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This archive consists of papers relating to legislation (1963-1982); Association Constitution (1962); minutes (1938-1983); working papers including re divorce and maintenance (1938-1983); correspondence including with members of the House of Lords (1943-1988); lobbying activities (1942-1983); finance details (1976-1979); various periodicals including editions of 'Bulletin' (1949-1983); printed materials including copies of official acts and bills and publications of other organisations, e.g. 'Women's Report' (1943-1983), press cuttings.

Letter from Edward Howard Marsh of Churchdale Hall, near Bakewell, Derbyshire to George K A Bell, Bishop of Chichester, 27 Dec 1940. Covering note for a copy of Christopher Hassall's new book [S.O.S. … 'Ludlow' (1940)]; including Hassall's address.

Papers of co-operative activist and educationalist Robert Leckie Marshall, including: drafts of articles written by Marshall, 1946-1968; press cuttings on various topics, including politics, education, religion and the Labour Party, n.d.; speech notes, 1946-1987; miscellaneous papers and correspondence regarding co-operation and the Co-operative College, c 1950-1988.

Letter from Mordaunt Martin of 'Burnham' to Dr [John Coakley] Lettsom, Sambrook House, London, 8 Mar 1801. Stating that he has despatched to Lettsom a parcel of mangelwurzel seeds. Explaining that he was prevented from answering Lettsom's letter of 3 Jan by an attack of gallstones, since relieved by pills of soap and rhubarb. Discussing the 'Brown Bread Act' [probably 41 Geo.3.c.16] to which, he says, Lettsom was in some degree accessory; quoting Lettsom and Horne Tooke on the Act; Martin prefers brown bread for his breakfast, using his own wheat 'sifted in the coarsest hair sieve', but deprecates the 'indiscriminate use of it'. Attacking at length the Potato Premium Bill, which had just been rejected, according to 'the paper of this night'; claiming that such a bill would force by premiums an unnatural produce on land which the occupiers could use for more profitable crops. Adding that his and Lettsom's 'hearts will beat in unison' on reading pages 109-110 of the 2nd edition of [Robert] Fellowes's Christian Philosophy [1799].

Autograph, with signature.

The archive consists of the literary manuscript of 'Life in the Sick-room', manuscript correspondence mainly with Mr Henry Reeve and to Dr Ogle (1839-1901) and photocopied correspondence containing references to Harriet Martineau.

The archive consists of two notebooks containing Martineau's diaries, describing her training at art colleges in London and her social and family life (1892-1914). Also includes a typescript of a lecture based on the diaries given by historian Elizabeth Crawford at a Women's History Network Conference, Sep 2005.

Case book, with account of last illness and post mortem of King James I, attributed to Thomas Marwood, c 1625.

Letter from Karl Heinrich Marx of 7 Modena Villas, Maitland Park, Haverstock Hill, London to J M Ludlow, Esq, 10 Apr 1869. Controverting Ludlow's article in the Fortnightly Review: 'You say first that Lassalle propogated my principles in Germany and say then that I am propagating "Lassallian principles" in England. ... Lassalle has taken from my writings almost literally all his general theoretical developments ... I have nothing whatever to do with his practical applications.'

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Karl Heinrich Marx of London to Maurice Lachâtre, 18 Mar 1872. Approving of the 'idée de publier la traduction de das Kapital en livraisons périodiques', but thinks that 'le public français, toujours impatient de conclure' will not continue to buy the parts because of the difficulties encountered in the introductory chapters. The letter ends: 'Il n'y a pas de route royale pour la science et ceux là seuls ont chance d'arriver à ses sommets lumineux qui ne craignent pas de se fatiguer à gravir ses sentiers escarpés.'

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Karl Heinrich Marx of London to an unspecified recipient, 30 Jan 1875. Relating to the French edition of Das Kapital.

Autograph, with signature.

Archives of the Marylebone Cricket Club, including:Secretariat Department: Main committee minutes, 1826-2002; secretaries' correspondence, 1872-1980s; Annual Reports, Annual General Meetings and Special General Meetings, 1825-2007; deeds of Lord's Cricket Ground and surrounding properties owned/leased by MCC on Elm Tree Road, Grove End Road, Cavendish Road West, Wellington Road, St. John's Wood Road, 1835-1988; papers of Harvey Fellows, MCC Solicitor, 1848-1900.

