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Family tree of the Warburg family, Hamburg-Altona, published for the family including index and supplement, 1799-1953.

Archive, 1932-2002, of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), also including some material relating to the history of anaesthesia dating back to 1848:

Council minutes, 1932-1995; Annual General Meeting minutes, 1932-1988, 1997, and various other papers, 1934-1995 (with gaps); Advisory Committee minutes, 1978-1984, and papers, 1987; papers of various other committees, including the Safety Committee, Education and Research Committee, Archives, Library and Museum Committee, International Relations Committee, and Finance Committee.

Records of the Group of Anaesthetists in Training (GAT), including yearbook, 1993, 1995, 1997; GAT committee election papers, 1998-1999; circulated papers concerning 'New Deal Working Patterns', 1997.

List of Linkmen, 1995-1997; Linkmen's newsletter, 1995-1997, 1999.

Papers on constitutional matters, including transcript of grant of arms, 1945; constitution, 1962; amendments to rules, 1971 and undated; report on the constitution of the Council, 1974; printed Memorandum of Association [after 1981] and Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1985; copy of coat of arms, 1991; papers on composition of Council, its sub-committees and working parties, 1992-1993; Standing Committee in the Republic of Ireland constitution, 1997.

Album containing photographs and obituaries of Presidents, 1932-2002; Presidents' newsletters, 1970-1971, 1978; miscellaneous Presidential correspondence, including letters from HRH Princess Margaret (Patron of AAGBI), 1990-1998; list of Presidents (1932-1992), 1993; undated album containing photographs and biographies of officers; papers relating to elections, 1984-1998.

Annual reports, 1933-1999 (with gaps), including lists of members to 1969.

Papers relating to membership, including material on Fellowships, 1946-1949, 1953, honorary membership, 1987-1996, and subscription rates, [1991]-1995; lists of members, 1976-1995 (with gaps).

Accounts, 1983; directors' report and accounts, 1987-1995 (with gaps); financial papers, including charitable donations, 1991, 1995-1996.

Printed or typescript reports of the AAGBI, its Working Parties, or Irish Standing Committee, 1963-1997, on subjects including staffing and manpower, anaesthetists' workload, stress, the Lewin Report (1970) on the organisation and staffing of operating departments, provision of anaesthetic services and accommodation, private fees, dental anaesthetics and anaesthesia in general practice, day case anaesthesia, paediatric anaesthetic practice, management of trauma, intensive care, management of pain, use of drugs, anaphylactic shock, HIV and other viruses, anaesthetic equipment, recovery facilities, standards of monitoring, and other professional techniques and practices.

Publications of AAGBI, comprising guidelines, booklets and leaflets (largely aimed at Anaesthetists), 1975-1998, on subjects including anaesthetists' workloads, career appointments, professional references, fees for and conduct of private anaesthetic practice, anaphylaxis under general anaesthesia, prescription of Noscapine, consent forms, checklist for anaesthetic machines, standards of monitoring, obstetrics, intensive care, AIDS and Hepatitis B, and other professional matters; also including some information leaflets on anaesthesia aimed at the general public.

Programme of the first Scientific Meeting, 1957; papers on the Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM), 1991-1997; papers on the Winter Scientific Meeting (WSM), 1992-1997; papers, including programmes and minutes, relating to various other AAGBI meetings, seminars, training events, lectures, dinners and other events, 1958-1998, including some joint events with other bodies, and some events relating to the history of anaesthesia rather than its current practice. Papers of the GAT ASM and annual Linkman Conference, 1995-1998, including some sound and video recordings, 1997. Ephemera and other material relating to events, including congratulatory address on the silver jubilee from the Finnish Society of Anaesthetists, 1957; historical note on AAGBI for the golden jubilee, 1982; diamond jubilee flag, 1992; ephemera relating to various social events, 1967-1998; menus for AAGBI Ancient Brethren Luncheon, 1995-1997; visitors' books, 1951-1972, 1984.

Various papers relating to honours and prizes awarded by the AAGBI, 1946-1998, including the Sir Ivan Magill Gold Medal and John Snow Silver Medal, John Snow lecture, and Pask Certificate of Honour; undergraduate prize essays, 1987-1997 (with gaps); entries for the AAGBI Safety Prize, 1995, 1997; reports and papers of recipients of travel grants and scholarships, 1997-1998.

Papers, 1984-1987, including correspondence, plans, press cuttings and other printed material, relating to the appeal for funds, acquisition and opening of the new AAGBI headquarters at no 9 Bedford Square, London, including material relating to the earlier history of the premises.

Papers, 1953-1995, relating to the King collection of historic apparatus, including its acquisition, and to the administration of the AAGBI museum, archives and library, including advertisements for museum exhibitions on the history of anaesthesia, 1991-1997 (with gaps), and offprint of K Bryn Thomas's 'The A Charles King collection of early anaesthetic apparatus', Anaesthesia, vol 25 no 4, October 1970.

Papers, 1947-1999, on professional issues accumulated by the AAGBI, relating to anaesthetics but also touching on wider medical issues, including papers of AAGBI working parties on professional topics, and also papers and publications, for instance reports and discussion documents, produced by government bodies (e.g. NHS Executive and Audit Commission) and by other medical organisations, including other professional bodies representing anaesthetists in the UK and overseas, among them papers relating to the implications of the creation of a College of Anaesthetists and the structure of anaesthetic organisation, 1974-1979.

Various papers relating to international conferences, 1978-1999, including joint meetings of the AAGBI.

Papers, 1857-1998, relating to the history of anaesthetics, including material on eminent anaesthetists, such as Sir Ivan Magill, John Snow and Sir Robert Macintosh, and the restoration of graves of some eminent anaesthetists; anniversaries in the history of anaesthesia including the 150th anniversary of the first public administration of ether at Massachusetts General Hospital (1846); the history of anaesthetic apparatus; a letter written at Lucknow, India, concerning an amputation, 1857; memoirs including Vernon Hall's Reminiscences and Anaesthesia in India 1939-1946 (privately published, 1997); published items including copies of articles on chloroform and vinic ether, 1875, and vapour of aether, 1933, and a facsimile edition, 1996, of Allen & Hanburys Ltd catalogue of anaesthetic and oxygen apparatus (1938); material relating to the history of the AAGBI, including its coat of arms.

Miscellaneous printed items relating to other organisations, 1987-1997, including the Pain Society.

This series consists of records relating to the supervision of the General Post Office's financial business, including correspondence relating to authorisation of expenditure, development of services and applications for pensions.

POST 1 is commonly used by researchers investigating their family history. This is because a large proportion of this class consists of documentation relating to pensions and gratuities awarded to individual Post Office employees for the years 1686-1959. Amongst the numerous bound volumes of treasury letters are the pension details of thousands of employees. Additional information is often included such as the officer's name, rank and office, date of birth, career history, last salary, cause of retirement or date of death and a statement of reference. Case statements, reports and correspondence are sometimes included where retirement was on grounds of ill-health or the cause of death under investigation. The names of these individuals can be traced through the pension and gratuity indexes, which can in turn be found in separate POST classes, usually made available on microfilm.

Researchers pursuing their own family history are advised to consult the 'Guide to Family History' which can be found in the Search Room and is available to download online. This guide provides step by step advice on how to trace pension records, as well as appointment records.

The majority of these pension records can be found in Sub-Series 1 'Treasury letters, general correspondence' and Sub-Series 6 'Pensions and gratuities applications and awards' (pp. 1-259 and 271-349 of the POST 1 printed catalogue respectively).

Sub-Series 1 'Treasury letters, general correspondence' accounts for the majority of the material held in POST 1. In addition to pension records, this series comprises a record of communications between the Treasury and Postmaster General concerning the financial management of the inland, foreign and colonial services. This includes Treasury authorisation for expenditure on salaries and allowances; new establishments, buildings, facilities and equipment; extension of postal routes, services and postage rates. Developments in transport and technology, rapid expansion of the GPO and increasing complexity of the Civil Service are reflected in the letter books from the early nineteenth century. Volumes contain correspondence concerning road surveys; conveyance of mails by steam packets and railways; contracts for building work and ship conveyance; extension of telegraphic and telephonic communications; Post Office Savings Bank; Civil Service grades and pay scales.

Many of the letters in Sub-Series 2-5 are helpfully grouped and indexed by subject, such as Sub-Series 4 containing copies of letters authorising expenditure on postal telegraphic and telephone services. However, many of these letters are in fact duplicates of the records found in Sub-Series 1.

The archive comprises two volumes relating to work carried out at Gravetye Manor, 227 letters written to William Robinson and his nurse, Mary Gilpin, and a small number of papers collected by William Robinson. The letters reflect Robinson's wide network of friends and acquaintances, and topics represent many aspects of 19th- and early 20th-century society. His correspondents include fellow horticulturalists (E.A. Bowles, Gertrude Jekyll, Frank Crisp, Mrs C.W. Earle, Frances Wolseley, Arthur Bulley, Samuel Reynolds Hole, Robert Marnock, Ellen Willmott, Augustine Henry), botanists (J.D. Hooker, Reginald Farrer, Frederick Hanbury, Arthur Hill, J.T. Boswell, George Maw, Henry Vilmorin), scientists (Charles Darwin, Richard Owen, Oliver Lodge), social reformers (Edwin Chadwick, John Hanham), figures from the art world (Edward Burne-Jones, Frank Miles, John Ruskin, Carolus-Duran, Alfred Parsons), writers and poets (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Francis Newman, Henry Avray Tipping, E.V. Lucas, Alfred Austin, Charles Reade) and other well-known individuals such as Joseph Chamberlain, Viscount Esher, Lord Ronald Gower, Lady Constance Lytton, Heinrich Schliemann, Émile Faguet, William Tegetmeier and Vernon Lushington. While much of the correspondence focuses on gardening and horticultural matters, the letters also reflect Robinson's interest in the promotion of cremation, his protests against new taxes and the Government of the day, and include descriptions of individuals' experiences during the Franco-Prussian War and the Frist World War, and visits to Gravetye Manor, East Grinstead, where Robinson lived from 1883.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Group Administration files comprising: GOS/15/1, Hospital Admission Leaflets (information for parents); examples of and correspondence about revisions, 1962-1975; GOS/15/2-4 Allocation of Accommodation, 1957-1974; GOS/15/5 Medical Staff Conferences, 1970-85; correspondence and agendas; GOS/15/6 Annual Reports, 1959-1967 and correspondence; GOS/15/7-11 Architects' Correspondence and reports, 1961-1983; GOS/15/12-13 Consulting Engineers and Surveyors, correspondence and reports, 1973- 1982; GOS/15/14, Building Consultants, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 1983; Agreements with Budgen and Partners for new ward ceilings.

