Papers, 1891-1960, including an alphabetical index of private pupils of Willoughby Lyle, 1891-1901; manuscript summary of the career of Katherine Henrietta Monk, Matron, King's College Hospital, submitted to Lyle by Alice Little, Sister, King's College Hospital, 1939; obituaries mainly from The Lancet, of Philip Franklin, otolaryngologist, John Alexander Drake, Physician for Diseases of the Skin, King's College Hospital, Francis Henry Mosse, medical missionary, and others, 1926-1952; pamphlet biography of William Frederick Danvers Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden, comprising obituaries and memorials from a number of newspapers and an address at his funeral at Remenham Church, 1928; a brief biography by Lyle of Professor Robert Bentley Todd, Physician to King's College Hospital, [1928].

Papers, 1881-1891, of Donald James Mackay, 11th Baron Reay, as Governor of Bombay, comprising correspondence, memoranda, petitions and other papers, 1884-1889 and undated, on A'bkari administration (a system of licences for the distillation and sale of spirits in Bombay); correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports and other papers, 1881-1891 and undated, relating to military and naval subjects; correspondence, memoranda, minutes and reports, 1885-1890 and undated, on education; correspondence and other papers, 1881-1891 and undated, on agriculture; correspondence and other papers, 1884-1889 and undated, on sanitation and water works; correspondence and papers, 1884-1891 and undated, on various other subjects including administration, hospitals, irrigation, railways and finance; addresses of welcome to Lord Reay, 1886-1890 and undated; a drawing of Bombay harbour and accompanying manuscript plan, undated; manuscript map of Karachi Harbour Board, 1887.

Papers of Andrew Wright Maitland, comprising notebook containing reports of cases admitted to Guy's Hospital from Jun-Sep 1830, list of passengers on board the Hector on a voyage from London to Ceylon [Sri Lanka] via Mauritius, Oct 1830-Nov 1831 and medical cases treated during voyage, copies of letters written on board, accounts of purchases in Colombo, list of casualties, description of voyage, also notes on tetanus, Nov 1832;
Maitland's admission cards for the Pupil's Physical Society, 1832-1833; for lectures in theory and practice of medicine by Richard Bright, Oct 1827; for surgical operations and practice at Guy's and St Thomas, Apr 1929;
piece of a book cover inscribed 'Andrew Wright Maitland entered Guy's Hospital Mar 5th and was articled to Mr Stocker the following day Mar 6, 1824';
correspondence of the School Secretary's concerning personal papers belonging to Andrew Maitland donated to Guy's Medical School library, and biographical information about Maitland, Jun 1989-Sep 1990.

Papers of the Malaria Research Laboratory, 1939-1967, relate to the work of the laboratory and the collation of data concerning documented cases of malaria within Britain. The collection notably includes correspondence and other documentation between P G Shute and G Covell, Assistant Director and Director of the Laboratory, and various hospitals and other medical institutions regarding blood films examined by the Laboratory for malarial parasites, 1939-1963; Public Health Laboratory Service yearly reports of malaria cases, 1954-1966 and annual reports of the Malaria Research Laboratory, 1957-1967.

Photocopy of manuscript by W N Mann 'A student at Guy's', and two printed booklets A student at Guy's, recollections of the thirties, W N Mann, London, 1987, both signed by the author.

Papers of the Manor Gardens Centre, 1918-2002, including minutes of the Executive Committee and minutes of the Finance, Staff, House, Mothers, Wards and Trustee Committees; administrative files including annual general meeting working papers, educational visits, requisitioning, health visitors, wards, wages, new building, fund raising, war savings, insurance, clinics, trustees, reports, letters to newspapers, certificates and staff; papers relating to the Holiday Scheme; annual reports; press cuttings; publications including booklets about the work of the Centre and a history of the North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers 1913-1973; financial statements; photographs and printing blocks of mothers and children, staff, special events and Centre buildings; architectural plans.

First and second reports of the RCOG Manpower advisory sub-committee, with related correspondence, comments and papers, 1982-1990; photocopies of Hospital Recognition Committee forms: annual review of recognised hospital appointments, which provide data on staffing and training, and obstetrical and gynaecological statistics for individual hospitals, 1979-1980.

