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Loan 96 RLF 1/1022
Mr Thomas Hood, and Mrs Jane Hood, his widow

Mr Thomas Hood

Applications

3 (3 successful)

Date period

13 Jan 1841-19 Jul 1854

Awards

  • 13 Jan 1841 (£50 - returned by Hood)
  • 25 May 1841 (£50)
  • 13 May 1845 (£75 - to Jane Hood)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Journalist
  • Editor of The Gem, the Comic Annual, the New Monthly Magazine and others

Author's works published

Poetry : also Journalism

Also named in file

Mrs Jane Hood (dependent)

Timeline

1841

Charles Wentworth Dilke to Octavian Blewitt

13 Jan 1841
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Copy of a letter from Octavian Blewitt to Thomas Hood, with a cutting from The Argus on the propriety of the donation

14 Jan 1841-7 Feb 1841
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Thomas Hood to Octavian Blewitt

14 Jan 1841
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Thomas Hood to the Committee of the Literary Fund, returning the grant

[Jan 1841]
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Thomas Hood to Octavian Blewitt

25 May 1841
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Thomas Hood to the Committee of the Literary Fund

25 May 1841
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Receipt, signed Jane Hood for Thomas Hood

10 Jun 1841
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Thomas Hood to the Committee of the Literary Fund

[Jun 1841]
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1845

Application Form, Jane Hood – endorsed by Richard Harris Barham, David Salomons and William Harvey, with a newspaper clipping on the auction of Thomas Hood’s house

13 May 1845
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Richard Harris Barham to Octavian Blewitt

7 May 1845
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David Salomons to Octavian Blewitt

18 May 1845
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Samuel Phillips to Octavian Blewitt

19 May 1845
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Jane Hood to Octavian Blewitt

19 May 1845
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Receipt, signed Jane Hood

22 May 1845
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Jane Hood to Octavian Blewitt

23 May 1845
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Richard Harris Barham to Octavian Blewitt

25 May 1845
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1852

Hood’s Grave’ – printed extract from Eliza Cook’s Journal on an appeal to raise a monument for Thomas Hood

23 Oct 1852
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1845

Press clippings – obituary for Thomas Hood from the Athenaeum, notices on pensions and grants from the Royal Bounty Fund to his family and details of the successful appeal to raise a monument for him from Eliza Cook’s Journal, the Morning Post and The Times

May 1845-19 Jul 1854
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