Financial accounts ledger of Toye and Bromley, yarn, hemp and fibre merchants.

Records of the Tottenham and District Gas Company, 1916-1948, consisting of agreements to supply gas and correspondence.

Records of Torquay Brewing and Trading Company Limited, including minutes of Board and annual general meetings; instructions to counsel and proposal for tenancy of London Hotel, Torquay.

Records relate to the operation and acquisition of Top Star Taverns Limited including articles of association, minutes, accounts, and correspondence from the 1970s.

Records of Toerangie (Sumatra) Rubber and Produce Estates Limited, including articles of association; minutes; annual reports and accounts; circulars; and a ledger.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of clockmakers Ainsworth Thwaites and Company, later Thwaites and Reed Limited. The records comprise daybooks 1780-1955; ledgers, including workmen's time and materials accounts, 1788-1958; estimate and order books 1802-1945; maintenance and repair books 1822-47 and 1874-80; spare parts books 1842-1912; stock books 1814-55 and 1904-54; copy invoice books 1917-20; out-letter book 1919-20; cash books and journals 1812-1951; bank books 1886-1954; and wages books 1828-1931.

Access to Mss 6788/1-6, 6789 and 6791/1-4 is subject to special conditions: for further information ask a member of staff.

Documents relating to Afghanistan comprising letter from Annie Thornton to the Amir of Afghanistan and his reply, 1 Dec 1905; regulations regarding the new leather work in Kabul from the Amir, 1 Aug 1905 and diary of Ernest Thornton, 1908, containing letters.

Records of Thorne Bros Limited, brewers, 1884-1970. This collection contains corporate, accounts and premises records. Corporate records include minutes of meetings, deeds of partnership and registers of director and shareholders. Accounts and premises records include an accounts journal and documents relating to inter-company transfers of property.

Typescipt draft for a book entitled 'Letters from Mlanje,' extracts from letters from Edward Laidlaw Thomson, employed with the African Lakes Company on a new coffee plantation, to his family in Scotland, 1893-1897, edited with a foreword by James MacEwan, 1976.

Records collected by James Thomas and Thomas Powell, leather and hide factors, comprising leather brokers' trade circulars, tables of prices and sales reports.

Articles of partnership for 'the purchasing, manufacturing and vending of silk, worsted, muslin, calicoe, and all other sorts of shawls and printed muslins...', drawn up between Thomas Weatherall, Bartholomew Sewell, of Norwich, weaver, and Joseph Spurrell, of Friday Street, weaver.

Letters from Thomas Laugher to the manager of his colour manufacturing business about the progress of the business in Laugher's absence.

Minute book of the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding and Engineering Co Ltd, 30 October 1899 to 14 June 1911.

Records relating to property owned by the Thames Iron Works in Greenwich, Deptford and West Ham.

Also papers of the Ellis family concerning premises at Hornsey, Stoke Newington and Hackney, London, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire and Nelson and Wellington, New Zealand.

Tellus Super Vacuum Cleaner Limited balance sheets and directors' reports, 1956 and 1962.

Book of prescriptions by various hands. The date 1914 is found on p. 10, and 1937 on p. 59. Prices are added to some of the entries. Produced in London.

Records of Taylor Walker and Co Ltd, brewers, 1759-1972. This collection contains corporate, staff, premises and miscellaneous records. Corporate records include minutes of directors' meetings, articles of association and copartnership, registers of seals and supply agreements. Staff records include minutes of Employees Representative Committee meetings. Premises records include early title deeds for brewery premises as well as for individual public houses and mortgage records. The miscellaneous series comprises an album of advertising cuttings.

Coal industry collection. Pamphlets, parliamentary papers, press cuttings and extracts concerning the coal industry in UK, France, USA and Germany, collected by Tawney. Tawney's despatch box and a quantity of miscellaneous papers omitted from the original list were identified and added in 1994. They include a photograph of the members of the Coal Industry Commission and some statistical data.

Tariff Commission reports and memoranda; agendas and minutes for meetings of the Commission and its committees; evidence presented by witnesses; questionnaires distributed to the industrial and agricultural sectors; indices to the reports and evidence; correspondence received by the Commission; unpublished reports and papers; notes, drafts, rough papers, statistics and lectures arising from the Reports and investigations of the Commission and used as reference material; financial and legal papers; published material other than that produced by the Commission, including books and articles by W A S Hewins; and minute books and financial papers of the Tariff Reform League.

Records of the Tandjong Rubber Company Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports and accounts; and circulars.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of the Tanah Datar Rubber Estates Limited, comprising articles of association and circulars to shareholders.

Records of T.R.S. Company Limited, investment company, comprising articles of association and annual report and accounts.

Records of the Sydenham Gas and Coke Company, 1852-1866, comprising Deed of Settlement and one Shareholders and Directors meeting minute book.

Directors' Meetings Minutes for the Surrey Gas Consumers Gas Company, 1877-1879.

Records of Sungei Kari (Sumatra) Rubber Estates Limited, comprising papers regarding Harrisons and Crosfield's management of the firm's business.