Administrative files from Mansion House, 1931-1962, on subjects including schools and hospitals; Mayoral receptions, lunches and dinners; the Armed Forces and Armed Services Associations; clubs and societies; exhibitions; the Guildhall; the King George VI Memorial Fund and other charitable funds, patronage; boroughs; the Commonwealth; social services; the Second World War; the unveiling of the Cenotaph; the City press; expenses; visits of Royalty and Heads of State; the Bishop of London and other matters relating to the clergy; the National Savings movement; the Police; refugees; the Royal Exchange; St Paul's Cathedral; sheriffs and state banquets.

Also papers relating to charitable funds organised by the Mayor, 1885-1992. Funds include the National Memorial to General Gordon fund, 1885; the fund for the relief of widows and dependants of sailors and others on the HMS Victoria, sunk in 1893; the Transvaal War fund, 1899; the Queen Victoria memorial fund, 1901-1913; the Titanic Disaster fund (later the National Disasters Relief fund), 1912-1959; the St. Vincent Disaster Relief Fund in aid of Sufferers by Eruption, 1902; the Air Raid Distress fund, 1940-1953; the National Hungarian and Central European Relief Fund, 1956-1958; the Attlee Memorial Appeal, 1967; the Save St Paul's fund, 1971-1973 and the Gresford Colliery Relief Fund, 1988-1992 (the Gresford Colliery files are closed until 2022).

Scrapbook kept by George Marsh, with notes on a wide variety of subjects and many newspaper cuttings inserted, 18th century.

Louisa Martindale collection, 1872-1964. The collection consists of Section A: a little personal correspondence, papers, articles, speeches and lectures by Louisa Martindale, and some personal material including notes on the glaucoma which eventually blinded her, 1872-1960; and Section B: papers concerning the Medical Women's International Association (founded 1919) of which Miss Martindale was President from 1937 to 1947. As well as her own correspondence in this capacity, 1937-1946, there is one file of the correspondence of Mme Montreuil-Strauss, Secretary of the Medical Women's International Association at his period. (Louisa Martindale destroyed the vast bulk of her case records at the time of her retirement from practice around 1950, those remaining were destroyed by her executors after her death).

Papers of Sister Elsie Mason comprising photograph album containing small black and white photographs depicting, nurses, wards, patients, students at King's College Hospital etc, 1917-1919. Most images are labelled and dated.

Correspondence of E A J Alment, correspondence, background papers, committee minutes and architectural plans, 1969-1971, of the RCOG Maternity hospital planning sub-committee.

Correspondence, minutes and the draft report of the Maternity Unit Planning Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1959-1960.

Records, 1936-1989, relating to the Mayfair Gas Company, comprising correspondence, typescript notes of meetings and papers concerning legal agreements of the partnership, 1936-1948, including typescript articles of partnership between W S McConnell and B R M Johnson, 1937; four notebooks containing tabulated case figures, 1929-1973; volume containing tabulated entries, 1936-1989, recording supplies acquired and details of suppliers; loose graph, 1954-1955; publications St Theresa's Maternity Hospital, Wimbledon, 1960, 1963.

Unpublished typescript memoir of nurse training at King's College Hospital, 1940-1945, written by Katherine McIlroy. Some names and places have been changed to protect identities.

Papers of Miss E M McInness comprising files containing a draft typescript history of St Thomas' Hospital, with proposed illustrations, and some manuscript notes.

Papers of A E M Mead comprising:
The General Nursing Council for England and Wales record of Practical Instruction and experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1955-1959;

letter of acceptance for the King's College Hospital Preliminary Training School, High Elms, 8 Oct 1954;
typescript notice of King's College Hospital `Special requirements by Student Nurses on entry', with details of uniform and text books, Sep 1954; typescript notice concerning KCH Nurse uniforms, Feb 1956; signed copy of Mead's King's College Hospital Student Nurses Agreement, 14 May 1956; manuscript notes of the Sister Matrons' address [1956];

examination question papers for the King's College Hospital Preliminary Training School, High Elms, Farnborough, examination in nursing and first aid, nutrition and personal and communal health, elementary anatomy and physiology, Dec 1955;

