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Manuscript notebook containing a vocabulary list of a number of African languages, chiefly Hausa, written by John Clarke in Fernando Po, 1841.

Manuscript copy of a dictionary of the Fernandian tongue in two volumes, 12 May 1854, collected by John Clarke from the people of the island of Fernando Po and the adjacent continent, 1 Jan 1841 to 11 May 1847.

This is a collection of forty one letters from Lady Mary Clarke and one letter from her daughter Anne to their legal adviser Samuel Joynes, and four draft letters from Joynes to Lady Clarke.

Copy of manuscript memoir relating to Clarke's life and career, 1909-1957, especially to his service as a signals officer in the Middle East, Sicily and Italy, 1942-1945.

Three letters by Alfred Milnes, Clerk of the Senate of the University of London, to the Reverend Dawson Clarke.

Papers of Reverend Thomas Brooke Clarke. They refer to Dr Clarke's appointment, to the renting of a house in Greenwich, the building of an asylum house, to glebe land of Pinner and produce of Harrow. There are also a series of letters from his son at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1812 to 1814, and some from George Fitzernest while at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Papers of Sir Fred Clarke, including published and unpublished papers, including articles, addresses, lectures and speeches, 1920s-1951, including some papers written for the discussion group, The Moot; papers relating to his work in South Africa, 1914-1931, and Canada, 1929-1935; family correspondence, 1914-1931 and 1949; correspondence with others, 1920s-1950s, including Sir John Adams, Sir Percy Nunn, Lord Eustace Percy, John Dove; papers relating to broadcasting work, 1931-1944; numbered subject files, on topics including Karl Mannheim, the English educational system, adult education, the Conference on Church, Community and State (i) 1935 and 1936, curriculum, comparative education, vocational education, the Education Act 1944 and teacher training; proofs of books and articles, including 'Education and social change' and 'Essays in the politics of education'; scrapbooks about Clarke's career compiled by his wife, Edith; papers created following his death, including letters of condolence, biographical information, publishers and work on his archive papers. Also contains photographs, of Clarke, some of his students and colleagues, and family members.

Letter from Thomas Clarkson of Playford [Hall, Suffolk] to Dykes Alexander, c 1830-1840. 'I am going to do a thing, which through delicacy I have never yet been able to do, though I have been at Playford for twenty three years; - that is, to ask you and your cousin Samuel [Alexander] to give a trifle, however small, to the inclosed case...'.

Autograph, with signature. Dated 'Friday afternoon'. With a list of charitable subscribers, including William Allen '... and your son Richard has fiven me a sovereign unasked ...'.

Letter from Thomas Clarkson of Woodbridge, [Suffolk] to Peter Clare of Manchester, 21 Apr 1826. Thanking him for details of a successful petition: 'Yours indeed is a great triumph, when you consider the opposition, if I may so call it, of the Boroughreeve ... It was much the case at Glasgow, where the hireling [James] Macqueen, the Editor of a Glasgow paper [?Glasgow Herald], and pensioned by two of the West Indian legislatures, and a host of W. India planters owners of West Indiamen and coopers, mechanics working for that employ resided ... There is ... something so good in our cause [the abolition of slavery], that it must always make its way among a moral people.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Clarkson of Bury [St Edmunds, Suffolk] to Rev M Maurice, [1807-1816]. Urging him to restore the committee at Southampton to promote a petition to Parliament in favour of a plan for the improvement of the condition of the slave population.

Letter from Thomas Clarkson of Playford Hall [near Ipswich, Suffolk] to Henry Hope, 'at the Bank', Wells, Somerset, 9 Jan 1826. Printed circular letter, asking for support for the petition to Parliament to urge them to carry out a plan for the improvement of the condition of the slave population. An addition in MS asks Hope to promote petitions in Wells, Shepton Mallet, Bruton and neighbouring towns. A note in another hand has been added to the dorse of the second leaf. A newspaper cutting Extracts from the new Jamaica Slave Code accompanies the letter.

