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RepositoryUniversity Archives and Special Collections Centre
Ref NoHF/3/1
Title'Double Crown Club'
DescriptionThis file contains items accumulated by Hubert Foss in the course of his membership of the Double Crown Club, including Double Crown Club rule books with rolls of members, club dinner and meeting invitations, menus and booklets to accompany speeches and New Years greetings cards sent to club members by The Merrymount Press. The bulk of items span the period beginning with the foundation of the club in 1924 and ending with Hubert Foss' death in 1953, but also included are two items added after Foss' death.

The set of menus is relatively complete up until the 55th dinner, with only those for the 6th, 19th, 23rd, 25th, 30th, 37th, 38th and 39th missing, but after that comprises less frequent specimens, including those marking special occasions.
DateOctober 1924-September 1999
TermDouble Crown Club
Related MaterialDescriptions for some files and items within this file were informed by the eighteenth edition of the 'Rules and Roll of Members of the Double Crown Club', printed by Bernard Roberts at the John Roberts Press, London and distributed to members in 1969, which can be found in the Pickering collection.
Extent100 items
LevelFile

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DS/UK/468Foss; Hubert (1899-1953); Editor, pianist, composer, printer, critic and broadcaster1899-1953
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