printed notice of King's College Hospital Nurse-Training School of Rules for collection and examination of urine', [May 1957]; printed notice of King's College HospitalRegulations for the nursing staff with regard to the ordering, custody and administration of dangerous drugs and poisons', Jan 1959; papers relating to Diabetic patients including card for Diabetic Clinic, menu for Diabetic Kitchen, and Diabetic Reducing Diet, 1959; typescript `Directions for padding a splint';

examination question papers of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales for the Preliminary State Examination in elementary anatomy and physiology and hygiene, Oct 1954, and candidates notice and admission number, Oct 1956; Final Examination for the General part of the Register, in three parts, with candidates notice and admission number, Feb 1959; also letters notifying passing of these examinations, Nov 1954, Nov 1956;
examination question papers for King's College Hospital Final Hospital Examination in General Nursing and Gynaecology, Jan 1959;

printed programme and ticket for King's College Hospital Medical School Annual Ball, 6 Feb 1959;
portrait photograph in nurse uniform; receipt for purchase of uniform coat, 15 Jan 1960.

Minutes, constitutional and membership papers, meeting and agenda papers, secretary's papers, medical agency papers and miscellaneous papers.

Minutes, committee minutes, agenda books, rules and regulations, files and miscellaneous.

Collection of miscellaneous medical material, 1744-1931, including 14 notebooks, comprising anatomical notes taken from a course of Dr John Hunter's lectures in 1774; a commentary, 1857, on Dr Alexander Munro's Osteology; notes by J Talfourd Jones on lectures on medical subjects, 1860-1863; notes on experiments in physiology by E H Starling, 1892; miscellaneous other notes, 1744-c1910 and undated. There are also printed reports of Manchester Public Infirmary and Lunatic Hospital, 1779-1780, 1786-1787, and of Manchester Lying-In Hospital, Salford, 1807-1812 (14 items, including some duplicates); miscellaneous photographs and negatives, 1889-1931 and undated, including some of tourist spots.

Unpublished memorandum by Sir Frederick Norton Kay Menzies on the London County Council hospital service, 1941.

Manuscript notebook containing 'Dr Merriman and Dr Ley lectures on Midwifery' [1820] 77ff.

Staff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.

Records of the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, including minutes, 1954-1959; annual reports, 1875-1947; registers of operations, 1955-1966, matron's correspondence, 1950-1968 and general correspondence, 1908-1931.

Comprises: Administrative records; Estate and property records; Nursing records; Medical records; Pathology records; Radiography records; Nurses League records; Staff records; Operating theatre records.

Records of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund. The archive comprises: minutes and meetings papers of the Council, annual general meetings and various committees, 1872-1984 (Mss 30585, 30587-94); annual reports and accounts, 1873-1994 (Ms 30586); other financial records, 1934/5 (Ms 30595); correspondence and papers, including papers concerning bequests, 1871-ca 1989 (Ms 30596-609, 616); posters (Ms 30610); and photographs with associated papers, 1959-95 (Ms 30611-15).

The collection comprises a detailed financial report on the state of the hospital, dated 1819 (WMS/Amer.80) and a prescription book for the women's section of a large hospital, dated 1840 and conjecturally assigned to the Hospital de San Andrés (WMS/Amer.87).

Papers of the Clare Hall Hospital, 1905-1929, including minutes of the meetings of the Board, Finance Committee, General Purposes and House Committee, Visiting Sub-committee and Farm Sub-committee; annual reports; finance reports; financial papers and papers relating to superannuation.

Midwifery casebook, Aug 1781-Mar 1786, of 'cases extraord[inar]y' in the Lying in Hospital, Dublin and in private practice domiciliary visits 'chiefly among the poor', May 1782-October 1785. Indexed by symptoms.

Records of the Mildmay Memorial Hospital, comprising Council minutes, 1917-1948 and minutes of the McCall Maternity Hospital committee, 1941-1945.

Administrative records, patient registers, nursing records and photographs.

Administrative records, Chaplain's records, patient records, nursing records, photographs and miscellaneous records.

Records of the Miller General Hospital, including Governors and Board of Management minutes, 1828-1948; Medical Council minutes, 1913-1928; Nursing Committee minutes, 1928-1948; annual reports, 1870-1948; file of correspondence and administrative papers relating to the purchase of 4 St. Johns Park, Blackheath, and its conversion to a Preliminary Training School for Nurses, 1945-1948; registers of patients, 1904-1945; Matron's report book, 1927-1948; staff registers, 1933-1951; salaries and wages books, 1921-1944 and history of the hospital, 1893.

