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Records of Thomas and Edge Limited, 1930-1970, comprising Board and general meeting minutes, share register, and private ledgers.

Professional papers of Herbert Hans Karl Thoma, 1913-1975, comprising:
Teaching papers including Thoma's lecture notes on on Old High and Middle German Language, Literature, and Palaeography [1950s], Thoma's notes on lectures by Prof Carl von Krauss, University of Münich, 1913-1915; King's College London, Department of German, examination questions on Germanic language and literature, with annotations by Thoma on marking schemes, candidates names and marks [1950s]; correspondence and papers on supervision of postgraduate student W F Tullasiewicz, with copy of his thesis on the Kaiserchronik
Unpublished research papers, 1961-1965 and undated, including the cataloguing project commissioned by the Bavarian State Library on the manuscripts in the monastic library at Ottobeuren; glosses to Hartmann von Aue's Eric and Iwein; biblical glosses and studies on German word endings,
Published research papers, 1951-1975, including: the work on early German manuscripts in London (principally the British Museum) which was the supplement to Robert Priebsch's great work; entries for Merker-Stammler's Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturgeschichte; medieval manuscripts of the Carmina Burana and the Nibelungenlied in the British Museum; early German manuscripts in the Vatican Library and the libraries of Munich. with an article on John of Neumarkt and Heinrich Frauenlob in Festschrift for Professor Frederick Norman (retired 1965) .
Correspondence, 1950-1975; correspondents include letters and postcards from Professors Bernhard Bischoff, Arthur Hatto, Carl von Kraus and Paul Salmon
Personal notes and press cuttings on A E Housman, 1937-1943

Thirty Years War: Copie de la Declaration de Guerre Contre la Couronne de France faicte en Espagne, au nom de Roy; Declaration de son Alteze Touchant la Guerre Contre la Couranne de France.

Records of Thirteen Rood Lane Limited including accounts.

Frames 1-95: Copy reports and correspondence from participants in the Rosenstrasse Protest, Berlin 1943 and the 'Sovjet-Paradies Aktion', Berlin 1942 - Frame 6 includes a list of the members of the 'Baum Gruppe' who were executed.

Frames 96-245: transcript interrogations and interviews with Nazi officials and anti-Nazis regarding the effect on morale of Allied bombing, carried out by the USSBS, Morale Division.

Scripts and associated documentation for BBC dramas on milestones in 19th century medical history entitled They made history, on which Wellcome Historical Medical Museum staff had advised.

Papers of Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, 1946-1994, including lists of fossils, rocks and minerals collected in Arabia, 1947; copies of letters from Thesiger to various correspondents; route notebook from Kachu to Jalalabad, Nuristan, 28 Jul-4 Sep 1956; meteorological observations Rub al Khali, Arabia, 1947; tabulated traverse by draftsman for the 1949 expedition from Muwaiqih; loose notes and notebooks, 1947-1948; seating plan for Thesiger's 80th birthday dinner at the Royal Geographical Society, 6 Jun 1990; transcript of an interview with Thesiger for a Channel 4 television documentary, Heart of a Nomad, Aug 1994; appendices to an article by Thesiger, 'A New Journey in Southern Arabia' published in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 108, No. 4/6 (Oct-Dec, 1946), pp 129-145 and envelope containing notes of payments for camels and servants, South Arabia.

Papers concerning Theresienstadt, 1940s, comprise copies of a report by Dr Muneles on the Hebrew book cataloguing project at Theresienstadt, 1945; typescript report regarding Theresienstadt, an inventory of the land and property, 1945; history of Theresienstadt during the Nazi era and typescript report on the situation there, providing statistical information relating to the inmates and transcriptions of documents produced during the camp's existence by both the Nazi camp authorities and the Jewish self-governing body.

Theresienstadt poems collection, 1938, comprise typescript poems written by inmates of Theresienstadt, including Leo Strauss, Myra Strauss Gruhenberg, Mara, Otto Pam, Koppel and Fritz Pollak.

Copy note from the health section of the Jewish Management Committee of Terezin regarding materials and shortage of doctors, 1945.

