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Case file

Loan 96 RLF 1/1299
Mr Edmund Henry White, and Mrs Elizabeth Martha White, his widow

Mr Edmund Henry White

Applications

5 (5 successful)

Date period

16 May 1852-15 Nov 1873

Awards

  • Jul 1852 (£30)
  • 1 Jul 1856 (£10)
  • 18 Mar 1861 (£10)
  • 25 Jun 1867 (£10)
  • 20 Oct 1873 (£10 - to Elizabeth Martha White)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Guard on the Great Western Railway

Author's works published

Poetry : also Drama, Tales

Also named in file

Mrs Elizabeth Martha White (dependent)

Timeline

1852

Application Form, Edmund Henry White – endorsed by Fred Pratt Barlow, Charles A Saunders, James Pyke and Thomas M Ward, with press cuttings on reverse on a public appeal for White after the loss of his sight

16 May 1852-Jul 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/1
 

Edmund Henry White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Jul 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/2
 

C W Hoyland to the Committee of the Literary Fund – medical certificate

3 Jul 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/3
 

Fred Pratt Barlow to the Committee of the Literary Fund

7 Jul 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/4
 

Receipt, signed Edmund Henry White

15 Jul 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/5
 

Edmund Henry White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

16 Jul 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/6
1856

Doyne C Bell, secretary to Charles Beaumont Phipps, to Octavian Blewitt, seeking information on Edmund Henry White

7 May 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/7
 

Application Form, Edmund Henry White – endorsed by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, John Waggett, R H Goolden and Abiathar Wall, with additional endorsement from R G Da Costa on reverse

1 Jul 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/8
 

Edmund Henry White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Jul 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/9
 

Arthur Mills to the Committee of the Literary Fund

30 Jun 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/10
 

Abiathar Wall to the Committee of the Literary Fund

30 Jun 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/11
 

R H Goolden to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Jul 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/12
 

John Waggett to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Jul 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/13
 

Receipt, signed Edmund Henry White

10 Jul 1856
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Edmund Henry White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

10 Jul 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/15
1861

Application Form, Edmund Henry White

18 Mar 1861
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/16
 

Edmund Henry White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

18 Mar 1861
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/17
 

Charles John Vigne to the Committee of the Literary Fund

13 Mar 1861
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/18
 

Abiathar Wall to the Committee of the Literary Fund

22 Mar 1861
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/19
 

Receipt, signed Edmund Henry White

11 Apr 1861
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/20
 

Edmund Henry White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

11 Apr 1861
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/21
1867

Application Form, Edmund Henry White

25 Jun 1867
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Edmund Henry White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

25 Jun 1867
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/23
 

William Reginald Courtenay, Earl of Devon, to the Committee of the Literary Fund

17 May 1867
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/24
 

S J Da Costa to the Committee of the Literary Fund

23 Jun 1867
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/25
 

Sarah Anne Manfred to the Committee of the Literary Fund

24 Jun 1867
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/26
 

Receipt, signed Edmund Henry White

11 Jul 1867
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Edmund Henry White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

15 Jul 1867
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/28
1873

Application Form, Elizabeth Martha White – with note by Octavian Blewitt on reverse confirming valid marriage certificate was produced

20 Oct 1873
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/29
 

Elizabeth Martha White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

19 Oct 1873
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/30
 

Alfred G Anderson to the Committee of the Literary Fund

13 Oct 1873
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/31
 

S J Da Costa to the Secretary of the Literary Fund

14 Oct 1873
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/32
 

Sarah Anne Manfred to the Committee of the Literary Fund

16 Oct 1873
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/33
 

Receipt, signed Emily White for Elizabeth Martha White

13 Nov 1873
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/34
 

Elizabeth Martha White to the Committee of the Literary Fund

15 Nov 1873
Loan 96 RLF 1/1299/35
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