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Records of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. The minutes (LMA/4025/01) describe in detail the foundation of the Association, its aims and objectives. They document its development from a well-intentioned philanthropic organisation to a major provider of housing (12 substantial blocks by 1873). The activities recorded range from fund-raising to land acquisition and from collections of mortality statistics to estate management.

The visitors book (LMA/4025/03) records the important visitors to Old Pancras Road including Prince Albert, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr Gladstone, Charles Kingsley and Dr Southwood Smith.

These manuscripts have not been accessible to researchers before and are an exciting discovery. They were purchased with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Plans and elevations of Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Association buildings at Battersea Park, designed by architect Charles Barry Junior.

Records of the Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Company, comprising minutes of Board and Proprietors Meetings.

Records of the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Joint Railway, including Joint Working Committee minutes and indexes; minutes of the Joint Committee (City Lines and Extensions), with reports and statements; minutes of the Electric Traction Joint Committee; minutes of the Joint Committee for working the District Railway, minutes of the Joint Consultative Committee; minutes of the City Lines and Extension to East London Railway Joint Committee; notes of meetings of Board of Works, Corporation of London, Commissioners of Sewers; and guard book of plans (44 feet to one inch) of Whitechapel, Cannon Street, Mansion House, King William Street (now Bank) and Trinity Square (now Tower Hill) Stations.

Records of the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railways, including minutes of the Joint Committee; minutes of Officers' Conferences; reports and papers of the Oxford and Aylesbury Tramroad Company; plans of the line between Harrow and Verney Junction; and financial records including ledgers, journals and cash books.

Records of the Metropolitan and District Electric Traction Company, comprising minutes of Board Meetings and General Meetings.

Marriage registers for the following Methodist churches:

Acton Green Methodist Hall, Steele Road, Acton, 1934-1935

Methodist Church, Windmill Road, Brentford, 1934-1960

Wesleyan Church, Windsor Road, Ealing, 1900-1972

Ealing Dean Primitive Methodist Church, Uxbridge Road, Ealing, 1912-1958

Wesleyan Methodist Church, High Road, New Southgate, 1914-1971

Wesleyan Methodist Church, Bessborough Road, Harrow, 1905-1971

Methodist Church, Welldon Crescent, Greenhill, Harrow, 1934-1974

Wesleyan Church, Park Lane, Harrow Road, Wembley, 1925-1961

Methodist Church, East Lane, North Wembley, Wembley, 1970

Queen's Hall, Station Road, Hayes, 1930-1970

Methodist Church, Western Road, Southall, 1952-1965

Wesley Central Hall, Thirleby Road, Burnt Oak, Hendon, 1931-1962

Methodist Chapel, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, 1943-1973

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Windsor Street, Uxbridge, 1928-1972

Jackson's Lane Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1908-1972

Primitive Methodist Church, Mattison Road, Haringey, 1931- 1963

Methodist Church, Bath Road, Hounslow West, 1960- 1971

Methodist Chapel, Twickenham Road, Isleworth, 1948-1965

Primitive Methodist Church, Hallowell Road, Northwood, 1926- 1965

Trinity Chapel, Trinity Road, Wood Green, 1889-1969

Earlsmead United Methodist Church, High Road, South Tottenham, 1918-1951

Methodist Chapel, Northumberland Park, Tottenham, 1942-1969

Methodist Chapel, West Green Road, South Tottenham, 1961

Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church, corner of Dartmouth Road and Walm Lane, Willesden, 1906-1939

United Methodist Church, corner of Tubbs Road and High Street, Harlesden, 1926-1961

Primitive Methodist Church, High Road, Willesden Green, 1927-1960

Primitive Methodist Chapel, College Park, Harrow Road, Willesden, 1939.

Baptism registers, 1948-1967; photographs of events, staff, buildings and residents of the Mother and Baby Home, [1940-1980]; and the text of a presentation written to accompany a slide presentation, providing details of the work of the Women's Fellowship with young mothers, 1971-1972.

Records of the London Mission (West) Circuit, 1927-1987, including administrative files consisting of material relating to Grove House Hostel for ex-borstal boys, Gilbert Goodliffe House for retired men and women, Saint Luke's and Saint Mary's House for men and women, Emerson Bainbridge House and Hopedene House for Mother and Babies; legal papers concerning legacies; material relating to Kingsway Hall Church including press cuttings and 10 volumes of Orders of Service; slides and photographs; and 106 exhibition boards of photographs and a brief history of the West London Mission created for the centenary exhibition in 1987 along with location maps from 1832 and 1987 showing activities of West London Mission.