Photocopy of personal diary of 1972 coal mineworkers strike by Peter Clarney, member of National Union of Miners (NUM) Yorkshire Area.

Private ledgers, accounts, share records, correspondence, price lists, staff and premises photographs, superannuation fund material, property ledgers. Includes subsidiaries: Clarnico Trust, Clarke, Nickolls and Coomb Properties Limited, Jonathan Edmundson and Company Limited, J and A Buchanan Limited, Charbonnel and Walker Limited, C N Toys, Salter and Company, Altbarn Property Limited, Benfleet, Edmondson's (Canada) Limited and Table Mountain Trust.

Scientific and other papers sent to the Royal Society, presented at meetings of Fellows, or commissioned by the Society. They form a complementary series to the Early Letters, both of which were superseded by the Letters and Papers. Many of these items, referred to as the 'Guard Books', are duplicated in the Register Book of the Society. The classification is a simplified form of the 'Philosophical Transactions' abridgment by John Lowthorp. This arrangement was completed in 1741 by Thomas Birch. The majority of the papers in these volumes are manuscript, but a few printed documents occur throughout the series. Some of the papers are earlier in date than the grant on 15 July 1662 of the First Charter to the Society. The Committee of Trades seems to have been associated with the earlier meetings of those philosophers who subsequently became Fellows, and produced a number of practical papers, some of which were written in 1639 and which are mostly found in Volume 3(i). There are still earlier documents, mostly in Volume 25, which may have been included in the gift, in 1667, of the Arundel Library.

Records of Claude-General Neon Lights, neon light manufacturers, 1921-1985. This collection contains corporate and accounts records including minutes of Directors' meetings, register of Directors and Members, articles of association, annual returns and end of year accounts.

Letter from E Clavering of Newcastle upon Tyne to Mrs Dorothy Fenwick, [Nether] Burows, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, 23 Feb 1752. Containing news about friends and relations.

Autograph, with signature.

Correspondence of Charles Clay including letters to Clay from various correspondents, 1842-1890 and autograph album compiled from letters to Clay, containing signatures, fragments, and a few whole letters. The album consists of a volume of printed legal papers for the Glasgow Autumn Circuit 1846, the autographs being pasted over the printed matter.

Personal property records of Sir William Clay, including conveyance to Thames Valley Railway Company of land in Teddington, 1865; conveyances to South Western Railway, 1868 and 1929; conveyance by Merritts Contractors Ltd to Metropolitan Housing Corporation Ltd, 1929; and deeds of covenant for houses in Wellington Gardens, Teddington, 1951.

Records of Clayhall Synagogue including minutes, agendas and meeting papers.

The papers of Abbott, Clayton and Morris consist of the business and family records of two generations and form one of the earliest and largest extant collections of Stuart-era financial records. There are also related records of Sir George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1648-1689), a close personal friend of Robert Clayton. (Clayton was appointed by Jeffreys as a trustee of his family settlement drawn up in 1689.) Jeffreys was Common Serjeant (1671-1678) and Recorder of London (1678-1680).

Records of Clayton, Byng and Paget, stockbrokers, including client ledgers, bank ledgers, and trustee ledger.

They are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access. Some records are subject to a 75 year closure period.

Photographs of King's College Hospital and family events, [1908-1947], notably images of nursing and other staff, Physio-Therapeutic Department, wards, patients with electrical treatment machines, informal Christmas and other celebrations, stage productions, men in uniform in the Hospital during World War One, [1912-1920s], retirement card listing staff in the department, 1947; family holidays including fishing, sailing, walking, [1908-1914].

Papers of J M Clayton, 1910-1911, comprise a diary (not complete) of journey to Addis Ababa, 1910-1911; report and route report on the Anuak country; notes on routes from Addis to Dire Dawa; sketch maps of the Aronsie country and Lake Hora Abiata.

