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Case file

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Mr John Clare

Mr John Clare

Applications

2 (2 successful)

Date period

1 Jan 1835-12 Apr 1881

Awards

  • 1 Jun 1835 (£50)
  • Jun 1841 (£50)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Agricultural labourer
  • small farmer

Author's works published

Poetry

Also named in file

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Timeline

1835

Jeremiah How to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Jan 1835
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John Clare to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Jan 1835
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Jeremiah How to W C Taylor

Jan 1835
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W C Taylor to Joseph Snow, with receipt signed Jeremiah How for John Clare

19 Jan 1835
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John Clare to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Feb 1835
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1841

Extract from the minutes of the Committee of the Literary Fund

9 Jun 1841
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W C Taylor and Edward Raleigh Moran to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Jun 1841
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Printed notice: ‘John Clare, the Peasant Poet’, seeking aid for him

1841
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Receipt, signed John Taylor for John Clare and his family

10 Jun 1841
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John Taylor to Octavian Blewitt, with newspaper clipping on reverse about the sale of books related to John Clare

10 Jun 1841-12 Apr 1881
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