Also financial accounts of the Kent Dispensary, 1783-1856.

Secondary medical records, comprising GOS/12/1: Register of drugs issued, including names, quantity and cost, 1857-1865; GOS/12/2: Drug Issue Register, 1870-1875; GOS/12/3: Drug Issue Register, 1882-1887; GOS/12/4: Drug Issue Register, 1894-1903; GOS/12/5: Register of Beer, Wines and Spirits issued to patients, 1852; GOS/12/6: Register of beer issued to patients, 1858-1864; GOS/12/7: Register of beer issued to patients, 1864-1878; GOS/12/8: Register of wines and spirits issued to patients, 1876-1883; GOS/12/9: Register of brandy, port and stout issued to patients (Victoria Ward) 1891-1892; GOS/12/10: Monthly totals register of wines and spirits issued, 1852-1853; GOS/12/11 Monthly totals register of port, brandy, sherry, gin, claret and porter issued to patients, 1860-1869; GOS/12/12: Monthly totals register of port, brandy, gin and porter issued to patients, 1869-1879; GOS/12/13: Monthly totals register of port, brandy, sherry and porter issued to patients, 1879-1893; GOS/12/14: Monthly totals of brandy and sherry issued to patients by ward, 1923-1935.

GOS/12/15: Register of Anti-Toxin reports, 1900-1913; GOS/12/16-17: Registers of X-Rays, 1930, 1932; GOS/12/18-19: Blood-Bank registers, 1961-1962, 1963; GOS/12/20: Antra Wash-Out Clinic statistical register, 1965-1966; GOS/12/21-22: Surgical instrument registers for GOS surgeons during wartime use at Tadworth Court and Hempstead House, c 1940-1941; GOS/12/23: *Patient Appliance Forms (Splints), 1971-1989; GOS/12/24: Illustrated information leaflet on urine testing for Phenyl-Ketonuria published by GOS, 1957; GOS/12/25: Volume, 'Surgical Registrar's Scheme for Preparing and Maintaining Annual Index of Diseases', 1927.

GOS/12/26: Miscellaneous papers of the Medical Records Department; includes examples of patient attendance cards and doctors' letters, 1897-1934, and examples of early 'punch card ' patient records, 1952; GOS/12/27: Patient admission form, of Eileen Last (for electrical treatment under Mr Steward, at age 5 weeks) 1905; GOS/12/28: Patient admission and discharge cards of Grace and Hilda Gilbert (renal sarcoma patients of Mr. Barrington-Ward), 1931; GOS/12/29: Letter of Dr G F Still to Dr Callender concerning treatment of patient Margaret Trimley for tubercular peritonitis, 26 November 1927; GOS/12/30: Programme notes for Clinical Demonstration Day in Annie Zunz Ward, 15 February 1939; GOS/12/31: Table compiled by Mrs Mitzi Waltz, University of Sunderland, on possible cases of autism taken from Dr Dickinson's case notes; GOS/12/32 Patient cards etc, for Catherine Evans, 1925-1934.

GOS/12/33: Great Ormond Street Index to Standard Nomenclature of Diseases of the American Medical Association 4th edition, Dec 1965 (gift of RCPCH Library); GOS/12/34: Patient admission forms 1936; GOS/12/35-36 Patient cards and letters for Brian Cyril Smith, 1937-1938 (permission to use from date of deposit); GOS/12/37 Correspondence from, or concerning, former patients and their past treatment, 1931-1980 (received 2005-2008); GOS/12/38 Papers of D. Lewis, Senior Physiotherapy Nurse, on physiotherapy methods used at the Hospital, circa 1945-1950.