Minutes of a meeting held between Ing. Georg Vogel and Major Kusmin, 1945, concerning the repatriation of some Czech nationals which Kusmin authorised on receipt of medical certificates and a statement that they are free of lice. The remaining minutes deal with applications for food and clothing and the need for more disinfectors following the removal of the Russian ones.

List of survivors from Theresienstadt, 1945, who were taken to Switzerland and housed in a camp at Brissago (Ticino), Switzerland.

Papers of Theresienstadt Bank, 1943-1944, comprise a savings book issued by the bank of the Jewish self-administration of Theresienstadt, which documents the savings accrued by a former inmate, Max Hirschfeld, from June 1943 to August 1944, payment for labour whilst in the camp. The colleciton also includes a letter dated 1 October 1945 from the same to the British military governor, Bielefeld, requesting funds for savings accrued by all surviving Theresienstadt inmates and is annotated cannot be allowed.

Typescript report detailing every aspect of the activities of the Theresienstadt Concentration camp under the following sub-headings: Abteilung für innere Verwaltung; Arbeitszentrale; Wirtschaftsabteilung; Spedition; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Finanzabteilung; Technische Abteilung; Abteilung fuer Gesundheitswesen.

Paper for reading before the Royal Society entitled 'Theora Magnetis explicata e sola virium attractivarum universalium natura, elaborata per Franciscum Intze.....Claudiopoli Transylvaniae MDCCCXXV'.

Manuscript volume containing contemporary transcripts of theological works, [1560], namely 'Libellus introductorius in vitam contemplatium cui titulus Directorum paruum contemplari inchoantium', by Petrus Blomevenna, Prior of the Carthusian monastery of Cologne; an incomplete copy of a work on the Holy Eucharist, also by Petrus Blomevenna, entitled 'Enchiridion Sacerdotum'; and a copy of the acts and decrees of the Diocesan Synod convoked by Robert de Croy, Bishop of Cambrai in 1550.

Manuscript volume in several hands, probably written in Norfolk during the 15th century, containing eleven theological works, including Robert Holcot's Convertemini, the Speculum Christiani, and numerous sermons.
The manuscript also has two former pastedowns, which form part of a 13th century Collectar containing the Sanctorale for masses from 21 Oct to 13 Nov and the common of a confessor, confessors and a virgin.
The 29 strips of parchment which were separating and down the middle of each quire of the volume have been removed, and are taken from at least 5 documents of 15th century origin containing places and individuals connected with Norfolk. Several of the fragments appear to be from a letter of Archbishop Stafford to Gerald Hesyll, rector of Cley, and others.

Papers, 1827-1894, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate copies of wills and letters of administration; leases for property in Haringey, Highgate and Paddington.

Shares records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including registers of members and transfers, share ledgers, share certificates, lists of dividends payable in each year, and register of directors' shareholdings.

Financial records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including papers relating to war bonds and cash book.

Corporate records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including memorandum and articles of association; board of directors' minute and agenda books; historical note regarding company; annual reports and statements of account; extraordinary general meeting correspondence and notices; registers of directors, members and secretaries; candidature of Emile Littler; papers relating to anniversary lunch arrangements; seal books; and papers relating to amalgamation.

Business records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including prospectus, specimen policies, policies issued, register of contingency insurances through theatrical agencies, and advertising: printed material.

Declaration of Trust, 1775, by (2) in (1) who have purchased on behalf of (2) from David Garrick of the Adelphi, Esq., and Willoughby Lacy, otherwise Morris, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, Esq., (administrator of Will of James Lacy, late of St. George Hanover Square) the rent or sum of £4 for every day or night when any theatrical performance publicly takes place at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and also the privilege for 40 persons to be present, free of charge, at such performance, which rent and privilege had been granted to David Garrick and James Lacy on 24th March, 1762 by Honourable Francis Russell, Marquis of Tavistock.

(1) George Garrick of St. Mary le Strand, Esq., Albany Wallis of Norfolk Street, St. Clement Danes, gent.

