn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

10 Nov 1853
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Thomas Crofton Croker to Octavian Blewitt

10 Nov 1853
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John Barrow to Thomas Crofton Croker

10 Nov 1853
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Schedule of payments to Joseph Haydn, signed for by Mary Haydn

10 Nov 1853-15 Dec 1853
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Joseph Haydn to Octavian Blewitt

Dec 1853
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1855

Application Form, Joseph Haydn – endorsed by John Barrow, Stanley Lees Gifford and Lionel S Beale

1 May 1855
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Mary Haydn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 May 1855
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John Barrow to Octavian Blewitt

7 May 1855
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Lionel S Beale to Octavian Blewitt

7 May 1855
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Mary Haydn to Octavian Blewitt

17 May 1855
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List of debts owed by Joseph Haydn

May 1855
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Schedule of payments to Joseph Haydn, signed for by Mary Haydn

10 May 1855-8 Nov 1855
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James B Tomalin, secretary to Baron Rothschild, to Octavian Blewitt

13 Aug 1855
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James B Tomalin, secretary to Baron Rothschild, to Octavian Blewitt

21 Aug 1855
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Joseph Haydn to Octavian Blewitt

1855
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1856

Application Form, Mary Haydn – endorsed by John Barrow, Johanna Maria Batty, Charles Phillips, S C Mason, William Webb Ellis, Jane Franklin and Zillah M Watts, with note by Octavian Blewitt on reverse confirming valid marriage certificate was produced

24 Jan 1856
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Mary Haydn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Jan 1856
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Alaric Alexander Watts to Octavian Blewitt

5 Feb 1856
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1854

Copy of a letter from Charles Dickens to Alaric Alexander Watts

13 May 1854
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1856

John Barrow to Octavian Blewitt

20 Feb 1856
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Mary Haydn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

3 Mar 1856
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Schedule of payments to Mary Haydn

15 Feb 1856
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1857

S Lumley to Octavian Blewitt

21 Jan 1857
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Note by Octavian Blewitt, marking the following correspondence as ‘respecting the assistance given by the Royal Literary Fund to Mrs Haydn in getting her son into the St Ann’s Asylum’

1857
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John Clapham to Octavian Blewitt

22 Jan 1857
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Edward Wigram to Octavian Blewitt

22 Jan 1857
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Edward Wigram to Octavian Blewitt

24 Jan 1857
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George William Fox Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird, to Octavian Blewitt

24 Jan 1857
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George William Fox Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird, to Octavian Blewitt

Jan 1857
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R P Litten to Octavian Blewitt

24 Jan 1857
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Octavian Blewitt to John Clapham

26 Jan 1857
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S Lumley to Octavian Blewitt

28 Jan 1857
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Octavian Blewitt to John Clapham

28 Jan 1857
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William Henry Harrison to Octavian Blewitt

28 Jan 1857
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William Henry Harrison to Octavian Blewitt

31 Jan 1857
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Benjamin Bond Cabbell to Octavian Blewitt

6 Feb 1857
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Octavian Blewitt to S Lumley

12 Feb 1857
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S Lumley to Octavian Blewitt

12 Feb 1857
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Octavian Blewitt to John Clapham

12 Feb 1857
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S Lumley to Octavian Blewitt

Feb 1857
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John Clapham to Octavian Blewitt, with receipt attached

16 Feb 1857
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Receipt from the Royal Asylum of St Ann’s Society

13 Feb 1857
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Octavian Blewitt to John Clapham

9 Mar 1857
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John Clapham to Octavian Blewitt, with clipping about the elections to St Ann’s attached

10 Mar 1857
Loan 96 RLF 1/1239/68
 

Robert Bell to Octavian Blewitt

[Mar 1857]
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John Forbes to Octavian Blewitt

10 Mar 1857
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Details of Edward Moxon & Co’s payments for Joseph Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates

Mar 1857
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Note by Octavian Blewitt on ‘Sums known to have been paid to Mr Joseph Haydn at various times’

1857
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1856

Press cuttings on Mary Haydn – on her appeal for aid in getting her son admitted to St Ann’s (The Times, 19 Jan 1857), an attack on the Literary Fund for failing to assist her (Morning Chronicle, 21 Jan 1857), defences of the Fund (The Press and the Literary Gazette, 24 Jan 1857) and further attacks and stories on the case from various papers, including a long story from the Literary Gazette (21 Mar 1857) Also details of money given to Joseph Haydn and Mary Haydn by the state and Charles Dickens in 1856.

8 Jan 1856-21 Mar 1857
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1857

Robert Bell to Octavian Blewitt

17 Feb 1857
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1878

Julia Rae to Octavian Blewitt, recommending Joseph Haydn’s daughter

30 Apr 1878
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