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Title

Memorabilia

Shelfmark

MS. Marconi 41

Summary

Comprises:

Menu for celebratory dinner in connection with patent 7777/1900, with signatures of attendees next to their photographs on the menu, with related letter, 1911

Invitations and dinner menus, 1903-1934

'Album Marconi': commemorative booklet celebrating Marconi and the development of wireless telegraphy, 1904

Letters from Lisbetta Beck imploring Marconi to sign and return a fan-leaf already signed by Thomas Edison; with the fan-leaf enclosed in card and envelope addressed for its return [which Marconi never did], 1912

Flyer for unveiling by Marconi of tablet marking the residence of Sir Humphry Davy in Clifton, 1905

Papers and congratulatory telegrams to Marconi in Bologna on the 30th anniversary of wireless telegraphy, mostly in Italian, including notes by Marconi for speech[es]; also contains draft of address by Marconi to an extraordinary general meeting of the company, 1926

Press cutting of humorous verse relating to Marconi's engagement to Josephine Holman, c. 1901

Visiting card of Alfonso Marconi, with an address in Bournemouth on verso, n.d.

Visiting cards of Guglielmo Marconi, n.d.

Blank headed writing paper for various addresses, n.d.