A gilt-tooled maroon leather-bound Illuminated Address & Album to T.H.Sidney, Esq., Vice-President of The Football League, Designed & Executed at the Establishment of Harry Lockett, Foundry St., Hanley, the interior with two hand-coloured illuminated pages, inscribed The Football League. To T.H.Sidney Esqre., Senior Vice-President. We deeply regret to hear of your proposed withdrawal from official connection with the Football League. Since your election as a Vice-President in 1897 you have been a most devoted member of the Management Committee, performing the duties devolving upon you with characteristic dilligence and unfiring energy. Having been associated with you from time to time in the management and government of the League, we feel we cannot allow this severance to pass without expressing our appreciation of your magnetic personality and faithful work on behalf, and in the interest of, the League and its Clubs. To us the loss is a great personal one. Our respect for you has been transformed into real affection ......... and in asking you to accept this slight memento as indicitive of our great appreciation of your work amongst us sincerely assure you of our deep interest and best wishes for your future happiness and welfare. Yours very sincerely, ...... Signed by sixteen Football League members, including President, Vice-President, Present Members of Committee, Life Member, Secretary etc, the interior also incorporating sixteen oval sepia-toned black and white carte-de-visite type photographs of the Football League Management Committee, several with hand-written dedications to Sidney; and a copy of League Football: The Official Centenary History of The Football League, 1888-1988 by Simon Inglis, in which on page 390 under the heading of T.H.Sidney there is a mention of the album. ... "Later on that year, after he developed eye trouble and couldn't attend the 1905 Annual Meeting, he was presented with an illuminated address and album by President J.J.Bentley ..." (2)