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Papers of Thomas Henry Watson, 1871-1874, comprising notes on botany from lectures by John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884) and notes on chemistry from lectures by Dr Letts, 1872-1873; notes on chemistry from lectures by Professor Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922), 1871-1872; notes on systematic surgery from lectures by Dr John Chiene (1843-1923), 1872-1873; notes on materia medica and therapeutics from lectures by Professor Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882), 1873-1874; notes on clinical surgery from lectures by Professor Joseph Lister (1827-1912), 1872-1874; notes on pathology from lectures by Professor Sanders, 1873-1874; notes on natural history from lectures by Professor Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (1830-1882), 1872; and notes on anatomy from lectures by Professor Sir William Turner (1832-1916), 1872-1874.

Papers of Charles Moore Watson, 1871-1920, comprising a field notebook, lists of instruments and observations, upper Nile, 1874.

Papers relating to the life and work of Janet Vida Watson, 1923-1985, comprising:

Biographical material, including: obituaries of Watson and her own autobiographical notes for her Royal Society personal record, 1985; records of her career, honours and awards, from early childhood, 1923-1985; letters of condolence to John Sutton, many with recollections of Watson, 1985; poems and short stories by Watson (possibly including some by her sister and mother), [1940s]; family and personal correspondence, 1944-1985; photographs of Watson including some from visits to East Germany in connection with the International Geological Correlation Programme, 1923-[1980s].

Thirty-six notebooks covering Watson's research, chiefly in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, from undergraduate research in 1946, through her Ph.D. research in the Scourie area during the late 1940s and the 1950s research in Banffshire and central Rosshire, to her work on the Lewisian granite of the Outer Hebrides from the later 1960s and later work in Orkney during the early 1980s.

Drafts, annotated off-prints and other material relating to Watson's research activities and publications, the bulk of which concerns her work in Scotland during the 1970s, including drafts prepared in the course of compiling a memoir on the geology of the Outer Hebrides in collaboration with the Institute of Geological Sciences; correspondence relating to Watson's scientific research, 1968-1985.

Annotated maps, mostly of the Outer Hebrides, 1960s; maps relating to Watson's PhD research in the Scourie area and work in southern Skye, 1947-1962.

Papers of Graham Robert Watson, 1996-1999, including material relating to constituency work, such as correspondence with individual constituents and interest groups, papers concerning elections and subject files on issues including BSE, European monetary union and business.

Note concerning provenance of papers (1995); photocopies of press-cuttings (1995).

Letter from Dorothea Watson of Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire to an unknown female recipient, 24 Sep 1688. Has heard from Mrs Watson of Danby Wiske, [North Riding of Yorkshire], that a servant (a niece of Mrs Watson) was leaving the recipient's service at Martinmas (11 November); asks her 'to answer the queries on the [o]ther side ... and were Master and Mistresses to [be] upon honor, in their character of servants, there woud [so] on be an end of all complaints of bad ones'. Autograph, with signature. Some traces of the questions from the dorse are visible in reverse on the face of the letter.

Notebooks of David Watson, [1864-1867], containing notes on lectures by Professor Andrew Ramsay concerning geology; lectures by August Wilhelm von Hofmann, 1865; lectures by Professor Edward Frankland concerning organic chemistry; lectures by T H Huxley concerning natural history, 1865; palaeontological demonstrations by Robert Etheridge, 1867; notes on mining, metallurgy and physics.

Records relating to property ownership, including lease of the Goldsmith's estates in East Acton and leases of premises in Chiswick, Enfield, Heston, Highgate, Sunbury, and Kilburn. Also marriage settlements and lease and release of plantations in Antigua and St Christopher's [St Kitts] with lists of slaves.

Papers and correspondence, 1846-1974, of David Meredith Seares Watson and his family, largely comprising biographical material and family papers, scientific correspondence, and photographs, also including a few Exchequer receipts, 1568-1622.

