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Documents relating to 302 Upper Richmond Road.

The collection consists of a single counterpart lease of 84 St John's Road.

Documents relating to Knowsley Road, Battersea.

Deeds relating to properties in Kathleen Road, Dorothy Road and Latchmere Road.

The records include minutes, membership records, programmes, newspaper cuttings and other publicity material, 1922-1983. The choice of subjects for the debates and lectures, and the press coverage, reflect popular attitudes to issues during this period.The chairman's gavel and printers block with the society logo were deposited with the records. These have been transferred to Wandsworth Museum.

The collection is made up of minute books, a register of attendance, and a register of prizewinners at the annual flower shows. There is also a run of Monthly Bulletings produced by the society and a run of show schedules.

The collection includes probate records, tax records, correspondence and miscellaneous property records.

This catalogue includes minutes of the Metropolitan Borough and the Council committees. The collection also includes rate books, records of the Town Clerk and records of the borough's libraries.

Records of Upper Tooting, Holy Trinity Church Schools, including managers' minutes, school log books and some correspondence, including correspondence relating to evacuation.

Minutes of staff meetings and staff association meetings, including names of teachers, names of prefects and School captains, school rules, and references to evacuations during the war.

This collection relating to Whitelands College consists of minutes of meetings from 1966-1970, as well a copy of the annual report for 1966-1967, and two students handbooks.

The collection is comprised of two parts. The first contains records relating to the administration of the school, such as a series of pupil records cards, accounts, staff handbooks and other material, as well as copies of the school magazine and Old Girls Association newsletters. The second part of the collection contains material belonging to a former pupil Eleanor Roberts, who attended the school between 1928-1936. The records include her school exercise books and diaries.

The collection consists of records and photographs relating to Wandsworth School. The administrative records consist of punishment books, copies of the school rules, lists of prefects, and registers of staff absence. The photographs consist of images of the staff, sports teams, and school trips. There is an extensive collection of letters from old boys and their families written to the headmaster Mr King during World War Two providing information on casualties, career progressions, and involvement in the armed forces.

The collection is made up of papers belonging to the second headmaster of the school W.V. Wallace and his wife who also taught at the school. The papers include correspondence with the parents, a visitors book, exercise books and other material produced by the students, school newsletters and magazine, as well as papers and letters relating to the closure of the school in 1986. There is also a significant amount of photographs from the 1960s onwards showing various school events such as sports days, concerts, plays and other events.

Includes Managers and Governors minutes, clerks agenda papers, records relating to staffing, records relating to the school buildings, general school correspondence, school log books and admission registers and records of the Head Teacher, including papers relating to evacuation.

Records of the administration of the parish of Tooting. Includes: minutes of the parish Vestry; accounts of the Overseers of the Poor; Workhouse Committee minutes; Examination of Paupers records; and the accounts of the Surveyor of Highways for the parish.

Professional papers of Eliza (Elsie) Marian Butler, 1919-1959, comprising:
Teaching papers, including student handouts with examples of German poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries and lecture notes on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Rainer Maria Rilke: Poetry and Rainer Maria Rilke; Rilke and Orpheus; Rilke and Orpheism; Rilke and Russia; Germany and Greece; Goethe on his times; Legend and literature in Faustian rituals
Research notes and papers including: Napoleon and the Poets (unfinished manuscript of a book dealing with Napoleon's influence on European poetry); papers relating to EMB's biography Rainer Maria Rilke, (Cambridge, 1941);
Correspondence, 1937-1951, mainly relating to EMB's books, Myth of the Magus and Ritual Magic: correspondents include Bertrand Russell, 1948; Lord David Cecil, 1950; Professor Günther Müller, University of Bonn, 1948-1951; Edward Sackville-West, 1948; C.S. Lewis, 1940; Michael Burt, 1947-1948; William Keith Chambers Guthrie, 1948; Thomas Mann, 1948; Leonid Pasternak (artist), 1937; Gertrude Ouckama Knoop (wife of Gerhard and friend of Rilke); Ronald Peacock (Professor of German at Manchester University); Michael Polanyi (Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Chemistry, Manchester University), 1948; Professor Gerard van Rijnberk, 1948; John Tresidder Sheppard, 1948; Hermann Sinsheimer (author and theatre critic), 1948; Professor Leonard Ashley Willoughby, 1948; Nancy Wunderly-Volkart (friend of Rainer Maria Rilke), 1940.

