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Case file

Loan 96 RLF 1/1785
Mr (Edward James) Mortimer Collins, and Mrs Frances Collins, his widow

Mr Mortimer Collins

Applications

4 (3 successful)

Date period

10 Jun 1865-15 Nov 1877

Awards

  • 20 Apr 1867 (withdrawn)
  • 22 May 1869 (£80)
  • 20 May 1874 (£50)
  • 22 Jan 1877 (£50 - to Frances Collins)

Other author name(s)

(aka) Edward James Mortimer Collins

Author's career

  • Journalist for the Leamington Mercury and the Plymouth Mail
  • Editor of the Nottingham Guardian

Author's works published

Fiction : Novels; also Poetry, Journalism

Also named in file

Mrs Frances Collins (dependent)

Timeline

1865

Press clippings from the Standard on bankruptcy proceedings involving Mortimer Collins

10 Jun 1865-5 Jul 1865
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1867

Mortimer Collins to Octavian Blewitt

20 Apr 1867
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Mortimer Collins to Octavian Blewitt

13 May 1867
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1869

Application Form, Mortimer Collins

22 May 1869
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Mortimer Collins to Octavian Blewitt

22 May 1869
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Robert Hogarth Patterson to Octavian Blewitt

13 May 1869
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James P Steele to the Secretary of the Literary Fund

17 May 1869
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Frances Collins to Octavian Blewitt

Jun 1869
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Mortimer Collins to Octavian Blewitt

8 Jun 1869
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Mortimer Collins to the Committee of the Literary Fund

11 Jun 1869
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Schedule of payments to Mortimer Collins, signed for by Frances Collins

10 Jun 1869-11 Nov 1869
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1874

Application Form, Mortimer Collins

20 May 1874
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Mortimer Collins to the Committee of the Literary Fund

13 May 1874
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Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, to Octavian Blewitt

9 May 1874
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Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, to Octavian Blewitt

15 May 1874
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Mortimer Collins to Octavian Blewitt

25 May 1874
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James Howard Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, to the Committee of the Literary Fund

30 May 1874
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Byron Blewitt to the Committee of the Literary Fund – medical certificate

3 Jun 1874
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Henry Frowde to the Committee of the Literary Fund

3 Jun 1874
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Frances Collins to Octavian Blewitt

17 Jun 1874
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Mortimer Collins to the Committee of the Literary Fund

19 Jun 1874
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Mortimer Collins to Octavian Blewitt

1 Oct 1874
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Frances Collins to Octavian Blewitt

13 Oct 1874
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Mortimer Collins to Octavian Blewitt, with a note by Octavian Blewitt on his and his wife’s income and expensive tastes

Oct 1874
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Schedule of payments to Mortimer Collins, one signed for by Frances Collins

11 Jun 1874-15 Oct 1874
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1876

Memorial notice from Punch for Mortimer Collins, with smaller cutting on a fund being raised for Frances Collins

12 Aug 1876
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1877

Application Form, Frances Collins

22 Jan 1877
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Frances Collins to Octavian Blewitt

16 Jan 1877
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Frances Collins to the Committee of the Literary Fund

31 Jan 1877
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Samuel Ralph Townshend Meyer to Octavian Blewitt

31 Jan 1877
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Samuel Ralph Townshend Meyer to Octavian Blewitt

1 Feb 1877
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Henry Frowde to the Committee of the Literary Fund

5 Feb 1877
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Frances Collins to the Committee of the Literary Fund

24 Feb 1877
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Schedule of payments to Frances Collins

15 Feb 1877-15 Nov 1877
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Copy of marriage certificate for Mortimer Collins and Frances Collins (née Dunn), dated 4 May 1868

26 Jan 1877
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