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Records of John Knox Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1868-1917; Deacons' Court minute books, 1860-1927 and Communicants' roll book, 1877-1939 (with gaps).

Records of Cricklewood Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1898-1945; Deacons' Court minute books, 1894-1945; Missionary Association minute book, 1924-1944; annual reports, 1899-1902; Communicants' roll book, 1898-1943; register of baptisms, 1899-1934 and Sunday School attendance register, 1938-1939.

Records of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Manor Park, East Ham, including Court of Session minute books, 1900-1972; Deacons' Court minute books, 1943-1972; Finance Committee minute books, 1900-1920; Literary Society minute book, 1901-1927; Young People's Institute minute book, 1923-1928; Communicants' roll book, 1901-1967 and register of baptisms, 1901-1944.

Records of Saint George's Presbyterian Church, Palmers Green, comprising Literary Society minute books, 1914-1989. Please note that after 1965 the Literary Society was known as the Monday Society.

Records of the Presbyterian Housing Scheme, Poplar, including Ladies Committee minute book (The Committee of the Presbyterian Settlement, East London), 1901-1910; Ladies Settlement Committee minute book, 1910-1912; Committee of the Women's Presbyterian Settlement minute book, 1912-1939; Settlement Committee minute book, 1939-1946; General Committee minute book, 1946-1964; Executive Committee minute book, 1938-1960; Finance Committee minute book, 1954-1958; annual reports of the Presbyterian Settlement (missing years 1938, 1939 and 1966), 1899-1969; annual reports written by the congregation (missing 1961/1962), 1960-1965; architectural plans, 1938-1953; printed material relating to the Presbyterian Settlement, 1924-1968 and correspondence, 1911-1967.

Records of Saint Ninian's Presbyterian Church, Golders Green, comprising Communicants' roll books, 1911-1941. Also a poster for the fighting fund of the Fellowship of Youth.

Register of baptisms, 1820-1823.

Records of Saint James's Presbyterian church, Wood Green, including Court of Session minute books, 1871-1931; Managing Committee minute books, 1879-1931; Annual reports, 1892-1906 and Communicants' roll books, 1895-1943.

Records of Lower Clapton Presbyterian Church, Downs Park Road, including Court of Session minute books, 1901-1935; Deacons' Court minute books, 1907-1935; Communicants' roll books, 1878-1935 (some gaps); register of baptisms (includes Dalston Presbyterian Church), 1854-1934; Disjunction certificate book, 1918-1935; Souvenir book including list of members, 1912 and copy of Indenture and Deed of Conveyance, 1873.

Manuals containing the annual reports of the several societies associated with the church, 1868-1915.

Copy book for correspondence, 1906-1910 and Deacons' Court minute book, 1930-1937.

Annual reports, 1847-1927; Trustees minute book, 1825-1848; Literary Society minute book, 1904-1910; British Women's Temperance Association minute book, 1916-1919; Communicants' roll book, 1933-1946; Disjunction certificate book, 1937-1949; Register of baptisms, 1822-1856; Register of baptisms (including the Caledonian Church, Cross Street, Hatton Garden), 1826; Register of baptisms, 1827-1840; Young Men's Association register, 1841-1911; scrap book regarding the National Scotch Church, 1823-1960 and scrap book regarding events at Regent Square, 1860-1893.

Court of Session minute book for Windsor Presbyterian Church, 1853-1855.

Records of the Emperor's Gate Presbyterian Church and its predecessors South Kensington Presbyterian Church and Belgrave Presbyterian Church, including Court of Session minute books, 1890-1930; Managers minute books, 1887-1930; Communicants' roll books, 1873-1887 and 1900-1928; Communicants' roll book for Belgrave Presbyterian Church, 1912-1922 (members' names were transferred to the new roll book for Emperor's Gate on June 1st 1922); register of baptisms, 1873-1886 and 1922-1930 and Baptismal certificates, 1890-1922.