GOS/15/15-16 Accidents to Staff, 1972 -1974 and 1976*; GOS/15/17 Accidents in the Home; LCC enquiry into and related papers, 1958-1968; GOS/15/18-25 Automation; correspondence and reports on development of computer systems at GOS, 1965-1985; GOS/15/26 Minutes of Computer Working Party, 1964-1973; GOS/15/27 Postgraduate Hospitals Computer Feasibility Study, 1979-1981.

GOS/15/28, Battered Babies, correspondence and reports on procedures for dealing with, 1970-1973; GOS/15/29Allocation of Beds, 1955-1964; GOS/15/30, Blood Transfusion Service, 1939-1974; GOS/15/31,Chairman's File, of miscellaneous Chairman's and House Governor's correspondence; GOS/15/32, Report on Child Health Services (Fit for the Future), 1977 (GOS response to the Court Report).

GOS/15/33 Staff Christmas Festivities and Cards, 1960-1970; GOS/15/34(Hospitals for Sick Children) Group as a Supra-Regional Centre (London Co-ordinating Committee. papers), 1976-1978; GOS/15/35-38 Infection Control procedures; 1962-1977; GOS/15/39-41 Cots-design of and new prototypes; 1957-1981; GO8/15/42 Audiology Working Party papers, 1977-1978; GOS/15/43, Deputation to the Ministry of Health over maintenance of administrative links with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 1969; GOS/15/44 Hospital Archives and establishment of Museum (the Peter Pan Gallery), 1977-1979.

GOS/15/45-46 Miscellaneous enquiries to the Hospital, 1964-1971, including /45 includes correspondence about the career of Dr Norman Bethune, the Hospital support scheme for Kampala Children's Hospital, Uganda, Lewis Carroll and Great Ormond Street; Muscular Dystrophy treatment at Carshalton; Mrs Gatty and the 'Aunt Judy' Cot and a gift of books by Enid Blyton.

GOS/15/47, Terminal Care Working Party and Parents Interview Room (review of arrangements for dealing with patient deaths), 1981-1983; GOS/15/48, Fire Precautions and Inspector's reports, 1963-1984; GOS/15/49 Gas, Electricity and Fuel Supplies to the Hospital, 1964-1983; GOS/15/50, Patient visiting by Siblings and other Children (policy correspondence), 1970-1981.

GOS/15/51-54 Gifts to the Hospital, 1959-1984; GOS/15/55-61, The Great Ormond Street Gazette; draft articles and editorial correspondence, 1962-1974; GOS/15/62, Use of Hospital Patient Casenotes for Research, and general Casenote confidentiality, 1970-1979; GOS/15/64-65 Hospital History, including early policy statements on Archives policy, including /64, 1895-1965, including reports on 1940 bombing, a short history of the hospital by Sir L Barrington-Ward, miscellaneous draft articles about the Hospital, the 1895 plan of the neighbouring Hospital of St. John and St Elizabeth prior to its purchase by GOS.

GOS/15/66-68 Green Paper on Future of the NHS in London (Todd Report); Hospital response to, and minutes of the London Postgraduate Committee, 1967-1980; GOS/15/69 Infection Precautions, 1961; GOS/15/70 Infection Control Memoranda (mainly Ministry circulars), 1961-1982; GOS/15/71, Assistance to the development of local paediatric services in the Sultanate of Oman by GOS, 1983-1984; GOS/15/72 Royal Commission on the NHS, 1976-1978; GOS/15/73 Hospital Catering and Joint Purchasing schemes, 1954-1965.

GOS/15/74/1-9, Kampala Project (Provision of Staff, Training and Support Service to the Mulago Children's Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, 1959-1972; GOS/15/75 Hoxton Psychology Consultant (QEH), 1968-1970, (proposed joint appointment with Hoxton Child Guidance Clinic); GOS/15/76/1-3 Medical Equipment (purchase of), advertisements, proposals for purchase, and funding of; 1969-1984; GOS/15/77 Welton Foundation (donation for purchase of new computer for Radioisotope work), 1979-1980; GOS/15/78 Development of the Hospital Shop, including plans, 1979-1984; GOS/15/79 Hospital Memorial Services, 1944-1974, including correspondence and Orders of Ceremony, including services for Sir Stanley Cohen, Eric Lloyd, E A Cockayne, Sir R Hutchison, C A Lucas, G McNab, F J Poynton, M Bodian, G Boggon, Sir L Barrington-Ward.

GOS/15/80/1-3 GOS Medical Staff and Statistics; correspondence, staff lists and new appointments;, 1963-1968; GOS/15/81/1-2 Medical Staff Statistics (returns to Ministry and national NHS data,1963-1972; GOS/15/82 Training of Junior Medical Staff, correspondence and minutes of Sub-Committee, 1966-1971; GOS/15/83/1-2 Consultant Staffing, correspondence and reports, 1959-1972.

GOS/15/84 Medical Registrars, 1955-1966; GOS/15/85 Surgical Registrars, correspondence reports and regulations for, 1963-1966; GOS/15/86/1-4, Staff Honorary Contracts (for short-stay overseas staff); 1961-1974;
GOS/15/87 Medical and Surgical Staff Review; reports and supporting documentation of Staff Review Committee, 1964-1965; GOS/15/88 House Officers, correspondence and memoranda, 1960-1972; GOS/15/89 Joint Appointments with the National Hospital, 1963-1972; GOS/15/90 ENT Registrars, 1964-1969; GOS/15/91 LCC Welfare Clinic, Lower Clapton, and the employment of GOS staff at, 1958-1967; GOS/15/92 Physicians to Medical Out-Patients (temporary honorary assistants from other Hospitals), 1951-1967; GOS/15/93/1-6 Medical Staff Locums, 1963-1973.

G0S/15/94 Bone marrow Transplantation; development and funding of treatment, 1982-1985; GOS/15/95/1-5, Nursing Staff, general correspondence, statistical data and Sub- Committee papers; 1964-1971; GOS/15/96 Nursing Salaries and Senior Posts, 1969, including appointment of new Chief Nursing Officer; GOS/15/97/1-3 Nurse Training; 1964- 1970; GOS/15/98 Nurse Training, Lectures and Examinations, 1965-1986; GOS/15/99/1-10, Establishment and construction of the Charles West School of Nursing, 1956-1960.

GOS/15/99/1-10, General Buildings Correspondence, 1956-1960; GOS/15/100 Nursing Staff Training, Reorganisation of Tadworth, 1938; GOS/15/101 Organisation and Management Survey of Nursing Services, 1961; GOS/15/102 NHS Designation of Teaching Hospitals, 1947-1954; GOS/15/103 Nursing Staff Medals and Certificates, 1963-1982; GOS/15/104 Nursing Awards Ceremonies, 1956-1981; GOS/15/105 Midwives(Obstetric Courses for pregnant parents of GOS patients), 1962-1983; GOS/15/106/1-2 Nurses' Uniform, 1960-1986; GOS/15/107/1-2 Nursing Reports by the General Nursing Council, 1959-1982; GOS/15/108/1-6 NHS Consultative Documents, 1970-1974; GOS/15/109/1-5 Oxygen and Medical Gases (purchase, usages and storage of), 1949-1971; GOS/15/110/1-2 Oxygen Apparatus and Incubators, 1963-1978; GOS/15/111 Polio Respirators, 1949-1965; GOS/15/112/1-4 Private Patients, finances and provision, 1964-1982.

GOS/15/113 Patients, general correspondence with other hospitals, General Practitioners, and /1-9 parents,1961-1978; GOS/15/114/1-3 Patient Statistics, 1962-1972; GOS/15/115/1-2 Patient Welfare(official and Hospital reports), 1963-1985; GOS/15/116, Visiting of Patients in Hospital, 1964-1986 (policy correspondence and responses to the Platt Report); GOS/15/117 Legal Reports, 1960-67 , comprising largely responses to requests for GOS staff advice for divorce and other legal cases involving child health.

GOS/15/118/1-2 Operation Consents (policy on and design of consent forms), 1966-1978; GOS/15/119 Overseas Patients (Treatment and funding of), 1958-1961; GOS/15/120 Sponsored Patients, 1957-1967; GOS/15/121 Directives on Overseas Patients, 1954-1966; GOS/15/122/1-2, Patient Age-Limits (Policy on admission of adolescents), 1954-1977; GOS/15/123 Hospital Pharmacopoiea, 1958-1975; GOS/15/124 Patrons and Vice-Patrons, 1948-1965 *; GOS/15/125/1-2, Press enquiries, largely for proposed articles about the Hospital, 1953-1985, including controversy over proposed closure of Banstead Wood country branch and Tadworth Court.