(2) Thomas Allan of Berners Street, St. Marylebone, Esq.,
Benjamin Aguilar of London Street, City of London, Esq.,
Thomas Leigh Bennett of Soho Square, Esq.,
Edward Barwell of Abingdon Street, Esq.,
Owen Salisbury Bracton of Soho Square, Esq.,
Richard Brown of Golden Square, Esq.,
Anthony Chamier of the War Office, Esq.,
Thomas Coutts of St. Martin in the Fields, Esq.,
Peter Castlefranc of Pall Mall, Esq.,
Monkhouse Davison of Fenchurch Street, London, Esq.,
Robert Darell of Winchester Street, London, Esq.,
Dame Elizabeth Glynn of Whitehall, widow,
Thomas Glynn of Whitehall, Esq.,
John Gazley of Northumberland Street, Esq.,
Rice James of Berners Street, St. Marylebone, Esq.,
Henry Jones of Frith Street, St. Ann Soho, Esq.,
Henry Kendall of Lincoln's Inn Fields, Esq.,
Robert Ladbroke of City of London, Esq.,
Isaac Moses Levy of Lincoln's Inn Fields, Esq.,
Nicholas Lethmere of St. James', Westminster, Esq.,
Joseph Martin of Downing Street, Esq.,
Nathaniel Newnham of Botolph Lane, London, Esq.,
Thomas Nash of Morriss Causeway, Surrey, Esq.,
Thomas Newnham of Hatton Street, Esq.,
Richard Russell of Bermondsey Street, Surrey, Esq.,
Mary Spencer of Newman Street, spinster,
Benjamin Smith of Oxford Street, Esq.,
Isaac Scria of Tokenhouse Yard, London, Esq.,
Elizabeth Turner of Bedford Street, spinster,
Henry Williams of Berwick Street, Esq.,
George Wyatt of Fleet Street, London, Esq.

Copies of correspondence and memoranda relating to a dispute between the proprietors of the Theatre Royal at Covent Garden and performers.

The Women's Library Printed Collections comprise:

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

The Library has over 60,000 books and pamphlets. In addition to scholarly works on women's history, there are biographies, popular works, government publications, and some works of literature. It also contains several special collections of published materials: The Cavendish-Bentinck Collection contains primarily pre-1850 items, such as conduct books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and first editions of works by Wollstonecraft, Woolf, and the Brontes. The Josephine Butler Society Library features works on subjects including prostitution, slavery, trafficking of women, and attitudes to sexuality. The Sadd Brown Library comprises books and periodicals by and about women in the various Commonwealth countries.

PERIODICALS AND ZINES

Over 2,500 titles are held, some in single issues, but many in complete or representative runs. Titles range from popular magazines (Vogue, Cosmopolitan), to academic quarterlies (Gender and History, Feminist Review), special interest publications (One Parent Families, Executive Black Woman, National Association of Women Pharmacists), and older titles such as the English Woman's Journal and Votes for Women. The zine collection, dating from 2002, includes zines which reflect women's lives in the UK today.

EPHEMERA/PRESS CUTTINGS

The ephemera collection consists of thousands of mostly contemporary leaflets, flyers, handbills, etc. on topics of interest to women. A primarily retrospective collection of press cuttings is available; it is particularly useful for biographical material and obituaries on women.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

A range of electronic resources are available for consultation at The Women's Library to complement the printed, archive and museum collections. These cover all aspects of women's lives and include periodical indexes and statistical data, as well as full text databases.

The archive consists of:

• records of the central administration of the Wives' Fellowship (Central Committee Minutes and Executive Committee Minutes of Wives' Fellowship and Senior Wives' Fellowship)

• minutes of Annual General Meetings

• material relating to Conferences

• reports / minutes / letters relating to Ceylon Wives' Fellowship

• papers relating to other organisations (National Council of Women, charities supported by the Wives' Fellowship)

• memorabilia

• histories of the organisation and Wives' Fellowship Service books

• complete set of magazines in 6 bound volumes 1916-1989 (held in TWL Printed Collections as at May 2006)

Papers relating to The Widow Welch's Pills, 1787-1966, comprising records of C and G Kearsley Limited, London, manufacturers of The Widow Welch's Pills 'justly celebrated for all female complaints'. Including family material and business records.