Papers, 1838-1956, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Chiswick and Willesden, including mortgages, leases, articles of agreement and correspondence. Also papers of the Gedge family comprising marriage settlement and appointment of trustee; and papers of Logsdail family including copy marriage certificate, copy will, mortgage, notices to trustees and settlement of assignment.

This constitutes a selection of the correspondence and papers of Clayton, Morris and Co. The majority of the correspondence and documents in this collection are addressed to Sir Robert Clayton, John Morris, and Peter Clayton (nephew of Sir Robert), and date from the second half of the 17th century. In addition, there is some material from the first half of the 17th century addressed to Robert Abbott, and some from the 18th century addressed to Sir William Clayton (nephew of Sir Robert) and Sir Kenrick Clayton (son of Sir William). There are also a few letters of 19th century date addressed to Sir William. The entire correspondence of Clayton, Morris and Co. is grouped alphabetically by the name of the correspondent, and those sections acquired as part of this collection cover the letters B, parts of C, D, F, G, H, M, N, O, P, parts of S, T, W, Y, and Z. The collection also includes receipts, bills, bonds, promissory notes, wills, affidavits, and indentures.

Personal papers of Reverend Philip Clayton including family correspondence; personal certificates and letters of appointment; research notes; diaries; papers relating to the parish of All Hallows Barking by the Tower including sermons, newsletters, correspondence, articles, press cuttings and administration; papers relating to Toc H including articles, reminiscences, correspondence, annual reports, press cuttings, talks, papers relating to overseas visits by Clayton, papers relating to charity work, sermons, leaflets, biographical notes on people associated with Toc H, photographs, and publications by Clayton on Toc H; articles, sermons and prayers by Clayton; and photographs of Clayton and various family members.

A collection, from 1659-1697, of twelve documents relating to Sir Robert Clayton and Alderman Morris concerning loans, good health, relatives and sales.

Personal papers of Sir Stanley George Clayton, 1938-1986, including copies of speeches made as President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, personal copies of President's Letters, Clinical and surgical research notes, 1938-1945, case notes, 1962-1979; correspondence and other papers concerning the House of Commons Select Committee on Abortion, 1974-1976; correspondence concerning the Margaret Pyke Centre, London, 1978-1984.

Typescript text of doctoral thesis entitled 'The birth of Strategic Arms Control during the Johnson Administration, 1964-1969', King's College London, 1996, with copies of US Government documents, 1964-1972, used by Clearwater in his research. Also, typescript transcripts of interviews with US politicians and foreign policy advisers, including Walt Rostow, Butch Fisher, Paul Warnke, (David) Dean Rusk, Clark McAdams Clifford, Alain Enthoven, Bus Wheeler, John McConnell, John Davis, Robert Strange McNamara and Paul H Nitze. Newspaper cuttings and articles, 1982-1983, relating to the Falklands War, 1982, from US, Argentinian and Canadian sources. Canadian and US newspaper cuttings, articles and copies of official documents relating to the USSR, 1943-1990.

The papers of T L Cleave, a pioneer in the field of nutrition, are predominantly correspondence files, generated by the series of publications in which he outlined his views on the medical dangers of a diet containing refined carbohydrate. The collection reflects the organic growth of an hypothesis, together with supportive evidence gathered from across the world, culminating in The Saccharine Disease, first published jointly with G D Campbell (1966). The majority of the papers are from 1952-1975.

Records of George Clement relating to property in Teddington.

Certificates of Minnie Clement including King's College Hospital certificates of nursing training, 1929-1932, and Invalid Cookery, 28 May 1929; and King's College Hospital badge, 1932.
Also includes letter from depositor, 1992.

Memoirs of service of Lt Col Charles Clements, 1941-1948; including typescript copy of his account of service as Commander, B Sqn, 4 Queens Hussars, 3 Royal Tank Regt, Greece, 1941, describing retreat from the Monastir Gap, Greece-Albania border, to Kalamata, Greece, and his subsequent capture by German forces; typescript copy of his account of service as Commandant of Bridgend POW camp for German senior commanders, 1947-1948, describing his relationship with FM Gerd Von Runstedt and the repatriation of prisoners of war. Also two photographs of Clements as a young officer.