GOS/15/126/1-2 Publications, general ( supply of articles and information for), 1961-1980; GOS/15/128/1-5, Radium and Radioactive materials; 1948-1980; GOS/15/129, Residential Accommodation (ownership, staffing and management of), 1964-1972; GOS/15/130, Royal Garden Parties (invitations to GOS staff), 1935-1980; GOS/15/131, Health and Safety at Work legislation and the Hospital, 1978-1980; GOS/15/132, Hunt Report on Hospital Supplies Organisation, 1966-1967; GOS/15/133, Southwood memorial Statues and Plaques (statues of St Nicholas and Christopher); plans and correspondence with Board members and the sculptor (Gilbert Ledward), 1950-1964.

GOS/15/134/1-2 Medical Staff Establishment (new appointments, financing of new posts, statistical returns to Ministry) 1950-1964; GOS/15/135/1-3 Nursing Staff Establishment (new appointments, financing of new posts, statistical returns to Ministry) 1950-1964; GOS/15/135/1-3, Nursing Staff Establishment; 1963-1972; GOS/15/136, Staff Statistics, general, 1964-1972; GOS/15/137, Staff Sickness (papers on Working Party on in-house staff health-care provision), 1968-1971; GOS/15/138, Staff Conditions of Service, 1964-1972, including GOS responses to the Lycett Committee of Enquiry; GOS/15/139, Industrial Action (Strike Contingency Planning),1953-1979; GOS/15/140/1-3, Trade Unions at GOS; 1948-1985; GOS/15/141, Contingency Plans for Thames Flooding at the Hospital, and transfer arrangements from other units in the event of it, 1972-1979.

GOS/15/142, Hospital Transport. 1954-1963 (to Tadworth Court and general); GOS/15/143 Gifts of Toys to the Hospital, 1957-1968; GOS/15/144 Tuberculosis treatments and precautions, 1949-1965; GOS/15/145/1-2, Transplantation of Organs, 1968-1980; GOS/15/146 Department of Paediatric Surgery; general correspondence, 1976-1986.

GOS/15/147, Hospital Newsletter (Roundabout); incomplete set, 1971-1982, with correspondence; GOS/15/148/1-6, Visits to the Hospital (by Royal Family members, politicians, sportsmen, actors and actresses, colonial health ministers, overseas statesmen's families and so on, 1960-1978.

GOS/15/149-151, Official Visits, 1964-1986, including visits of British and overseas Royalty and Government members, GOS/15/152 NHS 25th Anniversary Lunch (for 1948 Board members), 1973; GOS/15/153-154 Royal Visits, 1959-1984; GOS/15/155 Working Party on Future Development of Medical Work at GOS, 1971-1976; GOS/15/156, Nursing Services and Matron's Office Work Survey, 1961-1967; GOS/15/157 Investigation into over-expenditure on the Barrie Wing, 1963-1964; GOS/15/158 Ahmad Amirahmadi Nursing Scholarship Fund (donation by Iranian former patient), 1970-1976; GOS/15/159, Management Consultants, correspondence with, and reports by, the London Postgraduate Teaching Hospitals Management Services Unit, 1971-1986.

GOS/15/160 ENT Department, general correspondence and reports, 1976-1983; GOS/15/161, Miscellaneous correspondence of Hospital departments, 1976-1983, including Audiology, ENT , Dental, Neurophysiology , Chaplaincy, mainly concerning equipment purchase and staffing disputes *; GOS/15/162/1-2, Pharmacy, 1972 and 1979-1982, mainly concerning equipment purchase, drug trials and costs.

GOS/15/163 Respiratory Unit (establishment of), 1976-1978; GOS/15/164/1-2 Diagnostic Equipment (funding and purchase of), 1965-1969 and 1976-1984; GOS/15/165 Chemical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry departmental correspondence, mainly financial, 1981-1982; GOS/15/166, Voluntary Workers, 1972-1984, including Voluntary Services Annual Reports and Information Leaflets, and correspondence on the use of voluntary workers during strikes.

GOS/15/167/1-3 Hospital Social Services correspondence, including with Wolfson Centre and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 1974-1985; GOS/15/168 Out-Patient Department, 1980-1986, general correspondence, and 1986 Management Services report on its work; GOS/15/169, Department of Physical Medicine, 1971-1981; GOS/15/170/1-2 Medical Records Department; 1976-1984;GOS/15/171, Nephrology department, 1966-1983; development of the Renal Unit, joint work with the Royal Free Hospital, Home Dialysis services; GOS/15/172 Speech Therapy Department correspondence, 1972-1979.

GOS/15/173 Immunology Services, 1972-1979; GOS/15/174 School of Nursing papers, 1972-1979; GOS/15/175 Dietetic Department correspondence, 1972-1984; GOS/15/176 Medical Illustration Department, 1972-1979; correspondence, equipment purchase, policy statements on legal implications of photographing children *; GOS/15/177 Provision of services for mentally-handicapped patients, 1972-1985; GOS/15/178 Haematology Department papers, 1981-1984; GOS/15/179 Hospital Working Parties, miscellaneous (on Central Nervous System, new Ophthalmology Posts, Radioisotopes), 1972-1978.

GOS/15/180 Hospital Crèche, 1979-1980; GOS/15/181, X-Ray Department, 1981-1985; GOS/15/182 Neurophysiology Department papers, 1972-1979; GOS/15/183 Catering Department and Catering Competitive Tendering, 1972-1985; GOS/15/184 Hospital Transport, 1972-1986; GOS/15/185 Private Patient Beds Provision, 1969-1982; GOS/15/186 Department of Psychological Medicine papers, 1976-1981; GOS/15/187 NFER (National Foundation for Educational Research); licensing of 'Symbolic Play Test' video by GOS (royalties from sale in USA); GOS/15/188 Gastroenterology Working Party, minutes and correspondence, 1972-1975; GOS/15/189 Surgical Appointments and Division of Surgery correspondence; also papers of Working Party on the Future of Surgery in the Group, 1972-1976; GOS/15/190-192 Future of the Postgraduate Hospitals and Institutes; 'SCICOM' Review and establishment of Hospitals for Sick Children Special Health Authority,1973-1982; GOS/15/193 London Advisory Group Reports(on future of Hospital provision in London), 1980.

GOS/15/194, Hospital Playground, 1972-1982; GOS/15/195/1-2 Reconstruction of Doctors' Mess, 1976-1980 and 1984; GOS/15/196/1-3 Reports for Legal Purposes (on GOS patients, and advice to national cases) 1973-1975; 1974; 1975-1980; 1980-1983; GOS/15/197 Growth and Development Department and Growth Disorder Clinic, 1972-1980; GOS/15/198 Hospital School, 1972-1979, includes staff applications .

GOS/15/199/1-3 CSSD (Sterile Supplies Department), 1973-1982 and 1982-1987, Management Services reports, 1978-1981; GOS/15/200 Thoracic Unit papers, 1972-1975 *; GOS/15/201 Proposed Out-Patients Department Mural, 1973-1976; GOS/15/202-223 Group Administration 'B' coded filing (Hospital Buildings); GOS/15/202/1-2 Bernard Street Properties, 1960-1969; GOS/15/202/3 Purchase of 12-14 Bernard Street, 1969-1970, including plans; GOS/15/203/1-2, 25-28 Bernard Street, 1972-1975; GOS/15/204 32 Great Ormond Street (Williams Deacons Bank); Lease of former house by the Hospital to the Bank, includes plans, development schemes and general Hospital correspondence with the Bank, 1952-1967; GOS/15/205 40 Great Ormond Street (Premises leased by the Royal Standard Benefit Company, later reclaimed as GOS Supplies Dept, plans and tenancy agreements, 1955-1967; GOS/15/206 28-40 Great Ormond Street, 1956-1966, Houses on the north side of the street, subsequently replaced by new frontage extension. Includes tenancy correspondence with Tom Driberg, Richard Seifert and Lena Jeger, MP.

GOS/15/207/1-2 Dolling's Timber Yard (off Guilford Street), 1954-1960 and 1960-1966 including purchase of by the Hospital from McFarlane Burchell Ltd, draft assignment of Leasehold, and subsequent site development for ICH and Barrie Wing; GOS/15/208 Foundling Estate; papers concerning attempts at joint purchase of residential properties on the Foundling Estate by the National Hospital and GOS, 1965; GOS/15/209 28-38 Great Ormond Street, development of as new frontage building 1967-1971, including surveys of the Hospital's usage requirements and leasing of nos. 28-34 to the Ministry of Health, 1970.

GOS/15/210, 28 Great Ormond Street; leasing and subsequent usage of section of new frontage building by Deacons Bank (later Williams and Glynn's Bank), 1964-1982; GOS/15/211 41 Great Ormond Street, includes Holborn Borough Council plans of properties on the south side of the street, 1959; GOS/15/212 61 Great Ormond Street, 1967-1970; purchase by the Hospital from Camden Council, and conversion for use by Leukaemia Research Fund; GOS/15/213, Guilford Street properties (nos. 37-39, YMCA, and nos. 41-44), 1931. Purchase of new nurses' home development, and buy-out of YMCA, including correspondence of Lord Macmillan and Mr. Chadwyck-Healey (Hospital Chairman and Treasurer).

GOS/15/214 Investigation of potential purchase of nos 55-57 Great Ormond Street by the Hospital, 1970 (for £40,000); GOS/15/215 Kent's Factory, Ormond Mews. Purchase of former sawmill, leasing to Abbott and Gerson Ltd, and proposals for demolition and development of site (future Cardiac Wing site), 1959-1963; GOS/15/216 Redevelopment of Old Building, 1965-1967. Correspondence, reports, occupation and usage data, redevelopment schemes and floorplans; GOS/15/217 Ormond Mews, 1958-1968, principally concerning access and light and air agreements with the National Hospital resulting from construction of the nstitute of Neurology, Queen's Square; GOS/15/218/1-2 72-84 Lamb's Conduit Street (development of Spens House site), 1963-1967; GOS/15/219 83-95 Lamb's Conduit Street, 1970-1984. Plans, leases, tenancy dealings with the Rugby Estate, Mel Calman Limited and others (Botnar Laboratories site); GOS/15/220/1-2 Rosslyn Lodge, Belsize Park (former GOS nurses' home), 1950-1976, includes correspondence, plans, sale particulars, lease from Church Commissioners, and Camden area environmental plans.

