[Manchester Literary Club, founded 1862.] Three items of printed ephemera: menus for the ‘Christmas Supper’ in 1927 and 1929 (each with photograph of ‘J. Windsor Burgess as Father Christmas’); invitation to ‘Complimentary Supper' to Prof. F. E. Weiss

Three scarce items, with no other copies traced. All three carry the Club’s badge. The 1929 menu is in good condition; the other two items are in fair condition, lightly aged and worn. The two ‘Christmas Supper’ menus are uniform in layout. Each is printed on an 8vo piece of white card, with the same photograph of ‘J. Windsor Burgess as Father Christmas’ on one side and the menu on the other. (The menus differ and are dated.) Each menu is wrapped in a grey-paper 8vo bifolium, printed on all four sides. The Menu for 19 December 1927 states on the cover: ‘J. H. Brocklehurst, Esq. President, in the Chair’. In the menu of 16 December 1929 the President is A. C. Wilson. The other three pages of the wraps carry the order of the ‘Music and Observances’, printing the texts of songs including ‘The Boar’s Head Song’ and Walter Emsley’s ‘Here’s to his Health’. The third item is an invitation (1p, 8vo) on card to the ‘Complimentary Supper to Prof. F. E. Weiss, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S. (Professor of Botany at The University, Manchester.)’, on 5 March 1928. The toast is given by Brocklehurst as President, J. Cuming Walters (from whose collection the material derives) and Councillor C. W. Godbert’.