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Tickets, invitations, letters, notes, songsheets, and newspaper clippings relating to festivities. Text within [] indicates hand-written notes.
C,2.966: Newspaper clipping on the birthday celebrations of Mr Middleton, of Chirk Castle: "...Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, desirous of shewing that all animosities which had formerly subsisted between his family and that of the gentelman whose birth was to be on that day celebrated, had entirely ceased, opened his house at Wynnstay, and gave an ox to be roasted whole at that place...". Dated Feb 1st 1785.
C,2.967: Newspaper clipping, an account of the feast at Wynnstay, given by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn on the occasion of the completion of the Dam at Wynnstay. In the General Advertiser on September 24th 1784.
C,2.968: Newspaper clipping, long account of the Fonthill Fete, given by Mr Beckford to the artists and workmen working on Fonthill Abbey.
C,2.969: Gentleman's ticket to the birthday celebrations of Sir W… (See Merlin record for full description)
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