GOS/15/221 Surveyor's Report to the National Hospital and GOS on properties owned by the Hospitals and their redevelopment potential, l971; GOS/15/222/1-2 Hospital Properties Schedules, 1960-1968 and 1969-1974; GOS/15/223 Hospital Leases with DHSS, 1976 (Queen Elizabeth Hospital properties; 36 Doughty Street, 28-34 Bernard Street, 24 Great Ormond Street and 'Northdown', Tadworth Court).

GOS/15/224-225, Group Administration 'C' coded filing (Papers of Hospital Committees), including GOS/15/224/1-6 Board of Governors' papers, 1958-1986, and GOS/15/225 Board of Governors, miscellaneous papers, 1972-1981; GOS/15/226 Board's Official Visitors' Reports for GOS, QEH and Tadworth Court, 1959-1985; GOS/15/227 Board of Governors' Open Day, 1970; GOS/15/228/1-3 Papers of Cross-Infection Sub-Committee(later Group Infection (Committee), 1963-1978 ; GOS/15/229 Papers of GOS Drugs Committee, 1955-1968, including Reports, circulars, correspondence, and a list of banned practitioners .

GOS/15/230 Papers of Finance Committee, correspondence and reports, 1961-19; GOS/15/231/1-2 Papers of the Policy and Planning Sub-Committee(Of the Medical Committee, 1963-1969; GOS/15/232 Division of Radiologists, correspondence and reports, 1971-1978; GOS/15/233 Joint Meeting of Pathologists, reports on staff and work-rates, 1963-1970; GOS/15/234 Correspondence with Medical Committee of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, on future co-operation after amalgamation, 1967-1968; GOS/15/235/1-3 Papers of the Medical Committee, 1964-1971; GOS/15/236/1-3 Papers of the Nursing Committee, 1966-1985; GOS/15/237 Papers of the Policy and Development Sub-Committee, 1964-1968; GOS/15/238 Sub-Committee (of the Policy and Development Committee) on the Development of Tadworth Court and Banstead (country branches), 1968-1971.

GOS/15/239/1-3 Papers of the Joint Research Board, 1954-1970; GOS/15/240/1-2 Study Leave Committee, including Clinical Staff Study Leave applications, 1965-1966 and attendance at 1971 International Paediatric Congress, Vienna; GOS/15/241 Papers of Joint Meetings of Surgeons and Physicians, 1959-1971; GOS/15/242 General Sub-Committee papers, 1960-1967; GOS/15/243/1-2 Papers of the Tadworth Committee, including some minutes, 1957-1965 and 1966-1969; GOS/15/244 Papers of Tadworth Medical Committee, 1966-1967.

GOS/15/245 Minutes and correspondence of GOS Medical Records Committee, 1972-1986; GOS/15/246 Reports and correspondence on the 'Cogwheel Committee' structure of clinical committees, 1972-7198, including revised Constitution of the General Medical Staff Committee; GOS/15/247 Papers of the Joint Standing Committee for the Protection of Persons against Atomising Radiation (later Radiological Safety Committee), 1971-1981*.

GOS/15/248-380 Group Administration 'D' coded filing, (Papers of Hospital Departments), including GOS/15/248- 249, Anaesthetic Department, 1956-1974; GOS/15/250, Animal House, 1960-1975; GOS/15/252, Admissions, 1959-1975; GOS/15/254 Almoner's Department (Social Work), Administration and Staffing, 1969-1972; GOS/15/255-257 CSSDU (Central Sterile Supplies Department), 1964-1976; GOS/15/258 Catering Department, 1970-1974, GOS/15/259-260 Chemical Pathology Department, Administration and Staffing, 1967-1976; GOS/15/261 Chapel, Maintenance and Equipment, 1959-1976; GOS/15/262 Dental Department, 1958-1974; GOS/15/264 Dietetic Department, 1965-1975; GOS/15/266 Dispensary (Pharmacy), Administration and Equipment (Sample), 1959-1976; GOS/15/267 Hospital Crèche, 1968-1977.

GOS/15/268 Parent's Unit 1971; GOS/15/269 *ENT Department, 1958-1973;GOS/15/271 Psychiatric Unit (Establishment of Mildred Creak Unit), 1969-1974; GOS/15/272 Psychiatric Unit, Maintenance and Equipment (including plans), 1970-1971; GOS/15/273 Staff Occupational Health Centre (Establishment of and subsequent Maintenance and Equipment, 1972-1977; GOS/15/274, Growth and Disorder Clinic, 1962-1974; GOS/15/275-276 House Governor's Office, 1959-1973; GOS/15/277-278 Haematology Department, Administration and Staffing, 1961-1974; GOS/15/280 Matron's Office, Administration and Staffing, 1943-1972 includes 1948 Rules for the Matron, and 1964 work review of the office.

GOS/15/281-282 Medical Records Department, 1959-1971; GOS/15/283 Hospital Milk Kitchen and Milk Feed System, 1958-1972; GOS/15/284 Medical Artist's Department, Staffing and Equipment, 1955-1974; GOS/15/285 Morbid Anatomy Department, Administration and Staffing, 1970-1976; GOS/15/286 Microbio1ogy 1960-1972; GOS/15/287 Medical Workshop (Biomedical Engineering), including minutes of the Medical Workshops Sub-Committee, 1957-1974 (sample).

GOS/15/288, Administration and Staffing, miscellaneous papers (sample), 1963-1972, including correspondence with or about present and former staff, alleviation of parental visiting restrictions, reminiscences of Norman Bethune by Thomas Twistington-Higgins and of the appointment of Lord Southwood as Chairman in 1939 by William Surrey Dane.

GOS/15/289 Nephrology Department (Renal Unit), 1970-1975; GOS/15/290-296, Neurophysiology Department, 1957-1977; GOS/15/297 Neurology Department, general, 1958-1974; GOS/15/298-301, Neurosurgery Unit, Administration and Staffing, 1950-1974; GOS/15/302 Nursing Mothers' Unit (including short-term parental accommodation) 1959-1977 and also some general correspondence on family visiting policy; GOS/15/303-304 Ophthalmic Department, Administration and Staffing, 1960-1975; GOS/15/305-310 Operating Theatres, 1959-1976*.

GOS/15/311-314 Out-Patients' Department, Administration and Staffing, 1960-1973; GOS/15/315 Orthopaedic Department, 1960-72; GOS/15/317-323, Pathology Department, 1951-1976; GOS/15/324 Miscellaneous, 1949-1964; GOS/15/325-326, Photographic Department, 1957-1976; GOS/15/327-332, Department of Psychological Medicine,1959-1972; GOS/15/332 Plastic Surgery Department, 1962-1972; GOS/15/333-336 Physical Medicine Department, 1958-1977; GOS/15/337-338, Physiology Department, 1960-1972; GOS/15/339 * Play (Therapy) Centre, 1965-1977.

GOS/15/340 Radiotherapy Department, 1958-1972; GOS/15/341 Research, Maintenance and Equipment, 1961-1972; GOS/15/342 Speech Therapy Department, 1960-1973; GOS/15/343-344 Hospital School, 1948-1958, and 1960-1967; GOS/15/345 Surgical and Medical Appliances, 1960-1976; GOS/15/346 Surgery, general, 1966-1972; GOS/15/347, St Nicholas's Nursery (Nursery in Guilford Street funded by the Friends of Great Ormond Street, for resident mothers, and children with feeding difficulties) no dates.

GOS/15/348-351 Thoracic Department, 1948-1971;GOS/15/352 Urology Department, 1962-1972; GOS/15/353-355 Voluntary Workers, correspondence , reports and newsletters; 1964-1974; GOS/15/356 Voluntary Gifts Department (for donated clinical equipment), 1948-1965; GOS/15/357 Hospital Wards (sample), 1961-1973; GOS/15/358-359, Hospital Wards, general (sample), l958-1972;GOS/15/359-364, X-Ray Department, 1963- 1973; GOS/15/365 Automation and Computers, 1972-1973.

GOS/15/366 Bed Allocation by consultants and specialisms, 1964-1973(for GOS, QEH, Tadworth Court and Banstead Wood); GOS/15/367 Patient Complaints, 1972-1973; GOS/15/368 Ethical Committee(Standing Committee on Ethical Practice), correspondence, minutes and proposals to, 1967-1972; GOS/15/369 Gifts to the Hospital, 1974; GOS/15/370-371 Heads of Department Meetings, correspondence and minutes; 1971-1974; GOS/15/372 Staff Incentive Bonus Schemes, 1972; GOS/15/373 Papers of Infection Sub-Committee, 1972-1976; GOS/15/374 Overseas Patient Enquiries, with related memoranda and policy documents, 1972-1973; GOS/15/375 Private Patients, miscellaneous correspondence and reports, including Royal patients; GOS/15/376, Transport of patients by Helicopter (use of Coram Fields as a landing strip for RAF helicopters delivering emergency patients), 1959-1976.

GOS/15/377-378 * Private Consulting Rooms, including minutes of Users Sub-Committee and plans, 1965-1973; GOS/15/379 Residences, correspondence and accommodation statistics, 1972-1973; GOS/15/380 Theatre Working Party, 1973-1974.

