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Records of the Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company, 1831-1949, including minutes of Director's meetings; minutes of shareholder meetings; minutes of Committee of Works; minutes of Committee of Accounts and General Purposes; minutes of the Conference of representatives from the Equitable, London and Chartered Gas Light Companies; deed of settlement; site plan of gasworks; legal case papers and press cuttings.

Records of the Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company, including endorsement to be made on the deed of settlement, 1835; supplemental deed of settlement, 1838; certificate of formal registration of the company, 1844; reports of the Company's Directors; papers relating to legal proceedings and lawsuits; correspondence; agreements and contracts; papers relating to premises owned by the Company in Kensington, Westminster, Pimlico and Chelsea.

Note issued by the Equitable Labour Exchange to the value of Five Hours. The order, on the Exchange's elaborately engraved form, is to the Storekeeper to deliver to the bearer stores to the value of Five Hours. The date and number are inserted in manuscript. The signatures of the Governor, Director, and Secretary are also original autograph.

Records of the Equitable Life Assurance Society spanning 1803 to 1976; with records of associated societies the Equitable Reversionary Interest Society (spanning 1835 to 1976); the Reversionary Interest Society (spanning 1823 to 1982) and the University Life Assurance Society (spanning 1825 to 1957).

Records of the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships, later known as the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The records comprise: minutes 1834-1951, and indexes 1830-89 (Ms 38646-52; financial records, 1831-1972 (Ms 38653-62); policy records, 1803-1976 (Ms 38663-76); correspondence, 1833-61 (Ms 38677); and policy forms and other operational records, [1870]-1931 (Ms 38678-85).

A note at the front of the policy registers states that up to 1891 (policy number 13787), details of policies were entered in five books: policy ledgers; dockets (Ms 38667); ticket books; registers of notices of assignment (Ms 38668); and policy loan ledgers.

In 1908, new policy registers were compiled for all the policies up to number 13787 which were still in force (Ms 38664). These new registers contain all the information for each policy on a single page.

Ms 38664/3-5 are held as a deposit from Equitable Life and enquiries relating to access to these items should be addressed to Equitable Life.

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 the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Equivalence of Training Committee, 2005-2008, comprising committee files including agendas, circulated papers and associated correspondence, including decisions about recommendations on individual doctor's applications to the Specialist Register.

Ledgers of Erard, harp manufacturers of London, c1798-1917, giving details of purchasers, prices, packing, transport, repairs and exchanges

Papers relating to Sir John Eric Erichsen, 1881, comprising a volume listing the names of subscribers to the University College London Testimonial Fund for Sir John Eric Erichsen in 1881. The fund was to obtain a permanent memorial to acknowledge his services to the School of Medicine of University College, and to students of surgery in all parts of the world. Including a printed list of names and a letter inviting subscriptions to the fund, folded into the front of the volume.

Diaries and scrapbooks created by Ernest Hale as a record of each year from the date he met his (later) wife. The diaries begin in 1901-1902, each year begins on 30 September as that was the day they met. 1901-1902 was the fifth year of their relationship. There are also account books by Ernest Hale showing how much he spent each week, and an account book by Mrs Florence E Hale from 1910-1911 containing household accounts.

The collection mainly comprises of letters sent to Ernest Robinson of Tooting while he was on active duty with the MEF during World War Two and afterwards. They include letters from friends in the armed forces, letters from his mother and letters from friends at home in Tooting. There are also photograph albums and religious books.

Personal correspondence and papers of Baron Ernst von Feuchtersleben, mainly relating to medical topics and to the Faculty of Medicine in Vienna, 1826-1858. The papers are mainly copies of medical texts with mansuscript annotations and copies of medical essays by him - some unpublished. Also, his case book 1836-1842. The records often relate to the Viennese Medical Faculty, his interest in medical education, and addresses given by him. The correspondence is primarily from medical colleagues in Austria and Germany.

Nine black and white photographs showing the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pelée, Martinique, in 1902. Six of the photographs are of the town of Saint-Pierre. Also, manuscript sections of the volcano showing the various stages of the eruption, November 1902-October 1904, by Major W M Hodder, Royal Engineers, 27 October 1904.

