Companion of Literature conferred by Royal Society of Literature
Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (1907-1975)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
10 May 1961
Materials
Vellum
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Chartwell, Kent
NT 1102144
Summary
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, by which the President and Council of the Royal Society of Literature conferred on WSC the Companion of Literature "in honour of his great gifts as a writer and in gratitude for his most excellent contribution to English letters" Signed by R.A. Butler, President and Lord Birkenhead, Chairman of Council 10 May 1961.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed by R.A. Butler, President and Lord Birkenhead, Chairman of Council 10th May 1961
Makers and roles
Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (1907-1975), signatory Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, DL, PC (1902 – 1982) , signatory Royal Society of Literature, authors of manuscript