Biographical material, 1886-1974, includes Watson's birth certificate, 1886; documentation, including certificates and correspondence, of Watson's career, honours and awards over a period of forty years, including election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, 1922, the award of its Darwin medal, 1942, and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society, 1965; correspondence about the Directorship of the British Museum (Natural History), 1937; correspondence about the presentation album on his retirement from the Jodrell Chair, 1951; correspondence and papers relating to his final retirement from research, 1965; obituaries, 1973; F R Parrington and T S Westoll's memoir of Watson from Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1974; an account of Watson's early days and family background by his daughter Janet Vida; recollections by his research assistant Joyce Townsend; Watson's curriculum vita and bibliography.

Family papers include the birth certificate of Watson's father, David, 1846, correspondence with his wife Mary, 1888, and a letter of condolence to Mrs Watson on her husband's death, 1899; diaries of Mary Watson, 1881, 1885; birth certificate of their daughter Constance, 1888, letters from Constance to her brother David Meredith Seares Watson, 1905-1909 and undated; papers relating to Katharine Margarite Watson (née Parker), Watson's wife, including her birth certificate, 1891, marriage certificate, 1917, death certificate, 1969, and various correspondence; papers relating to Watson's daughter Katharine Mary, including letters of congratulation on her birth, 1918, and letters to her parents, 1950, 1955; material relating to Watson's mother's family, including letters of her father Samuel M Seares, 1871, 1879-1882; papers of Charles J B Hutchinson, 1879-1880, who emigrated to Australia after his engagement to Watson's mother was broken off but who remained in correspondence with her aunt, Fanny Rossiter; other Parker family papers, 1929-1972; miscellaneous other personal correspondence, 1896-1965.

Four Exchequer receipts dated 1568, 1580, 1616 and 1622 were found enclosed with a letter to Watson's wife.

Scientific correspondence of Watson, sometimes including photographs of fossil specimens, with leading palaeontologists in Africa, 1947-1953, America, 1915-1964, Australia, 1931-1962, China, 1926-1927, 1935-1964, England, 1913-1914, 1920, 1926-1960, France, 1930-1936, 1945-1956, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1920-1962, Russia, 1920-1962, and Scandinavia, 1922-1964, and with the palaeontologist Robert Broom, 1911-1950, and Watson's research assistant Joyce Townshend, 1929-1973, also including a few letters from Watson's wife and scientific colleagues, and an obituary of Watson, 1974; correspondence and papers on bones found at Qau, Egypt, 1930-1957, 1972; miscellaneous other palaeontological correspondence, 1912-1967. There are few copies of Watson's outgoing letters before the end of the Second World War.

Photographic material comprises photographs documenting Watson's career, [1912]-1965 and undated, some including colleagues; photographs of scientific colleagues, 1911-1951 and undated, including Watson's predecessor as Professor at University College London, J P Hill, and Robert Broom; album of photographs and signatures presented to Watson, 1951; undated family photographs, including a photograph of Watson as a boy, photographs of members of the Seares and Parker families, and photographs of Watson's wife, Katharine Margarite, and daughter, Katharine Mary; photographs of unidentified fossil specimens.

Royal Society Darwin Medal Award given to Watson, 1942.

Records of Watney Mann Ltd, 1788-1851, comprising deeds and other legal documents relating to public houses owned by the company including "The Feathers", Chiswick; "Rose and Crown", Isleworth and "The Royal Victoria", Hanworth.

Records of Watney Mann Ltd, 1712-1968, comprising deeds and other legal documents relating to public houses owned by the company, including The Railway Hotel and "The Stag", Acton; "The Angel Hotel", Edmonton; The Park Hotel, Hanwell; "The Waggon and Horses", Tottenham, the Wheatsheaf Brewery, Twickenham and "The Case is Altered", "The Spotted Dog", the Stonebridge Park Hotel and "The Victoria", Willesden.

Records of Watney Mann Ltd, 1874-1938, comprising deeds and other legal records relating to public houses owned by the company in Hillingdon and West Drayton, including "The Rising Sun", and "The Signal".