GOS/12/39-83 *Post Mortem Registers, 1860-1948; comprising GOS/12/39 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1860-1865; GOS/12/40 Post Mortem Case Reports,1865-1870; GOS/12/41 Post Mortem Case reports, 1870-1876; GOS/12/42 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1876-1879;
GOS/12/43 Post Mortem Case Reports,1879-1882; GOS/12/44 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1882-1884; GOS/12/45 Post Mortem Case reports, 1885-1887; GOS/12/46 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1887-1890; GOS/12/47 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1890-1891; GOS/12/48 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1891-1892; GOS/12/49 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1892-1894; GOS/12/50 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1894-1896; GOS/12/51 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1896-1897; GOS/12/52 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1896-1899; GOS/12/53 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1899-1900; GOS/12/54 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1900-1902; GOS/12/55 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1902-1904; GOS/12/56 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1904-1905; GOS/12/57 Post Mortem Case Reports,1905-1906; GOS/12/58 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1906-1907; GOS/12/59 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1907-1908; GOS/12/60 Post Mortem Case Reports; GOS/12/61 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1910-1911; GOS/12/62 Post Mortem Case Reports,1911-1913; GOS/12/63 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1913-1915; GOS/12/64 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1915-1918; GOS/12/65 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1918-1920; GOS/12/66 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1920-1921; GOS/12/67 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1921-1924; GOS/12/68 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1924-1926; GOS/12/69 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1926-1929; GOS/12/70 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1929-1931; GOS/12/71 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1931-1933;GOS/12/72 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1933-1935;GOS/12/73 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1935-1937; GOS/12/74 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1937-1940; GOS/12/75 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1940-1944; GOS/12/76 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1944-1945; GOS/12/77 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1945-1946; GOS/12/78 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1946-1947; GOS/12/79 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1947-1948; GOS/12/80 Post Mortem Catalogue (indexed alphabetically by condition, covering the 1860-1907 Case Report registers listed above);GOS/12/81 Post Mortem Photograph Album, c. 1900-1920 (?); GOS/12/82 Post Mortem Photograph Album, c.1920-1930 (?); GOS/12/83 Post Mortem Photograph Album, circa 1930-1948(?);

GOS/12/84 Attendance Card for Lily Rawlings (patient of Mr. Tyrrell Gray),7-19 March 1926; GOS/12/85 Patient Admission Card for John Cawson, 2 May 1948 (Gift of Mr. Cawson); GOS/12/86 Correspondence with Chief Executive Dr. Jane Collins of former patient Mr. G.K. Allen, concerning his treatment in the 1920s, 2011 *; GOS/12/87 Correspondence by postcard to patient Beryl Parr at Great Ormond Street and Tadworth Court,from family members,1928-1929 (gift from her family).

The collection consists of miscellaneous material pertaining to Professor John Chassar Moir's career which was retained in the family, 1921-1977. This includes biographical material; research files, including on ergot, vesico-vaginal fistula, and history of obstetrics; a few case notes; correspondence; and two films of operations.

Records of Moorfields Eye Hospital, 1860-1993, including minutes of the Committee of Management and Board of Governors, Building Committee, Building and Planning Committee, Drug Committee, Ethical Committee, Finance Committee, House Committee, Medical Committee, Medical Establishment Committee, Planning Committtee, Staff Committee and Trustees Committee; papers relating to amalgamation with the Central London Opthalmic Hospital; annual reports; statistics; staff records; issues of magazine 'The Hospital' and issues of the Hospital Yearbook.

Records of the Moorfields Eye Hospital and predecessor hospitals, 1804-1993, including the Children's Ophalmic Convalescent Home, the Central London Opthalmic Hospital, the Royal London Opthalmic Hospital and the Royal Westminster Opthalmic Hospital.