Arts and Library Department: Sub-committee minutes, 1939-2005; department correspondence, 1850-2007; curator's papers, 1826-2009; manuscripts; photographs; collection valuations, 1902-2006; loans; visitor books, 1998-2011.

Estates and Grounds Department: Sub-committee minutes, 1984-1996; development sub-committee minutes, 1971-1982; departmental correspondence; architectural plans and working party papers for the Media Centre, Grand Stand, Mound Stand, Indoor School and Tavern; property and works sub-committee minutes, 1898-1984.

Club Facilities Department: Sub-committee minutes, 1967-1984; Indoor School: Sub-committee minutes 1976-1995; departmental correspondence; application forms for Easter Coaching Classes; architectural plans; files on coaching courses.

Accounts Department: Cash books, ledgers, petty cash books, gate receipts, purchase day books, c1867-1990; sub-committee minutes, 1972-1989; departmental correspondence; minutes of Finance and General Purposes Sub-Committee, 1940-1950.

Tennis and Rackets Department: Sub-committee minutes, 1875-1889, 1926-1973, 1974-1995; departmental correspondence.

Cricket Department: Sub-committee minutes (1926-2000), departmental correspondence; scorecards for MCC matches, out-matches and matches at Lord's, 19th century - 2010; volumes on MCC matches, 1791-1885, first-class umpire lists, 1935-1958, files on MCC tours and international cricket tours to the UK, 1914-1980; Grounds and Fixtures sub-committee minutes, 1966-1988; files relating to the Laws of Cricket including working party minutes; Players and Fixtures sub-committee, 1989-1997.

Board of Control for Test Matches: Correspondence, 1954-1967; minutes, 1962-1968; Advisory County Cricket Committee: Correspondence, 1942-1949, 1957-1966; minutes, 1904-1968; Bicentenary Sub-Committee minutes: 1984-1987; Minutes of meetings held at Lord's Cricket Ground, 1900-1965 (including Imperial Cricket Conference, Board of Control for Test Matches, Advisory County Cricket Committee, First-Class County Captains)

Media Department: Photographs of MCC tours, scrapbooks, transparencies, photographic slides, videos, CDs, 2003-2007.

Membership Department: Membership books, lists of elections, from 1832.

Print Department: Samples, 2004-2011; Press Relationship Sub-Committee files, 1948-1960.

Refreshment Department: Minutes, 1896-1966, 1966-1970; correspondence, 1966-1970; balance sheet and accounts, 1927-1956; complaints and suggestions, 1930-1966; Photograph albums, 19th-20th century; Autograph albums; Newspaper cuttings, 20th century.

Audio-visual material: MCC Audio Archive 1989-2011; VHS tapes, 1947-2004, betamax tapes, audio cassettes, CDs, DVDs; Architectural model of Tennis and Racquet Courts, 1902; Prints, maps and plans of Lord's from 1788-present.

Records of persons / institutions connected to MCC: Middlesex County Cricket Club: correspondence, minutes (1901-1934, 1955-1960); insurance policies; scorebooks, 1914-1962; membership lists, 1880s; correspondence, 1928, 1947, 1959; Test and County Cricket Board / English Cricket Board: minutes, 1968-1973; correspondence; rules and regulations; Records of International Cricket Council (formerly Imperial Cricket Conference, International Cricket Conference): minutes; reports, 1979-1993; World Series Cricket: history, transcripts, 1976-1979; Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers: Minute Books, 1953-2006; BBC records: Outside broadcast file, 1952-1961; agreements, 1946-1952; correspondence, 1955-1961; broadcasting files, 1936-1938, 1946-1952; Slazenger brochures, 1963-2001 (incomplete); The Cricketer Magazine collection (23 boxes); Irving Rosenwater papers: scorecards, posters, photographs, ticket stubs, correspondence, invoices, fixture lists, membership cards, MCC rules, programmes, brochures (12 boxes); Gubby Allen's scrapbooks (24 volumes, 1922-1985); J Loraine Baldwin's I Zingari Cricket Club scrapbooks; Cricket scorebooks from various teams, 1714-1901; Scorebooks for Cross Arrows Cricket Club, 1925-1995; Alec Bedser Collection: correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper articles, 1951-2007; I Zingari Scorebooks: 1845-1969.