Register of baptisms, 1861-1933; specifications and correspondence regarding the re-building of the Church, includes architect's floor plan, 1947-1948; Quarterly meetings minute book of the London Welsh Circuit, 1889-1908; Church committee minute book, 1908-1940; Church committee meeting minutes book, 1923-1955; Church committee meeting minute book regarding post war move of church, 1946-1963; Meeting minutes of the trustees and officers, 1953-1974; Memorandum of the choice and appointment of new trustees, 1950-1950 and Poland Street Trustees Account Book, 1884-1918. Please note that most of the minute books are written in Welsh.

Betacam taped interviews, transcripts of interviews with leading American political and military figures and conference papers, assembled by Brian Lapping Associates Ltd in research for the making of the BBC programme The Washington Version concerning the Gulf Conflict, 1990-1991.

Marriage registers for the United Church of Saint James-at-Bowes, Wood Green, 1949-1975.

Papers of the Trustees, 1852-1989, comprising: DF900 Minutes of the Standing Committee;
DF901 Minutes of General Meetings and sub-committee meetings;
DF902 Extracts from minutes of the Standing Committee;
DF903 Background papers and memoranda of the Standing Committee;
DF904 The Chairman's agendas for Standing Committee meetings;
DF905 The Director's precis for the General Meetings;
DF906 Papers of the Principal Trustees;
DF907 Attendance books for General and Standing Committee meetings;
DF908 Books of presents;
DF909 Lists of trustees, officers and staff.

DVD, 'The story of Unity Theatre: the theatre of the labour and trade union movement', produced by the Unity Theatre Trust, c 2008.

Administrative records, records of clinical departments, estates records, finance records, human resources records, nursing records and photographs.

Papers of the Royal Indian Navy (1612-1947) Association, including papers of the Association, 1750-1986. The majority of documents relate to individual naval personnel, 1914-1947, from the RIN, RIM, RINR, RINVR and WRINS services.

Copy of the newspaper, The Post Boy. Includes letter to Lady Rokeby of Northallerton, Yorkshire.

'The Office of a Constable' written by Sir Francis Bacon, contains a speech by Bacon and four other items: ff 14: 'A letter of Advice written to the lower house of Parliament by Sir E.C'; ff 33: 'Spoken to both the houses of Parliament assembled at Dublin by the Lord Deputie of Ireland [Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford] 15 July 1634'; ff 46: 'A Speech delivered in the Starre Chamber by Sir Francis Bacon to the Judges in the last daye of Trinity terme 1617 [8 July]'; ff 53: 'The Commons declarations and impeachments against the Duke of Buckingham'; ff 73: 'The Humble Answere and Plea of George Duke of Buckingham to the declaration ... made against him ... by the Commons house of Parliament'.

Microfilm of manuscript entitled "The Newe Metamorphosis, or a Feast of Fancie, or Poeticall Legendes", by J.M.

Records of the Needlework Guild, Congregational Church (later United Reformed Church), including minute books, 1936-1999; gift list, 1983-1999; account books, 1957-1999; expenses, 1969-1999; orders of service for annual dedication of gifts ceremonies, 1962-1998; booklet "The Story of the London Women's League of the London Congregational Union, 1909-1959" by Ann Oldfield, 1959 and typescript notes on the history of the Needlework Guild, 1913-1998, by Guild Secretary Phyllis Mitchell, 1998.

The National Gallery Archive holds the administrative records of the National Gallery, including: Board minutes, 19th century correspondence, annual reports, 20th century registry files, late 20th century departmental records, accounts, art historical dossiers, photographs and press cuttings.

Papers of 'The Museum Of ...' temporary museum project. The collection holds material from four of the five "museums" that together formed The Museum Of. These are: The Museum of Collectors, The Museum of Me, The Museum of Emotions and The Museum of the River Thames. The collection holds no records for The Museum of the Unknown.

