| Description | Most of the letters are addressed to Thomas Coates as Secretary of the Society, though some are addressed to other members of the committee, who passed them onto Coates. There are letters from authors and prospective authors discussing various manuscripts; comments from committee members reporting on likely manuscripts or seeing them through the press, and letters from readers giving their comments on manuscripts ad series.
The letters are arranged chronologically, and within that alpabetically. All the biographical dictionary correspondence is catalogued at SDUK/18-48/43-48 |