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The archives consist almost entirely of business and partnership correspondence of A.G. Wentworth Gray between 1856 and 1906. They therefore include some private and family material. The firm dealt in a wide variety of goods and cargoes. The records contain references to, inter alia: beef, pork, cocoa, flour, sugar, limes, molasses, rice and timber.

Access to Mss 21409, 21411, 21412 and 21413 is subject to special conditions: for further information please ask a member of staff.

Records of Booth White, insolvency accountants, including annual accounts; and a history of the company and research notes by P. Granville White.

Access is restricted to records less than 30 years old where specified and 24 hours notice is required for access to all the records.

Records of Francis Nicholls White and Company, insolvency accountants, including financial accounts, letters, deeds, list of clients and staff address book.

Access is restricted to records less than 30 years old where specified and 24 hours notice is required for access to all the records.

Papers of Parkin S Booth and Company, insolvency accountants, comprising accounts ledger and papers relating to the insolvencies of specific companies.

Access is restricted to records less than 30 years old where specified and 24 hours notice is required for access to all the records.

Records of the British Bankers' Association including minutes, accounts, papers relating to public relations, papers relating to bank employees, and papers relating to matters concerning banks such as taxation, legislation, inter-bank cooperation, foreign currency, investments, security and fraud, nationalisation, liquidity, bankruptcy and the European Economic Community (EEC).

Also includes printed extracts of proceedings of Association of the Bankers of London and Westminster (1792).

The British Bankers' Association archive also includes records of a number of other organisations including the London Clearing House, later known as the Bankers' Clearing House Limited, and the Committee of London Clearing Bankers which oversaw it.

Papers of the London Joint Stock Banks Committee comprising signed minute books.

Restricted access to later records.

Records of Brown, Shipley and Company Limited, merchant bankers. These archives relate to the Founders' Court and Pall Mall offices. They comprise some articles of partnership, minutes, correspondence, customer account records, financial material and some office plans.

Papers of Butterworth and Company (Publishers) Limited, including papers of predecessors, subsidiaries and associated companies as follows:

• Butterworth and Co. (Canada);
• Butterworth and Co. (Australia);
• Butterworth and Co. (New Zealand);
• Butterworth and Co. (India);
• Butterworth and Co. (Overseas);
• Butterworth and Co. (South Africa)(Pty);
• Butterworths Scientific Publications;
• Butterworths Technical Books;
• Charles Bond Ltd;
• Chemindex Ltd;
• Clowes (Wm) and Sons;
• Coke Press;
• R J Acford Ltd;
• Research and Development Ltd;
• Shaw and Sons;
• Butterworth, Inc;

• Justice of the Peace, Ltd.

  All records are on 24 hour call. Access to records post 1965 should be sought from the depositor (contact details available from staff).

Records of Butterworth and Company (Canada) including licence to trade; financial accounts; auditor's reports; sales analysis; correspondence; and recollections of the general manager of the Canadian office, 1911-1957.

Accounts ledgers of Butterworth and Company (New Zealand).

Financial accounts for Butterworth's Technical Books, a subsidiary of Butterworth and Company (Publishers) Limited.

Records of Charles Bond Limited, law publishers, including publishing ledger, agreements with editors of the Justice of the Peace journal; and stock lists.

Braco de Prata Printing Company Limited records include constitutional documents, Board minutes and an inventory of property in Portugal. The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Budla Beta Tea Company comprising Board of Directors minutes; annual general meeting minutes, London trustees provident fund minutes and a ledger. The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of Cazenove and Company, investment bankers. The records are especially strong for financial records (including partners' and staff ledgers), and the company's late 20th century history, particularly the period around "Big Bang" in the 1980s, and leading up to incorporation in 2001. As well as partnership deeds, minutes, accounts and financial records, they include the papers of a number of partners, including Mark Loveday who was Senior Partner 1994-2001 and retired on the point of incorporation, and a significant amount of material gathered in the course of research for the company's history. The archives include copy material dating from 1823.

The archives are subject to a 30 year closure rule and are on 24 hours call. Access to some of the correspondence is subject to special conditions. For further details about access, please enquire with staff.