The Museum of Collectors (Nov 1998 - Mar 1999): The Museum of Collectors looked at who collects, what people collect and why? It housed a display of forty-two local people's collections, everything from rejection letters and snow domes to snails and monsters. The collections were displayed in consultation with the collectors by an interdisciplinary team. The records held in the collection include: Glassine pockets containing items collected by visitors to the museum, photos and text relating to collectors exhibiting at the museum and advertising material.

The Museum of Me (May 1999 - Oct 1999): The Museum of Me combined art works that looked at the self with a chance for visitors to experience, record and display aspects of themselves as they travelled around the space. Responding to input from artists, poets, performers, psychologists, designers and anthropologists, each visitor was given the opportunity to contribute to the making of The Museum Of Me by creating their own personal museum exhibits during their visit. The records held in the collection include: Tin Cans containing items belonging to visitors, miniature glass bottles each containing a written "secret", large glass bottles containing multiple "secrets", a range of labels on which visitors wrote down various aspects of themselves and their experiences, black and white portrait photographs and a selection of emphemera including a promotional t-shirt and several diaries containing handwritten comments by visitors filled in about days that were important to them.

The Museum of Emotions (Feb 2000 - Jun 2000): The Museum of Emotions asked the question where and how do we express our emotions? Ten artists were commissioned to evoke different emotions through creating a series of interactive environments. An ephemeral experience created by light, sound and installation explored how much feeling is lost, found and expressed in the context of the museum. Records for this collection include: plastic bottles each labelled with a visitor's response to the question "What makes you cry?", a large hardback book containing visitors comments on the theme of love and a number of advertising leaflets.

The Museum of The River Thames (March 2001 - July 2001): The Museum of The River Thames focused on the River Thames as the largest public space in London. Creating a journey from the Bargehouse to the river and back again The Museum of the River Thames reflected on the experiences of those people and places, that told a story of their environment and personal relationship with the river. The Museum included collaboration with: The London Rivers Authority, The Thames Explorer Trust, The Millennium Bridge Trust, Platform and The Museum of London. The collections includes: Origami Boats made by visitors to the Museum, drawings and comments on possible uses for the space if the River Thames did not exist and a variety of objects found in the river.

The final series is entitled "Marketing and Administration" and this includes advertising material relating to all five of the "museums" and a press pack that sets out the aims and intentions of the project, detailing the nature of each "museum" and setting out how the projects developed and progressed.

Papers of The Moot, mainly consisting of Sir Fred Clarke's set of the circulated discussion papers, 1939-1942; also an incomplete run of the Christian News-Letter, 1939-1949.

Includes a handwritten draft of an article, A Tradition of the King's Head Tavern in the Poultry by unknown author, possibly 'Thomson' (27pp) (n.d.); three printed proofs of the article with annotations (March 1852); two handwritten drafts of the article, The London Tavern: Past and Present (17pp and 34pp) (October 1851); two printed proofs of the article, The London Tavern: Past and Present, annotated (2 copies) (1852); edition of Household Words featuring the article, The London Tavern: Past and Present (14pp) (18 October 1851); letter from Charles Dickens regarding the article A Tradition of the King's Head Tavern in the Poultry (2pp) (n.d.)

Papers of the London Association of Recreational Gardeners including annual reports and financial statements, constitution and rules, copies of the Journal and information leaflets produced by the association.

'The Life of Confucius' by Louis Poirot, 'Avviso al Lettore' included as an inset.

Les Coleman (6 May 1945 - January 17 2013) was an artist, poet, sculptor, art lecturer, critic, and collector. A lifelong connoisseur and collector of the surreal, obscure and esoteric Coleman accumulated a unique, rare and significant literary and visual library in his lifetime. It is the latter which he donated to the University of Arts London.

Amongst the Les Coleman Collection is a significant collection of comics from North American underground [1968-1980] and alternative [1980-present] comic book movements. Perhaps the most significant component of the collection is Coleman's Robert Crumb material, which is possibly one of the largest in the UK. Other highlights in the collection include large collections of the work of Canadian comic book artist Julie Douchet and Serbian artist Aleksandar Zograf, complete runs of classic counter-cultural comics Arcade, Bijou Funnies and Raw. In addition to comics Coleman also acquired various signed and limited edition prints by comic book artists such as Charles Burns, Joe Coleman, Joost Swarte, Archer Prewitt and Aline-Kominsky Crumb. An admirer and champion of the art form Coleman organised and curated various comic exhibitions in his lifetime. A prominent British comic commentator and critic, Coleman was also in correspondence with various artists including Doucet, Zograf, Mack White, Jeff Johnson and Prewitt.