Records of the Methodist Church London North East District, 1880-1992, including minutes of the Local Preachers' Committee and the Education Sub-Committee; correspondence with local preachers; a review of book At Satan's Throne: a history of Methodism in Bath; an original Primitive Methodist Circuit plan of 1880; leaflet "The Union Chapel: a famous Islington landmark" and booklet "Chislehurst Methodist Church: An Invitation to look and see for yourself".

Preaching plans and directories for Methodist circuits, 1954-1980, including the Blackheath and Lewisham Circuit, the Enfield and Acton Circuit, the Enfield Circuit, the Finsbury Park and Southgate Circuit, the Hackney Mission Circuit, the Hammersmith Circuit, the Highgate Circuit, the Lambeth Mission Circuit, the London Mission North and Central Circuit, the London Streatham and Dulwich Circuit, the Richmond and Hounslow Circuit, the Shooters Hill Circuit, the Sydenham and Forest Hill Circuit, the Teddington Circuit, the Tottenham and Stoke Newington Circuit, the Wembley and Golders Green Circuit, the West London Circuit, the Whitechapel Mission and the London North East District. Also issues of the Methodist Central Hall newsletter, 'Outlook'.

Leases and legal documents relating to properties owned by the Methodist Church, including original lease from the Governors of Saint Thomas' Hospital of land and chapel in Great Dover Street, St Mary Newington (with plan of chapel interior) and with related papers and later declarations of trust, 1835-1895; abstract of title of British Land Company to estate at Shooters Hill, Plumstead, 1861; abstract of title of Reverend J Atkinson to land at Kilburn Park, Willesden, 1875; trust documents and related papers regarding Perry Vale Methodist Chapel, Forest Hill (Trinity Church), 1921-1930 and papers in Chancery Suit regarding the erection of chapel on part of Friern Park Estate, Friern Barnet, 1932.

Records of the London North East District of the Methodist Church including Synod minute books, 1957-1995; District General Purposes Committee minutes, 1948-1957; District Foreign (later Overseas) Committee minutes, 1933-1957; District Ministries Committee minute book, 1973-1996; papers relating to property and investments, 1959-1986; Boundaries Commission Fund District Redevelopment, 1975-1978; East End Mission Management Committee, 1957-1960; papers relating to The Rock - Anglican Methodist Youth Centre, St. Lawrence, Bidwell, Essex, 1978-1992; District Quinqueminal reports and inspections, 1987-1988; Chelmsford Circuit Schedules, 1979 - 1986; report on Ecumenical Affairs, 1971-1975; Report of Study Group of London North East District on remarriage of divorced persons, [1980]; President's Council briefing paper for Synod on Provisional Legislation for restructuring Divisions, and Connexional Offices and Committees, 1994; Circuit Realignment in North London, 1994; Synod Directory, 1949, 1953-1956, 1968-1975; Synod Agendas, 1941-1974; Synod Directories and Agendas for London North District, 1933-1957; Guidelines for District and Circuit Education and Youth Officers, 1985; circulars and publications, 1947-[1970]; financial accounts, 1955-1998; Circuit Social Responsibility Committee - Highgate Circuit, 1974-1989; Division of Social Responsibility publications, 1976-1983; Wesley's Chapel Circuit plan and General Directory, 1937; Hinde Street Methodist Church tape of 95th birthday celebration for Reverend Donald Soper, 1998; Christian Commando Campaign, 1944; "Reflections on Camden Town Mission and other Circuits" by Rev. R.F. Skinner; "The Story of Camden: A Comemorative Souvenir", 1939; Report on the Camden Town Mission, 1953 and Camden Town Mission Annual Report, 1940.

Invitation to a "meeting for the promotion of holiness" conducted by Mrs Booth [Florence Eleanor Booth, wife of General Bramwell Booth] of the Salvation Army in the Regent Hall, Oxford Street, 1897 and programme for the funeral service of General Bramwell Booth, eldest son of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, 1929.

Willoughby Road Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Official Handbook for the annual bazaar or sale of work, listing the different stalls and describing the work of the Sunday School, 1906. The Sunday School was attached to Willoughby Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, Harringay.