Records of Watney Mann Ltd, 1895-1934, comprising inventories of fixtures, fittings and effects at the "Bird in Hand", Tottenhall Road, Palmers Green and the "Bell", Chase Side, Southgate; and a fire insurance policy for "Milford Arms", Spring Grove, Isleworth (originally owned by Combe and Co who merged with Watney and Co).

Leases for the Kings Arms Hotel, Hill Street, Woolwich.

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.

Records of Watney, Combe, Reid and Co Ltd and Watney Mann Ltd, 1870-1983, comprising Director's minute books, 1898-1968; General Meetings minute books, 1898-1973; photograph albums, mainly showing public houses in London, ?1870-1880; photographs of Truman delivery vehicles (Watney Mann merged with Truman), 1895-1983; press cuttings relating to Sears Holdings Group bid for Watney Mann Ltd, 1959.

Records of Isleworth Brewery Ltd, later owned by Watney Combe Reid and Co Ltd, comprising deeds and related legal documents concerning the brewery premises at Brazil Mill Lane, Isleworth, and public houses owned by the Brewery: the "Waggon and Horses" at Hayes, "The George" at Heston and "The Jolly Sailors" at Kingston upon Thames, 1706-1962; and legal documents of the Farnell family, brewery owners, 1817-1881.

Also deeds and legal documents for other public houses owned by Watney Combe Reid and Co Ltd: The Unwin Arms, Turnpike Lane, Hornsey; No. 161 Turnpike Lane, Hornsey and The Woodberry Hotel, Seven Sisters Road, Tottenham, 1861-1913.

Records of Watling Congregational Church, Mill Hill including marriage registers 1956 - 1980., sunday school cradle roll 1951 to 1956, minutes of church meetings 1939 - 1971, 1984 - 1999, church council 1945 - 1949, combined deacons and church meetings 1952 - 1957, deacon's meetings 1971 - 1984 and elders' meetings 1972 - 1995, cash books from 1926 to 2001 and various photographs.

Papers of John Watkins, from the 1940s onwards consisting of an alphabetical series of correspondence files, mainly with other philosophers including Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend.

Papers of Henry George 'Gino' Watkins, 1921-1995, including notebooks containing astronomical observations, Labrador, 1928; press cuttings, transcript articles, copies of Royal Geographical Society correspondence with The Times and reports concerning Watkins and the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, 1930; papers relating to a commemorative plaque in Dumbleton Church and plans of 'Gino's lost kayak' by C Ranshaw and J Brand, 1964.

Scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, correspondence, photographs and printed material relating to the church, 1890-1813 and interior and exterior photographs of the church building, 20th century.

Records of the Watford and District Synagogue consisting of an account book for membership contributions.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Records of the Watford Joint Railway Committee; including minutes of Committee meetings; general ledger; journal; cash book and financial accounts.

Records of the Watford and Edgware Railway, comprising minutes of Board meetings and minutes of General meetings.

Papers of Lt-Commander Waters including folders containing notes and articles, with some photographs; notebooks; and various essays on naval subjects.

Papers of Capt George Alexander Waters, consisting of logs, 1842-1843, and 1852-1861. There are loose letters, 1857-1858, including those from Captain Peel and the officers of the Naval Brigade concerning the Indian Mutiny and a book in Chinese endorsed 'taken from the house three or four miles below Nanking, 26 Aug. 1842', which is a coal-merchant's receipt book.

Railway plans, consisting of two plans of Waterloo Station, the exterior and defaults of a window, and a plan of the proposed widening of Charing Cross Bridge.

Rules of the Waterloo Club, gambling society, with record of attendance of members.

Records of the Waterloo Bridge Company comprising Annuity transfer certificates and Share Transfer Certificate from Ann Neild to William Ashton Nield, 1843.

'De Sexu Foeminino ejusque accidentibus degr. partu and partus regimine caeterisquae morbis eidem sexui natura and contra natura contingentibus' by John Waterhouse, [1688].

