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i: seating plan, 1 May 1883.

ii: dinner menu, 23 Apr 1778.

iii: menus, 10 Aug 1843-9 Nov 1848 [9 items].

Includes:

• Quitclaim by Thomas Braddyll of suits against Benjamin Tooke, 1682.
• Annotated list of benefactors, 1690.
• Company Court resolution re recommendations of petitioners, 1789.
• Tally of Company members, 1779.
• Admission tickets to six lectures in the history and practice of printing held at Stationers' Hall in 1873, as part of 'Technical Education in the City of London' programme, with a cover letter from Charles Robert Rivington, Clerk of the Stationers' Company.
• Note requesting funds for the repair of Daniel Midwinter's tomb, [19th century].
• Timeline of Company constitutional milestones, nd.

Includes correspondence and report to Master and Wardens' Meeting re Myers's 'Company History'.

Copy minutes of evidence taken before the House of Lords Select Committee on the Stationers' and Newspaper Makers' Company Bill.

Copy minutes of evidence taken before the House of Lords Select Committee on the Stationers' and Newspaper Makers' Company Bill.

Minutes of meetings, general meetings and annual general meetings; all minutes except those of the annual general meetings are manuscript, 23 Apr 1920-26 May 1922; all minutes are pasted in from 17 Aug 1922 onwards.

Attached to front pastedown are typescript annual livery committee membership lists, 1921-26 and 1927-32; some lists have manuscript annotations and corrections.

Some minutes have other documents inserted:

Minutes of 22 Jun 1921:

1. annual statements of income and expenditure of Livery luncheons, 1920-1921.

Minutes of 9 May 1928:

1. livery committee pamphlet giving agendas for annual general meeting and special meeting of 27 May 1929, a livery committee report for 1928-1929, names of livery representatives on the court 1926-1929, a note regarding entry of Stationers' Company School pupils into company crafts and a notice of Stationers' Company and Printing Industry Technical Board Craft Lectures, session 1929-1930.

Minutes of meetings, special meetings and annual general meetings; minutes of meetings and special meetings are pasted into volume; minutes of annual general meetings are bound into volume.

Pasted into front endpapers are Livery Committee member names and addresses, with annotations.

Between minutes for first two Committee meetings is bound 1 document:

1. notice of motion for November court for discussion in December court, undated.

Some minutes have other documents inserted:

Minutes of the annual general meeting, 24 May 1939:

1. letter from R T Rivington to Dr G L Riddell stating that the court would be pleased to receive suggestions from the livery committee regarding the difficulties experienced by some in paying freedom or livery fees and the limited privileges and advantages open to junior members of the livery, 4 May 1939.

2. letter from V B Harrison to Dr G L Riddell discussing a resolution regarding absentee court members, 3 May 1939.

Minutes of 29 Jun 1939:

1. letter from chairman D F Kellie to R T Rivington requesting that he attend committee meetings when asked, undated.

2. information and and suggestions for the committee when considering their reply to the court's invitation to make suggestions relating to (1) the difficulties experienced by some in paying the fees and (2) the limited privileges and advantages open to junior members of the livery, undated.

3. copy letter from F D Bone to the company Honorary Secretary offering suggestions regarding the social and material welfare of people employed in the newspaper industry, 7 Jun 1939.

Minutes of 18 Oct 1939:

1. letter from R T Rivington to Dr G L Riddell stating decisions of the court relating to several points, 6 Oct 1939.

Minutes of 31 Jul 1940:

1. election to the court: referendum to be submitted to the Livery, undated.

Minutes of meetings, special meetings and annual general meetings; minutes of standard and special committee meetings are pasted into volume; minutes of annual general meetings are bound into volume.

Spine reads 'Livery Committee minutes 1950-1964'.

Taped into front endpapers are livery committee member names and addresses, 1957-1958.

Inserted into front endpapers is 1 document:

1. note of receipt for livery committee minute book 1950-1964 and three folders of correspondence and old papers, handed to J C Moran by the Honorary Secretary on 31 Jan 1972, with later pencil annotation stating that the note was attached to the parcel containing the above mentioned papers, which had been discovered among registry parcels after being lost for several years.

Inserted or pasted into minutes are other documents:

28 Oct 1954: report of a meeting of the social sub-committee of the livery committee, 7 Oct 1954.

13 May 1955, 3 May 1956, 17 Apr 1957, 13 May 1958, 14 May 1959, 15 May 1961 and 14 May 1962: used livery committee ballot papers.

23 Sep 1959: suggested future procedure for election of committee presentation of accounts and nomination of livery representative on the court, undated.

26 Sep 1962: report of special membership committee, Aug 1962.

5 Apr 1963: recommendations regarding a suggested Stationers' Company printing scholarship, Mar 1963.

Appendices are attached to minutes for 2 Committee meetings:

29 Oct 1990:

1. draft list of the Company's objectives, undated

22 Feb 1993:

1. proposals for costs of summer works, 1993

Appendices are not placed in file