Typescript drafts of an unpublished life of Schiller to 1794 by George B Reese, c 1967.

Correspondence and papers on the history and development of German Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1909-1995, including:
Modern Language Association: Papers on Oxford Meeting, 1909;
University of London: Minutes and marks books of UL Internal Board of Examiners in German, 1932-1970; Agendas, minutes and correspondence of UL Board of Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1963-1979; Examination papers for finals in German, 1943-1952;
Conference of University Teachers of German: Correspondence and papers on the administration of CUTG, 1963-1979; Bulletins 1981-1991, 1994; Minutes of meetings 1981-1986; Lists of teachers of German in British and Irish Universities, 1980-87; Correspondence and papers of sub-committee convened by Hugh D Sacher on History of German Studies in the UK and Ireland, 1965-1967, including replies from the Universities of Aberdeen, UCNW, Bangor, Birmingham, Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Reading, St Andrews, Sheffield, Glasgow, King's College London, University College London, Liverpool, Birkbeck College London, Royal Holloway College London, Queen Mary College London, Keele; transcripts of tape recordings of personal accounts on history of German Studies, subjects include Professor Frederick Norman, Oliver Edwards, F H Sandbach (on his father F E Sandbach, Professor of German, University of Birmingham) and L W Forster;
Correspondence of Professor L A Willoughby on the history of German Studies, 1946-1961;
Correspondence of Professor John Flood on the history of German Studies, 1957-1994.

Papers of James Blair Leishman, 1927-1962, comprising:
Correspondence mostly from Paul Obermüller (50 items) and Ernst Zinn (7 items) concerning his Leishman's translations of the works of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1955-1961;
holiday postcards (12 items) written by Leishman and his wife from Switzerland and Austria to their children at boarding school, 1956-1957;
Personal Diaries, 1927, 1930.

This archive contains the personal papers of the Austrian-British artist and designer Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag. Just over half the collection consists of her artwork, which includes designs and sketches for costumes for theatre or dance performances or as fashion wear; handmade picture books and illustrated poetry books; sketches and pastel drawings of theatre scenes sketched either during performances or from memory; and portraits and illustrations for her own and other writers' stories. Notable theatre costumes include designs for the Schauspielhaus in Vienna in 1928; the Teatro degli Indipendenti in Rome in 1928 and 1930; the pioneer of modern Israeli dance, Yardena Cohen in 1935; Italian revue theatre in 1954; Austrian choreographer Gisa Geert in 1954; and the Austrian exile puppeteer Bruno Tublin. There are also a number of fashion designs for the actor Elisabeth Bergner. In addition to the artwork, there are over two boxes of typescripts and manuscripts of MBH's writing, most of which remained unpublished. This includes her children's stories such as 'The Bungalow at Boxhill' and 'The Lost Tune', stories incorporating elements of MBH's autobiography, and a large number of poems reflecting on her experiences in Palestine in the 1930s and her life in the UK after 1936. There is also a set of paintings depicting key moments of MBH's childhood and an autobiographical text covering the period 1902-1918. As well as her artwork and literary writing, there are 14 folders of correspondence, the majority of which is that exchanged by MBH and her husband, Josef Berger, during the numerous periods when they were separated, including his internment as an enemy alien in 1940. There are also some letters to and from other members of the Berger family and various friends and officials, particularly concerning Berger's release from internment. The archive also contains a small number of official documents and fragments of MBH's diaristic writing.

Correspondence and papers of Sylvia Clare Harris, 1953-1980, comprising:
Correspondence with academics and academic libaries on texts of the Historia trium regum, with microfilms and photocopies, 1953-1980; correspondence on Max Behland and his work, 1962-1963; correspondence with Marion Lee Miller on consultation of his thesis, 1977; correspondence on article on Johannes von Hildesheim for Verfasserlexicon, 1978-1979; handwritten transcripts of manuscripts of the Historia trium regum; notes and papers on the Historia trium regum, including copy of Harris's thesis, 1954-1974; photocopies and other reproductions of Historia trium regum manuscripts; miscellaneous papers including copy of A study of the language of medieval German homiletics London PhD thesis by Lawrence M Rice, 1973; notes on German literature 1400-1700.

