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Lists of Jews held under the protection of the Hungarian consulate, Belgium, 1943.

This collection comprises 2 deposits: correspondence between a commercial counsellor at the British Embassy, Berlin, and the secretary of the North of England local industrial development organisation; and the papers of Josephine Winter and her husband, Austrian Jewish immigrants to Great Britain including an inventory of possessions, instructions on how aliens should behave in Great Britain; guidelines on how to prepare children prior to despatch on 'Kindertransport'.

This collection of miscellaneous documents includes: correspondence between the camp authorities and the Gestapo, Holland, regarding the belongings of dead Dutch prisoners, 1941-1942; statistics on exterminations, unnatural deaths and transports to death camps, April 1945; list of surviving prisoners, March 1945.

This microfilm collection of correspondence documents the experiences of Julius Bloch and family and friends, some of whom managed to escape Nazi occupied Europe, and others, who did not. The papers include correspondence from his brother in Gurs concentration camp in the French Pyrénees, where he died.

Documents about the persecution of Jews in Poland by Bruno Streckenbach and on his postwar trial.

Marek Vajsblum: article about the fate of Polish archives entitled 'Mutability of the Past- nazi-made'.

Copies of the several versions of Richard Korherr's report on the numbers of Jews deported to camps in Poland, c1943, along with material generated by Korherr after the war concerning his role as statistician of the Reichsführer SS, in particular correspondence between him and Gerald Reitlinger, regarding the latter's portrayal of Korherr's role in his book The Final Solution; also affidavits and other material supporting Korherr's claim that he was not a Nazi. The latter includes a statement from Oswald Spengler's niece, whose uncle was a friend of Korherr - the earliest material in the collection consists of letters from Spengler to Korherr, c 1926.

Correspondence by Fritz Zietlow, Nazi party member and newspaper editor, mainly letters to the editor of the Nazi newspaper, Der Angriff, Fritz Zietlow, also internal correspondence and a number of publications.

Reichstag election, June 1920: election leaflets and advertisements also containing some anti-Semitic material. The Deutsche Nationalpartei and the Deutsche Demokratischepartei are most often represented, although there is in addition material from the National Versammlung.

Reports affidavits and correpondence regarding the fate of children brought up in the Nazi Lebensborn programme, 1941-1948.

Personal papers of Erich Arp mainly concerning his membership of political and student organisations; Military Government Court indictments of Geissler and Arp and notes relating to indictments, 31 May 1945; Enclosures including reports regarding the history of Nazi support and ant-Nazi activity in Elmshorn; pamphlets produced at the end of the war by the Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee, Hamburg.

Verdict and judgement in an appeal in a Nazi war crimes euthanasia trial against Eugen Schmidt and Helen Schürg, OLG Frankfurt am Main, Ss 92/47, 1947. This copy trial document shows the verdict, sentence and trial judgement in a 'Euthanasia Case' appeal against Dr Walter Eugen Schmidt and Helen Schürg, OLG Frankfurt am Main 12.8.1947 Ss 92/47. They were originally found guilty of multiple murder and accessories to multiple murder respectively at the Eichberg nursing home, Hessen, between 1941 and 1945, along with several other defendants at a trial at the LG Frankfurt am Main, 21 Dec 1946-, No. 4 Kls 15/46. The appeal court upheld the verdicts and in the case of Schmidt raised the sentence from life imprisonment to death.

Part I comprises papers relating to the Bern trial of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' including a list of Weltdienst subscribers; correspondence and affidavits relating to the identity of defendants' witnesses, in particular Sergei Sergiejewitsch Nilus, son of Sergei Alexandrowitsch Nilus (1862-1929), responsible for the original publication of the 'Protocols'; verdict and judgement in the case. Part II comprises the correspondence of 'Weltdienst'.

Correspondence and papers relates to the Bern trial of the distributors of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion', 1937; notably correspondence and papers relating to witnesses and testimony; account of the trial proceedings and the origins of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' by one of the appellants' lawyers; draft summation of the case for the appellants at the appeal court, Bern, with detailed contents and bibliography.