Letter from Thomas Hay Sweet Escott of 33 Sackville Road, Hove, Brighton, [Sussex] to John Collins Francis, 1 Apr 1916. Mentioning several writers for the Standard: 'During all my Standard time Alfred Austin the Poet Laureate was one of the chief writers. After my time I believe that Sidney Low, formerly under [Frederick] Greenwood of the Pall Mall, a certain [Samuel Henry] Jeyes and a certain Richardson Evans were considered important writers ...'.

Autograph, with signature.

Papers of Maj Gen Stanley Eskell, 1942, comprising papers relating to the composition of war establishments of the Australian Army, Apr 1942, including a summary of ranks, distribution of personnel, allotment of transport, weapons and ammunition, and organisational notes for headquarters units, cavalry, armoured units, artillery, engineers, signals, infantry, supply and transport, medical, ordnance and provost companies.

The archive consists of photographs and postcards relating to the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) Pilgrimage in 1913, including photographs of Eskrigge and fellow suffragists camping en route to London; letters received from individuals such as Eleanor Rathbone, and organisations, such as the Canning Town Settlement, relating to her suffrage campaigning and social welfare work; and biographical information about Eskrigge.

Manuscript essay entitled 'On the influence upon health of alcoholic Drinks as an article of Diet including the consideration whether any quantity of any kind be necessary for the maintenance of health in those who are engaged in laborious occupations'. The title-page is dated January 1st 1837 and the conclusion is dated December 31st 1836.

Transcript of a work entitled 'Traitté ou sont enseignées toutes les manières de piendre en mignature, avec plusiers exemples des plus excellens peintres de ce siècle', 1746, comprising an account of the different styles of various miniature painters of that era, notably Louis du Guernier, Jean Eckman, Louis van de Bruggen, Jean Petitot, as well as paintings by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Claude Vignon and Charles Lebrun.

Manuscript volume containing 'An essay on the causes and cure of a redundant agricultural population', written in Glasgow, 1832-1833. Inscribed by Herbert Somerton Foxwell as written 'By a boy under 16 years of age'.

An Essay on the motions of the iris, and the power of adapting the eye to objects at different distances illustrated by a few pen-drawn diagrams. Pasted on the verso of the first end-paper of Vol. I is a small label 'Bound by J. McLaren, Glasgow.'

Essex and Suffolk Accident Indemnity Society records comprise board minutes and agendas 1907-9 (Mss 16193-4) and a register of applications for and allotment of shares 1907 (Ms 16192).

Essex and Suffolk Insurance Company Limited records comprise board minutes and agendas 1907-1909 (Mss 16193-4) and a register of applications for and allotment of shares 1907 (Ms 16192).

Nominal rolls for Home Guard Battalions, comprising:

• 52nd Essex Battalion, M Company;
• 53rd Essex Battalion;
• 54th Essex Battalion.

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

Estates and buildings records of City University and predecessors, including papers regarding the competition for the first building of the Northampton Institute, its erection and furnishing, 1892-1897, including correspondence with the architect, Edward W Mountford; site and building plans, 1892-1894; correspondence regarding sale of forecourts in Myddleton Street, 1939-1940; correspondence regarding building extension schemes, 1933-1956, including correspondence with architects and London County Council, 1954-1959; war damage repairs correspondence, 1948-1956; papers regarding Palmers Green Playing Fields, 1945-1964; records relating to sports equipment, grounds, events and facilities, 1970s-1990s; plans, 1950s-1960s; buildings and services papers relating to extension schemes and new buildings, with reports and plans, 1930s-1970s.

Records of gifts, charities and estates of the Carpenters' Company, 1357-2003 (note that records of these series, from 1357, are also held at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, see Related material for details) comprising:
charity estates accounts, 1853-1934; minutes of the Estates Committee and various sub-committees, 1902-1938; rent rolls, 1684, 1938-1985; rent journals, 1877-1970; rent ledgers, 1878-1895.

