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Loan 96 RLF 1/1147
Mrs Catherine Barker, widow of Mr Matthew Henry Barker (pseudonym: ‘The Old Sailor’)

Mr Matthew Henry Barker

Applications

1 (1 successful)

Date period

27 Sep 1846-12 Nov 1846

Awards

  • 27 Sep 1846 (£30)

Other author name(s)

(pseudonym) The Old Sailor

Author's career

  • Naval Editor of the United Services Gazette

Author's works published

Fiction : Nautical Tales

Also named in file

Mrs Catherine Barker (dependent)

Timeline

1846

Application Form, Catherine Barker – endorsed by William Howitt, Thomas Coleman, J Hamilton and Edward Rutley

27 Sep 1846
Loan 96 RLF 1/1147/1
 

Catherine Barker to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Sep 1846
Loan 96 RLF 1/1147/2
 

Thomas Coleman to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Sep 1846
Loan 96 RLF 1/1147/3
 

Edward Rutley to the Committee of the Literary Fund

29 Sep 1846
Loan 96 RLF 1/1147/4
1849

J Hamilton to the Committee of the Literary Fund

29 Sep 1849
Loan 96 RLF 1/1147/5
1846

Robert E Barker to Octavian Blewitt

12 Oct 1846
Loan 96 RLF 1/1147/6
 

Receipt, signed Catherine Barker

12 Nov 1846
Loan 96 RLF 1/1147/7
 

Catherine Barker to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 Nov 1846
Loan 96 RLF 1/1147/8
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