The copy correspondence and papers in this collection document the systematic theft of Jewish property following the ransacking of Jewish lodges, libraries and archives; the subsequent confiscation of all art works in Jewish hands throughout Europe and their dispatch to Germany in special trains; and the plunder of the homes of Jews deported to the East collectively known in Germany as 'Möbelaktion'.

Papers documenting the experiences of Jews in Poland, 1939-1940, comprising reports, 1939-1940; copies of articles and extracts from European newspapers, [1939-1940] and copies of letters and extracts from letters from Jews deported to Poland describing their suffering and hardships, mainly from Stettin, Krakau, Warschau, Piaski and Lublin.

Papers of Iris Murdoch, c 1981-c 1995, comprising letters to Sugana Ramanathan, responding initially to Ramanathan's letter expressing interest in Murdoch's books, which later developed into a literary friendship. The letters discuss Jesuits and a Jesuit College (presumably in India) and Murdoch's interest in this, as she has had 'many highly intelligent Jesuit pupils'; describe their first meeting, and reflect on Murdoch's works including the Gifford lectures.

Archives of the University of Surrey and its predecessor institutions, 1890-2003. The archives include papers connected with the original foundation, 1890-1894; minutes of Governing Body, Council, Senate, and their Committees, 1891-2003; reports of the Governing body, 1893-1926; of the Principal, 1910-1965, and of the Vice Chancellor, 1966-2003; building and accommodation papers and plans, 1960s-2003; records of academic departments and research institutes, including electronic and environmental engineering, education, languages and law, health, human sciences and the performing arts; prospectuses and calendars, 1894-2003, and details of postgraduate courses and research studies, 1968-2003; Students' Union records; financial records including accounts and funding bodies; legal and property records; schemes of government; staffing records and biographical notes of some members of staff; student and university magazines, 1908-2003, including Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, 1908-1930; Polygon, 1931-1963; and Battersea College of Technology Magazine, 1964-1966; Battersea Polytechnic student cards, c1894-1957 (microfiche); photographic collection covering buildings, events and people,1889-2000.

Contains the records of the Brixton School of Building. The collection has been arranged into the following categories:

BSB/1 Works in Converting the Baths in Ferndale Road into a Technical Institute, 1902;

BSB/2 Prospectuses, 1936-1971;

BSB/3 Historical Publications: three publications charting the history of the School, 1955-1979;

BSB/4 Magazines: issues of the School's in-house magazine, 1955-1958;

BSB/5 Distribution of Prizes and Exhibition Work: programmes listing the students receiving awards in different categories of study, 1948-1960;

BSB/6 Syllabuses, Course Notes and Examination Papers: syllabus information for courses in Public Health Engineering, course notes for teachers on a variety of subjects and exam papers for internal and external examination, 1953-1970;

BSB/7 Administration: papers on various courses provided by the School, 1960s;

BSB/8 Professional Publications: a booklet regarding metrication of the UK construction industry and journal articles regarding Public Health Engineering written by a staff member 1963-1977;

BSB/9 Photographs, c.1910-1930s.

David Singmaster papers comprising:

DS/1 Rubik Cube Publications: four newsletters and four pamphlets regarding the Rubik Cube, 1980-1982;

DS/2 Presscuttings regarding Singmaster's research and Rubik Cube solution, 1979-1983;

DS/3 Academic Papers: various metagrobological and mathematical academic papers, 1975-1982.

Records of the Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS) comprising:

GLAWARS/1 - Home Office: records from the Home Office regarding emergency planning and civil defence in local authorities, 1975-1987

GLAWARS/2 - Greater London Council (GLC): GLC records regarding civil defence, emergency planning, the GLAWARS and the Civil Defence Regulations 1983, 1975-1985

GLAWARS/3 - Research Materials: records regarding civil defence, emergency planning and local and global effects of nuclear war or attacks, 1967-1987

GLAWARS/4 - Background, Terms of Reference and Research Task Outlines: outlines and outcomes for 11 of the 12 tasks required by the GLAWARS. Task Eight is not included, c.1984-1986

GLAWARS/5 - Newsletters, Progress Reports, Home Office and Consultants' Meetings, 1984-1985

GLAWARS/6 - Commissioners: records concerning the seven GLAWARS commissioners, their roles, memorandum and meeting minutes, 1984-1986