Records of Sungei Bahru Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports and accounts; circulars; and financial accounts.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Letters patent granted to Morton William Lawrence of Lehman Street, Goodman's Fields, Whitechapel, sugar refiner, by King George IV giving him sole use and benefit of invention of improvement in process of sugar refinery for 14 years, 28 Apr 1827.

Records relating to the premises of a sugar factory, including leases and releases, mortgages, assignment of leasehold, and sales particulars, 1733-1870.

Staff records for Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including papers relating to the pension scheme; and staff record sheets.

Property records for Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including joint diary with the Royal Brewery Brentford and Dartford Brewery recording notes on premises and public houses; register of insurance for public houses; order book for repairs; tenants dilapidation registers; and repairs ledger.

Financial records of Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including papers relating to assets and liabilities; war damage ledgers; bank account books; receipts; and compensation and income tax ledger.

Corporate records of Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including minutes of Board and general meetings; minutes of joint committee with the Dartford Brewery and the Royal Brewery Brentford; registers of members, shares, mortgages, sealing, and directors; trust deeds; articles of association; directors' reports and accounts; and agreements.

A collection of letters, printed circulars, etc, mainly addressed to William Blackwood, of Messrs Stuart and Blackwood, Peebles, Scotland, 1859-1901. The topics covered reflect the firm's business activities: requests for legal advice or legal action; requests to act as agents or trustees; and legal advice or legal action on insurance, assurance and debts. A signficant proportion of the letters concern the Symington extension of the Caledonian Railway Company (1861).

Records of merchants Stratton and Gibson (later known as Stratton, Gibson and Fuller) comprising two series of account books, 1798-1817.

Papers of Sir Montagu Stopford, consisting of memoranda issued to the fleet in the Crimea, 1854, records of arrivals and sailings of ships at Malta, 1855 to 1856, and the commission appointing Stopford Superintendent of Malta Dockyard.

Papers of Admiral Robert Fanshawe Stopford, consisting of loose papers mounted in a volume, relating mainly to the TALBOT and ASIA periods, with official service documents. An additional volume relates to RF Stopford's time as a midshipman, featuring sailing and wind calculations, together with observations on forts in the Dardanelles and Sevastopol.

Papers of Robert Neville Stopford comprising two midshipman's log books kept while Stopford was in the Mediterranean between 1905 and 1908. The first volume covers his time on HMS BARFLEUR and HMS FORMIDABLE. The second volume covers his time aboard HMS HINDUSTAN and HMS BERWICK.

Papers of Sir Montagu Stopford, consisting of memoranda issued to the fleet in the Crimea, 1854, records of arrivals and sailings of ships at Malta, 1855 to 1856, and the commission appointing Stopford Superintendent of Malta Dockyard.

Papers of Adml Sir Robert Stopford, comprising an order book, 1803 to 1805, official service documents and private and semi-official letters from many important officers of the time. Among them is one from Nelson (q.v.), 1805, from the Duke of Wellington, 1811, and a series of thirty-five from William, Duke of Clarence, 1827 to 1828, when Lord High Admiral. For the Mediterranean command there are letters from the 2nd Earl of Minto (q.v.) and Lord Ponsonby (1770-1855), ambassador at Constantinople. Finally, there is a volume of letters from well-known literary and social figures received by Stopford and Field-Marshal Thomas Grosvenor (1764-1851) between 1791 and 1850, including one from Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) (Stopford and Grosvenor both lived at Richmond, Surrey). Also, the log of HMS SPENCER, kept while Capt Stopford was attached to the Channel Fleet in 1803-1804.

Two way bills of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, 1862, one dated 10 Feb from Adelaide Colliery, Bishop Auckland; the other dated 13 Feb from North Bitchburn Colliery, Witton-le-Wear, Durham.

Papers of William Stewart, consisting of letters to Sir William, 1879 to 1884, including those from the First Lord, William Henry Smith (1825-1891) and other private correspondents. His period in the MARLBOROUGH is represented by letters as well as a book of remarks on the discipline of the ship. There is a book entitled the 'Dimensions, cost etc. of H.M. Ships built under contract and in the Dockyards', 1860 to 1873. The collection also contains the proceedings of the Naval Brigade attached to the expeditionary force for the relief of Tokar in 1884 when Lieutenant Houston Stewart, Sir William's son, in command of the Right Half-Battery, was killed at the action of El Teb. Finally there are a few letters written to Sir William's father, Sir Houston Stewart, between 1853 and 1854 when Sir Houston was Superintendent of Malta Dockyard.

