Photocopies and microfilm copies of the correspondence of Philip and Bartholomew Corsini, Florentine merchants in London, 1568-1637. Also letters addressed chiefly to Francesco Venturini, merchant and banker, and his partner and successors, in Leghorn [Livorno}, 1663-1708, and to Angiolini and Frangini, merchants, and others, in Florence, 1701-1742.

Original items: only two original documents are held: a letter from Nov 1590 (CLC/B/062/MS22280A) and an insurance policy for a cargo (CLC/B/062/MS22281)

Archives of the Madeira wine merchants Cossart, Gordon and Company. They relate both to its domestic business in Madeira and to its international operations, including its relations with customers and agents in the British Isles, continental Europe, the United States, the West Indies and (from c 1780) India and the Far East.

The documents are chiefly unbound business papers (in bundles, some original) and mostly dated between 1754 and 1898, together with a few family papers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and photocopies of items removed for sale in the late 20th century.

NB SPECIAL CONDITIONS APPLY TO ALMOST ALL OF THE ARCHIVE; READERS REQUIRE PROOF OF IDENTITY INCLUDING NAME, ADDRESS AND SIGNATURE.

Records of Daniel Desbois and Sons, watch and clockmakers, comprising a series of ledgers and a series of day books.

This archive relates mainly to the management of the coffee, coconut and cinnamon estates of A. S. Daniell and his son S. W. Daniell in Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. The estates were called Gomera Tennai, New Gomera, Olooambelam, Imbulgaswaddie and Katooloya Tennei. The archive consists mainly of returns and reports from the local managers, Darley Butler and Company of Colombo, Ceylon, and of correspondence, accounts and legal papers. It also includes some family papers, comprising copies of wills and marriage settlements, accounts, bills and receipts, and a letter. Additional records of Daniell and Company, of separate provenance, are catalogued as Mss 11464-11465a.

Papers of Davison, Newman and Company, grocers and importers of West-Indian produce, comprising mostly accounts, correspondence, legal papers and papers relating to land in Jamaica.

Minutes of the Debenture Corporation Limited, investment company.

Records of Thomas Denny, corn dealer, comprising day books and rough accounts.

Records of Dixon, Morgan and Company, wine and spirits traders, including incoming letters, vouchers, balance sheet and accounts.

Records of Drury Thurgood and Company, chartered accountants. The records entirely comprise financial records, including private ledgers, 1926-71 (Ms 29896) and clients ledgers, 1936-85 (Ms 29898).

Records of chartered accountants Reads and Company, entirely comprising financial records, including private and expense ledgers, 1924-69 (Ms 29901), clients ledgers, 1929-85 (Ms 29902) and salaries books, 1918-45 (Mss 29913-14). The earliest record is a dividend book, relating to the debts of businesses in liquidation and bankrupts, which dates from 1905 until 1954 (Ms 29910). Most of these records are indexed.

Letter books of the Dunaburg and Witepsk Railway Company, later known as the Dvinsk and Vitebsk Railway Company Limited.

Records of Dyster, Nalder and Company, comprising catalogues of sales of skins, hides, furs, horns, hair and tallow; and an out-letter book.

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Records of E Dent and Company Limited, clock and watch makers. The archives in this collection are the surviving business records, covering mainly the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are primarily the records of the Strand and Royal Exchange shops - only Ms 18026 and 23823-4 relating to M. F. Dent, 1856-1920, appear to have survived.

They are arranged as follows:
Ownership of company - shares, bonds (Mss 18005-7);
Administration - ledger, balance sheets and accounts, letter books; company management (Mss18008-15);
Business -
(i) stock books and manufacturing books (Mss 18016-26);
(ii) letters patent, specifications and related papers (Mss 18027-40);
(iii) Watch trial certificates, trade mark certificates (Mss 18041-2);
(iv) Drawings of watches, clocks, parts etc. (Mss 18043-52);
(v) Photographs of watches, clocks, parts etc. (Mss 18053-4);
Leases and agreements relating to premises (Mss 18055-64);
Miscellaneous mainly printed (Mss 18065-76);
Records of M. F. Dent (Mss 23823-4).

Records of the East India Company, comprising warrant for the delivery of tea; correspondence and receipts; account book of the ship "Ganges"; and papers relating to an investigation into the alleged sale of a staff position in the Madras establishment.

Records of Edmund Schluter and Company, general merchants, including letter books; ledgers; cash books; journals; sales books; purchase books; and waste books.

Records of Edward Grace and Company, brokers and merchants, comprising correspondence and accounts.

Records of the Equitable Life Assurance Society spanning 1803 to 1976; with records of associated societies the Equitable Reversionary Interest Society (spanning 1835 to 1976); the Reversionary Interest Society (spanning 1823 to 1982) and the University Life Assurance Society (spanning 1825 to 1957).