The second part of the Coleman collection is comprised of art, illustration and humour books from America, Australia, the UK and Europe (predominantly France and Belgium). Coleman's twin fascinations in this area were cartoons and surrealism, and his favoured artists range from the gentle newspaper gags of 'Larry' to the dark absurdist visions of Roland Topor. Other prominent artists in this part of the collection include Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, Saul Steinberg, HM Bateman, Glenn Baxter, Ivor Cutler, Maurice Henry, Sempé and Siné.

The third part of the collection is made up of Coleman's personal papers. Amongst this part of the collections there is a great deal of correspondence with his contemporaries in the art world such as painter, collaborator and teacher Patrick Hughes, the artist and children's' illustrator Tony Blundell, artist and colleague Charlie Holmes, artist and illustrator Chris Vine, French surrealist and publisher Marcel Mariën, and many more. Additionally there is a large collection of postcards and Christmas cards, many designed by the aforementioned artists. There is also some draft artwork and research material for a cartoon strip entitled 'Ying and Yang' which Coleman created in collaboration with Hughes. There is also a large collection of research material, primarily consisting of handwritten notes, annotated scans and photocopies, photographs, and sketches. Research material relates both to Coleman's teaching and curation careers.

Material relating to the documentary film series The Last Europeans, 1995, including video tapes of the series and transcripts of interviews with contributors, held on disc. The interviews include discussions with the Rt Hon Anthony Neil Wedgwood 'Tony' Benn; Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey of Riddlesden; Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon; David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen of the City of Plymouth; Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn; the Rt Hon Michael Foot; Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell; the Rt Hon Sir Edward Heath; The Rt Hon Neil Gordon Kinnock; Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook; and the Rt Hon Anthony Charles Lynton 'Tony' Blair. The Executive Producer was Phillip Whitehead.

Archives of the Japan Society comprising:

minutes of the Council and Annual General Meetings, 1891-1999; draft minute books, 1892-1902 and related papers, 1902-1937; Council attendance book, 1914-1941;

administrative papers including general correspondence, 1901-1956; Secretary's correspondence, 1931-1938; Treasurer's letters out 1910-1920; letters relating to the Shakespeare Medal, 1929; letters relating to corporate members subscriptions, 1958-1960; Chairman's files, 1962-1967; Secretary's reports, correspondence, invitation cards and relate papers, 1925-1940; Constitution, agenda and notices, including Rules, 1941 and correspondence 1910-1930; annual dinner papers and programmes, 1894-1927; annual dinner correspondence 1930s; address books (of society members), 1903-1909; printed membership booklets, 1894-1920; Library loan book, 1964-1999; visitors book 1953-1974;

Financial Records including Ledgers, 1891-1894, 1906-1931, 1955-1961; accounts 1939-1955; index to bankers orders, 1902-1957; cash receipts, 1952-1957; petty cash book, 1896-1902;

Photographs, 1869s-1950s comprising:
images of individuals including Crown Prince of Japan, 1921; Sir John Dimsdale, Chairman [1903]; Marcus Huish, T B Clard-Thonhill, Douglas Sladen;

collection of portrait photographs of members of the Society, [1900-1910];

photographs of events, including Yokohama during the earthquake, 1909; the Battle of A-San and the sinking of the British-owned transport Kowshing off Korea, and Battle of Yellow Sea, [1894];

photograph album by Felice Beato, also containing watercolours by Charles Wirgman [1860s]; album of Frances Taylor Piggott - containing photocopies of Japanese meishi (visiting cards), invitations, and menu cards 1888-1891; albums with photographs by Tamamura Kozaburo [1890-1900], and Usui Shuzaburo, 1885; album of photographs of events such as the Japanese Crown Prince's visit to London, 1921; Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's visit to Britain, 1959; the Japan Society's annual dinner, 1934; and garden party 1934;