GOS/15/381-436 Group Administration 'F' coded Filing (correspondence with External Organisations and Affiliated Institutions, comprising GOS/15/381 Area Nurse Training (North-East Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee), 1957-1968; GOS/15/382-383 BBC Broadcasts, 1959-1966 and 1968-1984; GOS/15/384,British Paediatric Association (run from Institute of Child Health); correspondence, reports, agenda papers, newsletters, 1962-1968; GOS/15/385-388 Coram Fields-Harmsworth Memorial Park and Wolfson Centre, 1961-1983; GOS/15/389, Cystic fibrosis Research Foundation (administered by GOS staff), correspondence and newsletters, 1963-1969.

GOS/15/390, * Department of Health and Social Security (sample), 1972-1982, including correspondence with DHSS, 1983 report on Paediatric Cardiac Surgery; Rules for new Hospitals for Sick Children Special Health Authority, 1982, Hospital statistical returns to the Department.

GOS/15/391-398 Friends(of the Children) of Great Ormond Street; correspondents, minutes and leaflets, 1961-1986; GOS/15/399 Variety Club of Great Britain, 1967-1977; GOS/15/400 * Leukaemia Research Fund, 1969-1985;
GOS/15/401-402 London Borough of Camden, 1977-1986, including general plans of the area, and papers concerning the effects on the Hospital and neighbourhood of traffic and development schemes and cable-laying; GOS/15/403, Joint Research Board (with Institute of Child Health), 1970-1975; GOS/15/404-408 Institute of Child Health, general management correspondence with the Hospital, and some minutes of ICH Academic Board, 1961-1985; GOS/15/409 Royal Commission on Medical Education (Todd Report), 1968; GOS/15/410 League of Remembrance, 1959-1984; GOS/15/411-412 Metropolitan Hospitals Sunday Fund, 1959-1984.

GOS/15/413, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney, 1959-1965, including correspondence with QEH prior to period of joint management, including GOS reports giving case for designation of QEH as part of future Hospitals for Sick Children group; GOS/15/414-415 North-East Metropolitan Regional Health Board (later North-East Thames RHB), 1962-1967 and 1971-1985; GOS/15/416, Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital, 1963-1969; GOS/15/417-420 The Teaching Hospitals Association, circulars and correspondence 1960-1968; GOS/15/421-424 The Teaching Hospitals Association, London Postgraduate Committee, 1959-1967; GOS/15/425,Sir Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund, 1968-1982* ; GOS/15/426, UNICEF, 1961-1968.

GOS/15/427, GOS Gastro-Enteritis 'Flying Squad', 1948-1949, including correspondence of Dr J A Black concerning the establishment of the service, its work at other Hospitals, and lists of equipment used by it; GOS/15/428-429 Joint Research Board(with Institute of Child Health), 1972-1985; GOS/15/430, London Planning Consortium (on general Specialist Services in the Capital), 1978-1980; GOS/15/431, Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, 1970-1981; GOS/15/432, City and Hackney and Tower Hamlets Health Authorities, largely concerning development plans for Queen Elizabeth Hospital; 1974-1983; GOS/15/433-44, City and Hackney Health Authority 'Joint Care Group' (with GOS, forQEH and general East London Paediatric services), 1976-1981.

GOS/15/435,North-East Thames Regional Health Authority (NETRHA); correspondence and reports to GOS on general paediatric matters in the Region, 1976-1981; GOS/15/436 Private Children's hospital, 1980-1981*, a proposed scheme for development of a new private paediatric hospital in Great Portland Street initiated by UME(United Medical Enterprises) group, with possible GOS collaboration.

GOS/15/437-450, Group Administration Financial Filing (former "F" coded series), omcprising, GOS/15/437 Budget Maintenance and Review; sample of original multiple files, 1962-1985; GOS/15/438-441 Budget Capital and Review, 1960-1985; GOS/15/442, Annual Capital Programme (sample), 1958-1983, including annual expenditure estimates and related correspondence with the Ministry and Hospital staff; GOS/15/443-444 Board's Endowment Funds, 1957-1984; GOS/15/445, Hospital Costings (sample), 1958-1964; G08/15/446, Fundraising, 1981-1984, including correspondence on fundraising policy and with individual donors, prior to inception of the 'Wishing Well' Appeal; GOS/15/447, Special Trustees, GOS, 1978-1984, including establishment of Special Trustees for the Endowment Funds on the creation of the Hospitals as a Special Health Authority.

GOS/15/448, Special Trustees, general, 1981-1984; minutes and related papers of meetings of the Special Trustees Group (from other London Hospitals); GOS/15/449,Valuation of Investments (of Endowment Funds and Trust Funds); annual statistics and correspondence, 1957-1983; GOS/15/450, Private Patient Charges (largely correspondence with Deptartment of Health on rates of and usage of), 1951-1969.

GOS/15/451-489, Additional 'Properties' Series (former Group Administration 'J' coded filing), comprising GOS/15/451-453 New Operating Theatre (furnishing and equipment for), 1953-1960; GOS/15/454-458, New X-Ray Department (Barrie Wing), planning, financing and equipping of), 1958-1961; GOS/15/459-462 Proposed new Administration Block (Frontage Extension), 1955-1963; GOS/15/463-472, Hospital for Sick Children and National Hospital property relations and Joint Development schemes, 1945-1968; (note that this series continues below as /481-488, former J30 series).

GOS/15/473-480 Redevelopment of 36-40 Great Ormond St (Frontage extension including Williams and Glynn Bank), 1955-1971; GOS/15/481-488 National Hospital Joint Development Schemes, 1966-1974; GOS/15/489 Mothers' Accommodation (Original Parents' Unit), 1965-69, including correspondence, plans, reports and opinions of senior medical staff on its establishment.

GOS/15/490-528 1970-1987 Group Administration 'Subject Filing' which is a heavily-weeded former numerical series, comprising, GOS/15/490 Refused Admissions reports, 1983-1984; GOS/15/491 Papers of GOS Building Committee, 1980-1981; GOS/15/492 Capital Programme, including estimates and related correspondence, 1975-1983; GOS/15/493 Hospital Catering, including sample menus, 1980-1986; GOS/15/494 Hospital Chapel and Chaplaincy correspondence, including with other denominations, 1980-1984; GOS/15/495 Chemical Patho1ogy (C1inical Biochemistry) correspondence, 1980-1984; GOS/15/496 Computers and Automation, 1980-1981; largely proposed joint system for the 'Island Site' Hospitals (GOS, National and Homeopathic); GOS/15/497 ENT Department, correspondence, 1975-1985; GOS/15/498, Children's Entertainment at the Hospital, correspondence, 1981-1984.

GOS/15/499, Friends of Great Ormond Street, correspondence and financial reports, 1983-1984; GOS/15/500, Sick Children's Trust, correspondence, 1983-1984; GOS/15/501 *Histopathology Department correspondence (largely concerning the Hospital Mortuary), 1979; GOS/15/502 Institute of Child Health, correspondence with the Hospital, 1981-1984; GOS/15/503 Joint (Staff) Consultative Committee, minutes, reports and correspondence, 1976-1982; GOS/15/504 Joint Research Board correspondence, 1982-1987; GOS/15/505 Junior Medical Staff (Committee), minutes and related papers, 1980-1984; GOS/15/506 Medical Advisory Committee, correspondence, minutes and summaries of decisions, 1974-1983; GOS/15/507, Medical Records Department correspondence, with examples of standard file formats, 1982.

GOS/15/508 Museum correspondence, 1966-1984, including a 1966 report on ICH 'specimens' museum and correspondence on 125th anniversary historical exhibit, 1977; GOS/15/509 Operating Theatre correspondence, 1979-1985, GOS/15/510 Out-Patients Department, correspondence, 1979-1987; GOS/15/511/1-2, correspondence regarding painting in the hospital, inclding the Edmund Caswell mural, 1979-2000; GOS/15/512 Parents Unit; correspondence concerning administration, 1970; GOS/15/513 File 'Patients, general', 1978-1983; including complaints and compliments by parents, recommendations for treatment, correspondence on treatment of 'over-age' patients; GOS/15/514 Patients, 'Overseas Directives', 1980-1983 (re legal status concerning entitlement to treatment of EU and other overseas patients); GOS/15/515 Private Patients, 1979-1983; correspondence and complaints.

GOS/15/516, Pharmacy correspondence, 1979-1984, including a draft edition of new edition of GOS Pharmacopoeia, 1979; GOS/15/517 Medical Illustration Department, correspondence, 1979-1984; GOS/15/518, Postgraduate Hospitals - reports on the future of, and proposed amalgamation of the 'Island Site' hospitals (GOS, National and Homeopathic), 1976, this includes a memorandum on amalgamation scheme by Doctor David Owen when Health Minister.

GOS/15/519* Papers of Private Patients Staff Sub-Committee, including charging arrangements and medical supervision/management of, 1979-1984; GOS/15/520, Radio GOSH, 1980; includes minutes of Radio Committee, newsletters of radio station sponsors, the Maccabi Association, (these papers were moved to GOS 14/208-10); GOS/15/521, Tadworth Court; minutes of Staff Working Party on the future of Tadworth, October-December 1981 and the 1982 memorandum on transfer of ownership arrangements.

GOS/15/522,* Television and Radio Broadcasts at the Hospital, 1980-1984, including correspondence with the BBC and commercial broadcasters; GOS/15/523 Thoracic Unit, correspondence, 1980-1984; GOS/15/524, Visits to the Hospita1, 1980-1984 (arrangements for politicians, celebrities and general); GOS/15/525, Joint Research Board correspondence, 1970-l (includes some clinical data and research proposals); GOS/15/526, Nursing Staff Administration, 1980-1983, which includes some Minutes of Nurses' Executive Council, and 1982 memorandum, Nursing Establishment to meet Patient Needs; GOS/15/527, Papers concerning re-organisation of the Medical Workshops Sub-Committee, 1973; GOS/15/528Health and Safety; papers of Hospital Sub-Committee, and correspondence on development of policy, 1979-1981.

