Records manuscript 1860 and 1863
Contributors: Boston (Mass.). Executive Committee for the Ball in Honor of the Officers of the Russian Fleet; Clapp, William Warland, 1826-1891
Published: 1860
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Travel; Balls (Parties); Visits of state; Social life and customs; Russia. Voennyĭ flot
Description: Concerns the nomination of a committee to organize a ball for the visit of Edward Albert, held on 18 Oct. 1860; and a committee to organize a ball for the admiral and officers of the Russian fleet, to be held in the latter months of 1863; also contains the minutes of these committees.
Notes: Written chiefly in the hand of W. W. Clapp, Jr., secretary; with invitations, cards of admission, and other printed ephemera mounted to leaves and placed in.

Bound in half calf with blue cloth boards.

MS Am 1421. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

A ball was held for Edward, Prince of Wales, on 18 Oct. 1860. The 1863 ball for the officers of the Russian fleet was not held.