Letters, 1930-1933, of Marjorie Clements from northern China, largely to Mrs J May, including observations on her missionary work and on Chinese life.

Papers of Michael Clements, consisting of logs, 1748 to 1771, letter and order books, 1757 to 1771, sailing and fighting instructions, 1747 to 1778, and notes and personal papers, 1759 to 1780. There are also some of Clements's charts in the Department of Navigation and Astronomy.

Papers, 1877-1880 and undated, relating to Cleopatra's Needle, comprising two photographs of the ship Cleopatra at Alexandria {1877}; drawing of the Cleopatra by John Dixon, undated; manuscript copy of memoranda made on board the SS Olga towing Cleopatra, 1877; letters concerning the abandonment of the Cleopatra, 1877; cuttings from The Times concerning the salvage of the Cleopatra {1878} and the erection of Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment, 1878; two copies of an account of expenditure incurred in transporting and re-erecting the Needle, 1880; Cleopatra's Needle visitors' book, 1878; drawing, undated, of hieroglyphs, and tracing, 1877, of Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Needle; two copper plates apparently formerly attached to the monument relating the story of the transhipment etc, 1878; offprint of a paper on Cleopatra's Needle delivered to the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1880.

A notebook of the Clerk of the House of Lords.

Records of Clerkenwell Magistrates' Court, 1893-1987, including court registers; registers of adoption applications; probation order applications; means enquiries; court minutes recording charges and summons; court note books; probation orders; domestic proceedings including matrimonial cases and bastardy orders; registers of endorsements of driving licences; cash books; gaoler's index of defendants and clerk's papers.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the passage of Bills in Parliament. Plans deposited with Parliament, 1890-1965, showing bridges, street improvements, parks and open spaces, tramways, road widening, fire stations, offices, courts, mortuaries, markets, subways and tunnels, embankments, aqueducts, water works and reservoirs, housing, railways, schools, electricity supply, public baths, hospitals, post offices, memorials, Festival of Britain sites, burial grounds and pipelines.

Also plans of polling districts superimposed onto the 1894-1896 edition London and Middlesex Ordnance Survey maps; and London Tramways extensions, 1883, superimposed onto maps of London and Kent.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to Committees concerned with building regulation and town planning, 1903-1965. Committee Clerk's general papers on a variety of subjects including reports on the position of town planning in Greater London; Town Planning Schemes Numbers 1- 19; the County of London Plan, 1943; proposed building bye-laws; conferences with Metropolitan Borough Councils regarding street naming; subsidence at Plumstead, Woolwich; appeals against decisions of District Surveyors; London Building Acts; dangerous structures; District Surveyors Examination Board; means of escape in case of fire; regulation of signs, hoardings and sky signs; Advisory Committee on the Control of Construction of Buildings in London and map showing District Surveyors' districts.

Papers relating to the Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951, including instrument of approval of the Minister of Housing and Local Government, sealed amendments to the Plan and Town Maps, surveys, written statements, analysis and modifications submitted under the Plan. Papers relating to the First review of the Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1961, including proposals for alterations to Town Maps, special building surveys and bulk density surveys and written statements. Also orders for the naming, renaming or renumbering of streets.

