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Records of Leslie and Anderson Limited including records of Leslie and Anderson Limited, Leslie and Anderson (Holdings) Limited and The Leslie and Anderson Group. Also contains records of subsidiaries: Leslie and Anderson (Coffee) Limited, Leslie and Anderson (East Africa) Limited, Warehousing and Forwarding Company of East Africa Limited and Indian Carpets Limited (CLC/B/207/MS40815 - MS40824, MS40831 - MS40854, MS40921, MS40924).

Records of Kerosene Oil Company Limited including agreements and correspondence relating to shipments of oil and share transfers (CLC/B/207/MS40810 - MS40814B).

Records of Hermes Securities Limited including minutes of the board, directors reports and accounts and register of members and share register. Also includes minutes and directors reports and accounts for Hermes Credit Corporation Limited (CLC/B/207/MS40937 - MS40941).

Records of Glazebrook, Steel and Company Limited including memorandum and articles of association, agreements, general correspondence and annual accounts (CLC/B/207/MS40806 - MS40809).

Records of F F Chrestien and Company including agreements, correspondence and accounts (CLC/B/207/MS40801 - MS40803A). Also includes memorandum and articles of association of Indeuram Limited.

Records of Bombay Company Limited including corporate records and records relating to shares, administration, accounting, legal matters, staff, history and subsidiares (CLC/B/207/MS40743 - MS40785). The records contain correspondence on the production of cotton and cotton mills, accounts and records relating to the following subsidiaries: BCL Limited, BMD Agency Limited, Dymes and Company Limited, Karachi Company Limited, Lakhshmi Cotton Manufacturing Company Limited, Miller and McGregor Limited and Vishnu Cotton Mill Limited.

Records of Wallace Brothers concerning Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; board minutes; annual reports and accounts; agreements; papers relating to shareholders; correspondence; financial records; and papers relating to branches in Rangoon, Moulmein, Bangkok and Borneo.

Papers of Wallace Brothers and Company Limited, East India Merchants, bankers and London agents, later known as Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited. Most of the records emanate from the core business of the Wallace Brothers partnership and its successors; but some emanate from the business of associated or subsidiary companies which were based in London. The latter include the records of Wyer and Hawke, London agents of Bombay Company Limited, who operated from the London office of Wallace Brothers between 1912 and 1968.

The archive does not hold the papers of Wallace Brothers' associated or subsidiary companies based overseas. No lists of the papers of these companies are held, and their whereabouts and accessibility are unknown. However the archives transferred to Guildhall from Wallace Brothers' London office include a considerable amount of information about the activities of many of these companies, including numerous copy and original documents sent to London by the companies concerned.

Besides papers created or received in the course of business, the Wallace Brothers archives include some memoirs of partners, directors or members of staff, and notes of research into the history of Wallace Brothers and its associates and subsidiaries.

The business papers date from 1862 to 1989, and relate to all aspects of Wallace Brothers' operations, although few banking records are held, and only formal business records survive from the period ca. 1966-1989.

Access is subject to a 45-year closure period (70 years in the case of personnel records). Annual reports and other published documents are not subject to closure.

The associated and subsidiary companies whose activities are known to be reflected in the Wallace Brothers archives are (provisionally) listed below, in the order in which the records will be arranged in the catalogue:

• Arrancan Company Limited, Burma rice merchants;
  • Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associaties of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited: Amalgamated Saw Mills Limited, Anamallais Ropeway Company Limited, Bombay Burmah Plantations Limited, East India Rubber Corporation Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of East India Rubber Corporation Limited (Bombay-Java Trading Company, Indo-Java Rubber Planting and Trading Company Limited), Joint Timber Company Limited, Thailand, North Borneo Timbers Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of North Borneo Timbers Limited (Wallace Bay Limited), Rangoon Mining Company, Sumatra Petroleum Company, Thai Tapioca Limited;
  • Bombay Company Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of Bombay Company Limited: BCL Limited, BMD Agency Limited, Dymes and Company, cotton mill owners and oilseed processors, Madras, Karachi Company Limited (formerly the Karachi branch of Bombay Company Limited; established as a separate company in 1952), Lakhshmi Cotton Manufacturing Company, Sholapur, India, Wyer and Hawke, London agents of Bombay Company Limited;
  • Chrestian and Company, mica producers, India;
  • DP Investments Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of DP Investments Limited: Development Participations Limited;
  • Glazebrook, Steel and Company Limited, textile manufacturers, Manchester;
  • Hermes Securities Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of Hermes Securities Limited: Hermes Credit Corporation Limited;
  • Kerosene Oil Company Limited;
  • Leslie and Anderson Limited;
  • Malaysian Company Limited;
  • Tannadine Company Limited, Sumatra;
  • Wallace and Adam Limited, agricultural equipment importers, Kenya;
  • subsidiaries and associates of Wallace and Adam Limited: Kiu Estate Limited, Ol Pejeta Ranching Company Limited, Pyrita Limited;
  • Wallace and Company, Bombay;
  • Wallace Brothers Developments Limited;
  • Wallace Brothers Finance Limited;
  • Wallace Brothers Nominees Limited;
  • Wallace Evans and Company Limited (known as Wallace Brothers Commodities Limited from 1967).