Papers of Isabella Jeanette (Jean) Murray, including letter enclosing gift, 21 Dec 1922; enrolment card as member of King's College Hospital Nurses League, 14 Jan 1925; receipt for life membership subscription of the League, 18 Apr 1927;
bundle of small black and white photographs including images of nurses Iris Angwen, Jean Murray, Dilnot, Emma, Wallis and Littlejohn, Nichol, Lloyd, Shaw, Ross, Bush, c 1924; photograph of Dr and Mrs Firth, and Raymond Firth, 1932; photograph of Lonsdale Ward, King's College Hospital (undated);
volume of manuscript notes on bandaging, operating theatre procedures and surgical equipment; cuttings of various remedies; the Hospital Chorus; trolley preparation for various procedures; and descriptions of treatments and patient preparation;
examination question paper for King's College Hospital Junior Probationer Examination [c.1921];
bundle of photocopies including an invitation to the Nurses Christmas Ball, King's College Hospital, Jan 1959; notes on Kitchen Duties;
letters to Murray, from T R Sanderson, Assistant County Secretary, British Red Cross Society Kent, confirming her appointment as an approved Lecturer in Home Nursing, 20 Mar 1940; from G G Hall British Red Cross Society, 2 May 1940, relating to Miss Murray's class undertaking the Home Nursing examination; from E [Guy] principal, Ashford Technical Institute and Evening Classes, relating to salary claim form for lectures given in Home Nursing, 7 Apr 1941.
Murray's books including: Text-book for nurses, anatomy physiology, surgery and medicine, E W Hey Groves, and J M Fortescue-Brickdale, 2nd edition, The Joint Committee of Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1919 (inscribed J I Murray, 1920); A handbook for nurses with examination questions based on the contents of the chapters, J K Watson, 5th edition, The Scientific Press, London.[undated] (inscribed J Murray 1919); A complete system of nursing, A Millicent Ashdown, J M Dent & Sons, London and Toronto, 1919 (inscribed I J Murray , and containing letters to Miss J J Murray 1940-1941)); Aids to anatomy and physiology for nurses, Katherine F Armstrong, Balliere, Tindall and Cole, London, 1939 (inscribed I J Murray).

Diary of a resurrectionist, 1811-1812, probably Joshua Naples, describing his activities supplying bodies to anatomists in London, including to St Thomas's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals.

Records of Napsbury Hospital including minutes of the Standing Sub-committee of Visitors, 1898-1947; Sub-committee minutes, 1940-1941; Shenley and Napsbury Group minutes, 1948; Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1948-1949; hospital statistics, 1951-1970; admission registers, 1904-1951; death registers, 1933-1948; departure registers, 1931-1948; discharge registers, 1910-1961; general registers, 1948-1964; medical journals, 1915-1925; case books, 1905-1911; medical registers, 1940-1948; registers of daily patients, 1964-1972; some correspondence concerning patients, 1951-1953; register of mechanical restraint 1948-1952 and service patients' bill book, 1946-1952.

Napsbury Asylum papers comprising: procedure book, reports from Pathological Department, 1930s, investigation into typhoid carriers in the Hospital, 1934, study of 16 cases of cerebral tumour, 1935; articles and cuttings relating to psychiatry and neurology, 1927-1956.

Records of the National Heart and Lung Institute, 1877-1972, incorporating records of the Brompton Hospital, comprising catalogue of pathological specimens at Brompton Hospital, 1877; Dr Pollock's register of females admitted to the Brompton Hospital, 1878-1881; food supervisor's report book, 1924-1933; matron's report book, 1941-1954; illustrations of physicians and scientists, [1905-1913]; resident medical officer's report books, 1937-1947, 1967-1972;
correspondence to Dr Marcus Paterson as medical superintendant of Brompton Hospital Sanatorium, comprising letters from physicians, medical officers of health, former patients and their relatives and employers, trade correspondence relating to the sanatorium and treatment of tuberculosis, [1905-1912];
papers relating to Frederick Rufenacht Walters, [1882-1932], including notebooks concerning his publications, reprints, press cuttings, memoranda and some letters.

Records of the National Heart Hospital, consisting of a sample of the case files kept by the physicians of the hospital between 1907 and 1963 and photographs taken by Dr John Mathias Senior Registrar of the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom in 1968.

Archives of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery comprising: Broad Management and Administration records: Annual reports 1859-1948; Board of Governors’ minutes 1865-1948; Finance Committee 1902-1948; Appeal Committee minutes 1935-1944; Medical Committee minutes 1877-1948; Sub-committee minutes 1894-1948; Trust Fund/accounts 1895-1901; Medical School Committee 1919-1938; Papers relating to the dispute between the medical staff and the Administration 1899-1901; Register of Bequests 1861-1908, 1930s-1940s; Property leases, agreements etc 1881-1850, 1930-40s; Correspondence/drawings re rebuilding 1877-1882; Building layouts/ copy plans covering both hospitals 1894-1963; Statistics 1897-1939; Patient records: Physicians’ Case notes (including surgery reports) 1861-1946; Clinical Pathology register 1937-1952; Staff records: Weekly/staff reports by Lady Superintendent 1902-1957; Nursing certificates register 1895-1949; Nursing staff appointments register 1903-1949; Male nurse register 1929-1948; School of Massage minutes,syllabus, accounts 1929-1935; School of Massage Register of certificates awarded 1905-1937; Domestic staff/ward orderlies appointments 1930-1966; Photographs: Approximately 3,000 covering staff, special occasions, buildings, wards and theatres.