Papers of the London County Council Clerk's Department Ceremonial Officer including bound volumes containing the principal documents for each ceremonial occasion, 1889-1935; correspondence relating to ceremonial events, 1897-1935; bound volumes containing principal documents and correspondence for each ceremonial occasion, 1935-1962; bound volumes of pamphlets relating to ceremonies, 1893-1952, including opening ceremonies, dedications and unveilings for parks, gardens, memorials, libraries, Blackwall Tunnel, Tower Bridge, Greenwich Tunnel, schools, housing estates and the tramway system, and also for visits from dignitaries, displays, award ceremonies and exhibitions; order of proceedings leaflets, 1890-1956; examples of admission tickets to opening and other ceremonies, 1886-1960.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Chairman of the County Council, 1890-1965, including papers relating to Council administration including seating in the Council Chamber, orders of proceeding, printing and dispatch of reports, notices of motions, amendments, summaries of proceedings, agendas, annual meetings of the County Council, constitution, Middlesex Regiment presentations and regimental colours, and ceremonies. Papers relating to County Council elections including election leaflets, and papers relating to the triennial elections, 1949-1961. Papers relating to County Councillors including declarations of acceptance of office, resignations, elections of Aldermen, deaths of members and past members, and annual returns of attendances.

General files relating to Middlesex County balls, County dinners and receptions, Chairman's social functions, twinning of Middlesex with places in France and Germany, biographies and newspaper cuttings relating to Chairmen, copies of invitations, Christmas cards, dinner menus and so on, and photographs of the last meeting of the Council.

Also statements on some principal operations of the County Council, made by the Chairman.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Chairman of the Council Secretariat including papers regarding the King George VI Foundation, 1953-1960; the King George VI National Memorial Fund, 1952-1960; the Lord Mayor's National Air Raid Distress Fund, 1947-1954; the Lord Mayor's National Flood and Tempest Distress Fund, 1953; the Lord Mayor's National Thanksgiving Fund, 1950-1956; the Hammersmith Flyover opening ceremony, 1961; the Hyde Park Corner Improvements opening ceremony, 1962; the opening ceremony of the new Narrow Street Bridge, Stepney, 1962; Coronation arrangements Organising Committee, 1953; Coronation arrangements Ceremonial functions, 1953 and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio and television programmes, 1948-1962.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Children's Department and Children's Committees, 1948-1965, including papers, reports and correspondence of Adoption sub-committee meetings; cases reported to the Children's Committee; papers relating to the registration of adoption societies, particularly the Homeless Children's Aid and Adoption Society; papers relating to approved schools, including circulars, returns and the Association of Approved Schools Managers; special enquiries concerning children in care; papers regarding juvenile delinquency and juvenile courts; papers of the Homes Management sub-committee, including members reports on children's homes, schedules of properties in the course of construction or adaptation, and plans of homes and nurseries; papers relating to staff including complaints against staff of children's homes; and papers relating to the reorganisation of the children's home service on the disbandment of the MCC.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Children's Committee, comprising general papers relating to Juvenile Delinquency, 1947-1964 and papers regarding the effect of the London Government Bill and Act, 1963 on the Children's Service, 1960-1965.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to civil defence, including papers relating to: air raid precautions and civil defence, 1935-1947; financial arrangements for air raid precautions and civil defence, 1936-1948; the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, 1936-1947; use of school ambulances by the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, 1939-1943; emergency fire brigade arrangements, 1934-1945, including accommodation, staffing, water supplies, maps, appliances, the River Service, salvage arrangements, disciplinary code, collective representation and war gratuities; the unification of the London Fire Brigade and London Auxiliary Fire Service, 1940-1946; National Fire Service, 1941-1947, including detailed liaison arrangements with the LCC; emergency hospital service, 1935-1946, including the Civil Nursing Reserve; the Evacuation Scheme, 1938-1947; the Rescue Service, 1938-1947, including accommodation and depots, equipment, staffing, disciplinary code, reorganisation and co-ordination with repair squads; the Rest Centre Service, 1939-1947; War Debris Survey and Disposal Service, 1942-1948; proposed merger of Rescue and Debris Services, 1942-1944; fire prevention and fire watching, 1940-1945, including stirrup pumps, Clearance of Lofts Order and Fire prevention (Business Premises) Order; repair of highways, 1939-1947; organisation of civil defence 1936-1945, including allocation of responsibilities between London County Council and Metropolitan Borough Councils, Regional Co-ordinating Committee, Joint Committee of Officers of LCC and Metropolitan Borough Councils, Civil Defence Act, 1939 and regional and group organisation; decontamination and cleansing, 1938-1945; the main drainage system and gas mains, 1936-1946; bridges, tunnels and ferries, 1936-1947; structural protection and air raid shelters at housing estates, schools, hospitals, County Hall and other LCC premises, 1938-1946; air raid shelters, 1937-1949; requisitioning of property, 1938-1946; transport arrangements, 1938-1948; personal protective equipment and protective clothing, 1938-1945, including respirators, ear plugs, steel helmets and uniforms; equipment, 1938-1947, including hand-lamps, anti-gas equipment and disposal of surplus equipment; training, 1936-1947, including Civilian Anti-gas School, instructors' equipment and fire fighting courses; Civil Defence personnel, 1939-1947, including rates of pay and conditions of service, employment of conscientious objectors, employment of aliens, statistics of personnel killed or injured in duty, training for post-war work, demobilisation and award of Defence Medal and war gratuities; Women's Voluntary Services, 1938-1949; artists' record of civil defence activities in London, 1940-1942; Civil Defence recruitment publicity campaigns, 1938-1941; wartime arrangements for LCC staff and services, 1937-1947; removal of iron railings for scrap, 1941-1947; honours and awards, 1940-1945; air raid warning arrangements, 1938-1945; blackout arrangements and lighting restrictions, 1938-1945; unexploded bombs, mines and rockets, 1939-1946; Emergency Communications Corps and Dispatch Rider Service, 1938-1946; Invasion Defence Scheme, 1942-1944; scheme for evacuation of non-essential civilian population from coastal areas, 1941-1943; recommendations for awards for gallantry, 1940-1945.