Papers and correspondence of John Masefield, 1910-1967. SL V 92-7 are letters and SL V 98 are book tokens inscribed by Masefield. SL V 99 are proofs for Sea Life in Nelson's Time (1971).

Papers of John Masefield, 1907-1971. Manuscripts 951 and 952 contain photographs of Masefield, Mrs Ethel Stockdale Ross, theatre productions and HMS Conway (?). B/W and colour photographs and negatives. Manuscript 953 contains watercolours and one ink drawing by Masefield. Manuscript 966 contains a watercolour, 'The Dalgoner', 1920s.

Letter from John Edward Masefield of Boars Hill, Oxford to [Sir John] Rhys, [1900-1915]. Declining invitations to attend a 'Founder's Feast' and to join 'your Council'.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from John Edward Masefield of Burcote Brook, Abingdon to [Rudolf Santer], [c1941]. Thanking him for sending his new address.

Letter from John Edward Masefield to the 'Bookmen of the United States of America', [1941-1967]. Introducing Mr Edmond Segrave, editor of The Bookseller, representing the National Book League.

Poem by John Edward Masefield, 1965. Verses entitled Lines for the 1965 HMS Victory Calendar, produced to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ship's launch.

Autograph.

Papers of John Masefield comprising brief handwritten passages, which appear to stand on their own rather than being extracts from longer works and are most unlikely unpublished. One is entitled 'The Ong of Highworth Ridden' and a note by the other descibes it as 'Lines for Mosquito Day, and in the Memory of Sir Reginald Ross, a patient observer of little things'. They are accompanied by letters from Geoffrey Handley-Taylor concerning depositing Masefield material at the University of London Library (now Senate House Library).

Letter from Charles Mason stating that: 'in Captn Reddie's time (1860/62) there was a destruction of records in India in all the Departts and some were sent home as waste paper', [late 19th century].

Papers of historian, Timothy Wright Mason, including correspondence and minutes relating to the History Workshop Journal.

Family papers of Charles Frederic Mason and his wife, Mary Rowlatt, 1834-1919, including last will and testament of Charles Frederic Mason (1p), 1 November 1864; marriage certificate of Charles Frederic Mason and Mary Rowlatt, 8 May 1853; manuscript notebook containg handwritten tributes such as poems and songs, written by daughter Isabel Marie Helena Mason and others (c100pp), c1860-1919; bankruptcy proceedings certificate against Richard Rowlatt (Mary's father), 14 April 1836; 'In Memorium' cards for Richard Rowlatt (Mary's father), Eliza Mary Rowlatt, John Ingram Bywater, Eleanor Rowlatt (Mary's mother) and Frances Wignell, 1864-1879; notebook containing handwritten notes and sketches on architecture by Isabel Mason (c100pp), c1905; engagement diary for unidentified person with short entries on the days activities and weather,1878; small handwritten account book for Mary Rowlatt (Mrs Mason), 1876-1879; two receipts for the coffin and funeral arrangement of Patrick Collins (Isabel's husband), 11 January 1912; marriage certificate for William Roberts and Lavinia Rowlatte, 17 December 1859; marriage certificate for Patrick Collins and Isabel Marie Helena Mason, 14 October 1905; statement by Charles Frederic Mason affirming his marriage to Mary Rowlett, 22 March 1867; handwritten accounts of William Jackson Stokes, 1864-1868; handwritten costs of probate for Richard Rowlatt, 1865-1866; five miscellaneous handwritten receipts for Mr Rowlett, 1871-1875; small handwritten payment book for washing services, 1875; City of London certificate for Richard Rowlatt, 1834.

