Royal Literary Fund, 4, Adelphi Terrace, W. C., instituted 1790; incorporated 1818. Administers assistance to authors who may be reduced to distress by unavoidable calamities, or deprived of the power of literary exertion. 2,860 grants have been bestowed, amounting to a sum of £54,305—this includes the amount distributed during the year 1860 of £1,320.
The income during the year was £2,061 : 19 : 9, including balance brought forward of £76.
President, Marquis of Lansdowne.—Treasurers, Sir Henry Ellis, W. Tooke, Esq., and Richard Monckton Milnes, Esq., M. P.—Secretary, O. Blewitt, Esq.
SOURCE: The Charities of London, by Samuel Low, Jun., London: Sampson Low, Son,
and Marston, Milton House, Ludgate Hill. 1861.