Handwritten letter from the North Balwyn Baptist Church, Melbourne, Australia, to Mr D Kent of Shackleton Road, Southall, Middlesex, regarding a food parcel sent to Mr Kent by the Noth Balwyn Baptist Church and describing the church and its environs, 1948.

Preaching plans and directories for Methodist circuits including the Ealing and Acton Circuit, 1978; Enfield Circuit, 1975-1976; Finchley and Hendon Circuit, 1973; Finsbury Park Circuit, 1969; Finsbury Park and Southgate Circuit, 1977-1978; Harlesden Circuit, 1973; Harrow Circuit, 1978; Highgate Circuit, 1977-1979; Teddington Circuit, 1977-1978 and Wembley and Golders Green Circuit, 1977-1978.

Correspondence (with some administrative and financial papers) between the Methodist Church Home Mission Division and the individual circuits and missions within the London districts (London South-East District, London South-West District, London North-West District and London North East District).

Papers of the London Methodist Choir, comprising posters for annual choral festival, Wesley's Chapel, City Road, 1960; Christmas concert, Kingsway Hall, 1968; concert of sacred music, Kingsway Hall, 1969; carol concert, Kingsway Hall, 1969; and organ recital by David Bell at Gidea Park Methodist Church, 1984.

Press cuttings relating to the opening of Kingsway Hall, part of the West London Mission, Methodist Church, 1911-1912.

Records of various Methodist Circuits, including Blackheath and Lewisham Cicuit preaching plans, 1980-1985; Chelsea and Victoria Circuit preaching plans, 1981-1986; Ealing and Acton Circuit preaching plans, 1966-1981; Ealing and Acton Circuit: Askew Road Church newsletter, 1980; Enfield Circuit preaching, 1970-1984; Finchley and Hendon Circuit preaching plans, 1972-1984; Finsbury Park and Southgate circuit preaching plans, 1980-1986; Finsbury Park and Southgate circuit quarterly newsletters entitled "Link", 1985-1986; Hackney Mission Circuit preaching plans, 1974-1974.

Hammersmith and Fulham Circuit preaching plan, 1983-1983; Hammersmith and Fulham Circuit: Munster Park Methodist Church centenary programme and brief history, 1981; Harrow Circuit preaching plans, 1967-1984; Highgate Circuit preaching plan, 1964-1964; Hillingdon Circuit preaching plans, 1977-1982; Hillingdon Circuit: Christ Church and Hillingdon; "Communicare Look" magazines, 1974-1986; Hillingdon Circuit: Christ Church and Hillingdon; Communicare annual, 1978-1981; Hillingdon Circuit: Hayes Methodist Church "Tidings" magazine, 1981-1981.

London Mission (Bow) Circuit preaching plans, 1972-1985; London Mission (North West) Circuit preaching plans, 1981-1985; South London Mission Circuit preaching plan, 1985-1985; Staines and Feltham Circuit preaching plan, 1979-1979; Staines and Feltham Circuit preaching plan and newsletter, 1984-1984; Staines and Feltham Circuit directories, 1975-1984; Sydenham and Forest Hill Circuit preaching plans, 1982-1986; Teddington Circuit preaching plans, 1970 to 1985; Tottenham Circuit preaching plans, 1980-1986; Tottenham and Stoke Newington Circuit preaching plans, 1960-1980.

Wembley and Golders Green Circuit preaching plans, 1980-1984; Wembley and Golders Green Circuit programmes for Arts Festival, July 1980; Wembley and Golders Green Circuit: Park Lane, Wembley, Methodist Church newsletters, 1980-1982 and orders of service, 1982; Wembley and Golders Green Circuit: Sudbury Methodist Church "Contact" newsletters, 1980-1982 and notices, 1980; West London (Hind Street) Circuit combined preaching plans, newsletters and directories, 1982-1986; Whitechapel Mission Circuit preaching plans, 1976-1986; Tooting Mission Circuit preaching plans, 1983-1985; Putney Methodist Church, Wandsworth: newsletters, 1981-1982.

Circuit preaching plans for the following Circuits and Missions, 1959-1979: Blackheath and Lee Circuit; Blackheath and Lewisham Circuit; Broomwood and Clapham Circuit; Hackney Mission Circuit; Hammersmith Circuit; Hinde Street Circuit and Chaplaincy to the University of London Methodist Society; Leysian Mission Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; North-West London Mission; Notting Hill Methodist Church and Group Ministry; Shooters Hill Circuit; Tooting Mission; Wesley's Chapel City Road Circuit; West London Circuit; The Whitechapel Mission.