GLAWARS/7 - Presscuttings regarding the GLAWARS and the publishing of 'London Under Attack', 1984-1986

GLAWARS/8 - 'London Under Attack': publicity and publishing records for the GLAWARS findings published in a book entitled 'London Under Attack', 1985-1986

Contains the records of London South Bank University and its former institutions, comprising:

LSBU/1 Governance records, including the Board of Governors and the major committees which have shaped policy;

LSBU/2 Administrative records, containing the records created by support services and departments;

LSBU/3 Academic records, containing records related to the implementation of teaching within the university, including the Academic Board;

LSBU/4 Staff records and personal papers;

LSBU/5 Student Activities, containing records related to the activities of students within clubs, societies and the Student Union;

LSBU/6 Published Sources, including staff and student magazines, prospectuses and annual reports;

LSBU/7 Photographs

LSBU/8 Ephemera, including posters and trophies

LSBU/9 External publications, consisting of material about, but not produced by, the University.

Microfilm of correspondence and papers detailing the activities of the German Evangelical Church during the Third Reich, in particular the role of Eugen Gerstenmaier, [1933-1958]. Also included are a number of periodicals of German Evangelical organisations during the 1930s and other related reports and papers.

This microfilm collection contains a variety of pre-Second World War propaganda materials produced for consumption in Great Britain, 1936-1939, including reports, publications, leaflets and transcript of a radio broadcast: Hitler's speech to the Winter help, 10 Oct 1938; chiefly produced by the Anglo-German Fellowship, Deutsche Ausländer Dienst, Deutsche Fichte Bund and the Anglo-German Information Service.

Microfilm of facsimile documentation from the Lodz ghetto, 1940s, including material on the controversial role of the chairman of the Judenrat, Mordechai Rumkowski, including printed public ghetto announcements in Yiddish and German dealing with such subjects as food rationing, forged ghetto money, saluting Germans, sanitary conditions, the use of electric cookers, and arrangement for the 're-settlement' of ghetto inmates, 1941-1944; fragment of a calendar covering part of the year 1942, the front bears an image of Rumkowski with the ghetto in the background and the month of January opens with the slogans 'work', 'bread', 'care of the sick', 'protection for the children', 'peace in the ghetto'; plan of Lodz ghetto entitled 'plan of Litzmannstadt showing Jewish populated areas' [1940] and school reports from former pupils of the Humanistischen Lyzeum, Lodz.

Papers created by the the Sicherheitsdienst on the membership and activities of Jewish organisations in Erfurt, Germany, 1930s, including correspondence, reports, membership lists of organisations and questionnaires.

List of prisoners in Lehrstrasse Prison involved in the 20 July 1944 bomb plot against Adolf Hitler, including arrival and release date, the latter annotated with destination. Those who were transported to the Plötzensee Prison were probably executed.

Report on conditions in Auschwitz- Birkenau including plans and statistics on inmates, 1944.

Microfilm of papers of the Nazi authorities in Yugoslavia, 1942-1943, comprising letters, proclamations and reports of German police units, including an order which explicitly mentions their intention to systematically murder the adult male population of Hrastnigg, Kanker and Zavoden, in former Yugoslavia, and to 're-settle' the remaining population.

Correspondence of Irmgard Litten, mother of the lawyer Hans Litten (1903-1938), regarding attempts to secure his release from prison, including a letter dated 11 February 1938 from Dachau, containing a list Hans Litten's personal effects.

Original correspondence between the Polizeipräsident of Berlin and the KBDJ concerning all the activities of the organisation, eg. theatrical performances, engagement of the actors, venues etc, 1933-1935; forbidden Jewish texts including essays, lectures, poems, play scripts, short stories, anecdotes etc; general file containing programs pamphlets, correspondence between KBDJ and Staatskommisar, also Jüdischer Kulturbund, Berlin, 1938-1939; Kulturbund correspondence with groups, members, lawyers, Nazi authorities (Blank and Hinkel), reports and 3 copies of the Monatsblätter, 1933-1935; JKB Orts and Landesgruppe (except Berlin): mainly correspondence, pamphlets, programmes and other documents of the organisation in the different cities viz: Hamburg, Breslau, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Dresden, Hildesheim, Kassel, Bayern, Erfurt, Königsberg, Mecklenburg-Lübeck, Oberschlesien, Ost-Westfalen, Rhein-Ruhr, Schwarzwald, Stettin, Wien.