Daily Situation Reports for the London Civil Defence Region, 1940-1945; London Civil Defence Region Intelligence Reports, 1941-1942; reports on air raid fires, 1940-1941; papers relating to war damage, 1939-1947, including damage to LCC properties.

Home Security Circulars, 1940-1944; Ministry of Health Circulars, 1939-1948; London Civil Defence Region London Region Circulars, 1939-1945; London Civil Defence Region Operations Circulars, 1939-1945; London Civil Defence Region Operations Memoranda, 1940-1945; London Civil Defence Region Regional Training Notes, 1942-1945; Air Raid Precautions Service (ARP) Memoranda, Handbooks, and Training Manuals, 1936-1944; Public Information Leaflets relating to air raid precautions, 1939-1941; information leaflets and posters relating to gas attacks, catering during wartime, demolition and clearance, road repairs, rescue training, 1937-1943.

County Hall Fire Picket Log books, 1940-1945; County Hall Fire Picket Log book, Incident book and record of tests of alarm circuits, 1940-1944; "A Short Account of the Services of the London County Council during the War of 1939-45", prepared by the Clerk of the Council in connection with the Pictorial Record of the Council's work during the War, 194- and Emergency Pay and Identity Book issued to LCC staff, 194-.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerks Department regarding the running of the Civil Defence Department, 1939-1965, including Second World War invasion defence plans; Civil Defence Committee papers and general files on a variety of subjects including including policy documents, civil defence premises and buildings, conferences, Home Office training pamphlets and memoranda, circulars, recruitment, budgets, finances, ambulance service, training and equipment, vehicles, tactical studies, instructors, publicity, rescue training grounds, awards, control centres and copies of Middlesex County Council Civil Defence circulars. Also hired premises register listing property, rent and compensation.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department, 1854-1965, including general files on a variety of subjects including ancient monuments, solicitors, pictures at the Guildhall, highways, Poor Law institutions, transport, schools and education, vagrancy, staffing, the First World War, national service, air raid precautions, civil defence, the Second World War, refugees, rationing, the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, prevention and relief of war distress, King George V Jubilee trust fund, parades and ceremonial events.