The records listed below are of the London office of the Central Provinces Manganese Ore Company. They include:

Ms. 15907-21: Foundation and constitution: initial activities, agreements, memoranda and articles of association, share capital, shareholders, allied companies etc;
Ms. 15922-7: Management: AGMs, powers of attorney, proprietors and board minutes;
Ms. 15928-40: Finance: accounts, ledgers, journals, cash books, assets, taxation;
Ms. 15941-71: Administration: office diaries, correspondence;
Ms. 15972-8: Prospecting licences;
Ms. 15979-97: Mining leases;
Ms. 15998-16040: Mines inspections, reports, plant and machinery etc;
Ms. 16041-54: Ore analysis, mining methods etc;
Ms. 16055-83: Marketing: sales, contracts, prices, freight, shipments, duties;
Ms. 16084-95: Photographs, maps, plans, drawings of mines and activities;
Ms. 16096-116: Personnel: records of directors, managers, engineers, mineworkers etc., salaries, contract labour, staff provident fund;
Ms. 16117-20: Property: India (except mines) and England;
Ms. 16121-31: Miscellaneous papers: the company, the industry, Indian affairs;
Ms. 16132-43: Manganese Ore (India) Limited: foundation, agreements, minutes, reports etc.

All the records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of Charles Hammond and Son, stockbrokers, comprising a journal of stock purchased and customer ledger, and papers relating to the history of the firm.

Records relating to auction houses Christie's and Robson Lowe Limited, comprising sales catalogues for the sale of the Corsini mercantile correspondence.

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).

Papers of the Coal Meters' Committee, including minutes, letter books, cash books, ledgers, books of notices and orders, ships' registers, records of coal exports and imports, and papers relating to the reorganisation of the Coal Meters' Office.

The records of the Coal Meters' Benefit Society, the Coal Meters' Provident Club and the Coal Meters' Office Protection Branch also form part of the archives of the Coal Meters' Committee. The Benefit Society records consist chiefly of minutes, resolutions touching amendments to the constitution, statements of account and correspondence relating to the Coal Meters' Benefit Society and Widows' Aid Fund. The Provident Club records contain a copy of rules, nomination form counterfoil book and account book. The Protection Branch records consist of annual reports, ledger accounts and cash books.

Records of the British and European Insurance Company Limited, comprising board and general meetings minutes.

Records of the British General Insurance Company Limited comprising Board minutes, Marine Department loss advice book and Marine Department register of losses.

Board minute books of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation.

Records held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Board minutes of the Guardian Plate Glass Insurance Company Limited.

Records of the Ocean and General Guarantee Company Limited, comprising Board minute books.

They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Union Assurance Society, comprising minutes of board meetings, general meetings, and committee meetings. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice to access.

Records of the World Marine and General Insurance Company Limited, comprising minutes of annual general meetings, Board meetings and the London Committee. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

'Stock books' of an unidentified clock and watch maker, recording manufacturing costs, retail prices and sales of individual clocks, watches and chains; also accounts book recording the costs of components.

The surviving records of the Corn Exchange Company include minutes, annual reports and accounts, financial material, correspondence, records of stockholders, records relating to the restaurant, and deeds, plans and photographs. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Corporation of Insurance Brokers, comprising constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, financial material, membership records and other administrative papers.

Records of Daniel Desbois and Sons, watch and clockmakers, comprising a series of ledgers and a series of day books.

Papers of Davison, Newman and Company, grocers and importers of West-Indian produce, comprising mostly accounts, correspondence, legal papers and papers relating to land in Jamaica.

Records of the East Indian Grain and Oilseed Shippers' Association of London comprising minutes and agenda only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of Edmund Schluter and Company, general merchants, including letter books; ledgers; cash books; journals; sales books; purchase books; and waste books.

Records of Edward Grace and Company, brokers and merchants, comprising correspondence and accounts.

Records of the Equitable Reversionary Interest Society including out-letter books; deeds of settlement; minute books; annual reports; ledgers; registers of valuations of reversions; registers of recoveries; and registers of debentures.

Records of news agency Exchange Telegraph Company Limited, including:

1. Constitution; operating agreements, Mss 22956-61;
   2. Board and AGM minutes etc; annual reports and accounts, Mss 22962-9;
   3. Papers relating to lawsuits, Mss 22970-4;
   4. Internal financial and accounting records, Mss 22975-23012;
   5. Records of subscribers, Mss 23013-24;
   6. Correspondence (subdivided as follows):
      (i) Miscellaneous early correspondence, Mss 23025-7;
      (ii) Correspondence etc relating to dealings with the London Stock Exchange, Mss 23028-32;
      (iii) Correspondence etc concerning the sports services, chiefly horse racing, Mss 23033-41;
      (iv) Correspondence etc concerning relations with the Press Association Ltd, Mss 23042-8. 10;
      (v) Papers of Wilfred King (chairman 1913-43), Mss 23049-51;
      (vi) Papers of E C Barker (a director, 1913-33), Mss 23052-61;
      (vii) Correspondence relating to arrangements with the BBC, Ms 23062;
      (viii) Foreign correspondence (including Second World War correspondence), Mss 23063-6;
      (ix) Correspondence concerning tariff rates, Ms 23067;
   7. Examples of news transmitted and statistics service cards, Mss 23068-74;
   8. Engineering and patents records, Mss 23075-94;
   9. Publicity records, eg tariffs, circulars and application forms, Mss 23095-102;
   10. Records of correspondents, wages and commissions, Mss 23103-6;
   11. Photographs, Mss 23107-15;
   12. News cuttings, Mss 23116-25;
   13. Miscellaneous (chiefly historical notes and records of subsidiaries), Mss 23126-35;
   14. Records of the joint services of ETC and the Press Association Ltd, Mss 23136-57;
   15. Miscellaneous items presented by BT Archives, Ms 38642.