Papers relating to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, 1968 comprising leaflets, proclamations of solidarity, photographs, appeals to the public, warnings concerning 'traitors' issued by the Czech Communist Party, and a report of a confidential press conference given by Prime Minister Oldrich Cernik to the directors of the mass media.

Correspondence documenting the concerns of the distinguished academic, Charles Singer and colleagues, in relation to the restrictions on academic freedom in Nazi Germany and in particular the discrimination against non-Aryan professors during the Heidelberg University Jubilee celebrations, 1935. Correspondents include: J.D. Bernal, P.J. Noel Baker, E.M. Forster, Leonard Woolf, C.M. MacInnes, J.R. Marrack, Bishop of Durham, F.M. Powicke, Sir Josiah Stamp, Leonard G. Montefiore, Alfred Wiener, Ephraim Little, Cyril Bailey, Aldous Huxley.

Records of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Agency for Jews in Germany), 1933-1938. The papers include committee minutes, reports, memoranda, circulars and correspondence detailing all aspects of the organisation's activities. Also included within 602/8 is a file of transcribed correspondence regarding Gross-Breesen, a non-zionist training camp set up by the Reichsvertretung to prepare young people for life abroad.

Original and mimeographed documents relating to Jewish organisations in Germany in the 1930s, including correspondence of the lawyer, Willy Katzenstein, leader of the Bielefeld Jewish community, including correspondence referring to the formation of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland in 1933, and to the dispute between the Jüdische Gemeinde Berlin and the Reichsvertretung, Jun 1937; reports, minutes and curriculum details of the Israelitische Gartenbauschule, Ahlem; minutes, memoranda and circulars of the Jüdische Gemeinde Berlin; papers on other Jewish communal organisations including the community of Görlitz, the Preussicher Landesverband and the Verband Bayerischer Israelitischer Gemeinden; letter from the Weltverband Für Sabbathschutz to Alfred Wiener, 27 Feb 1933, enclosing a 10 day report of the organisation's activities, 8 Jan 1933; papers on Jewish schooling, 1933-1938 and circulars distributed by Nationaler Verlag (Joseph Garibaldi Huch), Berlin concerning the pamphlet 'Gerechtigkeit', 1932-1933.

Staff records of Great Ormond Street Hospital, comprising GOS/5/1, Staff and Board Members, including GOS/5/1/1, volume containing pasted-in text of 1899 Staff Rules, with later amendments; GOS/5/1 /2-3, Rules for Medical Staff and job specifications for individual medical, administrative and nursing posts, 1881-1924.

GOS/5/1/4-5, List of Members Of Board of Governors, 1914-1948 and 1948-1964.

GOS/5/1/6, Typescript List of Medical Staff, 1852-1951; GOS/5/1/7, Typescript List of Patrons, Presidents, Medical Staff, 1852-1952; GOS/5/1/8, Register of Hospital Staff, 1935-1950; GOS/5/1/9. Establishment Book, circa 1949, listing current staff working hours; GOS/5/1/10, Register of Clinical Assistants, 1934-1939; GOS/5/1/11-12*, Medical Officer's Attendance Book, 1911-1912 and 1925, (Enclosures include notes on patients, 1935-1937).

GOS/5/1/13, Staff Diet Book, 1936; GOS/5/1/14, Correspondence file on Hospital Employees' Dependants, 1914; GOS/5/1/15, Correspondence concerning staff member's accident (Henry Halings, former Pharmacist, then at National Hospital, falling through coal-grate), 1914; GOS/5/1/16, Correspondence concerning applications for Resident and Non-Resident Medical Posts, 1925-1928; GOS/5/1/17, Correspondence concerning staff on active service, 1941-1945; GOS/5/1/18, Correspondence and Reports on post-War staff replacement and Nursing recruitment schemes, 1944-1945.

GOS/5/1/19, Register of Servants and Domestic Staff, 1931-1950; GOS/5/1 /20, Box-file of correspondence with and about Medical and Administrative Staff, 1914-1947; GOS/5/1 /21, Box-file with staff lists, correspondence, proposals on staffing, staff advertisements, Hospital and trade union circulars, salaries' data, press-cuttings, 1893-1951.