Personal papers of Sir Clifford Radcliffe, Clerk from 1935 to 1954 and author of the official history of the County Council, including personal correspondence, budget estimates, press cuttings, departmental organisation chart, papers relating to personnel problems, preparations in case of invasion during the Second World War and record of bombs dropped on Middlesex during the Second World War.

Personal papers of Joan Heddle, personal assistant to the Clerk from 1910 to 1965, including general correspondence, copies of relevant Parliamentary legislation, papers relating to legal cases involving the MCC, publicity and press cuttings, ceremonies including Royal events, twinning and visits abroad, papers relating to the preparation of publications about the County, papers relating to staff and personnel matters, papers relating to offices and other properties owned by the MCC, papers relating to departmental organisation, papers relating to Council services including town planning, hospitals, roads, sewers, flood prevention and rivers, papers relating to the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, papers relating to Justices, papers relating to the County Record Office and papers relating to the Royal Commission on London Government.

Reports and correspondence relating to MCC services and functions including rates, hospitals, public health, judiciary and courts, elections, finances, legislation, maintenance of Council owned buildings, education and schools, roads and highways, open spaces and parks, sewerage and drainage, and transport.

Financial accounts; papers relating to staff; maps of Middlesex showing various information including water companies, unions, parishes, population density, distribution of education, fire, ambulance, health and welfare services, roads, local government boundary changes, drainage and sewers, parks and open spaces; official sealed orders for boundary changes and other purposes; joint orders and other orders.

Publications produced by the Clerk's Department, including Middlesex: the Jubilee of the County Council 1889-1939 by Sir Clifford Radcliffe; The Administrative Work of the County Council and its committee (1949); and Your career in the local government service with the Middlesex County Council (1955).

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to committees concerned with housing. Committee Clerk's papers relating to various subjects including: housing after the war, 1917-1919; housing policy, 1919-1947; slum clearance, 1928-1939; housing development programme; repair of war-damaged houses, 1941-1946; legal decisions relating to housing, 1929-1946; letters and circulars from Ministry of Health and other Government Departments, 1919-1925; housing conferences and congresses, 1936-1946; garden cities and satellite towns, 1925-1939; overcrowding survey and other papers relating to overcrowding, 1926-1936; working class housing in London outside LCC area, 1929-1933; proposed sites for new out of county cottage estates, 1930-1947; advance preparation of sites for post-war housing, 1942-1947; planning of dwellings, 1924-1945; steel houses, 1924-1926; timber houses, 1928-1931; housing of special categories of tenants such as the aged, the disabled and single women, 1934-1944; provision of services including gas and electricity, 1920-1942; community centres on housing estates, 1934-1945; housing estate management and maintenance, 1921-1940; housing by private enterprise, 1930-1938; employment of private architects, 1935-1946; Housing Associations, 1934-1950; open spaces on housing estates, 1936-1957.

Printed papers on a variety of topics including: housing, 1889-1913; housing schemes, 1889-1893; returns of new housing accommodation for the working classes, 1902-1919; municipal lodging houses, 1890-1903; hostels for single men and women in employment, 1958-1965; problem families and homeless families, 1960-1964; Bermondsey Comprehensive Development Area, 1947-1960; Covent Garden Market Area, 1963-1964; Elephant and Castle Comprehensive Development Area, 1956-1967; Stepney-Poplar Comprehensive Development Area, 1960-1965; Lee Valley, 1963-1964; new type dwellings, 1951-1965; erection of high buildings, 1933-1958; works of art for housing estates, 1957-1959; coal supply in London, 1939 and 1942.