Letter from Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero of Milon la Chapelle to the Goldsmiths' Librarian, University of London [R A Rye], 30 Sep 1907. Relating to an application by the Unviersity to the Comité d'Égyptologie for a gift of books.

Autograph, with signature.

(1) Letter from David Mather Masson of the Garrick Club to Augustus De Morgan, 13 Jun 1867. Discussing Thomas Carlyle's mathematical work.

(2) Letter from Thomas Carlyle of Chelsea to [De Morgan], 19 Jun 1867. Discussing Carlyle's translation of A M Legendre's Eléments de géométrie and the 'the Galbraith legend' [that a Mr Galbraith was the translator of Legendre's work].

Both letters are autograph, with signatures.

Published reports of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Maternity Care Working Party.

Memoirs of Richard Pulteney by his friend William George Maton, MD, prefixed to a second edition of Dr Pulteney's Life and writings of Linnaens, (1805), illustrated by various original letters, drawings, prints etc. and interleaved with diplomas from various medical societies, and catalogue of the library of Dr Pulteney.

Letter from Frederick Denison Maurice of 5 Russell Square, [London] to the editor of The Inquirer, 6 Aug [1855]. Protests against references to himself in an article on Rowland Williams's Rational Godliness (1855).

Autograph, with signature.

Papers of Max Lock, 1936-1988, produced and collected by Max Lock and the Max Lock Group, relate to Lock's career as a planner and architect and to wider issues in planning, particularly after World War Two, and comprise working papers (including survey papers) and finished material.

They include correspondence; notes and card indexes; photographs (some aerial), slides, drawings, maps and plans; Bills, Acts, white papers and other official publications; books, articles, reports and other publications (some annotated); typescripts; press cuttings; and conference papers. The bulk of the material dates from the 1940s to the early 1970s. Material relating to Lock's career and projects within the UK includes papers on his time as a Watford councillor and his architectural practice in the 1930s, including a timber house he designed at Stanmore, Middlesex; Hull, 1939-1957, including conflicts between Lock and his superiors; Scalby, 1940-1941; Middlesborough, 1943-1970; Hartlepool, 1946-1970; Portsmouth, 1948-1973; Salisbury, 1949-1969; Sutton Coldfield, 1950-1967; Bedford, 1950-1971; Sevenoaks, 1954-1965; Aberdare, 1957-1959; Stratford (West Ham), 1957-1962; Hackney and Shoreditch, 1960-1971; Woodley, 1962-1969; Oldham, 1962-1971; Covent Garden, 1963-1971; Battle, 1964; Brentford and Chiswick, 1964-1970; Torbay, 1968-1969; Dunstable, 1968-1972; Greater London Development Plan Inquiry, 1969-1971, and other material on GLC planning and transport; Beverley, 1969-1972. Material on projects and visits overseas includes papers on Scandinavia, 1937-1939, 1946-1949; India, Pakistan and Ceylon, 1946-1955; the Netherlands, including the Town Planning Institute Tour (1946), 1946-1957; the Americas, including Brazil, the West Indies and the USA, 1952-1969; Italy, 1952-1970; the Middle East, including Iraq and Jordan, 1954-1958; Australia, 1959-1960; Aden, 1960-1961; Kuwait, 1961; Nigeria, including Kaduna and Maiduguri, 1962-1975.

The collection includes a large volume of accumulated material, 1944-1987, largely printed material by other authors, including other planners, planning bodies and architects, some from architectural and planning journals and from the national and regional press, on planning and related issues both in the UK and overseas, such as planning law and procedures; central and local government and administration; public inquiries; housing; historic buildings; urban development; industry and retail; transport infrastructure, including roads and ports; traffic, noise, and the environment; social and economic issues including employment, labour, and social class; population levels and density; public amenities and utilities; land use and open space; and statistical data. Some papers relate to the affairs, including legal and financial matters, of the Max Lock Group; the architectural work of Max Lock and Partners; premises in Victoria Square, London; and the Max Lock Group Nigeria. Papers of or concerning Lock himself include his notebooks and other papers reflecting the development of his ideas; papers relating to publications and broadcasts; papers relating to professional bodies, including the TPI, RIBA, TCPA and UDAG; personal correspondence; photographs of him and his friends; papers on music and architecture, including lecture notes; articles about Lock, and his obituary in the Independent, 3 May 1988.