Undated typescript account of his military service, 1940-1944, principally comprising a diary of his work as Landing Officer, 3 Canadian Div, Normandy, on and around D-Day, 5 Jun-5 Sep 1944.

Papers of William Wallace Walker including a letter initialled R.C.G.C., 30 Aug 1859; press cutting, n.d. about a proposed Ecuador expedition.

Papers, 1766-1898, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising letters of administration, probate copies of wills, a lease, a fire insurance policy and a covenant to produce deeds; relating to properties in Islington and Hackney.

An account book, 1802-1819 of mixed farming and general nature, probably kept by Richard Walker of Bradmore, Notts, whose name appears inside the covers of the volume, and who is probably the addressee 'dear brother' in a letter enclosed signed 'J. Walker.'

Includes:

• twenty letters from Gordon Walker to 'My Dearest' (Mrs L M Kent, sister-in-law?) regarding personal matters, general political affairs and travel (1951-1958)

• programme for memorial service for Robin Thomas Gordon Walker (6 December 1947)

• thirty-seven letters to Gordon Walker regarding his defeat at the Leyton by-election and general politics in the Labour Party, including letters from George Gardiner, George Thomas, Barbara Castle, Christopher Mayhew, Roy Walensky, Tony Crosland, Fenner Brockway, Dick Crossman, Peter Rawlinson, Hugh Greene, Ian Mikardo, Solly Zuckerman, William Wells, James I Leob and others (January 1965)

• photograph of Gordon Walker with the Mayor and Mayoress of Smrthwick (c 1946).

Telegrams to Patrick Gordon Walker from various people and institutions regarding:

• his defeat at the Leyton by-election (January 1965)

• his victory at Leyton in the General Election (April 1966)

• his appointment to the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio (January 1967.

Educational certificates of Mary Anne Walker, 1883, including teachers' certificate.

The papers relate to three generations of the Walker family of Manchester, but the main body of the collection relates to Lieutenant Walker. It includes signal books; a diary and letterbooks; and papers relating to his candidature. There is also a small number of documents relating to the sons of Lieutenant Walker.

Letter from John Walker to James Simpson, Esq, engineer at the Chelsea Water Works, 10 Mar 1841. Apologising for being unable to get away until 1 o'clock; he has a bridge meeting to attend at 12 o'clock.

Autograph, with signature. [The year 1841 and the recipient's name and address have been added in another hand.]

Papers of John Kenworthy Walker, 1809-1849, comprising a manuscript volume containing notes of lectures made whilst studying for his MB at Edinburgh University, where James Gregory was Professor of Medicine. Topics include phlogosis; supporatio, pus, gangrena and phlegmon; opthalmia; phrenitis and cyanche tonsillarus; cyanche maligna, 1809; innoculatio variola, vaccine innoculation, ruboela, uiticana, pemphigus, aptha, and haemorrhagia; and a formula for cholera medicines by J Macaulay of Leeds, 1849.

Correspondence of Gen James T Walker, comprising two volumes of correspondence, 1876-1882, to Walker from correspondants in India and Europe with some draft letters from Walker, principally concerning the Survey of India and pendulum apparatus, correspondents include: G B Airey, David Gill, W J Heaviside, J Herschel, Fr. A Hirsch, Clements R Markham, T G Montgomerie, Lord Roberts, O von Stubendorf, Richard Strachey, H L Thuillier, and Colonel Henry Yule. Copies of extracts from Walker's letters, 1867-1876, from the records held in the Geodetic Branch Library, Dehra Dun, transcribed by R Phillimore, 1964.