GOS/5/1/22 Staffing Returns to Ministry of Health, 1951-1952; GOS/5/1/23, Chart listing Board of Governors 1954-1973; GOS/5/1/24, GOS staff directory and index of organisational structure charts, April 1999.

GOS/5/2 Nursing Staff Records, comprising GOS/5/2/1-3 Registers of Sisters and Staff Nurses, 1894-1968; GOS/5/2/4-11 General Registers of Nursing Staff, 1891-1963; GOS/5/2/12-16 Registers of Nursing Trainees, 1894-1969; GOS/5/2/17, Preliminary Training School Register (Pupil Nurses), 1947-1948; GOS/5/2/18, Register of Pupil Housekeepers, 1896-1945; GOS/5/2/19, Register of Nursery Nurses, 1958-1968.

GOS/5/2/20, Register of Masseuses (Physiotherapists), 1925-1960; GOS/5/2/21-22, Registers of Nurses at Tadworth Court (Great Ormond Street Country Branch), 1927-1948; GOS/5/2/23 Register of Private Nurses, 1888-1893; GOS/5/2/24, Register of Applications from Paying Probationer Nurses, 1894-1923; GOS/5/2/25, Paying Probationer Nurses' Patient and family Case Register, 1925-1938; GOS/5/2/26, Agreement Book for Probationer Nurses, 1926-1936; GOS/5/2/27, Private Nurses' Case Register, 1937-1939; GOS/5/2/28, Register of Private Nurses leaving the Hospital's employ, 1925-1944 (including particulars of their service from circa 1895).

GOS/5/2/29, Lady Superintendent's Report Book on Wards and Nurses, 1852-1861; GOS/5/2/30-31, Lady Superintendent's Report Books, 1860-1881; GOS/5/2/32-44*, Matron's Report Book (reports to Board on nurse staffing and statistics) 1935-1967; GOS/5/2/45 Papers and Minutes of the Nurses' Representative council, 1937-1951; GOS/5/2/46-47, Establishment Register of nursing staff numbers, working locations, examination statistics, 1960-1965 and 1970-1975; GOS/5/2/48, Bound register of Nursing Committee Reports, 1968-1969; GOS/5/2/49, Box-file, 1885-1985, including memoranda and correspondence with and about nursing staff; staff rules and salaries for nurses, report to Hospital Chairman on nursing problems by Matron Catherine Wood, 1885, petition to the Privy Council on nursing staff, 1893;,proceedings of disciplinary hearing on alleged disloyalty to Matron, 1896.

GOS/5/2/50-54 Nurses' Ward Duty Registers, 1930-1952; GOS/5/2/55, Instructions to Ward Sisters, 1947-1948; GOS/5/2/56, Correspondence on Registration of Nurses, 1917; GOS/5/2/57, Correspondence on implementation of 1919 Nurses' Registration Act, 1916-1920; GOS/5/2/58, Nursing Proficiency Certificate of Flora Whittington Ince, signed by Arthur Lucas, Dr. Garrod and Matron Payne, 1909; GOS/5/2/59, Registered Sick Children's Nursing Certificate of Nurse Lucy Sternger; GOS/5/2/60, Text of lecture reviewing nursing, given by Sally Nethercott, Great Ormond Street Director of Nursing, 17 July 1997.

GOS/5/2/61, Papers of Nurses' Representative Council meetings and other specialist nursing committees, 1975-1976; GOS/5/2/62, Papers concerning the 1949 Nurses' Act, 1947-1949, including nurse training schemes of other hospitals, obituary tributes to Princess Tsahai of Ethiopia, 1942, and text of the Handing Lecture on congenital infections by Professor Alistair Dudgeon, 1972.

Papers received from the Charles West School of Nursing, South Bank University, comprising GOS/5/2/63*, Great Ormond Street Nursing organisation and training; correspondence and memoranda 1957-1969 (includes report on experimental nurse training scheme with Middlesex Hospital, 1959); GOS/5/2/64, Preliminary Training School, Lecture Register, 20 May 1942-November 1944; GOS/5/2/65, Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of the Nursing of Sick Children ; GOS/5/2/66, Booklet, General Nursing Council Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of Nursing Sick Children, 1962; GOS/5/2/67, Booklet from the Kingston Hospital School of Nursing.