Records of the Equitable Reversionary Interest Society including out-letter books; deeds of settlement; minute books; annual reports; ledgers; registers of valuations of reversions; registers of recoveries; and registers of debentures.

Records of the Reversionary Interest Society, including out-letter books; deeds of settlement; minute books; annual reports; administrative papers; papers relating to shareholders; financial accounts; actuary's reports; legal papers; property deeds; and notes on the history of the Society.

Records of the University Life Assurance Society, including the Royal Charter and supplemental charters; minute books; share certificates; life policy registers; register of deaths of policyholders; letter books; legal case papers and register of probates.

Records of news agency Exchange Telegraph Company Limited, including:

1. Constitution; operating agreements, Mss 22956-61;
   2. Board and AGM minutes etc; annual reports and accounts, Mss 22962-9;
   3. Papers relating to lawsuits, Mss 22970-4;
   4. Internal financial and accounting records, Mss 22975-23012;
   5. Records of subscribers, Mss 23013-24;
   6. Correspondence (subdivided as follows):
      (i) Miscellaneous early correspondence, Mss 23025-7;
      (ii) Correspondence etc relating to dealings with the London Stock Exchange, Mss 23028-32;
      (iii) Correspondence etc concerning the sports services, chiefly horse racing, Mss 23033-41;
      (iv) Correspondence etc concerning relations with the Press Association Ltd, Mss 23042-8. 10;
      (v) Papers of Wilfred King (chairman 1913-43), Mss 23049-51;
      (vi) Papers of E C Barker (a director, 1913-33), Mss 23052-61;
      (vii) Correspondence relating to arrangements with the BBC, Ms 23062;
      (viii) Foreign correspondence (including Second World War correspondence), Mss 23063-6;
      (ix) Correspondence concerning tariff rates, Ms 23067;
   7. Examples of news transmitted and statistics service cards, Mss 23068-74;
   8. Engineering and patents records, Mss 23075-94;
   9. Publicity records, eg tariffs, circulars and application forms, Mss 23095-102;
   10. Records of correspondents, wages and commissions, Mss 23103-6;
   11. Photographs, Mss 23107-15;
   12. News cuttings, Mss 23116-25;
   13. Miscellaneous (chiefly historical notes and records of subsidiaries), Mss 23126-35;
   14. Records of the joint services of ETC and the Press Association Ltd, Mss 23136-57;
   15. Miscellaneous items presented by BT Archives, Ms 38642.

Records of Farebrother, Ellis and Company, chartered surveyors. Records relate mostly to the fee farm rent business. The rentals are generally very detailed, giving the names of the landlords of the fee farm rents and of successive tenants (ie owners) and occupiers of each property, together with a description of the property, its reference number and the amount of rent payable.

Records of Flower, Ridehalgh and Company, stockjobbers, comprising financial accounts and book of stocks paid and received.

Records of the Foreign Banks and Securities Houses Association including minutes, correspondence, annual reports, circulars and newsletters. Many of the correspondence files concern matters of general interest to the Association members, such as fraud and money laundering, taxation, liquidity, securities, mergers, foreign exchange and currency, supervision and regulation, banking codes of practice, legislation, and so on.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from the Association of Foreign Banks (contact details may be obtained from staff).

Records of Foster and Braithwaite, stockbrokers, which comprise ledgers, journals and subscription books.

Records of Franklin Wild and Company, accountants, including letter book and financial accounts, including ledgers and cash books.

Records of Frederick Huth and Company, merchants and bankers. The material in this archive is incomplete, reflecting primarily the merchant and banking business during the 19th century. The records comprise correspondence and financial material, including some relating to the subsidary businesses in Spain, Chile and Peru.

Records of the Wright family comprising title deeds and related papers for premises in Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Hornsey, and Chiswick.

Papers, 1575-1792, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties mainly in Edgware, Hendon and Willesden. Documents include bargain and sales, bonds, quitclaim, mortgages, will and probate, covenants and final concords.

Records of Watney Combe Reid and Company Limited, comprising deeds and documents relating to Victoria Tavern, Willesden Lane, Kilburn, Willesden, 1865; deeds and documents relating to The George Public House, near the Pig Market, Finchley, 1828, 1850; deeds relating to 'The Three Bowls' Public House, Acton, 1796-1810 and deeds and documents relating to The Cock Public House, Kilburn, Willesden, 1766-1800.

Papers, 1834-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to messuage lands called Little Strawberry Hill, Twickenham.

Papers, 1799-1930, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to the Claysmore Estate, including two documents relating to New River, 1821 and 1864.

Papers, 1901-1930, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Pinner, Wealdstone and Harrow.

Records of the Mann family, comprising title deeds for premises in Isleworth.

Records of the de Burgh family relating to their estates in Hillingdon, Harmondsworth and West Drayton, including leases, releases, mortgages, letters, agreements and tax certificates. Also court rolls (courts baron) for the Manor of Colham and the Manor of West Drayton.

