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Date(s)
- 1860-1863 (Creation)
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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.
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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 posits… read 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, May… read more