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Stratford-upon-Avon Borough: Miscellanea: Uruguayan testimonial

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Testimonial signed by about 250 intellectuals and artists of Uruguay, dated 1930, asking for their country's flag to be flown in Stratford-upon-Avon on Shakespeare's Birthday. The signatures are on eighteen parchment leaves, bound into a cover decorated with animal skin with an embossed metal plate, the whole contained in an elaborate presentation case. Enclosed: - telegram, dated 22 April 1931, from the Minister of Uruguay to the mayor of Stratford regretting that the testimonial and flag will not arrive in time for this year's celebrations - letter of 31 January 1933, from the Uruguayan Legation in London, to the organiser of the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations, apologising for the delay and informing him that the flag and petition is being sent by parcel post.