Records of Highfields Presbyterian Church, Sussex, including Court of Session minute book, 1895-1916; Managers' minute book, 1896-1910; Communicants' roll books, 1882-1947; Treasurer's account book, 1896-1951 and general correspondence, 1938-1950.

Records of the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cowden, Kent, including Court of Session minute book, 1932-1954; Committee of Management minute books, 1924-1928 and 1933-1955; Communicants' roll book, 1925-1955 and register of baptisms, 1936-1953.

Records of Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church comprising Court of Session minute books, 1872-1942 and Deacons' Court minute book, 1905-1949.

Records of Christ Church Presbyterian Church including Communicants' roll book, 1928-1938; Court of Session minute books, 1915-1938; Board of Managers' minute books, 1903-1938; Sunday School teachers' minute book, 1924-1928; Register of baptisms, 1923-1938, including a separate note that some Dulwich baptisms from 1921-1923 are in the Camberwell register of baptisms.

Records of Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church comprising Court of Session minute book, 1878-1908 and Committee of Management minute books, 1923-1956.

Records for Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute book, 1917-1929 and Committee of Management minute book (contains annual reports), 1890-1905.

Records of New Road Presbyterian Church, Woolwich, comprising register of baptisms, 1822-1826 and annual reports, 1904-1922.

Records of Saint Cuthbert's Presbyterian Church, West Norwood, including Court of Session minute books, 1892-1968; Deacons' Court minute books, 1894-1944; Communicants' roll books, 1897-1962; Disjunction certificates, 1941-1961 and address book, 1874-1875.

Records of Saint John's Presbyterian Church, Forest Hill, including Court of Session minute books, 1871-1972; Manager's Court minute books, 1870-1972; minute book of the Trustees of Ewart Road Mission Hall, including schedule of deeds, 1902-1919; minute book of the Trustees of St John's Church, including schedule of deeds, related correspondence and a plan of the church and its grounds, 1902-1938; Communicants' roll book, 1880-1957 and Treasurer's account book, 1870.

Records of the Kingston and Surbiton Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, including history of the chapel, 1876-1962; Deacons' Court minute books, 1873-1957; Bazaar Committee minute book, 1938; annual reports, 1879-1938 (some gaps); Communicants' roll books, 1876-1954; register of baptisms, 1873-1875; financial accounts, 1879-1946; and letter book, 1880-1888.

Court of session minute books, 1889-1941; Managers minute book, 1916-1941; annual report for the Verulam Mission Church, 1883; Communicants' roll books, 1882-1941; disjunction certificate book, 1900-1926; register of baptisms for Verulam Scotch Church, Lambeth, 1831-1835 and register of baptisms, 1882-1939.

Annual report, 1879; Year Book 1907 (contains annual report and financial statements for 1906) and Year Book 1923 (contains annual report and financial statements for 1922).

Records of Christ's Church Presbyterian Church, Maidstone, comprising minute book of the Provisional Committee, 1873-1874; minute book of the Committee, 1875-1881 and financial accounts, 1873-1881.

Records of the Presbyterian Preaching Station, London Road, Maidstone, comprising minute book of the Board of Management, 1947-1951 and Women's Missionary Association minute book, 1949.

Records of Holybourne Presbyterian Church, including Court of Session minute books, 1880-1970; Minute book of Ministers and Elders of the Alton Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends), 1848-1856; Communicants' roll book, 1897-1970; register of baptisms, 1879-1893 and Treasurer's cash book, 1918-1944.

Register of baptisms, 1861-1933; specifications and correspondence regarding the re-building of the Church, includes architect's floor plan, 1947-1948; Quarterly meetings minute book of the London Welsh Circuit, 1889-1908; Church committee minute book, 1908-1940; Church committee meeting minutes book, 1923-1955; Church committee meeting minute book regarding post war move of church, 1946-1963; Meeting minutes of the trustees and officers, 1953-1974; Memorandum of the choice and appointment of new trustees, 1950-1950 and Poland Street Trustees Account Book, 1884-1918. Please note that most of the minute books are written in Welsh.