Correspondence and papers of Bela Ivanyi-Grunwald, comprising:
notes and typescripts on Lajos Kossuth, an exile from the 1848-1849 Hungarian War of Independence, c 1939-1965; notes and typescripts of biography of Count Istvan Szechenyi, notes on Szechenyi's Anglo-Hungarian literary connections, c 1936-1965; writings, correspondence and papers on nineteenth and twentieth century Hungarian history and politics, c 1939-1965; writings, correspondence and papers on eighteenth and nineteenth century British history, particularly eighteenth century dissenters, c 1939-1965; draft typescripts and manuscripts on nineteenth century European history

Correspondence and papers of Stella Alexander on religion in Yugoslavia, 1962-1989, comprising:
Commentaries and off prints re Yugoslav legislation on religion;
Correspondence with and relating to Milovan and Stefica Djilas; notes and recollections of Milovan Djilas. He was a close ally of Marshall Tito during the pre and Second World War period but was later estranged and expelled from the Communist Party;
papers on Father Krunoslav Draganovic, who had been a senior official of the Ustasha committee that handled the forced conversion of the Serbs. In 1943, the Ustasha arranged with the Church for Draganovic to be sent to Rome. There he served at a seminary of Croatian monks that was in fact a centre of clandestine Ustasha activity.

Papers of Robert Gerard Allen, 1919-1940, comprising:
notebook of poetry presumably by Allan, c.1930-1940; photographs and postcards of interwar Prague, the Sokal gymnastics movement and T G Masaryk c 1919-1939; prints of Prague; maps of Czechoslovakia, 1930, 1937; collection of Six linocuts by a Czechoslovak soldier - somewhere in England 1940. The artist was probably Dr V Vanderlik; collection of ten linocuts Cesta (the trail), depicting various scenes from Europe and the middle east by Dr V Vanderlik "a Czechoslovak soldier"; typescript entitled Repetitorium ceske literatury v otazkachi i odpovedich by Prof J Maly, 1936; typescript Czech-English dictionary of engineering terms, probably by Allan

Papers of George Henry Bolsover on Eastern Europe, 1928-1985, comprising:
Bolsover's writings and related papers on Russia, the Soviet Union and European history, 1928-1985 including his BA and MA theses, lecture notes, texts of broadcasts, book reviews and reports and papers issued by the British Government; reports on study trips and delegations, made by Bolsover and others, mainly by staff of the British Embassy in Moscow, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1954-1982; papers on the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), including notes on Robert William Seton-Watson, letter on the composition of SSEES Council and drafts of articles by Bolsover on SSEES, 1947-1969; notes on Russian history and the Soviet Union taken from original documents and secondary sources, 1933-1985.

Draft chapters 2 and 3 for a SSEES Ph.D thesis by Anne Branfoot entitled A critical survey of the Russian Narodnik movement 1861-1881, 1926

D.Phil thesis submitted by D E Budgen to the University of Oxford entitled The world of F A Emin (1735-1770): literary and intellectual transition in eighteenth-century Russia

Photographs from an exhibition The 100th anniversary of the Bulgarian Theater, with list of captions

Reports of visits to Nagorno-Karabakh, 1991-1993, made by Christian Solidarity International sponsored groups in order to deliver aid supplies and fact find on the situation; also some related newscuttings and transcripts of articles. At the time of the visits Nagorno-Karabakh territory was being fought over by Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Notes by Stephen Clissold on Petar Hektoroviæ; Archbishop de Dominis; Dalmatian portraits and Dalmatian history, 1958

Photographs, mostly of an official nature, depicting the Czechoslovakian war effort (troops, airmen and politicians), pre war buildings, handicrafts and folk costumes; 2 (1944) letters from Hana and Jirina Benesova

Correspondence and papers of N Dimovic relating to the Croat Federalist Movement and the Union of European Federalists, 1951-1954.

Draft of SSEES MA thesis by J G F Druce entitled "The role of Czech men of science in the national revival movement", 1942.

Copy of letter from Vernon Duckworth-Baker to Professor G F Cushing about his involvement in the 1930s with plans to introduce Hungarian studies to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), 1984.

Album of 18 photographs from an exhibition organised by the Journal Fotograficheskaia Novosti, held at St Petersburg, Russia, between 12 April and 4 May 1912 under the patronage of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Letters by Hilda Fowlds while travelling in Eastern Europe, 1924-1927, mainly from Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia; papers and photographs relating to her death in the Biastorbagy railway disaster and letters from a visit to Hungary by her elder sister and brother in law Alice and Frank Dixon, in 1932.