GOS/15/529, GOS Summary Business Plan, 1999-2000; GOS/15/530 File on the Royal visit; laying of VCB foundation stone 18 March 1991 by HRH Princess of Wales, File; GOS/15/531,Hospital Staff and Management Structure Charts, 1997-2003; GOS/15/532, GOSH NHS Trust's Monthly Newsbrief, 1996-2000 (Internal publication compiled by Corporate Support manager Lois Beckett; GOS/15/533, Miscellaneous Executive Office files, December 2002, including 1993 Space Utilisation Plan for Hospital site; Quality, Experience and Outcome (Information document for Purchasers and Referring Clinicians); 1994 report from the Task Force for implementation of New Deal for junior doctors, programme for visit of the President of Croatia, December 2001.

GOS/15/534, Papers concerning the commissioning of the Variety Club Building, apparently compiled for use of staff showing official visitors round it, also including summary histories and chronologies of the Hospital, 1987-1997; GOS/15/535, miscellaneous Executive Office papers, 1993-2008, including text of draft NHS Trust application, 1993, the Pharmacy Business Plan, 1997-1998 and the Chief Executive's Review of financial difficulties, 2007-2008.

GOS/15/535 miscellaneous Executive Office papers, 1993-2008, includes text of draft NHS Trust application, 1993, Pharmacy Business Plan, 1997-1998, Chief Executive’s Review of financial difficulties, 2007-2008; GOS/15/536 Draft ‘Health and Safety’ Policies for the Hospital for Sick Children and Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, with related Infection Control policies, 1992; GOS/15/537 Museum and Archives Service and ‘Peter Pan Gallery’, departmental history(correspondence, reports, memoranda),1990-2012.
Additional series; GOS/15/563-797 (33 boxes); Clinical Services Directorate Administrative filing, 1980-2005; GOS/15/809-83(8 boxes),Institute of Child Health Research & Development Office correspondence with the Hospital, 1994-2007.

Papers of John Urpeth Rastrick, 1800-1855, comprising a miscellany of correspondence (including drafts of copies of outgoing letters), with notes, engineering drawings, etc. Many of the notes and calculations are written in Rastrick's private cipher. Major correspondents include the London shipping iron merchants Henckell and Du Buisson; the 2nd Earl of Powis; John (later Sir John) Gladstone [father of W E Gladstone]; the lawyer, estate manager and politician James Loch and [?his son] George Loch; and Rastrick's sons and employees. Topics covered include the canal and railway interests of Rastrick and the other correspondents, as well as the iron industry. Most of the letters were dispatched to or from London or the industrial areas of South Wales and the West Midlands.

Letter from James Robertshaw of Colne, [Lancashire] to George Chapman, engineer of Whitby, [North Riding] Yorkshire, 29 Jan 1846. Reply on behalf of Mr Thornber of Vivary Bridge, [Colne], to a letter of 27 Jan 1846; referring Chapman to his letter of 8 Jan (copied on the third page of this letter) in reply to Chapman's of 5 Jan. Chapman had asked for £20 for use of 'the patent expansion gear', but Thornber had stopped using it, had given Chapman notice of doing so, and was prepared to appear to any process Chapman proposed to issue against him.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Sir Joseph Banks of Overton to Sir Stephen [?], 14 Sep 1804. Relating to the Royal Mint and coinage.

Letter from Sir Francis Burdett to an unknown recipient, [c 29 Apr 1824]. Returning a copy of Charles Jenkinson (Lord Liverpool's) Treatise on the coins of the realm (1805), with comments on the work.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Matthew Dove of Execution Dock Brewhouse, [London], 15 Sep 1744. Outlining a scheme for a lottery on survivorships for 99 years [apparently relating to some form of insurance or annuity dependent on certain people outliving others].

Autograph, with signature.

Great Ormond Street letter books comprising GOS/8/1-97, Letter Books containing copy out-letters of Secretary and Assistant Secretary, 1893-1942; GOS/8/98-100 Letter-Books containing copy out-letters, alphabetical by recipient, 1910-1912; GOS/8/101-150, Incoming correspondence to Secretary (including some copy out-letters), including correspondence with Charles Barry regarding the costs of new building (1894) and the resignations of Mr Lubbock and Dr Gee from the medical staff, the 1909 "Midsummer Fair and Fete" at Olympia in aid of the Hospital, the marriage of the Princess Royal in 1922, the investigation of "pavilion" hospitals prior to purchase of Tadworth Court; (1925); GOS/8/147, 1945 attempts to get signatures for Bombing Book, GOS/8/149 Correspondence, 1947-1948 regarding arrangements for National Health Service takeover from Board of Management.

GOS/8/151-155 Letters and Press Cuttings Albums, 1852-1900; GOS/8/156-157 Volumes of reminiscences and historical memorabilia of the Hospital compiled by Dr F J Poynton, 1930-1941.

GOS/8/158-190, comprising Correspondence and Subject Files, including GOS/8/158, Box-file containing correspondence, memoranda and printed circulars and pamphlets on all aspects of the Hospital's history, 1882-1948; GOS/8/159, File entitled "Hospital History", 1891-1952; GOS/8/160, Box-file, entitled "Medical", containing miscellaneous papers concerning ward management, medical staff, types of illness and medical equipment, 1884-1958; GOS/8/161, File, entitled "Other Hospitals/General Social History", 1887-1944; GOS/8/162 File, "Patients", containing correspondence with former patients or about current patients, 1886-1984; GOS/8/163, File, "Complaints and Scandals", including complaints about the treatment and death of patients, staff rudeness and alleged incompetence. 1888-1931; GOS/8/166, Box-file, 1900-09, including fund-raising ; GOS/8/167-170 and 174, Correspondence with the King's Fund (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, formerly the Prince of Wales' Hospital Fund), 1897-1938; GOS/8/171, Correspondence concerning Astor Gift (of new Out-Patients' Department), l902-1906; GOS/8/172/1-26 "Lady Bull" Court-Case, 1910-11; GOS/8/173, File, "World Wars I and II", including correspondence, reports, press-cuttings and published leaflets on the effects of the two World Wars on the Hospital, With regard to casualty and air-raid arrangements, ambulance supply, alternative uses for the Hospital, and its bomb damage in 1940. Also contains programme of 1923 concert in aid of WWI victims, and letters from conscripted staff-members, 1915-45; GOS/8/176-183 Medical School correspondence files, 1914-1936.

GOS/8/191, Correspondence regarding the distribution of complementary copies of Thomas Twistington-Higgins' Centenary History of the Hospital, 1952; GOS/8/192, Correspondence with the Child Welfare Society, Social Welfare Association, Surgical Aid Society and other hospitals, re proposed Child Bureau and the Special Committee for the Welfare of Poor Children, 1913-1917; GOS/8/193 Correspondence concerning Charles Dickens' support for the Hospital, 1939-1965; GOS/8/194 Correspondence concerning Centenary events at the Hospital, 1952; GOS/8/195, Correspondence concerning London County Council school pupils' education while Hospital patients, 1909-1914*; GOS/8/196 Miscellaneous papers of Arthur Lucas, Hospital Chairman, 1912-1914, including papers of sale of Cromwell House leases and draft Hospital fire regulations.

GOS/8/198, Typescript draft History of the Hospital for Sick Children, 'On the Street Where We Live', by Gordon Piller (former House Governor), circa 1986-1987; GOS/8/200 Typescript history of the Hospital Almoner's Department to 1936 by Janet Salmon, updated to 1955 by Margaret Mayfield; GOS/8/202 Matron's Diary, 1939, with entries to circa 1970; GOS/8/203, Reminiscences of Richard Payne (patient, 1950) by his mother. Written in 1985. (First page missing); GOS/8/204, Piece on Brian Jones, (patient, 1936-1938), including extract from Queen Mary of the Iron Road by Fred Bishop (see also photograph catalogue); GOS/8/205, Letter from Miss Helen Dennis of South Africa re her brother's admission to HSC circa 1898; GOS/8/206, Reminiscences by Mr. J. Tatam of his treatment for pleurisy at the Hospital by Dr Donald Paterson in 1931, 2003.

GOS/8/207, Miscellaneous administrative correspondence, 1966, including on bequest arrangements; GOS/8/208, Correspondence concerning the commemoration of the Hospital's 125th Anniversary, 1977, and the publication for it of a facsimile edition of Dr West's book How to Nurse Sick Children; GOS/8/209, Album of letters and cards received by the Hospital following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1997; GOS/8/210, File of press-cuttings and reminiscences from former patient David Eaton, treated at GOSH in 1939 for Pyloric Stenosis; GOS/8/211, File of reminiscences (with digital photograph copies) of John Colley, patient at Tadworth Court, 1934.

Letter from John and Richard Wheen of the Soapworks, Ratcliffe Highway, St George in the East, [London] to Lieutenant-Colonel C N Fox, 17 Mar [1846]. Covering letter enclosing 'a statement of the case of the soap trade for the repeal of the duty'; they hope that Fox will accompany the deputation to Sir Robert Peel.

Autograph, with two signatures.

Letter from John Lee of the Traffic Manager's Office, Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company, Old Hall Street, Liverpool to E Hailstone of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Office, Leeds, 17 Jan 1877. Thanking him for the loan of the Bridgewater Canal Acts 'which I have perused in conjunction with our Leigh Branch Act'. Discusses the matter of tolls leviable by the Bridgewater Canal Company: 'In the case of one of our boats they have charge a much higher rate of toll than I feel disposed to pay, and before settling with them I am desirous to know what their powers really are'.