Papers of Professor Gilbert Waterhouse, 1911-1968, comprising:
Personal correspondence and papers including personal and academic correspondence, 1911-1939; papers on GW's time as Assistant Lecturer in English, University of Lepzig, 1911-1914, including copies of letters from Karl Breul to GW, 1910-1913, and GW's letters from Leipzig, 1911-1914; papers on holidays in France and Germany, 1920-1930; papers on vist to Munich, 1930; papers on move from Dublin to Belfast, 1933; papers on exchange visit to the USA, 1950-1951.
Research notes and papers, including miscellaneous articles, 1912-1937; correspondence and papers on The Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Seventeenth Century, 1913-1950; correspondence and papers on translation of Franz Grillparzer: Weh' dem der lügt, 1917-1964; notes and papers for articles on St Patrick's Purgatory, 1923-1926; correspondence and papers on GW's translation of Clara Viebig: The Sleeping Army, 1927-1929; correspondence and papers on publication of A Short History of German Literature, 1928-1968; correspondence and papers on GW's translation of General von Seeckt Thoughts of a Soldier, 1930; correspondence and papers on GW's articles and lectures on Goethe, 1927-1935; notes and papers on Anglo-German relations, particularly National Socialism, 1933-1943; notes on the mineralogist, Sir Charles Giesecke (1761-1833), 1936-c 1970; Newspaper cuttings from British, German and French newspapers, mainly on Germany and National Socialism, 1929-1937.

Reconveyance of 4 acres of enfranchised land situated near Railshead Bridge, formerly part of the copyhold of the Manor of Isleworth Syon, 1868.

Papers, 1862-1908, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to the Browning, Farmer, Dent, Mills and Bealey families, particularly relating to the settlement of property. Papers include settlements, papers relating to the appointment and dismissal of trustees, probates and wills, correspondence, conveyances, mortgages and agreements.

Papers, 1791-1796, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising two lease and release documents for a cottage and garden with all erections, buildings and appurtenances at Ganwick Corner, South Mimms.

Papers, 1899, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to the lease of a shop and basement at 4, Spring Bridge Road, Ealing.

Papers, 1675-1840, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds, copies of court rolls, leases and releases, certificates, plans and mortgages for property in Edgware, Enfield, Hendon, Tottenham, and East Barnet.

Material relating to the documentary film series Watergate, 1960s-1990s, concerning the Watergate scandal and the fall of President Richard Nixon, made by Brian Lapping Associates Ltd and broadcast in 1994, including U-matic cassettes of video taped interviews with members of Richard Nixon's administration and those that prosecuted Watergate, notably H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and John Dean; typed transcripts of the above interviews, including both original research interviews and transcripts from the final production interviews; U-matic tapes of the newsreel used in the programme; transcripts of the White House tapes containing President Nixon's conversations with his aides taped by his hidden system, 1971-1973; copies of Haldeman's handwritten notes of conversations with the President and others, especially relating to Watergate, 1970-1973; other research material, including Books of Information compiled by the House Judiciary Committee relating to Watergate, transcripts of evidence given to the Senate Watergate Committee in private session, copies of newspaper articles, books and unpublished memoirs, as well as VHS and audio tapes containing Nixon's press conferences of 1972, John Dean's testimony and previous documentaries made on the Watergate scandal.

Papers of Water SavingTrust (1997), including: steering group minutes and agendas, 1997; papers regarding Water Saving Trust conference, correspondence with various government bodies and organisations, 1997-1998; notes for talk for conference; British Water Saving Forum press Releases, 1997-1998; Water Efficiency Seminar correspondence and programmes, 1998; Anglian Water Efficiency Plan 1997 Presentation, 1997.

Papers of Samuel Hall Wass, 1951-1954, comprising the case notes of patients at Guy's Hospital Out-Patient Department, mostly concerning the treatment of haemorrhoids, and bowel and colon complaints.