Records of the West London Mission, 1888-1988, including minute books from Staff meetings, Finance Committee meetings, Foreign Missionary Committee meetings, Local Preacher's meetings, Women's Work Committee meetings and Sunday School Committee meetings; financial accounts; general correspondence; annual reports of the West London Mission; annual reports of the Social and Redemptive Work amongst Women and Girls; annual reports of the West London Rehabilitation Centre for Alcoholics; publication Portraits and Pictures of the West London Mission (1893); newsletters and magazines; advertisements and appeals; photographs.

Also Kingsway Hall Trust lettings ledger; Kingsway Hall collection journal and Kingsway Hall Creche Committee papers and promotional brochures.

Private ledgers, accounts, share records, correspondence, price lists, staff and premises photographs, superannuation fund material, property ledgers. Includes subsidiaries: Clarnico Trust, Clarke, Nickolls and Coomb Properties Limited, Jonathan Edmundson and Company Limited, J and A Buchanan Limited, Charbonnel and Walker Limited, C N Toys, Salter and Company, Altbarn Property Limited, Benfleet, Edmondson's (Canada) Limited and Table Mountain Trust.

Papers of the Alexandra Rose Charities, including minutes, correspondence, membership details, advertising and publicity material, photographs of patrons, staff and flag day events, artefacts such as collecting tins and an early 1912 artificial rose. Related charity records include a minute book of 'Their Day' charity and a set of printed reports for 'Our Day' charity.

Thames Rights Defence Association account book.

MAB/1-142: Board Minutes and Agendas.

MAB/143-1448: Minutes, agendas and papers of Committees and Sub-Committees (Special and Joint, Ambulance, Asylums, Casual Wards, Children's, Contracts, Fever Patients, Finance, General Purposes, Hampstead Asylum, Hospitals, Hours and Wages of Staff, Law and Parliamentary, Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, Nursing Staff, Sanatorium (Tuberculosis), Smallpox Patients, Training Ship Exmouth, Works).

MAB/1449-1457: Registers of members.

MAB/1458-1493: Year books.

MAB/1494-1547: Letters from the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and Ministry of Health.

MAB/1548-1562: Orders of the Poor Law Board and Local Government Board.

MAB/1563-1572: Regulations and standing orders.

MAB/1573-1576: Seal books.

MAB/1577-1684: Annual reports of the Board and its committees.

MAB/1685-1721: Miscellaneous printed reports and papers.

MAB/1722-1735: Legal papers.

MAB/1736-1750: Lists of staff and papers relating to staff.

MAB/1751-1836: Statistics.

MAB/1837-1847: Press cuttings.

MAB/1848-1872: Contracts.

MAB/1873-2247: Financial records.

MAB/2248-2255: Plans.

MAB/2256-2633: Papers, reports, etc., relating to institutions run by the Board.

Index of institutions found in the records with their reference numbers (MAB/xxxx):

Atlas Hospital Ship, 1069

Banstead Road School (see Downs School)

