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Item
OT108
Object ID
OT108
Type
Rights Holder
CIC
Provenance
F.E. Perkins
Season
Description
Letter: Type written carbon copy on Headed paper of Thomas Cook & Son, Travel Agents. Swansea tour to Paris correspondence, set #1: Stamped 3 March 1899. Correspondence dated: 23rd March 1898 and 2nd March 1899. Printed both sides. Between Thomas Cook & Son and Swansea RFC. Envelope incudes a previous correspondence between Thomas Cooke's and James Livingstone of the Swansea club, from 23rd March 1898. Dimensions: w8" x h10 1/4" (20.5cm x 26cm).
Info
This set of correspondence is one of 8 sets (OT108, OT109, OT110, OT111, OT112, OT113, OT114, OT115) relating to the arrangements for the tour of Swansea RFC to Paris in April 1899 near the end of their fixture season in Wales. The tour was notable for being the first one by a Welsh club to continental Europe. Swansea travelled as acknowledged Welsh Champions for the 1898-99 season, a title they were to retain for five of the next six seasons, culminating in an 'Invincible' season in 1904-05. The opponents in Paris in April 1899 were ostensibly the Stade Français club. But due to the renown of the 'All Whites' at this time, a combined France XV was engaged instead, built around the Stade Français club. The correspondence in set OT108 deals with the arrangements made between James Livingston (Vice-President) and F.E. Perkins (Hon. Secretary) of the Swansea club and Thomas Cook Travel Agents in London. James Livingston was educated in Paris and was the main influence on the club deciding upon the historic tour to Paris.
Keywords
1898-1898, tour, paris, Stade Français,
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