Papers of Daniel Pickering Walker c 1949-1984, including notes, working papers and correspondence. Topics covered include: ancient theology; Christian Platonism, 15th-18th centuries; miracles; esoteric symbolism; musical symbolism; spiritual and demonic magic.

Copies of papers, 1940-1982, including narrative manuscript diary covering service with 3 Div Royal Engineers, Belgium and France, May-Jun 1940, with printed map entitled Lille-Ghent, North West Europe, sheet No 2, scale 1: 250, 000 (GSGS 4042, War Office, 1938); narrative manuscript diary covering service with 51 Highland Div Royal Engineers, North West Europe, Oct 1944 and Feb-May 1945, with typescript nominal roll of officers, list of casualties between Jun 1944 and May 1945, and typescript programme for the 51 Highland Div victory parade, Bremerhaven, Germany, May 1945; five printed maps of North West Europe entitled 'Brussels and Liege', 'Walcheren and Amsterdam', 'Osnabruck', 'Hamburg', 'Hannover' (no publication details or scale), with printed map of the Rhine entitled 'Outline of 51(H) Div RE plan, Operation PLUNDER', annotated with dispositions of Royal Engineers units for the Rhine crossing, 1945; correspondence with Maj Karol John Drewienkiewicz, 25 Field Sqn Royal Engineers, 1982, concerning operations of 3 Div Royal Engineers (May 1940); typescript text of lecture, given at Antwerp, 1982, on operations to clear the Scheldt Estuary, 1944.

Papers of Alexander Walker, mid 19th century, comprising a lithograph of letters and reports written by Alexander Walker to the East India Company, 1804-1808. However, this lithograph was produced later in the 19th century; the paper at the start is watermarked 1828 and towards the end, is watermarked 1846. Walker was the political resident at Baroda, and the letters and reports related to the land, people, political climate, financial accounts, and translations of agreements drawn up by Walker, on behalf of the East India Company. They were sent to The Honourable Jonathon Duncan, Governor in Council, Bombay; James Augustus Grant Esq, Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and Francis Warden Esq, Secretary to the Government, Bombay.

Papers of Sir Baldwin Wake Walker. They are part of the family collection and relate only to his period as Surveyor of the Navy. This includes private correspondence, 1848 to 1860, and draft replies; returns and reports from various dock-yards, 1852 to 1859; memoranda and other papers about the problems of ship construction, 1851 to 1860, and printed papers on parliamentary and naval affairs, 1847 to 1859.

Photocopy of a transcript of the trial of William Walker in Trujillo, Honduras.

Records of Walham Green and Fulham Methodist Circuit including circuit records and chapel records for various chapels within the circuit.

Circuit records and chapel records for various chapels within the circuit.

Letter from Cornelius Walford of 86 Belsize Park Gardens, London to Professor [Herbert Somerton] Foxwell, Cambridge, 14 Sep 1882. The J P Esqre referred to in the preface is James Postlethwayte. He is supposed to have calculated the table of probability contained in the work.

Autograph, with signature.

Collection of documents removed from a partly Grangerized copy of Old and New London compiled by Edward Walford, comprising: narrative of the Walcheren expedition to the Netherlands, 1809; receipt for purchase of Consolidated £3% Annuities by Isaac Noquet; letter to Edward Walford from C. H. Bowden, Chaplain's House, Guy's Hospital, S.E., noting Guy's capacity in beds, its income, numbers of inpatients and outpatients; letter to Edward Walford from Eliza [Carver] of Dulwich College, asking him to tea before a concert; newspaper cutting concerning the opening of the first block of buildings of the Victoria Dwellings Association at Battersea Park.

NB - To 'grangerize' a volume is to add or interleave clippings or cuttings from other sources to the pages.

Records of the Waldorf Theatre Syndicate Limited, comprising trust deeds and other legal documents, 1905-1910.

Papers gathered during the course of research for a Thames Television documentary on Kurt Waldheim's role during the Second World War, comprising photocopies of documents with their translations recording Waldheim's activities in connection with the following war crimes which occurred in the Balkans and Greece between 1942 and 1944: the murder and deportation of civilians in Bosnia to Jasenovac, Spring and Summer, 1942; the murder of Greek civilians and the deportation of Italian POWs to slave labour camps after the Italian capitulation, Summer 1943; the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz from Crete, Corfu and Rhodes, Summer 1944; the torture and murder of captured allied commandos, Summer 1944 and other war crimes committed by the Nazis in the Balkans and Greece.

