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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.

'Trinity Coll. Ball 1896' at top on mount. Photograph of 50 men on the steps of the tribune in Nevile's Court; attendees are not identified in a contemporaneous hand. A later hand (a Trinity archivist) has identified H. G. Brown and J. F. Beale. Some of the men are holding signs from the ball: 'No admittance this day' and a directional sign to 'The Ball Room,' another with a silver tray, with a bottle placed centre front. Photograph by Stearn Bros., Cambridge.