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i: receipts of charitable gift payments, 19 Jan 1685-30 Dec 1782; also includes a card from London booksellers urging lords to attend the Committee of the Whole House reading of the Booksellers' Bill, 14 May 1774, with annotations listing the recipients and with numbers or comments beside some names [12 items].

ii: receipts of charitable gift payments and draft accounts, 15 Aug 1813-27 Dec 1922 and 18 Feb 1977 [12 items].

iii: printed notices stating that no Company members, nor their widows, may be a pensioner unless they have paid quarterage, 1774 reprints of 1718 notice [2 items].

Certified statements of account, with balance sheets, for all charities administered by the Company; items officially date from 1853-1856, 1858-1859 and 1861-1867; items dated 1862-1867 have pencil annotations that add in details for the following year; item for 1854 consists of a front cover only.

Charles Whittingham (1767-1840), printer, was a highly successful businessman, printing almanacs and religious tracts in their thousands. Later in his career, he specialised in printing illustrated books. Whittingham left bequests to the Stationers’ Company, Printers’ Pension Society, and poor of Chiswick. His bequest to the Company consisted of 2000 pounds three pounds percent consolidated bank annuities. The annual produce of which was to go towards six poor widows of either compositors or pressmen, with preference for widows whose husbands had been in his employ. It was required that the widows be fifty years of age or older and would continue in the support only for as long as they remained widows.

• Letter from George Greensmith to Walford & Sons, 14 Nov 1840. Relative to the release of Whittingham’s bequest.
• Letter from Charles Rivington to Walford & Sons, 17 Nov 1840. Whittingham bequest to be discussed by Stationer Court before accepting.
• The Stationers’ Company to Thomas Walford Jr. and other executors of Whittingham’s will, 2 Mar 1842. Release papers for Whittingham's bequest.

B/W photograph. Charter Dinner, May 1980 in the Main Hall. Arthur Grimwade (Goldsmiths’ Company) stood beind lectern with W B Hodgson (Master 1979-80) seated looking up at him.

Colour photograph. Katherine Lockett receiving a Major Award, shakes hands wih Sir Robert May (Office of Science and Technology) during the Charter Dinner, 1 May 1997.

Colour photograph. Eliot Harper receiving a Major Award, shakes hands wih Sir Robert May (Office of Science and Technology) during the Charter Dinner, 1 May 1997.

Colour photograph. Scot Bendall receiving a Major Award, shakes hands wih Sir Robert May (Office of Science and Technology) during the Charter Dinner, 1 May 1997.

Menu cards.

May 4th 1957 - Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the Granting of the First Charter

Held at Stationers Hall

Menu

Grace - Before dinner. Said by Chaplain to the Company

Gracxe - sung after dinner (words included - Laudi Spiritualui AD 1545)

Toasts list

Masque of the Stationers' Comapny - perfomred by the boys of the Stationers' Company's school

Programme of Music - performmed by the Orchestra of the Royla MArines School of Music

1. Commando Patrol by Dunn

2. Mirella by Guonod

3. Spring Time by Coates

4. Elizabethan Srenade by Binge

5. Wedding in Paris by May

6. The Golden Waltz arr. Winter

7. Forgotten Dreams by Leroy Anderson

8. The Seafarer by Wood

List of Master, Upper Warden, Under Warden and Clerk.

Presented and Printed by Waterlow and Sons Ltd.

B/W contact sheet prints and negatives from Charter Dinner 1993. some including George Mandl (Master 1992-93); Frank Mulheim (Swiss Ambassador); and four Major Award winners

Colour Photograph. Peter T Rippon (Master 1993-94) and Alan Brooker (R) (Under Warden 1993-94) present Simon Storey (L) with a Major Award during the Charter Dinner, 27 April 1994.

Colour Photograph. Peter T Rippon (Master 1993-94) and Alan Brooker (R) (Under Warden 1993-94) present Dean Barber (L) with a Major Award during the Charter Dinner, 27 April 1994.

Colour Photograph. Peter T Rippon (Master 1993-94) kisses the hand of Justine Warner (L) during the presentation of her Major Award. Alan Brooker (Under Warden 1993-94) stands behind Rippon, during the Charter Dinner, 27 April 1994.

Colour Photograph. Peter T Rippon (Master 1993-94) and Alan Brooker (R) (Under Warden 1993-94) present Justine Warner (L) with a Major Award during the Charter Dinner, 27 April 1994.