Practice papers of solicitor A Chamberlayne, relating to property in Chiswick, Hornsey, Highgate, East Finchley, Tottenham, Harlesden and Willesden, 1886-1896. The documents include agreements, settlements, probates, leases and mortgages.

Records relating to estates owned by Christs Hospital in East Bedfont, including letters, reports, leases, deeds and valuations.

Records of the Tubbs family relating to property owned by them, primarily in Acton, Harlesden, and Willesden, but also in Fulham, Marylebone, Hammersmith, and Soho. The papers include deeds, leases, maps, financial accounts, bills, legal papers, family certificates (births, marriages, deaths), school reports, letters and wills.

Minute Book for the Manor of Little Stanmore, 1785-1839. With various documents found enclosed in the minute book, including letters and papers relating to the household accounts of the Marquis of Buckingham, and letter to the steward of the Manor of Great Stanmore.

Copy of Court Roll for the Manor of Enfield, 1768; and sessions paper from the Middlesex Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1708.

Papers, 1638-1890, collected by Myers in the course of their work, comprising wills and a bond relating to Palgrave, Suffolk; Hampstead; Kensington (Old Brompton); West Twyford and Bloomsbury.

Papers of the Rycaut, Shorediche and Churchward families, including histories of the families; family letters; despatches and notices; press cuttings; historical notes on Ickenham church; papers and photographs relating to Ickenham manor house; and papers of Paul Rycaut Stanbury Churchward relating to his military service in South Africa and India.

Papers, 1752-1877, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases, releases and bargain and sale relating to properties in Willesden and St. George, Hanover Square.

Papers, 1890-1895, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases for land on Henderson Row and Hertford Road, Edmonton.

Papers, 1610-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to property in Westminster, Uxendon, Preston, Kenton and Wembley, including Preston Farm and Uxendon Manor House.

Papers, 1774-1844, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases and releases for property in Enfield.

The collection is of family papers belonging to Isabella, Lady Cooper, her children and grandchildren. The papers include documents detailing Lady Cooper's inheritance and assignments of its stock to her husband and children.There is a collection of title deeds for Isleworth Estate, together with leases of various parts of it, tradesmen's vouchers, accounts and particulars of its eventual sale (1855-78). There are also some 17th century title deeds to property in Hidden, Hungerford, as well as later deeds, accounts, rentals and leases.

Among the personal papers are a group concerning the settlement made on the marriage of William Honywood, Lady Cooper's grandson, with Barbara Whyte, and a group of financial papers chiefly on the subject of loans and securities, the same is true of the papers belonging to William's sisters Elizabeth and Caroline. There are also papers dealing with a mortgage he held from Sir John Shelley on property in Maresfield and Fletching in Sussex and as an executor of his grandmother's will he was forced into lengthy proceedings against the Ware family of Cheltenham for a long outstanding mortgage debt owed to Lady Cooper.

The last group of family papers relates to Elizabeth, Lady Cooper's younger surviving daughter, who married, secondly, the Reverend Edward Henry Dawkins. It includes their marriage settlement, and a number of his financial papers. The most interesting part of the whole collection relates to the sugar plantation of Dukinfield Hall, Jamaica (1719-1877). There are title deeds for a particularly tortuous descent, yearly accounts of crops, letters from the Jamaica agents and inventories of stock, which include slaves and give their names, ages, country of origin, occupation and state of health. There is also the will of Robert Dukinfield (1755), the original owner of the plantation, which makes provision for his negre mistress and their children out of his other property. The family name has a variety of spellings, Dukinfield being the one most frequently applied to the estate, although the main branch of the family comes from Duckenfield, Chester.

There are also a few papers concerned with three plantations on the Island of Grenada, which Lady Cooper also inherited (1773-1867).

Records of the Manor of Twickenham, including court books (courts baron); lists of tenants; and plans of the boundary of the manor.

Records of the Canons Park Estate Company Limited, 1640-1929, including printed copy of the abstract of title of the Canons Park Estate Co to "all that capital messuage or mansion house called "Canons" with the park gardens, pleasure grounds, lodges, stables and outhouses, buildings, lands and hereditaments thereto belonging situate in the parishes of Little Stanmore and Great Stanmore", 1860-1898; lease of Canons Manor by Sir Robert Stone, 1640; various assignments of term and conveyances; letter from James Drake of Canons Park to the Parish Overseers suggesting that 100 poor children of the parish of Little Stanmore should be employed in the lace making industry, 1813; report on local charities by Committee appointed by Great Stanmore Parish Council to Sir John Fitzgerald, Chairman of Great Stanmore Parish Council, 1929; legal documents and accounts relating to land in Wirksworth, Stafford, Derbyshire and Lincoln.

Papers, 1707-1760, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising copies of court rolls of the Manor of Colham.

Sales particulars for The Lodge, Hendon Lane, Church End Finchley, 1907.