Belmont Asylum, 0239-0242, 2256-2267

Bethnal Green Casual Ward, 2590

Bridge School, 0500-0505, 0600, 2268-2272

Brook Hospital, 0145, 0857-0872, 2273-2280

Camberwell Green Remand Home, 2606-2617

Caterham Asylum/ Hospital, 0145a, 0243-0286, 1855, 2281-2299

Caterham Farm, 0285

Chelsea Casual Ward, 2591-2593

Clapton Asylum, 0801-0802

Cleveland Street Children's Infirmary, 0505-0507, 2300-2305a

Colindale Hospital, 1251-1256, 2306

Darenth School, 0145, 0287-0335a, 1856, 2307-2325

Dartford Institution, 0968

Deptford Hospital (see also South Eastern Hospital), 0144

Downs Hospital, 0509-0514, 0600, 2325-2331

Dreadnought Hospital, 1068

East Cliff House (see also Princess Mary's Hospital, Margate), 0600

Eastern Hospital, 0886-0918, 0968, 1857, 2332-2355

Edmonton Epileptic Colony, 0336-0341

Elm Grove Home for Defective Children, 2356-2357

Endymion Hospital Ship, 1069

for Hospital Ships see Joyce Green Hospital

Fountain Hospital, 0342-0350, 0515, 0792, 0921-0927, 0950-0964, 2358-2362

Fulham Hospital (see also Western Hospital), 0144

Geneva Cross, 1692-1693

Goldie Leigh Homes, 0516-0521, 2373-2375

Gore Farm, 0928-0944, 0967, 1858, 2363-2372

Grove Hospital, 0145, 0945-0964, 2376-2379

Grove Park Hospital, 1257-1258, 2380-2382

Hackney Casual Ward, 2594-2596

Hampstead Asylum, 0801, 0803

Hampstead Hospital (see also North Western Hospital), 0143, 0145a

Hampstead Temporary Hospital, 0143

Hanwell Home, 0522

Harrow Road Remand Home, 2618-2625

High Wood Hospital, High Wood School, 0523-0536, 0600-0601, 2383-2389

Highdown (see King George V Sanatorium)

Hither Green Lodge, 0731

Homerton Fever Hospital (see also Eastern Hospital), 0145a

Joyce Green Hospital Farm, 0968

Joyce Green Hospital, 2390-2391

King George V Sanatorium, 1259-1260, 2392-2394

Kingswood Road, Fulham, 0537-0543

Lambeth Casual Ward, 2597

Leavesden Asylum, 0145a, 0351-0397, 1860, 2395-2407

Lloyd House, 0545-0547, 2408

Long Reach Hospital, 2250

Millfield, 1261-1268

North Eastern Hospital (Tottenham), 0967, 0994-1012, 2409-2410

North Western Hospital, 0145a, 0965, 0966, 1013-1038, 1861, 2251, 2411-2423

Northern Defective Homes, 0600

Northern Hospital (Winchmore Hill), 0969-0993

Park Hospital, 0145, 0548-560, 1039-1044, 1446, 2424-2434

Pentonville Road Remand Home, 2626-2635

Pinewood Sanatorium, 1269-1271, 2435

Poplar Casual Ward, 2598-2601

Princess Mary's Hospital, 1272-1281, 2436-2441

Queen Mary's Hospital (Carshalton), 1045-1061, 1445, 2442-2449

Rochester House, 0398-0401, 2450

Rushington, 0600

Saint Anne's Home, Herne Bay, 0569-0576, 0600

Saint George's Home, 1251-1256, 2451-2452

Saint Luke's Hospital, Lowestoft, 1283-1285, 2453-2454

Saint Margaret's Hospital, 1063-1065

Saint Pancras Casual Ward, 2601

Sheffield Street Hospital, 1066-1067

South Eastern Hospital (Deptford) (see also Deptford Hospital), 0967, 0968, 1116-1140, 2252, 2456-2467

Southern (Carshalton) Hospital, 0145, 0968, 2455

Southern (Convalescent) Home (see also Gore Farm)

Southern Defective Home, 0600

Southern Hospital (see also Queen Mary's Hospital)

Southwark Casual Ward, 2602

Stockwell Hospital ,0145a

Sutton Schools (see Belmont Asylum)

Tooting Bec Asylum, 0412-0432, 1447-1448, 2486-2491

Training Ship Exmouth, 1287-1362, 2492-2581

Western Hospital (see also Fulham Hospital), 0145a, 1201-1223, 2582-2583

White Oak School, 0600, 0603-0617, 2584-2588

Whitechapel Casual Ward, 2603

Witham Schools, 0795

Records of the Middlesex County Council, 1712-1975, including the Architect's Department, Civil Defence Department, Children's Department, Clerk's Department, Clerk's Legal Department, Education Officer's Department, Engineer and Surveyor's Department, Estates and Valuation Department, Fire Brigade Department, County Treasurer's Department, Health Department, Local Taxation Department, and Public Assistance and Welfare Department.