Records of individual charities and estates, comprising:
Records of Godalming Almshouses, comprising accounts, 1761-1934; applications to alter scheme, 1940-1960; correspondence and papers between almsmen and the Company, 1922-1993; correspondence between the Company and superintendents, 1933-1979; correspondence and reports of the Medical Officer, 1933-1968; correspondence and reports concerning visits by Wardens, 1934-1977; annual Company visits, 1933-1971; vacancies in the Almshouses, 1933-1989, including advertising posters; superintendent's correspondence, 1822-1842; correspondence and papers concerning garden maintenance, 1933-1959; maintenance of the almshouses, 1933-1981; plans of the almshouses, 1933-1981; clothing for the almsmen, 1933-1981; provision of hot lunches by Women's Voluntary Service, 1951-1960; chapel services, 1959-1969; leasing of almshouse garden plots, 1935-1937; leasing of almshouse land, 1934-1957; boundaries, 1936-1977; redemption of Tithes, 1939-1940; development of land around the almshouses, 1932-1934; deeds for land in Bramshott, Hampshire, 1621-1891 and plan, 1750; plans of property in Henley-upon-Thames, 1713, 1727; survey of farm, Shackleford, Surrey, 1727.

Records of the Twickenham Almshouses, comprising deeds, 1841-1935; papers relating to the endowment fund, 1842-1853; office files, [1930s]; pay book, 1888-1901; print of almshouses, [1842]; plan of Twickenham, 1846.

     Records of the Irish Estate, comprising minutes of the Committee of Management, 1883; correspondence concerning the appointment of a resident Agent, 1832-1834; letter from a tenant pleading for the removal of the Agent, 1841; abstract [19th cent] of lease for the Manor of Lizard, 1766; correspondence and papers concerning the management of the estate following the reversion of the lease, 1840-1841; papers concerning partition of the Manor of Lizard, 1882-1893, including appeal, plan, rental and deed of arrangement; plan of estates in Ireland, 1884; correspondence, papers and accounts concerning the sale of Carpenters' Company Estate, 1890-1897; accounts for the Manor of Lizard, 1764-1839, 1869-1903; accounts with the Associate Companies, 1890-1895; correspondence relating to payments, 1823-1825; memorandum about dividends expected, 1833-1837; accounts of the Irish Society, 1832-1841; papers relating to legal case brought against the Irish Society by the Skinners' Company on behalf of the Great Twelve Companies, 1832-1836, including Bill of complaint, 1832; open letter to Livery Companies urging them not to support the suit, 1836; judgment by Lord Chancellor, 1836; amendment of bill, 1836; papers, including affidavits, statements and replies, relating to a legal case brought by Attorney-General for Ireland against the Irish Society and others, 1892-1898, including minutes of meetings between defendants (Great Twelve Companies), 1895; reports of visits and surveys, 1812, 1823-1884; historical account, 1887; valuation of the Manor of Lizard, 1765; terrier of Irish       estates held by the Ironmongers, Barbers, Brewers, Carpenters, Pewterers, Scriveners and the City Corporation, including tenants, 1886; rent roll, 1812; rental, 1882; plans and maps of Manor of Lizard, 1854, 1863.
   Records of the Building Crafts College, comprising reports, 1896-1940; Director's reports, 1940-1970; papers and accounts relating to the training of soldiers as carpenters, joiners, blacksmiths and coppersmiths, 1939-1944; papers relating to a civilian vocational training scheme, 1942-1948; establishment of a day-release apprenticeship scheme, apprenticeship scholarships and grants-in-aid schemes, 1943-1949; Building General Foremanship course, 1948-1949; future and development of the School, 1965-1970; deeds and correspondence relating to the School site, 153/155 Great Titchfield       Street, 1893-1988; papers concerning the charitable status of the school, 1935-1982; progress reports, correspondence and plans, relating to the rebuilding of the school, 1966-1971; papers concerning air raid precautions, 1939-1944; correspondence regarding claim for war damages, 1941-1950; papers concerning building maintenance, 1937-1987; proposed building extension, 1971-1977: accommodation feasibility study, 1992; estimated construction costs, 1988; Director's correspondence, 1936-1940; reports, papers and correspondence relating to the administration of the school, 1926-1980; prospectuses,       1948-1970; prize lists, 1937; list of prize-winners, 1939; exam papers, 1951-1966; syllabus instructions, [1960]; course material, 1960-[1970s]; lecture notes, [1950s]; article on the War Office's strategy for demobilisation using the Trades Training School as a specific example, [1945].
     Records of Company properties in London, namely in Fenchurch Avenue/Lime Street, comprising deeds and related papers, 1836-2003; plans, 1713-[1980]; plans of tenements in London, 1727, for Barnaby Street, Crutched Friars, Fenchurch Street and the Almonry, Westminster; records relating to 171-173 Aldersgate Street, comprising tenancy agreements, 1930-1940; papers concerning caretaker, [1938]; building maintenance, including war damage, 1936-1945; employment of a car attendant and lighting for Manchester Avenue, 1932-1941; correspondence with tenants, 1930-1944; correspondence concerning Tithe       redemption, 1938-1939; building of an air raid shelter and fire watching scheme, 1939-1944; tenants' leases, future development and sale, 1948-1960; floor plan, 1939; deeds relating to tenements in Hog Lane, Norton Folgate, 1357-1865, including deed poll, 1357; will of John Baldewyn, 1425; plans, [1690], 1727; records of property in Fulham, comprising general files, 1931-1965; deeds for Netherton Grove, 1857-1956 and Victoria Grove, 1857-1956; deeds for property in Kenton Road, Harrow, 1958-1992; 
                      Records relating to Rustington Convalescent Home, comprising minutes of the Carpenters' Company Management Committee for the Home, 1926-2003; registers of patients kept by the Company's Home Secretary, 1948-1969; Matron's registers of patients, 1954-1989; admission books, 1961-1984; report books, 1970-1992; account books, 1913-1993; deeds, 1895-[1990]; plans, 1969-1970; photographs and postcards, [1893-2003].

