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The founding of St Thomas's

St Thomas's foundation stone laying-ceremony invitationThis lovely example of ephemera from the collections of King's College London is an invitation to attend the ceremonial foundation stone-laying by Queen Victoria in 1868 for the new St. Thomas’s Hospital.

It has no name filled in the designated place, so it looks to have been kept as a pristine example.

St. Thomas's Hospital.  [Admission ticket to ceremony of laying the first stone of the new St. Thomas's Hospital, 1868].   [London]:   [St. Thomas's Hospital],   [1868]. [St Thomas's Historical Books Collection  PAMPH. BOX  RA988.L8  T1 ADM]