Baptism registers for Gospel Oak Methodist Church, 1963-1973, (although the title page reads St. John's Wood); Mill Lane Methodist Church, 1858-1977; and the Prince of Wales Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1880-1963.

Registers of marriages for the following Methodist chapels or missions:

Albany Methodist Mission, 1954-1958

Brockley Wesleyan Chapel, 1914-1947

Brunswick Chapel Limehouse, 1900-1954

Calderwood Street Methodist Chapel (Woolwich Methodist Church from 1965), 1939-1977

Cassland Road Wesleyan Chapel, South Hackney, 1900-1940

Charlton Methodist Church, Woolwich Road, Charlton, 1919-1940

Dulwich Road Methodist Church, Herne Hill, 1950-1962

Emery Hall, Augusta Street, Poplar, 1918-1954

Green Lanes Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1906-1967

Grove Mission, Great Guildford Street, 1889-1913

Highbury Wesleyan Chapel, Drayton Park, Highbury, 1868-1929

High Street Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Hampstead, 1881-1933

Hither Green Wesleyan Chapel, Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, 1913-1940

Hornsey Road Chapel, Hornsey Road, 1915-1940

Lambeth Wesleyan Chapel, Lambeth Road, 1916-1928

Liverpool Road Chapel, Liverpool Road, 1865-1953

Locksfield Wesleyan Chapel, Rodney Road, Walworth (Lockfeld Methodist Chapel, from 1939), 1926-1955

Lycett Memorial Methodist Chapel, White Horse Lane, 1955-1962

Methodist Chapel, Hackney Road, 1933-1942

Methodist Chapel, Poplar, 1946-1973

Methodist Chapel, St Johns Square, Clerkenwell, 1949-1952

Methodist Chapel (Welsh), City Road, 1933-1940

Methodist Chapel, Westbridge Road, Battersea, 1960-1967

Methodist Church, Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, 1940-1942

Methodist Chapel, Grayshott Road, Lavender Hill, 1938-1939

Methodist Church, Herbert Road, Plumstead, 1935-1968

Methodist Church, Lynwood Road, Tooting, 1947-1967

Methodist Church, Waterloo Road, 1935-1941

Mildmay Park Chapel, Mildmay Park, 1862-1963

New Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road, 1924-1943

Packington Street Methodist Chapel, 1947-1964

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Chrisp Street, Bromley, 1907-1925

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Eglinton Hill, Plumstead, 1920-1935

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Furber Street, Hammersmith, 1916-1954

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Kilburn Lane, 1921-1934

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Robert Street, Plumstead, 1900-1965

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1928-1940

Queensway Methodist Hall, Queens Road, 1902-1958

Roupell Park Wesleyan Church, West Norwood, 1907-1966

St Georges Hall and Schools, Old Kent Road, 1906-1955

St James Church, Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, 1908-1966

Southwark Park Methodist Chapel, Bermondsey, 1937-1955

Sutherland Avenue Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1899-1977

The Edinburgh Castle, Rhodeswell Road, Mile End Old Town, 1936-1951

United Methodist Church, High Road, Lee, 1927-1971

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Broadway, Streatham, 1889-1966

United Methodist Church, Bruce Road, Bromley, 1925-1940

United Methodist Church, Charlotte Street, Caledonian Road, 1908-1940

United Methodist Church, Fentiman Road, Lambeth, 1932-1976

United Methodist Church, Paradise Road, Clapham, 1910-1935

United Methodist Church, Pembury Grove, Lower Clapton, 1918-1941

United Methodist Church, Walham Grove, Fulham, 1911-1971

Victoria Hall, Woolwich Road, East Greenwich, 1929-1969

Victoria Wesleyan Church, Barrow Hill Road, St Johns Wood, 1905- 1940

Waltham Green Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Fulham Road, 1904-1964

Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Holborn, 1899-1933 (UNFIT for access)

Wesleyan Chapel, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, 1924-1939

Wesleyan Chapel, Caledonian Road, Islington, 1867-1915 (UNFIT for access)

Wesleyan Chapel, Camden Street, Camden Town, 1931-1938

Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Sydenham (Dartmouth Road, Sydenham from 1938), 1918-1945

Wesleyan Chapel, London Street, Greenwich (Central Hall from 1906, West Greenwich Methodist Church from 1935), 1885-1969