The collection covers the work of the NNAH from its founding c 2000 up to its closure in 2007. It includes the institutional archives of the National Network for Arts in Health (NNAH) and the Baron Archive of Health Care Arts (c 1980-2000). The resources collected by both organisations include files on art, drama and music projects in the health service supported by Art in Hospitals and the NNAH, together with a library of 150 books, 4,500 reports and pamphlets and other research materials assembled as a resource for education and research.

Papers relating to naval medical history, 1932, comprising a volume titled Grievances of Naval Surgeons containing precis of letters published in The Lancet from 1827-1902, compiled by 'Surgeon Captain, Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, September 1932'; 2 letters from Christopher Lloyd of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, to Miss Jessie Dobson, concerning a historical enquiry (24 Oct 1960), and a visit to look at 'your Lancet volume'; and a volume containing issues which appeared in The Lancet in the 19th century, for instance, the exclusion of naval medical officers from the King's Levees, a new mode of punishment in the Navy, hospital ships, and the Gilbert Blane Medal.

The archives of New End Hospital, Hampstead, comprising series of administrative and patient records, registers, photographs and records of education and training, 1914-1981, comprising:

Administrative Records, notably Medical Superintendent's reports, 1926-1930, containing details of births and deaths, accident and emergency admissions and summaries of operations performed; Medical Committee minutes, 1968-1973 and correspondence, 1969-1974; Archway Group Hospital Management Committee Annual Reports, 1948-1962; Fire Drill Instruction Reports, 1942-1981; Chaplain's Journal, 1965-1977, containing record of services and hospital visits; Planning Committee minutes, 1963-1967;

Matron/School of Nursing records including registers of nurse education and service, 1902-1938; Nursing Staff Registers, 1947-1971;

Patient records including Registers of Births, 1914-1915, 1920-1953; Register of Baptisms, 1920-1958; Maternity Registers, 1939-1953; Consultant's case books, 1931, 1934, 1936; Death Registers, 1930-1967; Admission and Discharge Register 1937-1938; Operation Registers, 1941-1952; Post Mortem Registers, 1930-1964, 1974; Mortuary Registers, 1949-1986;

Ephemera including photographs, ward signs, labels and plaques.

Minutes of Health Authority meetings and records of the District Sub Committees.

The collection chiefly comprises correspondence by Florence Nightingale, either in original or in copy form. The date-span covers the whole of her life and the subjects range from her attempts to become a nurse, service in the Crimea and subsequent work reforming the training and practice of nursing, through her other concerns such as Indian sanitation, cottage hospitals and the use of medical statistics, to personal and family matters. Well-represented correspondents include her family (particularly her sister Parthenope and brother-in-law Sir Harry Verney), Sir William Aitken (1825-1892), Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School; George Hanby De'ath (c.1862-1901), Medical Officer of Health for Buckingham; William Farr (1807-1883), statistician; Miss Louisa Gordon, Matron at St Thomas' Hospital; Miss Amy Hughes, Superintendent of the Nurses' Co-operation; Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817-1890); Charles C. Plowden of the Sanitary Department of the India Office; and Mary Clarke Mohl (1793-1883). In addition, there is twentieth century material relating to Nightingale's legacy such as photographs of her grave (at MS.9101) and administrative papers relating to the compilation of A calendar of the letters of Florence Nightingale (Oxford, 1977) by Sue Goldie (MSS.9106-9109).

Papers of Florence Nightingale, 1876-1956, comprising notes on sick nursing addressed to the editors of Every Girl's Magazine, 19 Nov 1881; photographs of autograph labels for Nightingale's collection of shells. Including a letter from G Ellis Flack from Nottingham University, where the shell collection is now housed, 1951; autograph in pencil; correspondence with Dr John Shaw Billings, 23 Oct 1876-4 Dec 1876, requesting advice from Nightingale on the building of a hospital in Baltimore by the Johns Hopkins Trust; and 2 letters relating to the efforts to locate the correspondence, Apr-May 1956.