The type of records held include committee minutes and papers, administrative records, reports, plans and maps, photographs, log books, registers and samples of case files, examinations, application forms, licences, publicity material, pamphlets, leaflets and publications. The records deal with various aspects of Middlesex governance including the management of schools, hospitals, health centres, libraries, residential care homes and other insitutions; the overseeing and regulation of construction work, roads and highways, sewers, drains and bridges; tax assessments; the construction and maintenance of housing estates; the maintenance of parks and open spaces; the care of children, the elderly and the disabled; the monitoring of legal requirements; licensing and monitoring of establishments including theatres and cinemas; licensing of vehicles and drivers; traffic congestion and transport issues; town planning; financial accounts, estimates and budgets, and civil defence and emergency measures during the First and Second World Wars.

Records of the Middlesex Deeds Registry, 1709-1938. Deeds and documents brought into the Registry for registration were initially copied onto pieces of parchment called memorials, and then into large volumes or registers. The registers exist for 1709-1938. Information held in the memorials and registers includes the date of the transaction, the names of the parties and a description of the property. Plans were frequently included in the entries and from 1892 a separate series of plan tracings of larger map and plans was made.

The indexes cover 1709-1919, and consist of large volumes with entries arranged under the surname of the vendor or first party in alpha-chronological order. Against each entry is a note of the other parties and the location of the property. Indexes for 1920-1938 take the form of an alphabetised card index to the names of the vendors or first parties. Information is given on the location of the property, varying in detail from a parish to a street name and number.

The indexes 1709-1919 and registers of memorials have been microfilmed.

Minute books of the Commissioners and Committee minute books, including:

Committee for Repair of Water Carts and Pumps,
Committee to examine Loss of Tolls on Kensington District,
Finance and Account Committee,
Committee to inspect encroachments on New Road and City Road,
Committee on Improvements at Kilburn,
Committee at Stamford Bridge,
Committee to confer with Hammersmith Bridge Company,
Committee to make arrangements for lighting part of Fulham Road with Gas,
Committee to regulate Watch and Patrol on Stamford Hill District,
Committee to receive deputation from County Magistrate on subject of County Bridges,
Committee to consider Tenders for Watering Roads,
Committee on proposed road from Shepherds Bush to Hammersmith,
Committee on proposed road from Seven Sisters to Camden Town,
Committee for opening Tenders for Road Materials and Seven Sisters Road,
Committee to view portion of New Road to Camden Town,
Committee to consider tenders for bricklayers and carpenters works,
Committee to view new road from Earls Court to Hammersmith Bridge,
Committee to watch progress of Bill for making railway from London to Birmingham,
Committee to protect interests of public as regards proceedings of Great Western Railway with Metropolis Roads.

Also registers of letters received and actions taken; letter books; cash books; bank account books; annual reports of the Commissioners; reports by the Surveyors; copies of Acts of Parliament regarding roads; correspondence and financial accounts.

Papers of Eastern and Australian Steamship Co Ltd, containing a copy of the 1873 mail contract with the Government of Queensland: the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the third company (1894) and some early account books, 1894 to 1898. Later accounting records include company returns, 1920 to 1969, and there are minutes of Board meetings, 1906 to 1969. Included in the tonnage data, 1948 to 1969, are the contract and hull specification for the ARAFURA, 1952 to 1953.

Papers of Sir William Wordsworth Fisher. This small collection of memoranda and letters, 1912 to 1936, consists of Fisher's ideas and opinions on policy rather than of material closely related to his career. The subjects covered include First World War operations, antisubmarine warfare, the Disarmament Conference, 1929 to 1930, comments on Invergordon, 1931, and papers concerning relations with Egypt and the Fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1919 to 1922, and in 1936.

