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Case file

Loan 96 RLF 1/1939
Mrs Emily Margaret Brooks, widow of Mr Charles William Shirley Brooks

Mr Charles William Shirley Brooks

Applications

1 (1 successful)

Date period

24 Mar 1874-Jul 1874

Awards

  • 24 Mar 1874 (£100)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Editor of the Literary Gazette, Home News and Punch
  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

Author's works published

Various : Drama, Fiction, Journalism

Also named in file

Mrs Emily Margaret Brooks (dependent)

Timeline

1874

Application Form, Emily Margaret Brooks – with clippings on the will of Charles William Shirley Brooks and note by Octavian Blewitt on reverse confirming valid marriage certificate was produced

24 Mar 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/1
 

William Hardman to the Committee of the Literary Fund

27 Mar 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/2
 

William Longman to Octavian Blewitt

30 Mar 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/3
 

Tom Taylor to the Committee of the Literary Fund

31 Mar 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/4
 

William Hardwick Bradbury to the Committee of the Literary Fund

31 Mar 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/5
 

John Murray to Octavian Blewitt

8 Apr 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/6
 

Robert Cooke to Octavian Blewitt

8 Apr 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/7
 

Robert Cooke to Octavian Blewitt

11 May 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/8
 

James Crowdy to Octavian Blewitt

12 May 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/9
 

Anthony Trollope to Octavian Blewitt

28 May 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/10
 

Receipt, signed Emily Margaret Brooks

29 May 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/11
 

Emily Margaret Brooks to the Committee of the Literary Fund

May 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/12
 

Copy of marriage certificate for Charles William Shirley Brooks and Emily Margaret Brooks (née Walkinshaw), dated 19 Aug 1854

31 Mar 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/13
 

Printed notice for an amateur theatrical performance of The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing and The Bengal Tiger to benefit Emily Margaret Brooks

Jul 1874
Loan 96 RLF 1/1939/14
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