Papers of William Stewart, consisting of letters to Sir William, 1879 to 1884, including those from the First Lord, William Henry Smith (1825-1891) and other private correspondents. His period in the Marlborough is represented by letters as well as a book of remarks on the discipline of the ship. There is a book entitled the 'Dimensions, cost etc. of H.M. Ships built under contract and in the Dockyards', 1860 to 1873. The collection also contains the proceedings of the Naval Brigade attached to the expeditionary force for the relief of Tokar in 1884 when Lieutenant Houston Stewart, Sir William's son, in command of the Right Half-Battery, was killed at the action of El Teb. A midshipman's log for the ARIADNE, Portsmouth, 1871, MINOTAUR, Channel Squadron, 1872, and NARCISSUS, West Indies, October 1872 to 1873, belonged to Lieutenant Houston Stewart. Finally there are a few letters written to Sir William's father, Sir Houston Stewart, between 1853 and 1854 when Sir Houston was Superintendent of Malta Dockyard.

Unpublished typescript memoirs, 1893-1969, including: accounts of life in the British colony in St Petersburg before World War One; work in the British Military Mission at the Russian War Office; events witnessed during the Russian Revolution and conditions for the Russian Army during the Revolution, 1917-1918; evacuation of British personnel from Russia, February 1918; negotiating with Finnish Red and White commanders while travelling through Finland during the Civil War; liaising with Admiral Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak and the White armies in Harbin, China, 1918; liaising with General Mikhail Konstantinovich Dieterichs, Czechoslovak Legions, and a special mission to Ataman Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (or Semenov) in Chita, Transbaikalia, November 1918; activities as General Sir Harry Knox's liaison officer at the White Army Headquarters in Omsk, November 1918 - November 1919; the retreat from Omsk to Vladivostock following the success of the Bolshevik army, November 1919 - March 1920; stationing in Gibraltar and Egypt, 1921-1922; life and work in Simla, Waziristan and Kamptee, India, 1922-1928; work as an intelligence officer, Meshed, Persia (Iran), 1928-1931; life and work in Bombay, Ajmer, Jhansi, Alwar and Delhi, India, 1932-1935, including description of rioting under the Maharajah of Alwar; experiences working in India, China and Egypt during World War Two, including visit to Palestine; account of working in the post-war timber trade and as a consultant in the Russian Section of the London Chamber of Commerce. Also article `Anglo-Russian Timber Trade: Personal Reminiscences and Reflections of Col L Steveni', The Timber Trades Journal, 11 March 1961, and article by Richard J Aldrich, University of Nottingham, from Modern Asian Studies 32, 1 (1998), pp. 179-217, entitled "Britain's Secret Intelligence Service in Asia during the Second World War" including analysis of Steveni's role as Director of British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in Asia.

Records of Welsh steelworks, 1928-1957, including statistical data relating to output, costs, profit and loss, and mainly comprising weekly reports from individual companies and works.

Account-book of a medical practitioner in Kinross. In Vol. II is an inserted letter, dated 8 Jan., 1921, from D. W. B. Fleming of Culross to Orr, the Bristol bookseller relating to this MS. Produced in Kinross.

Correspondence and financial papers of William Stearns (described variously as 'Dr Stearns', 'apothecary', and 'druggist'), and of Major Joseph Sprague and Seth Low (described as 'Dr Low', and 'druggist'), with whom Stearns appears to have been in partnership.

Records of the Star Brewery Company Limited, including correspondence and papers; memorandum of association (Oct 1886) with articles of association (Sept 1966); draft agreement for sale to Courage, Barclay and Simonds 1967; papers relating to shares; and report and valuation for Courage, Barclay and Simonds.

Records of the Staines Local Board of Health, Urban District Council and Rural District Council relating to road and bridge maintenance, provision of utilities and sewer and drainage works, 1876-1961, including correspondence; agreements; memoranda; contracts; deeds; copies of legislation; petitions; orders of the Local Government Board and licences.

Leases relating to properties owned by the St Bride Foundation Institute, in Stonecutter Street, Fleet Market, Farringdon Street, Fountain Court, Shoe Lane, Salisbury Court and St Bride's Churchyard.

Records of the Spencer-Philip family; primarily papers relating to property transactions, including extracts from court rolls, abstracts of title, leases, plans and rents, for premises in the Manor of Stepney (Whitechapel, Stepney and Mile End) and in Essex. Also building leases and agreements relating to the King David's Fort Estate, St George's in the East, and papers and plans concerning construction of London and Blackwall railway through that estate; an Act of Parliament relating to roads in St Leonard Shoreditch; and family certificates (baptisms, marriages, burials). The collection includes a manorial custumal for the Manor of Stepney, 1587.

Records of Spalding and Hodge, stationers, 1781-1911; and subsidiary or merged companies including Busbridge and Hodge, papermakers and Suttaby and Company, booksellers. Also records of the Stationers' Book Society. The records include business agreements, legal documents relating to properties, wages books, cash books, stock books, bills, rules and regulations for staff, letters patent, brochures about Spalding and Hodge and their history, inventories, correspondence and price lists. Stationers' Book Society records comprise minutes, accounts, and an address by Thomas Spalding.

Signed minutes of the Committee of Management of the South London Gas Light and Coke Company, 1823-1824.

Records of the South Coast Bottling Company Limited, comprising board and general meeting minutes, agenda and papers and papers and correspondence concerning liquidation.