Written in another hand and signed by Lee.

(a) Letter from Robert F Crawford of 55 College Place, Camden Town, [London] to Sir James Hannen, president of the Parnell enquiry, 6 Feb 1888. Covering letter accompanying copies of Crawford's published writings, including A political essay on money and Letters on usury.

(b) Covering note from Sir Henry Cunynghame, Probate Division, Royal Courts of Justice, [c1925-1935]. Forwarding Crawford's letter and works to Professor H S Foxwell, [University of London Library].

Both letters are autograph, with signatures.

Manuscript volume containing a collection of notes, mainly extracts taken from the Calcutta Gazette in 1786, relating to the Bengal Bank and the General Bank of India, probably written in the 19th century.

Manuscript volume containing an anonymous tract relating to the income tax proposed by William Pitt the younger, Prime Minister, 13 Dec 1798, entitled 'An humble attempt at removing one serious objection to Mr Pitt's new (intended) tax upon income', with particular reference to Bristol (where the manuscript is dated). The author counters the objection of many business men to disclosing their financial situation to commissioners, by suggesting that it should be optional for any person to elect to disclose his affairs to a Court composed of members not belonging to his district.

Three holograph receipts, 1679-1706, of Gilbert Whitehall and two receipts of assignees of Whitehall.

Manuscript volume containing the accounts of a farm in Warwickshire, apparently near Bedworth, [1625-1675], including a note from [Sir] B[artholomew] Hales (of Snitterfield, d 1668) mentioning Sir Cornelius Fairmeadowe (of Fulham, Middlesex).

Manuscript volume containing tables giving a statement of English excise revenue from Michaelmas 1662 to 1730. The earlier tables are in summary form, but from 1693 to 1730 a full account is given.

Manuscript letter, dated 22 February, 1643, containing an Order of the Committee of Revenue to Thomas Fauconbridge, Receiver of Crown Revenues, to pay 'the poore Pewterers or Hammer men' of London the sum of £100, due to them by virtue of an Act of Parliament. The letter is signed by members of the Committee for Revenue, including Sir Henry Vane, Sir Henry Mildmay, Francis Rous, William Ashhurst, Thomas Hoyle and Dennis Bond. With a receipt dated 27 February 1643, bearing 56 signatures or marks and the signature of Robert Leeson, Warden of the Worshipful Company of Pewteres.

Manuscript correspondence and other papers relating to the financial administration of Barbados and the Leeward Islands, 1669-1682, mostly concerned with the auditing of the accounts for the farm of the 4½% duty collected during the years 1670-77. The correspondents include: two farmers of the 4½% duty, Sir Charles Wheler and Colonel John Strode; [William Blathwayt], Auditor General of H.M. revenues in America; [Henry Guy], Secretary to the Treasury; and the governors of the Leeward Islands and Barbados.

A history, c1826, and copies of three Royal Licences permitting it to enlarge its stock. Both the history and the licenses are in the same hand.

A roll with printed oaths of allegiance and supremacy with signatures and addresses of the Land Tax Commissioners of the City of London for 1779.

Two signed and sealed receipts for monies received from Edward Hanbury and Geoffrey Palmer, in respect of half-yearly payments of the Seaton annuities due at Michaelmas. The first is for £5 and is signed by James Yarway; the second is for 40s due as the annuity of Lucy Milbanke, and is signed by her husband Adam Milbanke (with Lucy Milbanke's mark).

Bill of expenses incurred in the execution of a fine levied by Mr Stratford and Mr Hawkins against Ketford Brayne and his wife, presented at Easter, [16]73 by Mr. Ayleway (?). 22 items are listed, amounting to £7.10s., including one of 4s. 'for the Judges hand to passe the fyne', and expenses for a journey to Mr John Cox at Gloucester.

A bill, 1677, for materials supplied and made up by a dressmaker, totalling over £14.

A bill, late 17th century, for services rendered and items supplied by a saddler.

Three items concerning currency, once in the possession of Professor Herbert Somerton Foxwell, as follows.

1. Papers on Japanese currency, namely two tables of, and remarks on, the values of Japanese metal and paper currency, endorsed by Professor Foxwell 'Soyeda on Japanese Currency October 1884', covering the years 1868-1884; a table ('The Annexed Table'), giving values in yen of imports and exports, 1872-1881; letter from Juichi Soyeda, 139 Queen's Road, Bayswater, W.London, written on 5 December 1884, to Foxwell at Saint John's College, Cambridge. The letter is signed 'Yours truly, obedient student. G.Soyeda'. The envelope bears the note in Foxwell's hand 'Japanese Paper Currency. G. Soyeda'. (20 leaves. 7¾" x 5" and 7¾" x 6¼").
2. Copy of a 'Mémoire sur la préférence que l'on doit donner à la Monnoye d'argent sur la Monnoye d'or', Paris, Aug. 1720, and 'Réponse au Mémoire, etc.', undated. This is a typescript copy (carbon) made by Professor Charles Franklin Dunbar in October 1890. Includes numerous notes in Foxwell's hand, including the following: 'This manuscript was part of a volume of tracts etc. relating to Law & the Mississipi Scheme, unfortunately bought by [Dr] Bonar, & sent to Harvard during a week of vacation when I was away from Cambridge. I tried in vain to buy or exchange it back, but Profr. Dunbar kindly got this copy made of one item in the volume'. (17 sheets. 7¾" x 9").
3. Two letters, both written by F.B.Forbes, 57 Rue Pierre Charron, Paris, on 13 April 1893 to Foxwell at Saint John's College, Cambridge. The letters and envelope are in an envelope bearing in Foxwell's hand 'F.B.Forbes. April 1893. Effect of sales of Council Bills on Price of Silver'. (8 sheets, 10¼" x 7¾" and (the second letter) 2 leaves, 6½" x 4¼").

Transcript of the laws relating to French colonial banks, entitled 'Loi sur les banques coloniales des 25 Avril, 26 Juin et 11 Juillet 1851'.

Manuscript treatise on the Italian method of book-keeping, possibly written in the early 18th century by William Forbes, entitled 'Book-holding. In two parts. The first, ane explanation of the severall books with the manner of bringing the accompts into them. The second a praxis upon trade'. The manuscript was apparently unpublished. The Italian method is defined by the author as 'a method for keeping accompts to shew & rightly distinguish betwixt meum and tuum, or my affairs & interest, and those of the persons dealing with me in them as also in ane instant the condition of ones estate & at one view at what posture it is in at the time'.

Manuscript volumes containing abstracts of parliamentary bills relating to revenue, dating from the reign of King William III and Queen Mary II, c1689 -1743.

Manuscript volume containing papers relating to the offices of the Exchequer, 1642-1712, namely a treatise by Lawrence Squibb, Teller of the Exchequer, headed 'A book of all the severall offices of the Court of the Exchequer, together with the names of the present officers, in whose gift and how admitted', 1642; instructions, warrants, bills and notes on the offices of the Exchequer, 1690-1692; and a memorandum by Lionel Herne, addressed to the Rt Hon Thomas Mansell, 1st Baron Mansell of Margam, on his appointment as Teller of the Exchequer, relating to the offices and procedure in the Exchequer, [1712].

Export ledger with a printed title page 'Beer Surveys, No.1. To be used for brandy & wine stock book, ruled, unruled, distillery & cider minutes & distillery checks', possibly kept by John Burton, excise export surveyor, from 11-18 Oct 1836, and numbered '12' on the cover. Items examined in the City of London and Southwark include glass 'packed for exportation', (including bottles for beer and wine), tobacco, paper and soap, also bricks being shipped from Bridport, Dorset, in 1850. Transcripts of instructions, memoranda, licences etc and printed forms (export packing certificates, payment of excise declarations, export shipping notices etc) are also included.

A composite volume, 1835-1840, lettered Contract of co-partnership of the Glasgow Banking Company.

Treatise on coinage in Saxony headed 'Lunenburgischer Krays abescheidt Ihn der vorhen nach Quasimodogeniti anno [15]69 [a]usgerustet. So viel die Munze belangedt', 1569.

Exchequer order, 6 Aug 1675, signed by Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and Lord Treasurer, and Sir John Duncombe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to Sir Robert Howard, the Auditor of the Exchequer, authorising payment of £2392 8s. 4d. to Henry Savile 'in consideration of his fidelity in his Majesty's service'. On the dorse is a receipt for the money, dated 7 Sep 1675, and signed by Savile.

Collection of bills and receipts, 1723-1869, most for food, clothing, jewellery and household items such as fuel and furniture. Many are printed forms completed in manuscript.
Eight bills, all dated 1862, are addressed to Miss or Mrs. Hall, and three, dated 1868-1869, to the executors of George Pratt. Twenty-nine bills and receipts have printed headings, some with engravings. Includes a printed circular of 1845 from Kevan and Buttle, Glasgow, advertising a new department for 'Millinery and ladies under-clothing'. A bill of June 1807 gives the costs (£102 12s) of printing [Louis Dutens's] Memoires d'un voyageur qui se repose, and Dutensiana, pour servir de suite aux memoires (3 vols, Dulau and Co, 1806).

Account book, Jan 1806-Feb 1817, containing details of the sale of wheat, wool and the raw materials needed for tanning leather and leatherworking, as well as wages to servants and workmen, loans and rents. Among nine loose items enclosed in the volume are a letter stamped at Roanne on 1 Jul 1831 to Claude Marie Chartre, 'Proprietaire a Cremeaux', and a fragment of another letter to the same person, who may have been the compiler of the accounts.

