Includes a brief summary of the first years of the Friends group, including the reasons for its foundation, a copy of the press notice on the launch of the Friends in 1988, a summary of Philip Spooner's attendence at a meeting of the Museum Advisory Committee to discuss the Friends, and an agenda for inqugerla meeting of the Friends on 2nd July 1988.
Records summarising the early history of the Friends of the Horniman Museum
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