Committee Clerk's Papers on individual estates (these files were preserved as examples when those relating to other estates were destroyed). Estates include:
Becontree Estate, Essex
Bellingham Estate, Lewisham
Boreham Wood Estate, Hertfordshire
Chingford Estate, Essex
Clarendon Street Area, Paddington
Debden Estate, Essex
Downham Estate, Lewisham and Bromley
Eversholt Street Estate, Saint Pancras
Hainault Estate, Essex
Hanwell Estate, Ealing
Harold Hill Estate, Essex
Headstone Lane Estate, Harrow
Langley Estate, Slough, Buckinghamshire
Lansbury Estate, Poplar and Stepney
Larkhall Estate, Clapham, Wandsworth
Linden Grove Estate, Camberwell
Merstham Estate, Surrey
Oxhey Estate, Hertfordshire
Roehampton Estate, Wandsworth
Saint Helier Estate, Surrey
Saint Paul's Cray Estate, Kent
Saint Vincent's Estate, Poplar and Stepney
Sheerwater Estate, Woking, Surrey
Tulse Hill Estate, Lambeth
Watling Estate, Edgware
White City Estate, Hammersmith
White Hart Lane Estate, Tottenham
Woodberry Down Estate, Stoke Newington
Edenbridge Estate, Kent
Pepys Estate, Deptford
Thamesmead, Woolwich and Erith
Alton Estate, Wandsworth
Aveley Estate, Essex
Farnborough, Hampshire and Roundshaw Estate (Croydon Airport Site), Surrey.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to Committees concerned with main drainage, rivers and flood prevention. Committee Clerk's general papers on a variety of topics including: atmospheric pollution and fogs in London, 1902-1906; smoke nuisance legislation, 1904-1932; sewage treatment and disposal, 1903-1946; drainage and sewerage of the Lee Valley, 1901-1938; out-of-County drainage through Beckenham, Bexley, Croydon, East Ham and West Ham, 1919-1943; Eltham Relief Sewer, 1937-1939; King's Scholars' Pond Sewer, 1912-1934; ventilation of sewers, 1907-1935; land drainage, 1928-1964; main drainage, 1889-1913.

Royal Commission on Land Drainage, Drainage of the Thames Valley and Thames Floods Prevention, 1932-1934; Thames flood prevention, 1928-1965; storm water flooding, 1919-1946; buildings on low-lying land, 1931-1965; Thames Conservancy Board report on Flooding of Urban and Agricultural Districts in the Thames Valley, 1947; legal position of LCC relating to flood prevention, 1928-1961; proposed Thames Flood Barrage and Barrier, 1936-1966; embankments, 1950-1964; flood prevention works, 1937-1965; flooding in Kensington and West London, 1960-1965; rivers including the Beverley and Pyl Brooks, 1931-1955, the Graveney, 1925-1962, the River Lea (or Lee), 1928-1963, the Ravensbourne, 1943-1964, the Wandle, 1928-1965; the condition of the River Thames, including correspondence with Port of London Authority, 1929-1946; Thames and Lee Conservancies, 1893-1900; Lee Conservancy, 1893-1900.

Bridges including the Albert Bridge, 1951-1965, Battersea Bridge, 1950-1964, Chelsea Bridge, 1951-1962; Hammersmith Bridge, 1950-1965; Lambeth Bridge, 1951-1964, Putney Bridge, 1950-1960, Vauxhall Bridge, 1951-1965, Wandsworth Bridge, 1954-1963, Waterloo Bridge, 1950-1965, Westminster Bridge, 1952-1965; effect on bridges of abandonment of tramways, 1950-1955; tunnels, 1950-1965; Woolwich Free Ferry, 1933-1965; bye laws relating to ferries and tunnels, 1950-1965; Thames Steamboat Service, 1894-1932; Greenwich Pier, 1950-1952.

Port of London, 1872-1908; printed reports and minutes of evidence, Royal Commission on Port of London, 1900-1902; Port of London Bill sessional papers, 1903-1904; maps of Port of London and of River Thames from London Bridge to Warden Point, 1900-1907; Port of London Authority river pollution jurisdiction, 1962-1964.

Greater London Council Joint Committee: Working Party "E" (Drainage, sewerage, flood prevention, etc services transferable to the GLC), 1964-1965.