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Records relating to property owned by Powell, Warner and Crowther, stationers, including lease of 101 High Street, Whitechapel; assignment of the business and all stock and books from Powell to Warner and Crowther; assignment of lease of a warehouse in Commercial Street, Stepney, with schedule of deeds of the warehouse. 1871-1882.

Papers of Alexander Macdonald, 1881, comprise a letter to John Salkeld, bookseller asking him to forward J Godkin's 'Land War in Ireland'.

Letter from Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi, 1856, [To Augustus De Morgan], asking him to make arrangements with Mr Ashbee for making facsimiles of pages in early printed books.

Records of the Bookshop Joint Action Committee, including correspondence between bookshops and to the Home Office; witness statements of attacks on the Bogle-L'Ouverture bookshop and notes written at the time of the incidents; letters of support from organisations and bookshops in Britain, America and the Caribbean; press cuttings and magazine articles about the events; letters, stickers and publicity materials sent to or left on shops by the National Front and the Ku Klux Klan (LMA/4462/J/01/009), and copies of photographs of damage done to the bookshops.

'Fourth Idea Bookshop' set up the 'Fascist Information Centre' to collect information about the attacks and to create a fund to assist the shops involved. A questionnaire was distributed to collate materials for a report and photocopies of documents are contained in the series. They aimed to compile a dossier of attacks and to start a security fund to assist with damage to bookshops.