[ Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman, shipping magnate. ] Printed pamphlet of 'Sir Walter Runciman's Dinner', with alphabetical list of guests and fold-out 'Plan of Grand Hall'. With seat reservation for Aneurin Williams, MP.

Both pamphlet and reservation in fair condition, with light signs of age and wear. Pamphlet: Titled: 'Sir Walter Runciman's Dinner, Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, W.C. | Friday, April 11th, at 7.30. | Alphabetical List of Guests with Allocation of Seats and Plan of Grand Hall.' 26 + [1]pp., 12mo. With fold-out 'Plan of Grand Hall | Showing Numbered Tables'. With lightly-rusted staples. Fifty-two tables of the great and the good, with the fifty sitters at 'Table "A"' including Lord Denman, Augustine Birrrell, H. H. Asquith, the Marquess of Crewe, Viscount Samuel and Sir Robert Hudson. Seat Reservation: Printed bifolium, made out in manuscript for 'Mr. Aneurin Williams, M.P.', who is placed at 'Table No. 10'. The centre pages carry another copy of the seating plan. No record of this item on either OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC, but it must date from between 1906, the year Runciman became a baronet, and 1933, when he entered the House of Lords.