GOS/5/2/68, Book by Miss M. A. Duncombe, A Brief History of the Association of British Paediatric Nurses, 1938-1975; GOS/5/2/69, Minutes of the Advisory Committee on Nursing Education, 24 May 1960-25 February 1964; GOS/5/2/70, Charles West School of Nursing, multiple choice examination papers and revision tutorial sheets (circa 1970-1982); GOS/5/2/71, Hospitals for Sick Children Presentation of Awards and Certificates Programmes, 1982-1987 and Charles West School of Nursing Presentation of Awards and Certificates Programmes, 1988-1994.

GOS/5/2/72, Ledger, Preliminary Training School Register, 1939-1945; GOS/5/2/73, Paediatric Nursing, Course 354, Syllabus and Programme, sponsored by the British Council 3-15 July, 1983; GOS/5/2/74, Charles West School of Nursing, Annual Report, 1991-1992; GOS/5/2/75-79, Information booklets on nurse training, 1977-1980; GOS/5/2/80, Visitors' Book of the School of Nursing, 1960-1994; GOS/5/2/81, Certificate of Appreciation from the People to People Organisation, 1980; GOS/5/2/82, Wastages of Students and Pupils, 1981-1992; GOS/5/2/83, The Personalised Family-Centred Care File, 1987; GOS/5/2/84, Association of British Paediatric Nurses Newsletter, January 1969-January 1975; GOS/5/2/85, Prospectus for School of Nurse Training, circa 1966.

GOS/5/2/86*, Nurse Examination results, 1974-1987; GOS/5/2/87, Example of Probationary Nurse Training certificate from the Hospital for Sick Children (Dorothy Dear, 1914-1917), signed by chairman, matron and senior clinical staff; GOS/5/2/88, Transcript of letter to Doctor Charles West from Florence Nightingale, discussing trends in nurse training, 21 June 1877 (the original letter is in GOS/8).

GOS/5/3, Nurses' League Records, comprising GOS3/1/1-6, Nurses' League Minute Books, Oct 1936-Sept 2022; GOS/3/1/7 Minutes of Nurses' League Executive Committee and Benevolent Fund Executive Commiittee,1998-2022;GOS/5/3/2, Lists of Nurses' League Members, 1967 and 1971 (two copies), with an Address List circa 1980; OS/5/3/3, Leaflet, Diets for Sick Children, published by the hospital, circa 1950; GOS/5/3/4, Nurses League Golden Jubilee, 1987, including Visitors' book, Programme for Study Day, 25 September 1987; Programme for Thanksgiving Service at St George the Martyr, Queen Square, 26 September 1987; GOS/5/3/5, Draft Constitution for the Nurses’ League, circa 1996.

Four scrapbooks: one entitled 'Quidnunc Cricket Club 1861', one entitled 'R A F G', one is blank. Scrapbooks including correspondence, fixture cards, advertisements, newspaper cuttings, menu cards, invoices, telegrams, rules of the Massachusetts Association of Cricket Clubs. Includes accounts of R A Fitzgerald's tour to North America in 1972, matches played by MCC, I Zingari and Quidnunc Cricket Club, photographs of gentleman playing croquet, articles on lawn tennis, pictures of Germany, drinking songs, plays written by Fitzgerald, rules of the Massachusetts Association of Cricket Clubs.

Papers of Augustus de Morgan, 1833-1870, comprise letters sent and received by De Morgan. Correspondents include: Miss Anne Sheepshanks and [her brother] Rev Richard Sheepshanks, Vice-Admiral W H Smyth, and Professor [Philip] Kelland of the University of Edinburgh.

Papers of Alexandre Dumas, [1830-1845], comprise a letter To 'Mon bien cher Hugo' [Victor Hugo], regreting that he was out when Hugo called but hopes to see him the following day.