glass lantern slides depicting Japanese script, festivals, costumes, wrestlers, craftsman, labourers, country life, religion, gardens, and houses;

manuscripts and personal papers including a notebook of Alexander Richard Newman, (fl 1964) containing manuscript notes on Japanese history and culture (undated); Reports on Japanese Currency by G Arbuthnot and others, 1862-1872; letters from Frank Stearns, Japan, to the Detroit Press 1890-1893; photocopies of letters of Algernon B Mitford to his father, 1866-1869; photocopies of letters to J C Marks from Chester Poole, Charlotsville, USA, 1956-1978; Certificate awarded by Prime Minister Kanin to Major E Calthrop, Military Attache, Tokyo Embassy; Autograph album containing signatures of prominent personalities associated with the Japan Society, 1894-1908; autograph book of Japanese visitors to London, 1919-1930;

press cuttings /scrap books including cuttings of articles on Japan by Raymond Koechlin, 1891 (in French); press cuttings and notices, 1895; press cuttings collection, 1889-1930; press cuttings and scrap book, 1893-1906; press cuttings relating to the Garden Party given in honour of their Imperial Highness Prince and Princess Arishgawa, May 1905; scrap book containing printed material including invitations, menus etc, 1912-1918;

Nichi-Ei Times, 1991-2003, Japanese newspaper published by Toshiko Marks, and edited Setsuo Kato, Japan Media Service Ltd, London; Society publications including Japan Society Transactions and Proceedings, 1892-1941; Japan Society Bulletin (in 1986 reverted to the title Proceedings) 1950-present; and Japan Society Annual Review, 1987-1989.

The collection is comprised of 347 books and pamphlets on the subject of sugar; the oldest item is from 1752 by E Comyns.

Contains records of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, its constituent and successor bodies and other related bodies [including Alpha et Omega, Stella Matutina, Independent and Rectified Rite, Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, Sphere Group, the Order of Great Osiris the Saviour, The Theosophical Society and others]. The collection includes the original cipher manuscripts, later translations of the ciphers, additional ciphers, the 'Sprengel' letters with translations from the German; ritual and instructional texts for both the Inner and Outer Orders in the Golden Dawn and its associated bodies, including ritual grade books, temple diagrams, Flying Rolls, lectures; National and Local administration and membership records including registers, address books, minutes, receipt and undertaking forms, Inner Order diaries, pledge forms, by-laws, circulars, correspondence and ephemera; personal correspondence of several prominent members including Florence Farr, Dr W Wynn Westcott, S.L. MacGregor Mathers, Annie Honiman, Dr Robert Felkin and Christina Stoddart; case files relating to significant events within the Order's history including the expulsion of Annie Horniman, the 'Battle of Blyth Road, the Horos Case, the expulsion of Mathers, the division of the Order, the concordat between the Stella Matutina and the Independent and Rectified Rite, the Court Case between Mathers and Aleister Crowley over the publication of rituals in the Equinox, Felkin's continental investigations and the Stella Matutina's new constitution and daughter temples; regalia and artefacts including Rose Cross Lamens worn by the Inner Order members, Enochian chess boards, a Lotus wand, Westcott's ring and a disk used for divination, Enochian tablets, an earth pentacle, officers' wands, a replica of the Inner Order Vault; photographs, designs and diagrams including temple diagrams and designs used in the vault, including the Garden of Eden before and after the fall of man, the colour scales, the minutum mundum; photographs including a picture of S. L. MacGregor Mathers; printed texts relating to the order, including works by R.A. Gilbert, Israel Regardie and E Howe, and Robert Gilbert's research papers.

Manuscript concerning the proposed trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton 1601: ff 6b. The Arraingement of the Earles of Essex and Southampton in Westminster haulle the 19th of februarie 1600/1 [the versos of ff.15 and 16 are written upside down]. ff 21b. The manner of the Demeaner of the Earle of Essex att the time of his Deathe.