Wesleyan Chapel, Wauxhall Walk, 1931-1957

Wesleyan Church, Rushey Green, Catford, 1897-1967

Wesleyan Chapel, Oakley Place, Old Kent Road (later St Georges Methodist Church), 1900-1981

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Brockley Rise, Forest Hill (Honor Oak Park Methodist Church from 1934), 1902-1974

Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall, High Street, Plumstead, 1906-1957

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Danty Street, Hackney Wick, 1909-1935

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Denbigh Road, Westbourne Grove, 1911-1940

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Kitto Road, Nunhead, 1901-1972

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Cross Road, 1903-1942

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, 1922-1964

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Avenue, Blackheath, 1866-1945

Wesley Hall, Streatham, 1924-1948

William Street, Methodist Chapel, Woolwich, (Calderwood Methodist Chapel from 1939), 1900-1939

Working Lads Institute, Whitechapel Road, 1905-1906

Methodist Church, Westhorne Avenue, Eltham, 1932-1981

Kingsway Hall, Lesley House, Kingsway, 1931-1980.

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing a treatise on meteorology, attributed to Aristotle: Breve ac perutile Philosophiae naturalis commentum incipit Foeliciter. Quantum igitur ad primum praemitto illud Aristotelis in principio Methaurorum. Necesse est ... causa refluxus maris. Bound with a printed work: Sphaera Mundi, by Johannes De Sacro Bosco (Venice, 1478).

Meteorological journal kept at Sunbury Vicarage, 1795-1839, by the Revd James Cowe. The introduction includes Sunbury harvest tables, 1799-1839, by R C Bayard; statistical tables of meteorological data; and 2 photographs and a plan of Sunbury Vicarage garden.

Papers relating to the Meteorological Council's relations with the Royal Society, containing extracts, copy and original letters with manuscript notes, and printed material from the Meteorological Council, including some minutes, 1872-1900; with a summary of relations between the two bodies arranged chronologically, 1854-1901.

Manuscripts of meteorological observations, with magnetic surveys and tide tables. The series contains 393 sets of results in all formats from tables to diaries, in all sizes from single sheets to runs of several volumes and from all areas of the world. This type of record has been solicited by the Society during several periods of its history. Its own observations until 1843 (when the duties were transferred to the Royal Greenwich Observatory) are recorded in 16 volumes for the period 1827-1843 (MA.230-249). Various other manuscripts cover the information gathering done by the Meteorological Committee.
Includes MA.154 observations sent by Michael Faraday to the Royal Society.

Papers of Dr Hugh Metcalfe on guided weapons, 1918-1959, including lecture by Metcalfe, 'From Rheintochter to Rapier: An Outline History of the Development of Anti-Aircraft Surface-to-Air Missile Systems', 1918-1959; delivered to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 24 Nov 1992, with later additions including expansion of the text, extracts from related reports, detailed bibliography, archive material and Metcalfe's research papers [c1990] on the early history and evolution of guided weapons including photocopies of original minutes, working party papers and other material relating to guided weapons, [1945-1961] and articles, draft papers and transcripts of lectures on the subject of the history of guided weapons.

Records of the Messina Anglican Chaplaincy, Italy, comprising register of baptisms 1902-1908, and private family letters and papers, 1891-1900. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1988.

Papers relating to his service in World War Two, dated 1941-1946, 1941-1946, 1951, principally comprising semi-official and personal correspondence, 1941-1946, including letter to his wife describing events leading up to his dismissal from command of 7 Armoured Div, 1942; pamphlet on the Battle of Keren, Mar 1941, produced by Maj Gen Sir Nigel Trapp, HQEritrea District, for visit of Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces, to Keren battlefield, Eritrea, Mar 1947; Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, 1943-1945 by AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (London, HMSO, 1951); operational notes and training instructions for 7 and 9 Indian Divs during the Burma campaign, 1943-1945; 'Warfare in undeveloped countries. Part 1: desert warfare', War Office publication written by [Messervy] in 1954; printed histories by Messervy and others describing operations in Burma by 12 Army, 14 Army, 4 Corps, 15 Indian Corps, 23 Indian Corps, and 25 Indian Div; Ministry of Information publications, dated [1945], concerning campaigns in the Middle East and Far East, 1941-1945, the Merchant Navy, 1939-1944, Combined Operations, 1940-1942, Britain's anti-aircraft defences, 1939-1942, and civil defence in the UK, 1940-1941, and the war effort on the Home Front, 1942-1944; Government of India publications,dated [1944-1946], describing the service of various divisions of the Indian Army during World War Two.

