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Loan 96 RLF 1/1408
Mr Angus Bethune Reach, and Mrs Marion Reach, his widow

Mr Angus Bethune Reach

Applications

2 (2 successful)

Date period

2 Apr 1855-29 May 1858

Awards

  • 31 Mar 1856 (£50)
  • 9 Dec 1856 (£50 - to Marion Reach)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Journalist for the Morning Chronicle, the Illustrated London News, the New Monthly Magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, Chambers' Journal, The Era, and the Sunday Times

Author's works published

Fiction : also Journalism

Also named in file

Mrs Marion Reach (dependent)

Timeline

1856

Application Form, filled on behalf of Angus Bethune Reach – endorsed by Robert Carruthers, Charles William Shirley Brooks and Francis Bennoch, with an advertisement for his Clement Lorimer on reverse

31 Mar 1856
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Charles William Shirley Brooks to the Committee of the Literary Fund

17 Mar 1856
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Charles William Shirley Brooks to Octavian Blewitt

3 Apr 1856
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John Hutfield to Charles William Shirley Brooks

14 May 1856
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Charles William Shirley Brooks to Octavian Blewitt

15 May 1856
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Marion Reach to Charles William Shirley Brooks

23 May 1856
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Marion Reach to the Committee of the Literary Fund

5 Jun 1856
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Charles William Shirley Brooks to Octavian Blewitt

21 Jun 1856
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Schedule of payments to Angus Bethune Reach, signed for by Charles William Shirley Brooks and Marion Reach

2 Jun 1856-10 Jan 1857
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1855

Press cuttings from The Times and another paper reviewing a benefit performance for Angus Bethune Reach staged at the Olympic Theatre, with list of supporters

2 Apr 1855
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1856

Application Form, Marion Reach – endorsed by Charles William Shirley Brooks and Alexander Munro, with note by Octavian Blewitt on reverse confirming valid marriage certificate was produced

9 Dec 1856
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Marion Reach to the Committee of the Literary Fund

[Nov 1856]
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Charles William Shirley Brooks to Octavian Blewitt

1 Dec 1856
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Charles William Shirley Brooks to Octavian Blewitt

24 Dec 1856
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Copy of a letter from Octavian Blewitt to Charles William Shirley Brooks

29 Dec 1856
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Charles William Shirley Brooks to Octavian Blewitt

31 Dec 1856
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1857

Marion Reach to Octavian Blewitt

29 Jan 1857
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William Makepeace Thackeray to Marion Reach

5 Feb 1857
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Marion Reach to the Committee of the Literary Fund

[Jan 1857]
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William Makepeace Thackeray to Marion Reach

5 Apr 1857
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1858

Marion Reach to Octavian Blewitt

13 Jan 1858
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William Makepeace Thackeray to Octavian Blewitt, enclosing a note from Marion Reach

10 May 1858
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1857

Schedule of payments to Marion Reach, one signed for by William Makepeace Thackeray

22 Jan 1857-29 May 1858
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1856

Press cuttings – death notices for Angus Bethune Reach from The Times and the Morning Chronicle (27 Nov 1856), a notice of a lecture to be given in Edinburgh by William Makepeace Thackeray to benefit Marion Reach and a notice from the Morning Chronicle of the lecture having taken place

27 Nov 1856-19 May 1857
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