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Letters and papers relating chiefly to Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) in his work at the Navy Office 1660-73 and at the Admiralty 1673-9 and 1684-9, and also to the family of Richard Pepys (c 1589-1659), first cousin to the diarist's father, 1642-1689.

Confidential circular sent by the Ministry of Education and Science at the request of the Ministry of the Interior, 4 Feb 1938, stating that an enquiry is to be made into the marital status of civil servants and that promotion is not to be given to those unmarried or childless after 2 years of marriage unless there are good reasons.

Papers of Sir Willoughby Maycock relating to his career at the Foreign Office, including letters and cuttings.

Diary kept by John Michael Lee, Jan-Jul 1969, while he was on academic secondment to the Treasury Civil Service Department. It reflects the changes to the Civil Service impending after the Fulton Report.

Papers deposited by Professor Michael Lee relating to his work at the Treasury, 1967-1969, on the character and the organisation of the Civil Service following the report of the Fulton Committee on the British Civil Service, 1966-1968:
File 1. Notes, press cuttings and memoranda on ombudsmen and administrative law. Includes crown privilege, the parliamentary commission and extension of the ombudsman principle, 1967-1969.
File 2. Papers relating to the Fulton Report's comments on hierarchies in the civil service. Includes papers by the Board of Inland Revenue, Home Office, Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Scottish Office.
File 3. Character of the civil service, papers and memoranda, 1969.
File 4. Correspondence with Bridget Howard, Civil Service Department, re research into the Establishment Officer's Meeting, 1981.

Papers of the Board of Education Inspectors' Association (later the Association of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools), 1871-1992, including annual reports, minutes and papers of the Executive Committee and Divisional Committees, reports and memoranda, 1920-1992; lists of Divisions, Districts and staff, issued by the Education Department, 1871-1946; collected personal papers of individual HMIs; material gathered for a post-war history of the Inspectorate.

Correspondence to Hammond from George Canning, John Pitt 2nd Earl of Chatham, Henry Goulburn, Charles Manners-Sutton, William Pitt the younger, William Wilberforce and William Windham.

Autobiography, mainly relating to his civil service career and containing information on energy policy and nationalisation.