Collection of manuscripts relating to the wine trade, comprising:

1. Indictment made by Edmond Trimer at the Middlesex Quarter Sessions held at Hicks Hall, 7 Jul 1658, to the effect that George Taylor, victualler of South Mimms, Middlesex, had sold 60 pints of wine (French, white, and Spanish sack) since 7 Aug 1657, contrary to the Act. Taylor had forfeited £600, and was to appear in court to answer the charge. Trimer claimed half the fine.
2. Letter from John Hunter, British Consul at Seville and San Lùcar, 16 Mar 1790, to Henry Dundas, Treasurer of the Navy, enclosing a 'Proposal for a supply of wine for the British Navy to be shipped in San Lucar, and delivered in Portsmouth', and a 'Proposal for a deposit of wines in the Isle of Wight'. Both proposals are signed by John Hunter, 16 Mar 1790.
3. Two letters from James Rannie, written at Leith, Scotland, including a covering letter dated 9 Mar 1795 to Henry Dundas, then Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, for a petition from the 22 'merchants, importers and dealers in foreign wines in Leith', against the proposed retrospective increase of duties on stocks of wine held by merchants on 24 Feb 1795 (wanting); and a letter from Rannie to Dundas dated 9 May 1795 concerning wines shipped to Dundas and wines reserved for him. (Rannie is spelt 'Rennie' in the endorsements.)
4. Memorandum endorsed 'Attorney General's [Sir John Willes] opinion...Wine imported in flasks or bottles, whether the officers may accept the duties where no fraud appears', dated 29 May 1736.
5. Draft of a bill to repeal the Acts of 1727 and 1745 setting duties on wine, endorsed 'A clause about wine imported in flasks or bottles'.

'An accompt of his Majesties customes in the Port of London inwards and outwards from Lady-day 1672 to Midsumer following'. The document names John Thorpe, Philip Marsh, Michael Wicks and Euclid Speidell, and shows the sums paid on Spanish and sweet wines, French and Rhenish wines, currants, vinegar, cloth, calf-skins and leather, to a total of £78,391 1s. 3d. On the dorse is 'An accompt of the new impost coynage duty and petty farmes in the Port of London from Lady-day 1672 to Midsumer following'. Imposts are shown as being levied on many of the same articles, but include also coinage duty, wood, salt and spice farms, potashes, to a total of £23,015 13s. 0½d.

Documents and papers, 1709-27, of Maurice Birchfield. Containing 12 items, mostly concerned with customs procedures for various parts of America.

Manuscript volume containing minutes of the proceedings of the Commissioners for Examining Public Accounts, 30 Mar-14 Aug 1703. The manuscript is volume four of a series, and has an index at the end.

The Cobden Club prize winning essay for 1912 The taxation of the "unearned increment" by Josiah Charles Stamp.

Correspondence and papers of Samuel Jones Loyd and the Loyd Family. The correspondence touches on a wide range of social and political history from the 1830s to the 1880s. There are a few items relating chiefly to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 and the financial crash of 1797. There is also material on Loyd's religious life; political career; cultural activities; plantations in Ceylon and a detailed description of the island of Mauritius. The family correspondence is particularly illuminating on the life of a nineteenth century upper class family.

Receipt, dated 3 Nov 1647, for £6.11.0 paid by the Receiver General to Caroline Holland on behalf of Sarah Frank for 'semptrys [seamstress] workes...for the King's Children' by virtue of an order dated 21 Jul 1647. Signed by Sarah Frank.

Miscellaneous collection of manuscripts, comprising:

1. Fragment of a printed receipt, completed in manuscript, issued to Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell by the Exchequer for 3 months interest for a loan at 8 %, 15 Apr 1697.
2. Order by Shovell as Admiral to Philip Stanhope, Captain of HMS Milford, to receive a Lieutenant and 30 marines from [HMS] Tilbury, 29 Aug 1706.
3. Printed receipt, completed in manuscript, for payment to Shovell by the Exchequer of a 6 monthly installment of an annuity, 20 Nov 1706.
4. Map of Blakeney channel and Cley channel, Norfolk, mounted and coloured, from Greenvile Collins, Great Britain's Coasting Pilot (1693). With an engraved inscription by Collins dedicating the map to Shovell.
5. Modern reproduction of a reduced plan of Soho Square, London, inscribed 'House of Sir Clowdisley [Shovell]'. The original plan, probably made in the 18th century, was that of 'the late Duke of Portland's estate in the neighbourhood of Soho Square'.
6. Leaf from a letter-book, with copies of 5 letters initialled 'E.K.', dated 29 Aug 1797, Dublin, to Robert Eyre at Tallow (Co. Waterford); Thomas Osbourne at Fort Charles, Kinsale (Co. Cork); Edward Mapoller at 'Killeoan(?) near Roscommon'; William Hailey at 'Fore Park(?) near Athlone'; and 'Dr. Toves(?)'. The writer had just reached Dublin from London, and intended to travel to Roscommon and Galway. The letters to Eyre and Osbourne(?) mention payments to be made to John Kelly at the Treasury in the castle at Dublin; those to Eyre and Toves(?) refer to 'Davies (who is in custody in London)'. The leaf was formerly part of a binding.
7. Fragment of a list of deeds concerning the property of Richard and Mary Chiswell at Finchingfield, Essex, written in the 18th century.
8. Printed bill for an exhibition of the picture of the battle of Lodi of 1796 by Robert Ker Porter, with a sketch of the picture and explanatory notes.
9. Printed matter including Rules and Regulations of the St James's Loyal Volunteers (1797).
10. Recipes for 'Ginger Bread Nuts', various drinks, and for medicines; instructions for cleaning 'black straw hats', dating from the early 19th century.
11. Three engraved certificates completed in manuscript for William Buchanan, (1) for training in midwifery by John Haighton, dated 18 Nov 1814, (2) for attendance of courses on anatomy, signed by John Abernethy, dated May 1815, and (3) for honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, dated 26 Aug 1816.
12. Genealogies of families, endorsed 'Hussey, Barons of Galtrim, Feypo and Maurward, Barons of Scune', relating to the medieval period, written in the 19th century.
13. Drafts of two essays by Edwin Hadlow Wise Dunkin, headed 'Our Satellite. Sent for insertion in the City of London School Magazine...January 1865' (ff. 1-12), and 'The Lesser Light [i.e. the moon]...August 1866. Sent to Chambers Journal, 4 Sep 1866' (ff. 15-19).
14. 'A Short Tour on the Cornish Coast', with remarks on weather and monuments, historical anecdotes, and sketches in pencil and pastels, 1879.
15. 'Voyage of the Lioness', from Scalloway, Shetland, to Foula and Fair Isle. The Lioness was commanded by Captain Robertson; the passengers were described as 'the doctor and the professor'. The journal describes the inhabitants of the islands, and birds and animals seen. Written in the early 20th century.
16. Monologue in pidgin English, probably written for entertainment, in which Kassim Ali describes his activities during the bombardment of Alexandria, his going on board the Condor, his delivery of a letter to [Ahmed] Arabi, the flight from Alexandria to Cairo, and his prevention of the explosion of the magazine in the fort of Ras-el-Jin. The account probably refers to the bombardment of Alexandria by the British fleet on 11 Jul 1882; see The Times for 22 Jul 1882, p. 5. Written in the 20th century on note-paper addressed 'Kenley, Surrey'.
17. Modern brass rubbing from the tomb of Thomas Potter (d 6 Jun 1531), taken from Westerham Church, Kent.
18. Collection of miscellaneous printed ephemera dating from the early 19th to the early 20th century. Includes a receipt for a share in the 'Strand [i.e. Waterloo] Bridge', London, 1812; a card for the White Lion Hotel, Bala, Merioneth, early 19th century; a plan of the Great Exhibition of 1851; pictures of Plymouth pier, early 20th century; a birthday card of 1887; a prospectus for an auction of shares of the Ilford Gas Co., 1907; tickets for books from the Officers' Library of the Royal Marines at Woolwich and Forton, and from B.O. May's Circulating Library, Teignmouth; a book-plate (?) of H.C. Sharpin, Ripon, 19th century; and bank notes of the Republic of Argentina, late 19th or early 20th century.

Petition, dated Aug 1619, of John Addis, Officer of the Wardrobe, for reimbursement of expenses incurred in taking one man, two horses and four labourers for six days from Warwick to Compton and transporting 'all such stuffe then needfull for the Prince [Charles], his service'. With the signature of Sir Robert Cary.

Petition of John Carpenter, royal messenger, for payment 'by one of the Tellers of the Queenes Majesties receipt at Westeminster', for a journey made on behalf of William Cecil, Baron Burghley, Lord High Treasurer, to Mr. Gaige, near Lewes, Mr. Boswell of Sevenoaks, and Mr. Robert Petre of Westminster, and his return to the court at Rye. With Cecil's signature, probably dating to either 1572 or 1598.

Personal papers of Thomas Newton, 1710-1807, including correspondence and papers regarding Thomas Newton's business, his relationship with Mary Newton (nee Hurst), the wardship of Sarah Frances and Thomas Richard Fairchild, literary manuscripts, legal and financial documents, 1753-1806. Papers of the executors and trustee of the Thomas Newton bequest, 1807-1954, including a bound volume of papers entitled 'The Newton Estate' 1794-1822; correspondence, memorandum and accounts of the drawing up of the Newton bequest 1805-1811; memoranda and correspondence relating to the admission of new trustees 1820-1878; inventory and sale catalogue of Newton's effects 1807-1821, correspondence from legatees, 1807-1830 and papers relating the administration of the Newton estate 1832-1954.

Manuscript volume containing a statement of the revenue managed by the Commissioners of Excise, 1662-1713, including an account of the numbers of common brewers, victuallers and distillers in England, Wales and Berwick, and the quantities of exciseable liquors made and imported by them. Includes a statement of parliamentary appropriations from the excise revenue.