Translation by Mary Hobson of Gore ot uma [Too clever for comfort or The misfortunes of a thinking man] by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov(1795-1829). Mary Hobson's translation won a bi-centenary prize for the best translation of the play awarded by the Griboyedov Prize Trust in 1996.

Photographs of Russian silver, porcelain, glass, ikons, paintings and other objets d'art; also offprint of Russian silver by R G Hare (in Ramsay, L G G "The Connoisseur Complete Encyclopedia of antiques" (New York, 1962, pp 60-65).

Literary material relating to Vaclal Havel, including rough copies of letters from Karel Hubka to Havel, letter from Havel to Hubka, carbon copy of Havel's notes on his play "Largo Desolato" and copy of Hubka's literal translation of "Largo desolato" from which Tom Stoppard made his adaption, 1985

Illustrations, purchased from Barachevsky Russian Book Shop, mostly re Russia and mostly in colour from various antiquarian books including the following topics - art, objets d'art, costume, the imperial family, the military, orders and medals, religion and views of the country.

The collection includes correspondence; notes and draft chapters of Jones' translation of Eötvös' work 'The dominant ideas of the nineteenth century and their impact on the state'; photographs; educational and other certificates. The correspondence chiefly relates to Jones' work, including letters of congratulation.

Correspondence and bills of Norman Brooke Jopson, from Werner Söderström Oy, Helsinki and Tallinna Eesti Kirjandud-Ühisus, Tallinn, about the purchase of Finnish and Estonian books respectively, 1935.

Typescript by Martti Julkunen entitled "Tukikohta itään vai puolueeton pohjoismma? Kansallissosialistnen Saksa ja Suomi 1933-1939" [A base against the East or a neutral Scandinavian country? National Socialist Germany and Finland 1933-1939] (Turku, 1984).

Typescript entitled "Offizielle sowjetische Ethik im europäischen Kulturgefüge [Official Soviet ethics in European cultural structure]. This is probably a PhD thesis presented by Dr Carl Lettau to Kiel University., 1988

Copies of documents relating to Romanian foreign policy, c 1932-1936 made in the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These papers were used by Dov Lungu in preparing his Ph.D thesis, presented to Queen Mary College, London in 1976 entitled "The problem of Soviet-Romanian relations in Romanian foreign policy under Nicolae Titulescu, 1932-1936".

Manuscript draft of parts of George, Earl Macartney's work "An account of Russia MDCCLXVII" [1767] The order of the sections differs considerably from the published version which also includes chapters on history and arts and sciences as well as tables of exports and imports. There are various textual differences, usually minor.

Articles by Prince Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky, entitled "Jane Ellen Harrison (died 15 April 1928)" and "Tolstoy Centenary Edition", 1929

Typescripts entitled "The Yugoslav History" and "A history of Yugoslav Letters", written by Paul Mitrovich at Sarajevo, 1965, and a letter from Mitrovich's daughter Milica Kirk Mitrovic to Hugh Seton Watson, which she sent him with the typescripts.

Papers of Gjenco Demetre Naçi, comprising:
Drafts of "From the Illyrians to the Shqiptars: an historical insight" in the form of both complete drafts and individual chapters; other articles by Naçi on Albania; other papers used in writing of "From the Illyrians..."; correspondence re proposed publication of "From the Illyrians...", 1945-1990; papers on other works by Naçi, including drafts of a work on King Zog's experiences during the Second World War up to 1944; Naçi's autobiography of his early life; draft for works on Albania's problems; articles on Albanian politics and affairs and Albania's international relations; Albanian émigré newspapers and other newscuttings and papers used in writing the works, 1932-1986; correspondence, 1940-1983, including correspondence received and copies of correspondence sent by Naçi as private secretary to King Zog and personal correspondence concerning his work and family; photographs of the Albanian royal family, the Naçi family and friends, 1922-1990; Naçi family memorabilia and certificates, 1923-1990; presscuttings, the majority of which are in date order and are from British newspapers, the subject matter is almost entirely Albania and international relations relating to Albania; Albanian émigré newspapers, 1942-1988 (mainly 1942-1947)