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- 1891-1901 (Creation)
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Accounts for the balls held on 19 June 1891, 16 June 1892 (with notes for Rylands' successor), 14 June 1893, 14 June 1894, 12 June 1895, 15 June 1896, 16 June 1897, 14 June 1898, 13 June 1899, 11 June 1900, and 11 June 1901. The accounts consist of names of attendees with the name of Trinity member providing the voucher, with cost of tickets per party. A summary of expenses appears at the end of each year's list. The Honorary Secretaries were Arthur G. Johnson, William P. Rylands, Stuart Downs, Herbert W. D. Goff, Lightly S. Simpson, Harold G. Brown and Herbert A. Game, Gerard A. Crane, Gerald W. Sharpe, Lucius F. Crane, and Eric S. Hervey.
Two letters are laid in loose: one dated c 1914 from Pelham Foster to W. W. Rouse Ball in which he states he is returning the Ball books and that he saw R. S. Shove in London, who had been wounded in the war; the other from H. W. D. Goff to someone who has agreed to be Ball Steward dated 10 Feb. 1893.
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Front cover stamped 'T.B.C. Ball' in gilt letters.
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- Johnson, Arthur George (b 1869), solicitor (Subject)
- Rylands, Sir William Peter (1868-1948), 1st Baronet, businessman (Subject)
- Downs, Stuart (b 1872), barrister (Subject)
- Goff, Sir Herbert William Davis (1870-1923), 2nd Baronet (Subject)
- Simpson, Lightly Stapleton (1874-1942), railway mechanical engineer (Subject)
- Brown, Harold George (1877-1949), solicitor (Subject)
- Game, Herbert Aylward (1873-1948), businessman (Subject)
- Crane, Gerard Allen (1875-1945), son of Newton Crane (Subject)
- Sharpe, Gerald Whittaker (1878-1962), cotton and oil cloth manufacturer (Subject)
- Hervey, Eric Sedgwick (1879-1963), son of Valentine Smedley Hervey (Subject)
- Shove, Ralph Samuel (1889-1966), judge and Olympic athlete (Subject)