Papers of Rev George Fisher. The earliest items are two books of mathematical theorems, 1811 and 1813. There are volumes of notes and observations for both Fisher's Arctic voyages and for his period in the Mediterranean, accounts of later scientific work and abstracts of observations made by other scientists. This is the material which formed the basis of the scientific papers which he published in the Philosophical Transactions and elsewhere. There are letterbooks for Greenwich Hospital School from 1836 to 1863 (excepting the years 1858, 1859 and 1860) and other reports and papers relating to the School There are a number of items collected by Fisher The most important are Peter Puget's journal for March to May 1793 in the Chatham, storeship for Vancouver's expedition; a meteorological log also giving details of ship arrivals and departures at Madras, 1815 to 1816; Franklin's (q.v.) lunar observations on board the Trent in 1818 and Parry's (1790-1855) meteorological journal on his first two voyages in search of the North-West Passage in 1819 to 1820 and 1821 to 1823.

Papers of Sir John Franklin. They consist of a volume of bound letters written by Sir John Franklin between 1820 and 1845 to his niece Mary Anne Kay and to Lieutenant Edward Kendall, R.N., whom she later married. Several letters refer to Franklin's second overland expedition. His last letter was written in 1845 at the Whale Fish Islands. There are other letters relating to exploration and some Arctic material including prints and manuscript copies of the New Georgia Gazette of 1819.

Papers of John Fraser, consisting of letters about his paintings and family matters, 1893 to 1927.

Papers of Sir Eric John Arthur Fullerton. They are mostly personal letters written between 1901 and 1955 to both Sir Eric and Lady Fullerton; the correspondents include Admirals Lord Fisher, Sir William Wordsworth Fisher, Sir William Goodenough, Lord Jellicoe (1859-1935), Earl Beatty (1871-1936), Sir John de Robeck (1862-1928), the Rt Hon W C Bridgeman and Captain Godfrey-Faussett, the King's Equerry (1896-1970). In addition, there are some letters received by Lord Fisher, including those from Lord Balfour (1848-1930) and Lord Charles Beresford (1848-1930).

Records of Furness Withy and Co Ltd. For the parent company the records in the Museum include: ship files from the Naval Architect's Department, 1941 to 1961; building and service files from the Superintendent's Department, 1947 to 1964; movement books, 1946 to 1966; Charter Parties arranged by the Charter Department, 1917 to 1965; financial records, including wages and salaries, 1911 to 1958; one volume of commission accounts (mainly North American berths and the Danube), 1896 to 1952. There are papers for the three companies concerned in the South American trade: the Argentine Cargo Line Limited, minutes, 1908 to 1918; freight agreements, mainly 1908 to 1910 and printed reports, 1909 to 1917; the British and Argentine Steam Navigation Co Ltd, minutes, 1911 to 1934; meat contracts, 1914 to 1915; Furness-Houlder Argentine Lines, freight agreements (including Brazilian fruit and meat), 1914 to 1921; balance sheets and profit and loss accounts, 1940 to 1946. For the Prince Line (including the Rio Cape Line) there are reports of meetings, 1921 to 1949; files on oil prices and contracts, 1953 to 1958; and some notes on the Far East-U.S.A. Conference, 1919 to 1968. There are also the following records for other subsidiary companies: River Syndicate Ltd, minutes and accounts, 1920 to 1968; Compagnie Furness (France), accounts, 1923 to 1939; Furness (Montreal) Ltd, minutes, 1954 to 1964; Watson and Youell, cashbook for London, Bucharest and Galatz, 1919 to 1923. (Section 3: FWS/: 36ft: 1,097cm) Ships' Plans: the plans were presented in 1970. They consist mostly of prints of details of a few ships of the late 1940s and early 1950s. There are also two data books.

