Case file
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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)
More information
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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