Records of the Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce, which comprise annual reports, minutes and reports of conferences.

Records of G S Herbert and Sons, stockbrokers, including ledgers, balance sheets, cash books, journals, and loan books. Also ledgers of stockbrokers G B Tydd and Company and Montagu Nicholas and Company.

24 hours notice required for access. Access to records less than 50 years old requires permission, details should be sought from staff.

Records of George Attenborough and Son, pawnbrokers and jewellers, comprising receipt books of items pawned and sales book.

Records of Gillet Brothers Limited, discount bankers, including constitutional documents, ledgers, cash books, calculations relating to the firm's business, correspondence, circulars, deeds, notes concerning staff and offices, essays on discount banking by members of the firm, and histories of the firm.

Records of the Globe Telegraph and Trust Company Limited, with records of predecessor and subsidiary organisations as listed below. The records include: minutes and papers presented at meetings, annual reports, constitutional documents, deeds, reports, financial records, administrative files, staff magazines and histories. Deeds which survive from 1717 pre-date the establishment of the business.

Predecessor/subsidiary companies with records in this collection:
Globe Telegraph and Trust Co Ltd;
Aberdeen, Ceylon and Eastern Trust Ltd;
Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London Trust Ltd;
African Direct Telegraph Co Ltd;
Associated Cable Companies;
British Australian Telegraph Co Ltd;
British Indian Extension Telegraph Co Ltd;
British Indian Submarine Telegraph Co Ltd;
Cable and Wireless (Holding) Ltd;
Cable and Wireless Ltd;
Cables Investment Trust Ltd;
China Submarine Telegraph Co Ltd;
Companhia Telegrafica Platino Brasileira;
Connaught Trust Ltd;
Deutsche See Telegraphen Gesellschaft;
Direct Spanish Telegraph Co Ltd;
Eastern and South African Telegraph Co Ltd;
Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Co Ltd;
Eastern Telegraph Co Ltd;
Electra House Ltd;
Europe and Azores Telegraph Co Ltd;
Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta Telegraph Co Ltd;
Great Western Telegraph Co Ltd;
Marseilles, Algiers and Malta Telegraph Co Ltd;
Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Co Ltd;
Pacific and European Telegraph Co Ltd;
River Plate Telegraph Co Ltd;
Share Investment Trust;
Victoria Embankment Properties Ltd;
West African Telegraph Co Ltd.

Records of the British Indian Extension Telegraph Company Limited comprising minutes of board meetings, annual general meetings and liquidators; and an agreement.

Records of Cable and Wireless Limited, comprising reports of the managing committee, finance committee and investment committee; reports of a tour of inspection of Mediterranean telegraphic communications; and papers relating to Sir Edward Wilshaw, chairman.

Records of Cables Investment Trust Limited. The records comprise of memorandum and articles of association, papers concerning the formation and constitution of the company, Directors' annual reports and accounts and details of balance sheets, reports, papers containing extracts from minutes and appointments of Directors, papers concerning profits and purchases and sales of shares, cash books, general circulars, journals, sales and purchases ledgers and general ledgers. The records also include the Association of Investment Trust Companies members' files, including correspondence, notes, cuttings and copies of reports.

Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta Telegraph Company Limited records comprise minutes and agendas of Board meetings and Minutes of joint committee meetings.

Share Investment Trust records comprise minutes of meetings of the trustees.

Victoria Embankment Properties Limited records comprise minutes of board meetings and of annual general meetings, papers submitted to board meetings, directors' annual reports and accounts, balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, and directors' annual reports, journals, ledgers, cash books, revenue ledgers, tenants accounts and papers concerning the construction of Electra House, Temple Place, Victoria.

London Cattle Food Trade Association records comprise minutes, accounts and a register of samples.

National Federation of Corn Trade Associations records comprise: constitution and bye-laws, 1918 (Ms 23208); minutes and notes for meetings, 1918-1958 (Ms 23209-12); and accounts, 1955-1972 (Ms 23213-14).