Papers relating to Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, c 1795 - early 19th century, comprising a volume titled Experiments on the Swimming Bladder of Fishes. Translation from the German of Gotthelf Fischer, containing an English trranslation of Versuch uber die Schwimmblase der Fische (Leipzig 1795) by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim. The translator is not known.

Waldegrave family papers. The records consist mainly of correspondence both private and naval. Also includes logs, journals, narratives, private papers, copy letter books and printed books.

Records of the Walbrook Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise Wardmote minutes and accounts, rate assessments and inhabitants lists, precepts and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Collection comprises photographs of both the ambulance train and the servicemen's hospital in Berkshire showing servicemen and nurses [including Eliza Wakelin]; and two letters regarding Miss Wakelin's health.

Papers of Sir Cecil Pembrey Grey Wakeley, 1915-1965, comprising letters to Sir Cecil Wakeley on relinquishing the Presidency of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1954; register of Sir Cecil Wakeley's publications, 1915-1965; scrapbook, 1924-1965; album of clinical photographs, 1932-1941; signature book of House Surgeons and Registrars working with Sir Cecil Wakeley at King's College Hospital and other hospitals, 1922-1957; and Temporary Surgeon Rear Admiral's Warrant, 1939-1940.

Records of Nicholas Wakelam including Plessey Pension Trust Limited: reports and accounts (1980); Unigate Group Pension Scheme: reports and leaflets (1983-1987); Thorn EMI Pension Fund: trustees reports (1988-1994) and explanatory booklets (1988-1989).

Letter from Gilbert Wakefield of Dorchester Gaol to George Dyer of Clifford's Inn, Fleet Street, 2 Jul 1799. Thanking him for his 'fraternal solicitude'.

Autograph, with signature.

Papers of and relating to Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1825-1929, comprising letters of the Wakefield family, namely Frances Wakefield (second wife of Edward Gibbon Wakefield's father), concerning Directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1825; [Felix Wakefield] (Edward Gibbon Wakefield's brother) concerning his niece's journey to India, 1835; Edward Gibbon Wakefield to his sister Catherine Torlesse concerning the report of the House of Commons Committee investigating affairs in New Zealand, 1844; biographical extract about Edward Gibbon Wakefield, undated; press cuttings of book reviews relating to Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1929.

Records of Keith Waithe, musician, comprising published recordings from Essequibo Music and The Macusi Players with business card and promotional card.

Papers of Amory Hooper Waite, 1960-1984, chiefly comprising biographical material including details of Waite created for the occasion of Waite becoming a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, Sep 1976; press release on Waite receiving triple honours, 1 May 1980 and material provided by Waite for his own obituary including an autobiography, 1 Dec 1983; material from the 50th anniversary of the Byrd rescue mission, 1984; papers and history relating to radio ice depth measurements; copy of a paper by Noel Stone, entitled 'The Airborne Survey of Ice Caps at Radio Frequencies', Aug 1960 and copies of articles including 'An Empirical Determination of the Relative Dielectric Constant of the Greenland Ice Cap', by D C Pearce and J W Williams, in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 72, 15 Nov 1967; 'Airborne Radar Sounding of the Greenland Ice Cap: Flight 1', by A H Zanella, D C Pearce and J W Williams, in the Geographical Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 79, Nov 1968 and article on Waite, Jun 1984.

Papers relating to his RAF career, 1942-[1953], principally comprising correspondence relating to the development of a submersible target at RAF St Eval, Cornwall, 1942, dated 1948; manuscript notes on the problems of establishing Coastal Command Station, Nassau, Bahamas, as a training centre for Coastal Liberator crews, 1942; official report on the RAF occupation of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 5-11 May 1945; printed reports on the progress of air disarmament in Germany in 1944-1946, produced by British Air Forces of Occupation, 1945-1947; correspondence relating to his work as Director of Air Branch, Control Commission, Berlin, 1947-1949, and to the planning of the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; official report on organisation and structure of Berlin Airlift administration; RAF training course notes and papers, 1950; papers relating to his service as Assistant Chief of Staff, Allied Air Forces Central Europe, [1951-1953], notably including photographs of Waite, [1951-1953]; published RAF manuals, 1948, 1950.

