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Minutes of a meeting of the Abbey 2010 Group held on Monday 2 March 2009.

The Elizabethan Club Ball took place within the grounds of The Abbey and The School, on 9th July 2010, to celebrate the 450th Anniversary of Westminster School. Includes documents relating to the planning and preparation of the Ball, which began in 2007.

Sketches and drawings of the drop scenes for the Latin Play. Also included is a drawing for costume design. The sub-series is incomplete.

Watercolour painting showing different aspects of scenery and backdrop at different dates for Latin Play: 1850, 1857 and 1897. Shows drop scene designed by Sir Charles Robert Cockerell (OW), and includes pasted copy of newspaper cutting from The Times.

Programme for performance of Andria. Gives a synopsis of the plot of the play and also gives an obituary list of school alumni. A list of cast members is on the front page.

Volume containing lists of names and addresses of attendees to be sent tickets to the College Latin Play for the year 1856. School alumni are indicated by the abbreviation 'O.W.' and the performance for which tickets should be sent is given next to names. There are some later annotations giving dates of death for some attendees. Names are indexed alphabetically.

The sub-series contains indexes of names of those protesting against the discontinuation of the Latin Play, as well as correspondence on this subject. Some material has been taken from the A series. Where this is the case the previous reference number is given.

Index of names of those protesting against the abolition of the Latin Play in 1852. The volume also contains indexes of names for: Subscribers for Lusus Alteri Westmones (1867; List of subscribers to Marshall Testimontial Elizabethan Club Report (1877); Subscribers to Scott Testimonial (1885) and Names of Westminster Past and Present (1884)

Material generated through the School's events in or relationship with the Abbey, including annual services, weekly Abbey talks, and one-off events. Some items are also included by merit of their religious themes, such as Holy Communion orders of service, but are not specifically tied to the Abbey itself.
Westminster Abbey documents relating to the biannual Commemoration of Benefactors and the annual Election service are held in the EVE series, under their respective events.