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              <text>A Trio of Balls at The Middlesex Hotel</text>
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              <text>Balls at The Middlesex Hotel: Anniversary (1846), Thanksgiving (1847), Military (1850).&#13;
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Ticket 1:&#13;
Anniversary Ball &#13;
on the opening of &#13;
The New Middlesex Hotel.&#13;
in Concord, Mass.&#13;
On Monday Evening, April 20, 1846.&#13;
Sir:—The pleasure of your company, with ladies, is requested.&#13;
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Ticket 2:&#13;
Thanksgiving Ball&#13;
Sir...Your Company with Ladies, is solicited at the&#13;
Middlesesex [sic] Hotel,&#13;
Concord,&#13;
On Wednesday Evening,&#13;
November 24th, 1847.&#13;
Music, by Kittredges Quadrille Band---Tickets, $2.50&#13;
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Ticket 3:&#13;
Grand Military and Civic Ball,&#13;
to be givem&#13;
By the Artillery,&#13;
at the &#13;
Middlesex Hotel,....Concord,&#13;
Friday Evening, Dec. 20, 1850.&#13;
Sir: your company, with ladies, is solicited</text>
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              <text>William Munroe Special Collections, The Concord Free Public Library</text>
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