WMS/Amer.91 is one of a series of annual orders for general estate supplies sent by Washington to London. MS.7799 comprises a photograph of a letter from Washington shortly before his death, discussing his false teeth, plus supporting documentation.

The collection includes uncut audio cassettes, video cassettes and transcripts of interviews, concerning events leading up to the Gulf War (1990-1991) such as the role of the United States in the liberation of Kuwait following its invasion by Iraq, 2 Aug 1990; US relations with the international community coalition which included Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Soviet Union; the role of the United Nations; and the background to decisions taken by the US government in response to the invasion and up until the ceasefire of 28 Feb 1991.
It also contains related transcripts of US Congress proceedings, research files, news cuttings, video cassettes of the three episodes of the television documentary The Washington Version as broadcast in the UK, scripts for each episode, draft version of scripts and documentary, as well as uncut video cassette footage of television news reports, press conferences and addresses, contemporary to the conflict.
The documentary was advertised as 'a personal history of the Gulf Crisis told by US Cabinet members, their deputies and key allies'. Those interviewed include James Addison Baker III, US Secretary of State, 1989-1992; Richard B (Dick) Cheney, US Secretary of Defense, 1989-1993; Robert Gates, Assistant to the US President and Deputy National Security Advisor, 1989-1991; Gen Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor, 1989-1993; James Danforth Quayle, US Vice President, 1989-1993; Stephen Joshua Solarz, Democrat member of US Congress, 1975-1993; Gen Colin Powell, Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander in Chief; Thomas Stephen Foley, Democrat member of US Congress, 1965-1995, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1989-1995; Ambassador Thomas Reeve Pickering, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 1989-1992; Lawrence S Eagleburger, Deputy Secretary of State, 1989-1992; Richard N Haass, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director, Near East & South Asian Affairs, National Security Council, 1989-1993; John Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1989-1991; Robert M Kimmitt, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1989-1991; Charles Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater, Private Secretary to the British Prime Minister, 1984-1991; Dennis B Ross, Director, Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State, 1989-1992; H E Sheikh Saud Nasir Al-Sabah, Kuwait Ambassador to the US, 1981-present; Joseph Charles Wilson IV, Charge d'Affairs, US Embassy, Baghdad 1988-1991; Paul Dundes Wolfowitz, Under Secretary for Policy, US Department of Defense 1899-1993; Sergei Tarasenko, Policy Advisor to Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze 1985-1991; and Martin Indyk, Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, 1984-1993.

Manuscript volume containing an Order of the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions, 15 Jul 1740, fixing allowances for the conveyance of rogues and vagabonds. It is addressed to the Rev John Ingram [of Little Wolford, Warwickshire].

Papers relating the the estate of Stephen Warwick, including deeds for property in Bow, Poplar and Stepney; wiils; correspondence; bills; and judicial records for Chancery case Thomas and Sarah Eames v. Louisa Warwick.

Two issues of The Methodist Recorder, 1895 and 1904.

Register of baptisms, 1864-1925; register of marriages, 1881-1926; Building Committee and Trustees minute book, 1863-1901; Trustees minute book, 1902-1919; Executive Committee minute book, 1922-1925; reports of West London Mission, 1925; correspondence, 1925-1926.

AFO 1/56, the new officer structure', a manuscript text on changes in the RN officer structure, 1956-1994, with particular reference to Area Flag Officers, written in [1994].

Papers of Malwin Warschauer, 1899-1988, including unpublished copy typescript account of the life and philosophy of Malwin Warschauer entitled Tradition, by his son, James J. Walters; copies of sermons; philosophical treatises; lectures; newspaper articles; correspondence with Albert Einstein and Leo Baeck and obituaries.

Certificates of baptisms carried out by the Warsaw Anglican Chaplaincy.

Records of Warrens, solicitors, 1774-1930, comprising letter books (indexed); bill books (indexed); manor books and ledgers.

Papers of Michael Donald Warren acquired in connection with his role as an Adviser to the Chief Scientist of the Department of Health and Social Security, 1970s-1980s, and some associated reports.