Description | Papers concerning expenses incurred for the Society's celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, June-July 1887. Includes notebook recording subscriptions to the costs made by Fellows, and the subsequent tradesmens' bills for fitting up and decorating a special viewing platform, providing refreshments and printing & posting letters of invitation. Also in the file is a letter from Whitehall regretting that Queen Victoria can't accept the Society's official letter of congratulations in person, instead they should forward it on, 25 June 1887.. |