Item 10a.34 - Trinity Whist Club minute book

Identity area

Reference code

O./10a.34

Title

Trinity Whist Club minute book

Date(s)

  • 1860-1863 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 vol., quarter leather binding and marbled paper over boards; marbled endpapers and edges. Verso of front free flyleaf and 53 ff. used, rest blank. With letter (1 folded sheet) attached to notes (1 folded sheet with 6 single sheets loose inside), plus envelope.

Context area

Archival history

Note by Walter Morley Fletcher, 12 Aug. 1930, on verso of front flyleaf, records his purchase of the book from 'an Ipswich bookseller' in 1905. The dealer had bought the book as part of Lord John Hervey's library on his death [in 1902]; Fletcher positsread more

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift from Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, 1930.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

First 3 ff. headed 'Rules for the formation of a Club', including list of founding members: The Duke of St. Albans, Montagu Corry, J. J. Cowell,, G. O. Trevelyan, F. Storr, W. Everett, H. Y. Thompson, E. Willmot.' Signed E[dmund] Willmot, President, Mayread more

Notes area

Alternative identifier(s)

Preferred form of reference

O.10a.34

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