Papers of Colonel William de Lemos Milles ('Toby') Messenger, 1945-1994, relating to atomic tests and British nuclear policy, 1945-1989, including Messenger's report on effects of atomic blast on a Challenger tank, Australia, 1953 (Exercise TOTEM); manuscript draft article by Messenger on observing a nuclear explosion and pamphlets on nuclear weapons, 1945-1982 and papers relating to Messenger's position as Scientific Advisor (Nuclear) to Northhampton County Council (NCC) Emergency Planning, 1980-1993, including an appreciation of Exercise WET FINGER run by the NCC, [1988]; NCC emergency plans for radiation incidents; training manual for scientific advisors; files of notes, articles and other papers on the following topics: improving methods for obtaining bomb burst data, improvised bomb data, chemical and biological warfare, meteorology, victims of disaster, public reaction to nuclear technology, nuclear electromagnetic pulse, nuclear winter, casualty prediction, chemical and biological hazard protection and health, water, food, agriculture and energy after a widespread disaster; and publications including journal Fission Fragments, 1982-1992 and Civil Protection Magazine, 1991-1994.

Letters of condolence from colleagues in the banking world on the death of Wilhelm Merzbach, 1924. In additon there are some original and copy documents dating back to the era of the ghetto and the 'protected Jew'.

Correspondence and papers of Charles Lewis Meryo, 1810-1817, mainly letters sent by Meryon to his family and friends while travelling in the Middle East in the service of Lady Hester Stanhope. A number of letters contain slits, having been pierced in quarantine and fumigated against plague (see the note by Meryon, MS. 5688, f. 136v.).

Minute book of Church Management Committee and Deacon's Meetings, 1911-1941; minute book of Merton Hall Trustees, 1923-1941, including account of air-raids on Wimbledon and Merton, August 1940, damage to Church and subsequent disposal of property; and correspondence relating to 'New Eltham', ground rent, insurance, and so on, 1911-1912.

Records of the Merton and Morden Labour Party, 1926-1970, including minutes of the General and Executive Committees, the General Management Committee and the Annual General Meetings, 1936-1970; minutes of the Merton and Morden Young Socialists, 1959-1965; minutes of the Morden Ward, 1926-1966, and the Morden Ward Women's Section, 1947-1967; minutes of the Merton Group, 1933-1935; minutes of the Ravensbury and St Helier Ward Women's Section, 1948-1952; various publications, notably the Merton and Morden weekly tote, lottery and bulletin, 1957-1970, copies of The Argus, the Journal of the Merton and Morden Labour Party, 1952-1961, Labour Party General Election literature, 1964-1970, Local Election literature, 1934-1956, and press cuttings, 1960-1968.

Records of Merryweather and Company Limited, fire engine and fire fighting equipment manufacturers, comprising a day book providing details on supplies to customers (1830-1835) with draft letters (1842-1844) and a photograph album of fire equipment annotated with the name of the customer they were supplied to (1920-1921).

Papers of Lt Vernon Merry. They demonstrate the social life that Admiral Bruce Fraser had to lead and they shed light on Anglo-American relations in the Pacific during the formation of the British Pacific Fleet and during the early post-war period following the surrender of Japan.

Records of Merry and Company, saddlemakers, 1883-1951, including letter books, ledgers, account books, wages books, order books containing clients' names, notes of their requirements (whips, racing equipment, sporting gear, etc.) and many specimens of coloured silks, order book for jockeys' race caps, and correspondence.

Samuel Merriman's annotated copy of A Synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition, 1814.

Black and white, glass lantern slides by various photographers and geologists mostly of geological subjects but including a small number of ethnographic and botanical images relating to Ceylon [Sri Lanka], [1890-1905]. The majority of the images, c 200, are taken by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy but the collection also includes small numbers of slides by others including: Skeen and Co, Ceylon; Arthur Sankey Reid; Geologists' Association; G P Abraham; H A Hinton; John George Goodchild; Newton and Co; Robert John Welch; William Whitehead Watts; Sommer and Son, Naples; and the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Letter from George Meredith of Box Hill, Dorking, [Surrey] to 'Sir Reynard' [Edward Clodd], 28 May 1902. 'If you like to have the dedication [of Walter Copeland Jerrold's book on Meredith] you have only to bow your head ... But there should be no mention of you as the subject's friend, for that would overpower the appreciation ...'

