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Mr Charles Mackay

Mr Charles Mackay

Applications

7 (6 successful)

Date period

12 May 1834-29 Mar 1887

Awards

  • 12 May 1834 (£15)
  • Jan 1835 (-)
  • 3 Jun 1874 (£80)
  • 30 Nov 1877 (£50)
  • 19 May 1882 (£80)
  • 25 Oct 1883 (£80)
  • 2 Nov 1885 (£40)

Other author name(s)

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Author's career

  • Journalist
  • Sub-Editor on the Morning Chronicle
  • Editor of the Glasgow Argus
  • Writer for the Illustrated London News

Author's works published

Poetry : also Songs, Journalism, History, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Essays

Also named in file

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Timeline

1834

Charles Mackay to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 May 1834
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Charles Mackay to the Committee of the Literary Fund [dated Apr on the letter, but context dictates more likely to be May]

16 May 1834
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1835

Charles Mackay to Sir Benjamin Hobhouse

11 Dec 1835
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1834

[G R ?] Kinloch to Sir Benjamin Hobhouse

16 Dec 1834
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Sir Benjamin Hobhouse to Joseph Snow

23 Dec 1834
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1835

Sir Benjamin Hobhouse to Joseph Snow

4 Jan 1835
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1874

Application Form, Charles Mackay

3 Jun 1874
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Charles Mackay to the Committee of the Literary Fund

9 May 1874
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Charles Mackay to Octavian Blewitt

1 Jun 1874
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Francis Lawley to Octavian Blewitt

1 Jun 1874
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Colin Rae-Brown to Octavian Blewitt

2 Jun 1874
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Charles Mackay to Octavian Blewitt

3 Jun 1874
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1873

Printed notice for ‘The Charles Mackay Testimonial Fund’, with details of provisional committee and newspaper clipping about candlesticks to be presented to Charles Mackay

1874?
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1874

Charles Mackay to the Secretary and Committee of the Literary Fund

16 Jun 1874
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1877

Application Form, Charles Mackay

30 Nov 1877
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Francis Lawley to Octavian Blewitt

27 Jul 1877
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Francis Lawley to Octavian Blewitt

2 Aug 1877
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Francis Lawley to Octavian Blewitt

20 Nov 1877
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Charles Mackay to Octavian Blewitt

30 Nov 1877
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Charles H Russell to Octavian Blewitt

5 Dec 1877
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Charles Mackay to the Committee of the Literary Fund

15 Dec 1877
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Newspaper clippings on a meeting of the Charles Mackay Testimonial Fund (from the Standard) and on the auction of Mackay’s collection of autograph letters and literary documents

27 Dec 1877-5 Jan 1878
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1882

Application Form, Charles Mackay

19 May 1882
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Charles Mackay to Octavian Blewitt, written on an advertisement for his Obscure Words and Phrases in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists (published 1880)

14 May 1882
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Charles Mackay to the Committee of the Literary Fund

20 May 1882
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James Rae to the Committee of the Literary Fund

23 May 1882
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Francis Lawley to Octavian Blewitt

2 Jun 1882
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Charles Mackay to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Jun 1882
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1883

Application Form, Charles Mackay

25 Oct 1883
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Charles Mackay to Benjamin Ward Richardson, with note from Richardson to Octavian Blewitt

7 Oct 1883-8 Oct 1883
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Charles Mackay to the Committee of the Literary Fund

23 Oct 1883
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Charles Mackay to Octavian Blewitt

25 Oct 1883
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J C Horsley to Octavian Blewitt

26 Oct 1883
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Francis Lawley to Octavian Blewitt

30 Oct 1883
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Charles Mackay to the Committee of the Literary Fund

17 Nov 1883
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Schedule of payments to Charles Mackay

15 Nov 1883-12 Jun 1884
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1885

Application Form, Charles Mackay

11 Nov 1885
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Charles Mackay to the Secretary of the Literary Fund

7 Nov 1885
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Charles Dickens Junior to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

12 Nov 1885
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Charles Mackay to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

11 Nov 1885
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Arthur Llewelyn Roberts to Charles Mackay

12 Nov 1885
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Charles Mackay to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

13 Nov 1885
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J C Horsley to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

Nov 1885
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Charles Mackay to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

11 Dec 1885
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1886

Minnie Mackay to Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby

21 Jun 1886
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Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby to the Secretary of the Literary Fund

21 Jun 1886
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Minnie Mackay to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

23 Jun 1886
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1887

Minnie Mackay to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

4 Mar 1887
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Minnie Mackay to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

21 Mar 1887
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Minnie Mackay to Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby

26 Mar 1887
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Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby to the Secretary of the Literary Fund

28 Mar 1887
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Minnie Mackay to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

27 Mar 1887
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Minnie Mackay to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

29 Mar 1887
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1880

Article about the music of ‘Home, Sweet Home!’ and attempts made by Charles Mackay to attribute it

1880s
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