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Case file

Loan 96 RLF 1/1034
Mr John Parish Robertson, and Mrs Emma Robertson, his widow

Mr John Parish Robertson

Applications

2 (2 successful)

Date period

7 Oct 1841-25 Jan 1844

Awards

  • 25 Oct 1841 (£40)
  • 6 Dec 1843 (£40 - to Emma Robertson)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Merchant at Buenos Aires and Lima

Author's works published

Travel Writing : also Fiction, Journalism

Also named in file

Mrs Emma Robertson (dependent)

Timeline

1841

Application Form, John Parish Robertson – endorsed by G Dickson and Alfred Latham (latter on separate sheet), with a clipping advertising Robertson’s Letters on South America

25 Oct 1841
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/1
 

Emma Robertson to Octavian Blewitt

18 Oct 1841
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/2
 

J H Glover to Emma Robertson

7 Oct 1841
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/3
 

John Parish Robertson to the Committee of the Literary Fund

30 Oct 1841
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/4
 

Receipt, signed John Parish Robertson

11 Nov 1841
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/5
 

John Parish Robertson to the Committee of the Literary Fund

14 Nov 1841
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/6
1843

Emma Robertson to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 Dec 1843
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/8
 

Receipt, signed Emma Robertson

14 Dec 1843
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/10
 

Emma Robertson to the Committee of the Literary Fund

14 Dec 1843
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/11
1841

Copy of a letter from G R Robertson to John Parish Robertson, appointing him ‘Agent for the Bondholders of the State of Peru’

15 Oct 1841
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/4a
1843

Application Form, Emma Robertson – endorsed by Alexander J G Craufurd and Alexander Ure

4 Dec 1843
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/7
 

Alfred Latham to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 Dec 1843
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/9
1844

Alfred Latham to Octavian Blewitt

25 Jan 1844
Loan 96 RLF 1/1034/12
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