Papers of Richard Wainwright MP, c 1868-2005, including personal papers, papers relating to the Colne Valley constituency and general election campaigns, articles, speeches and press releases written by Wainwright and Liberal Party policy papers; papers relating to Richard Wainwright's time at Cambridge University, his work for the Friends Ambulance Unit during World War II and the Rowntree Reform Social Services Trust (now the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust). Further papers relate to his wife, Joyce's, involvement in the Yorkshire Women's Liberal Federation.

Papers relating to Henderson, 1983-1985;
Papers relating to Toplis and Harding, international loss adjusters, 1988-1990;
Papers relating to Herbert Morris' History, 'Cranes and Craftsmen', 1973-1974;
Papers relating to Richard Thomas, no date;
Papers relating to Dictionary of Business Biography (including James Livesey), Business Archives Council, Quinton Hazell and Stones Ginger, no date;
Papers relating to Spillers, 1975-1978;
Papers relating to Simpson, Piccadilly, 1995-1996.

Letter from the Waffen SS Fulda-Werra regional recruitment office to the regional chief administrators seeking permission to recruit from the higher and technical schools, 16 Jan 1941.

32 captioned photographs of the British Military Mission to Russia, Odessa Detachment, 1919-1920. Typescript 'Interim report by No 1 War Crimes Review of Sentences Board on Italian War Criminals', Apr 1949. Typescript 'Report and recommendations by No 1 War Crimes Review of Sentences Board on German and Austrian War Criminals', Aug 1949. Typescript notes on ten prisoners held at Karlau prison, Graz, Austria, 1949. Typescript lists of 295 male and 27 female War Criminals held at Werl prison, British Zone of Germany [1949]. Typescript lists of 30 male War Criminals held at Hameln prison, British Zone of Germany, with manuscript plan of the prison [1949]. Typescript list of 28 male and female War Criminals held in various other prisons, British Zone of Germany, and those transferred into the jurisdiction of other powers [1949]. Typescript 'Report and recommendations by No 2 War Crimes Sentences Review Board on Japanese War Criminals', 1949. Wade's personal file of notes, correspondence and directives as Chairman of No 1 Board, 1949, including manuscript letter, in German, to Wade, by German FM Albert von Kesselring, Feb 1949, with typescript translation.

Papers of Joshua Waddington, 1815-1817, comprising six manuscript volumes of notes from 'Lectures on midwifery and diseases of women and children, delivered at the theatre, Guy's Hospital, between the 1st of December 1816 and the 1st of March 1817, by John Haighton MD', includes index to subjects covered in lectures in the front of the volume, 275pp; 'Clinical cases and lectures taken by Joshua Waddington at Guy's Hospital between the 1st of Dec 1816 and 1st May 1817', index in the front of the volume listing names of patients and their disease, 372pp; 'Lectures on anatomy and the principal operations of surgery: delivered at the theatre, St Thomas's Hospital by Astley Cooper Esquire, Vol 1, 1 Jan-1 Jun 1816, 555ff; Vol 2, 1 Jan-1 Jun 1816, 545ff; Vol 3, 1 Oct 1815-1 Jun 1916, 673ff, with index to subjects covered, and 'Extracts from Lectures on the practice of medicine, delivered at Guy's Hospital by William Babington, MD FRS, and James Perry, ND, between 1 January and 1 June 1817', 286pp.

Papers of William Wadd, [c1806-1807], comprising 3 volumes of anatomical pencil drawings by Wadd, including bones, tumours, growths and deformities.

Bound volume of printed documents, mainly relating to King's College London, some annotated by Wace, and including, Return made by the Council in compliance with a request received December 1893, from the Education Department; Instructions to advise and opinion of counsel, 1893; Report of the Committee on grants to University Colleges in Great Britain, 1892; Fifth report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science, 1874; Gresham University Commission, The report of the Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London, 1894, and Answers to the objections raised against the charter of the Gresham University; Draft charter of the Gresham University, 1893; Corrections of mistakes in evidence affecting University College.

Letter book of BW Bagenal, agent in Australia of WW Pownall and Company, wine merchants, containing copies of his correspondence with Australian wine producers sent out from his offices in Melbourne. It ends in February 1898, when he was recalled to London.

Records of W Symington and Company Limited, food product manufacturers, comprising minutes of meetings of directors and annual general meetings.