Papers of Arnold Toynbee, 1878, comprise a letter to 'My dear Rector' [Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College Oxford mentioning the 1853 edition of William Cobbett's Rural Rides, with notes by James Paul Cobbett. 'It is singular that the son should have caught the father's power of genuine description so perfectly. I should very much like to shew you William Cobbett's book, and, if you will allow me, I will bring it next term for you to see... I ought to say how grateful I am to Montefiore for the introduction he gave me to you...'.

Papers of Anne Isabella Ritchie, [1912-1913], three letters and one inscribed visiting card (for Lady Ritchie and Miss Hester Ritchie). Two of the letters are addressed to H Remsen Whitehouse and the other to Colonel Rivett Carnac. No year is given on the letters, but dates of 1912-1913 seem plausible: Remsen Whitehouse met Lady Ritchie at Colonel Rivett Carnac's house, Vevey, Switzerland, in April 1912, and two of the letters are written on mourning paper, perhaps due to the death of Sir Richmond T W Ritchie in October 1912.

Papers of Ann Benson Proctor, 1877, comprise a letter to Bryan [Charles Waller], nephew [of Procter's late husband, Bryan Waller Procter], written on the death of his father [Nicholas Waller, formerly Nicholas Procter, Bryan Procter's brother].

Forged letter of Alfred Tennyson, 1876, to Mrs [Catherine] Gladstone, written and signed in an unknown hand, as if by Tennyson.

Papers of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, 1823, comprise a letter to Sir John Sinclair. '...As a small specimen of our [Irish] taxation H.R. sends in a separate cover, a resume of the local taxes of this city; on which it is intended to petition parliament this session. Our Att[orney] Gen[eral] has consented to present it. H.R. has procured the constitution of some of the parishes of London, and would feel himself much obliged to Sir John Sinclair if he could conveniently inform him, how those local taxes are levied in Edinburgh ...' .

Papers of Iris Murdoch, c 1980-1995, comprising correspondence addressed to Roly Cochrane from Murdoch including 138 letters and 59 cards and postcards, which demonstrate Murdoch's interest in someone with whom she became fond through correspondence alone. Within the letters Murdoch discusses her work, confiding in Cochrane, who continued to write to her during the onset of Alzheimer's disease. The collection contains a final note from John Bayley referring to her illness. The collection also contains a copy of Facing Reality, 1997, a work by Roly Cochrane.

Letters from Iris Murdoch to Hal Lidderdale dating from 1945 to 1990s. Lidderdale was a friend of Murdoch's from Oxford where they were students together, and they remained in touch until Lidderdale's death. Topics covered in the letters include Murdoch's work following the Second World War with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), meeting with Jean Paul Sartre, her brief engagement to David Hicks, and her later work and travels.

Papers of Iris Murdoch, 1990-1992, comprising letters from Murdoch to Cheryl Bove, discussing issues including their next meeting and Murdoch's upcoming publications.

Letters written from Iris Murdoch to Harry Weinberger from 1977 to 1996. The letters are in files grouped by the drawer in which Harry Weinberger kept them in his desk. The letters discuss subjects such as their shared interest in the arts and religious iconography, and both of their work. Their are over 300 letters in total.

The collection also contains a number of additional items relating to Iris Murdoch's friendship with Harry Weinberger, collected by Weinberger. This includes exhibition catalogues for Weinbergers work, and copies of drawings of Murdoch by Weinberger.

Papers of Andrew Wilson, 1809, comprise a letter to [W L Mansel], Bishop of Bristol and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, requesting that 'his Lorship will accept of this copy of the only stereotyped Greek Testament in the world, as a small memorial of A.W.'s sense of his Lorship's partiality to the art of Stereotype Printing'.

Papers of Augustus de Morgan, 1831, comprise a draft letter from De Morgan [to the University Council], resigning his professorship on account of the removal from his charis of Mr Pattison 'without any fault of his own. This being understood I should think it discreditable to hold a professorship under you one moment longer', 24 July 1831 and a reply from Coates on behalf of the Council, accepting the resignation, 27 July 1831.

Papers of Brenda Elizabeth Spender, 1925-1947, fourteen letters written to Spender from Constance Holme (1 letter), Walter de la Mare (1 letter), Wilson Midgley (1 letter), George E B Saintsbury (6 letters and 4 cards) and Siegfried Sassoon (1 letter). Most items concern business carried out by Spender in her role at the literary editor of Country Life.