The manuscripts in the collection consist of fifty-two letters written by thirty-seven scientists. They are arranged alphabetically by writer and date between 1677 and 1873. Among those which discuss scientific projects and topics is a letter, written in 1772, from Edward Bancroft (1744-1821) to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) about preserving ships' timbers from the ravages of 'aquatic worms'. Another, 1823, from Sir John Herschel (q.v.) to Pierre Simon, Marquis de la Place (1749-1827) is concerned with Sir William Herschel's discovery of the distances and position of the double stars and the series of experiments, using binary systems, carried out by Sir John to verify the discovery. Astronomy is again the subject of a letter of 1854 from Sir George Airy (1801-1892) to Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877) on the arrangement of an apparatus for the galvanic register of observations, simultaneously at Greenwich and Paris, for the determination of longitude. The majority of documents in this collection have, however, been collected for their autograph value. Other than the prominent scientists mentioned above, the letters include those by William Brouncker (1620-1684), 1677 and 1685; John Flamstead (1646-1719), 1695 and 1703; Nevile Maskelyne (1732-1811), 1784; Joseph Priestly (1733-1804), 1772; William Scoresby (1789-1857), 1827 and Michael Faraday (1791-1867), 1857.

Papers of Sir Francis Geary, consisting of letter and order books, 1757 to 1762, and 1769 to 1771.

Papers of Sir William Graham Greene. They form a substantial collection of notes, letters, reports, and government papers concerning Greene's work and interests. Those relating to his own career range between 1913 and 1936, of which the large section of letters and memoranda written during the First World War include drafts to Lloyd George and Churchill. There are letters and articles on Lord Alfred Douglas' (1870-1945) libel suit against the Morning Post, 1923, and on the sinking of the Lusitania 1915. On post-war technical subjects there are letters from Sir James Thursfield and Sir Eustace Tennyson D'Eyncourt and on historial topics from Sir Oswyn Murray (1873-1936) and Lord William Cecil (1854-1943). Among the extracts, notes and printed papers on naval administration are lists of naval officials, dating back to the ninth century, notes on the battle of Trafalgar and on the Seven Years War.

Papers of John Henry Godfrey covering the majority of Godfrey's long career in the Royal Navy, as well as his very active retirement. Amongst the wide-ranging collection, present are official records of Godfrey's early service, copies of lectures given at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and various papers relating to his time as DNI, including several NID monographs that offer detailed analysis of various wartime and post war topics. There is also present a large amount of material relating to Godfrey's time as FOCRIN, including letters, reports, promotional recruitment publications, etc. There are also diaries from 1931-1971, and a complete set of Godfrey's unpublished memoirs in 8 volumes.

The collection illustrates the history of piracy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It includes a journal of the voyage of Captain Bartholomew Sharp in the MAYFLOWER, 1680 to 1682, kept by his second-in-command, John Cox; it was on this voyage in the Pacific that Sharp captured a Spanish derrotero and the navigational information in it was used in the atlases of William Hack ([1656]-1708). Two letters from Sir Thomas Lynch (1603-?1684), Governor of Jamaica, give many details about measures taken to suppress piracy; the first, written to Sir Leoline Jenkins (1623-1683), Secretary of State, in 1683 relates principally to the interruption by privateers of the sugar trade of the West Indies; the second letter was written in 1683 to the Secretary of State for Northern Affairs, Lord Sunderland (1640-1702), and gives an account of the attack, led by Vanhorne (d.1683), on Vera Cruz. There is a journal and narrative account of the burning of La Trompeuse and other pirates in port at St Thomas's Island by Captain Charles Carlisle (d 1684) in the FRANCIS, 1683, and a collection of documents received by Sir Evan Nepean with some draft replies while Nepean was Governor of Bombay. These are mainly concerned with the expedition against piracy in the Persian Gulf between 1817 and 1819. There are also personal papers of Dr Gosse, which all relate to his publications on piracy.

Papers of Sir Erasmus Gower, consisting of a log, 1792 to 1794, with one watercolour sketch; two volumes of 'Nautical Observations on a Voyage to China', illustrated with views of coasts and harbours; a letterbook, 1794 to 1798, and a signal notebook, 1801.