Letter from Maximilian II of Linz to Bartelme Khevenhüller von Aichelberg, 11 May 1562. Maximilian (as King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria) requests Khevenhüller's presence in Prague on 15 Jun 1562, for his coronation.

Written in another hand and signed by Maximilian.

Archive of photographer Phil Maxwell (1975-2014) covering his work in Liverpool, the East End of London and Bangladesh, including: c55 digital images attached to Bishopsgate Library's online catalogue; c20,000 digital images, three large boxes and 1 smaller box of photographic prints, three boxes and twenty folders of photographic negatives and slides, two boxes of exhibition posters, postcards and ephemera, six photographic print boxes of photographic prints, and planning documents and exhibition materials

Letter to Lord Carlisle, 1911, regarding work on the Lanercost Chronicle, a medieval chronicle on the history of Scotland.

Contents include:

• May Day Bulletin 1, edited by Fondazione Brodolini, Milan (32pp) (April 1986)

• May Day Bulletin 2, edited by Fondazione Brodolini, Milan (32pp) (February 1987)

• May Day Bulletin 3, edited by Fondazione Brodolini, Milan (28pp) (December 1987)

• May Day Bulletin 4, edited by Fondazione G. Brodolini, Milan (31pp) (October 1988)

• May Day Bulletin 5, edited by Fondazione G. Brodolini, Milan (30pp) (April 1989)

• May Day Bulletin 6, edited by Fondazione G. Brodolini, Milan (30pp) (February 1990)

Letter from John Loudon McAdam to the antiquary and topographer, John Britton, 27 Oct 1826. Thanking Britton for his paper and commenting on prospective modifications to the Poor Law.

The archive consists of 77 letters to Bodichon mainly from Helen Taylor, James Joseph Sylvester, Marianne North, the Hill Family and various other correspondents (1827-c 1891); offprints of papers written by the donor related to Helen Taylor (1978), James Joseph Sylvester (1981) and Marianne North (1989).

Collection of 40 letters mainly addressed to John Ramsay McCulloch, 1820-1863. Writers include: Lord Ashley [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, later Earl of Shaftesbury], Sir Francis Baring, Adam Black, Henry Brougham [later Baron Brougham and Vaux], the Earl of Durham [John Lambton], Sir James Graham, François Guizot, William G Hayter, David Irving, Francis Jeffrey, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Thomas Frankland Lewis, Thomas Longman [publisher], Samuel Jones Loyd [later Baron Overstone], James Mill, Thomas Spring Rice [Baron Monteagle], Lord John Russell, the Duke of Somerset [Edward Adolphus Seymour, later St Maur], Earl Stanhope [Philip Henry Stanhope], William Tait [? publisher], R Torrens, George Villiers [later Earl of Buckingham], and Sylvain Van de Weyer.

Many letters include autograph signatures. With descriptions, transcripts and comments by Professor H S Foxwell.

Letter from John Ramsay McCulloch of 10 Buccleuch Place, [Edinburgh] to Joseph Hume, 19 Nov [c1825]. Covering note accompanying a copy of McCulloch's The principles of political economy (1825).

Letter from John Ramsay McCulloch of the Stationery Office to [S J Loyd], Baron Overstone, 23 Mar 1863. Covering letter accompanying a proof copy of the 3rd edition of McCulloch's Treatise on the principles and practical influence of taxation and the funding system (1863); McCulloch has 'marked the passages which I think would answer best for reference'.

Written in another hand and signed by McCulloch.

(1) Letter from John Ramsay McCulloch to William Rathbone, Hope Street, [Liverpool], [c1820-1864]. Asking permission to bring a Mr Henderson to Rathbone's house (dated 'Tuesday').

(2) Letter from John Ramsay McCulloch of the Stationery Office, [London] to William Watson, 18 Dec 1840. Concerning 'Mrs Couney's memorial'.

Both items are autograph, with signatures.

