Circulars, notices, reports, letters and newspaper cuttings regarding the foundation of University College, Liverpool

Includes:

• /1:  Printed notice, headed ‘Borough of Liverpool. Arthur B. Forwood, Esq., Mayor. Establishment of a College for higher education in Liverpool.’

Begins 'Having received a Requisition, of which the following is a Copy'. The requisition is followed, in two columns of small print, by the names of signatories, 'impressed with the great desirability of establishing a College in Liverpool’. Ends 'I do Hereby, in compliance with such Requisition, CONVENE a PUBLIC MEETING of the Inhabitants of the Borough, to be held in the Town-hall, on FRIDAY, the 24th May instant, at two o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of considering the subject of the said Requisition.'

(10 May 1878)

• /2: Circular letter from the Mayor Arthur B. Forwood, headed 'Establishment of a College for Higher Education'.  Letter reads 'I beg to inform you that in compliance with the Requisition presented to me … I have called a Town's Meeting for Friday the 24th.' Letter is addressed in bottom left-hand corner to 'Jno: Abraham Esq:'

(11 May 1878)

• /3: Printed pamphlet headed 'UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL', reporting the resolutions of the Town's Meeting held on 24 May 1878 on which it is proposed that the University College is to be founded.  Includes proposals on Professorships and Lectureships and also appeals for funds to carry out the scheme.

([May] 1878)

• /4: University College, Liverpool. Rules and Resolutions adopted by the Committee at a Meeting held on May 21 at 1880. Includes the names of the first 8 trustees added in manuscript.
  (May 1880)

• /5: Circular reporting on resolutions passed at a public meeting held 21^st July 1880 and a meeting of the Wholesale and Retail Trades and Manufacturers held on 23^rd July regarding University College, Liverpool.  University College, Liverpool. Also included is information concerning the 'Special Fund from the Wholesale and Retail Traders and Manufacturers’ and a list of preliminary subscribers to the fund.

 (Jul 1880)

• /6: Printed notice, headed 'City of Liverpool. I Bernard Hall, Esquire, Mayor. I University College, Liverpool’, convening a public meeting on 21^st July 1880 at the Town Hall regarding the scheme for the establishment of a University College in Liverpool.

(10 Jul 1880)

• /7: Printed circular from Robert Gladstone, Honorary Treasurer, University College, Liverpool, requesting that, with 'The promised Donations to University College, Liverpool, having now reached such an amount as to render its Opening only a question of time', the contributors now donate the money promised.

(16 March 1881)

• /8: Letter from Robert Gladstone, Honorary Treasurer, University College, Liverpool, to The Executor of The late John Abraham Esquire asking for 'the promised donation of £100', as 'nearly all the promised donations have now been paid and it is intended to open the College on 1 October next'.

(30 Jun 1881)

• /9: Manuscript copy of letter from Emma C. Abraham to Gladstone. Abraham writes that she is requested by the executors to 'express their readiness' to pay the money ‘as soon as the condition under which it was promised is fulfilled'.  This being after 'a meeting of the contributors' to 'determine the method of appropriation of the money'.

(27 Nov 1881)

• /10: Letter from Gladstone to E. C. Abraham stating that he does not know anything about the meeting she refers to, but as nearly all the subscriptions promised have been paid she would 'do wrong in paying the £100’

(30 November 1881)

• /11: Report by Robert Gladstone, Honorary Treasurer, on the ‘'Financial Position of
  University College, Liverpool’.

(Dec 1881)

• /12: Letter from Alfred Clay Abraham, father of Emma C. Abraham, to his agent William Whinnerah concerning the action to be taken as 'it is very doubtful whether we may be disposed to pay the 100 to the University before sending in the residuary act.'

(10 January 1882)

• /13: Letter from A. C. Abraham to W. Whinnerah suggesting ‘to consider the method in which our books should in future be kept'.

(6 Feb 1882)

• /14: Circular recording 'Donations to University College, 27th June, 1882', listing the names of individuals who have donated and the fund which they donated to.

(Jun, 1882)

• /15: Newspaper cuttings:

a-b) Giving the names and amounts subscribed towards the foundation of Liverpool University College by the (1880)

c) Regarding the proposed establishment of a Chemical Laboratory (4 Apr 1882).

• /16: Circular reporting on the 'Liverpool University College. Fund for new Chemical Laboratories.', with subscription list.

(n.d.)

• /17: Notice by Bernard Hall, Mayor and Chairman, announcing an 'appeal for subscriptions to all who are interested in, or connected with, any branch of Literature, Science, or Art, in Liverpool or its neighbourhood'. Includes a names of subscribers ‘connected with the Professions, or with Literature, Science, and Art' and the amount given.

(n.d.)

• /18: Notice of meeting, by Thomas Cope, Chairman, and Alfred Morgan, Secretary, for the appropriation of the Manufacturers’ and Traders’ fund.

(n.d.)