Autograph, with signature.

A forged letter written and signed by an unknown hand to resemble George Meredith, sent to an unknown recipient, late 19th century. '... your scheme of a new magazine, which is to be an indicator of the specially good things published monthly or generally, promises usefulness'.

Correspondence, 1891-1901, written by George Meredith to Henry Stephens Salt.

Copy of an agreement made in Madrid, 31 Mar 1810 between the authorities and 13 merchants to supply meat to the troops and hospitals for the months of April and May 1810.

Of the twelve volumes in this class, two relate to the society of East India Commanders; one, 1780 to 1833, records wagers between members and promises of gifts to the society upon such eventualities as marriage or leaving the service; the other is an account book, 1825 to 1879. The remaining eight volumes are 'Elements of Navigation' by pupils of Christ's Hospital Mathematical School; the earliest is dated 1723 and the latest is c 1845. All are very carefully executed and the subjects include arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, gunnery and navigation; the majority are illustrated with diagrams, maps, pen and ink sketches or watercolours.

Merchant Shipping: Signal Books and Signals including a Vane List c 1810 and a pendant board of the same date.

This catagory contains examples of various types of ships' papers and documents relating to the operation of merchant ships. There are examples of Charter Parties, including one of 1322 between Walter Giffard, master of the cog OUR LADY of Lyme and Sir Hugh de Berham for a freight of wine; the remainder are twentieth-century examples. The earliest example of a Bill of Lading is for the TRIPLE CROWN of Bristol, 1689; there are others from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Among the examples of Bills of Sale of ships and shares of ships is one for the Dutch East India Company ship DEHELDWOITEMADE, sold to James Mather, a London merchant, 1782; and also one for the SPECULATOR, a French prize, formerly LE CARME, sold in 1810. Examples of documents relating to insurance include a Statement of General Average for the POLLY AND EMILY made after she had been damaged in a gale in 1895. There are also Muster Rolls and Articles of Agreement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (see also entry no.13); Bills of Health, nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Safe Conducts, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and various nineteenth-century passenger documents and papers relating to wreck and salvage, including an order issued by Sir Cyril Wyche (1632-1707) and Sir Henry Capel (d 1696), Lord Justices of Ireland, for the arrest of the pilot of the wrecked TALBOT pink, 1695.

This class consists of thirty two volumes of accounts, disbursements and memoranda relating to shipping and trade, seventeenth to twentieth centiuries. There are two seventeenth-century volumes. The first is the account book of Thomas Pye, cloth merchant in the Levant trade, 1657 to 1661; the second is an abstract of the 'Inspector-General's accounts of import and export, 1697 to 1698'. Of the twelve eighteenth-century volumes, the earliest is a volume relating to the packet contract of Edward Dummer (d 1713), and the subsequent enquiry into it, 1702 to 1713. There is also a volume containing the names and salaries of the Commissioner and officers of the Customs, 1711; the day book of the CASTLE of Bristol, 1727 to 1728, in which accounts of the slaves purchased in kind were entered together with a list of the slaves who died, with the causes; an account book showing the profit and loss of the collier GEORGE, 1737; the account book of the whaler HENRIETTA of Whitby, 1777 to 1820, and that of the privateer GEORGE of Bristol, 1779 to 1782. There are sixteen nineteenth-century volumes. They include the freight book of three ships which plied between Liverpool and Londonderry; they were the ISABELLA NAPIER, 1835 to 1840, the ROBERT NAPIER, 1847 to 1848 and the MAIDEN CITY, 1847 to 1848. There are two account books of insurance underwriters, 1836 and 1884, Baltic and Mediterranean trades; the wages account book of the GRESHAM, 1865 to 1871, together with a collection of wages forms, and the COLDSTREAM, 1872 to 1874, in the Australian trade; voyage expenses of the RYDAL HALL, 1871 to 1875, and of the barque EARL GRANVILLE, 1895 to 1903.

Records of Merchant Investors Assurance Company Ltd 1976-1978 including a single file kept by Philip A Knight, Pensions Manager, regarding setting up of the retirement benefits scheme.

Records of the Mercers Company Page Estate, including plans of estate in Eltham, and plans of estate in Crayford.

Manuscript volumes of Revd Bertram Seaborne Mercer, [1925], comprising 'Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon', by Mercer; Greek lexicon by Mercer and notebook containing notes on Biblical passages in English, Hebrew and Greek.