The archive consists of papers and articles on women, mainly papers read by Mrs McIlquham, and originals of articles printed in the 'Westminster Review', c 1896-1903.

The collection contains letters to and from Harriet McIlquham concerning her political and suffrage campaigning work.

Letter from Vincent McNabb of St Dominic's Priory, Southampton Road, London to Dr G K A Bell, Bishop of Chichester, 14 Dec 1941. Covering note enclosing a copy of his book Some mysteries of Jesus Christ (1941); 'I am venturing to give myself the undeserved Christmas joy of offering you a few words about the Word'; praises Bell's moral courage 'whose purpose of peace has been a dedication'.

Autograph, with signature.

Collection of letters formerly in the possession of Dr Geoffrey John Cusance de Mead, [1878-1930]. Correspondents include: Sir Squire Bancroft; John Arbuthnot Fisher, Lord Fisher; Sir Henry Irving; John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe; Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner; Charles Stanley Monck, Viscount Monck; John W Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough; [? Evelyn Strutt], Lady Rayleigh; Godfrey Tearle (later Sir Godfrey); and Florence Waller.

All items are autograph, with signatures.

Papers, notes, tables, etc. relating to Geoffrey John Cusance de Mead's research (for which he was awarded a London PhD in 1954) on the administrative noblesse of France during the eighteenth century, with special reference to the Intendants of the généralités.

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

Comprises: Administration, Governance, Policy and Planning; College Buildings and Services; Education, Teaching, Curriculum; Financial Records; Photographs and Illustrations; St Bartholomew's Hospital Publications; Student Records; Academic and Administrative Staff / Personnel; Students Union and and Student Leisure and Recreation; Student Lecture and Study Notes; Miscellaneous Medical College Items and Ephemera.

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

Papers of George Webb Medley, 1875-1893, comprising 130 volumes of press-cuttings, mostly from the national press such as The Times, Pall Mall Gazette, The Echo, and The Daily News. Some volumes are indexed. Subjects include Egypt, 1875-1885 (reference Medley 1-10); Political Economy - statistics and taxation, c 1879-1893 (Medley 11-20, 47-48, 50); Conservative Party including Lord Randolph Churchill, speeches of Lord Salisbury, c 1880-1885 (Medley 21-46); Blasphemy - the law, 1883 (Medley 49); the Franchise, 1883-1884 (Medley 51-53); Church and State, 1883-1885 (Medley 54-56); Free Trade, 1881-1891 (Medley 57-96); Land, c 1876-1885 (Medley 97-102); Liberal Party, 1879-1885 (Medley 103-108); Empire and Colonies, 1883-1884 (Medley 109); Education, 1883-1884 (Medley 110), Army and Navy, 1880-1884 (Medley 111); Liberty and Property Defence League, 1883-1884 (Medley 112); House of Lords, 1884-1886 (Medley 113-115); British economy, other economies, trade, 1885-1893 (Medley 116-129); Railways (United Kingdom and overseas), 1877-1879 (Medley 130).

Letter from James Cosmo Melvill of Hampstead, [London] to F Jennings, Esq, 12 Dec 1849. A letter of condolence on the death of Jennings's father.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from John Thornton Leslie-Melville of Old Broad Street, [London] to J D Powles, 10 Dec 1824. Stating that he does not wish to injure the market, but at the same time wishes Powles to sell 100 more of his (Melville's) Colombian mine shares at the first favorable opportunity, as his broker says that 50 shares had been sold that morning at £19 10s.

Autograph, with signature.

Bound and illuminated volume, Sep 1903, comprising a form of thanks and list of names; manuscript key to the symbolism used in the illumination; signed letter of thanks from Anna and Mary Priestman, Nov 1903. Includes loose items.

This handwritten volume is concerned with the freedom of trade which has caused the disappearance and bankruptcy of many small businesses. Bruyard also alludes to the fact that the only reason French manufactures are still exported is due to the war in which England presently is engaged and which absorbs a lot of attention and financial resources. The author claims that once the English have their hands free, the French will soon find out that they have little resources in comparison with the English. In the inner margin of the first page is a note stating 'Remis à M. de Montaran, le 9 Xbre (December) 1782.'