Records relating to Stratford estate, comprising deeds, 1781-1998, including leases and agreements for properties on Carpenters Road, Gibbins Road, Grace Road, High Street, Jupp Road, Lett Road, Rosher Road, Warton Road; photographs of Carpenters Road and High Street, 1915; plans, 1769-1982; rentals, 1885-1893; records of the Carpenters' Institute, Stratford, comprising minutes of the management committee for the Carpenters' Institute, 1927-1974; rules, [1927]; attendance book, 1958-1974; accounts, 1955-1972; deeds and related papers, 1880-1954; correspondence, 1935-1974; records of the Carpenters' and Dockland Centre, Stratford, comprising lease and trust deed, 1972; correspondence, including some annual reports and minutes, 1975-1993; minutes of the Day Technical School Committee, 1895-1905.

Records relating to properties on Throgmorton Avenue (numbers 1-17) comprising deeds, 1874-1997; office files, 1933-1988; plans, 1923-1981.

Records relating to Carpenters' Hall estate and moveables, comprising papers relating to the First Hall, namely plan, 1727; boundary and party walls, 1806-1876; sketch of interior, 1851; sketch of fire damage, [19th cent]; watercolour facsimiles of Tudor wall paintings, 1846; newspaper articles on the Tudor wall paintings, 1846, and Hall demolition, 1876; papers relating to the Second Hall, namely building agreements, 1876; Hall redecoration, 1937-1938; general maintenance, 1932-1941; furniture and treasures, 1932-1941; inventories, 1906-1931; papers relating to the Third Hall, namely minutes of the Rebuilding Committee, 1950-1959; deeds, 1959-1998; designs for furnishings, [1960s]; plans, 1947-1996; furniture and treasures, 1942-2003; inventories, 1968-2002.

Records of Etchingham Park School, Finchley, comprising plans of the school, 1921.

A notebook, loose notes and index cards containing information about bibles and biblical works purchased by Ethel M. Wood; a notebook containing details of biblical characters, quotes and references; various loose notes with names, dates and telephone numbers and a letter from Tim Munby (12 September 1946).

Author's manuscript of 'Observationes medicamentorum' comprising short comments on various passages of Paulus Aegineta.

Material relating to the Ethical Movement and the Workers' Education Association (WEA), 1915-1920, comprising presscuttings, notices, reports of meetings, correspondence and pamphlets.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Ethics Committee, 1981-2005, comprising agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence; reports on specific issues.

Papers of the Eton Manor Boys' Club (1911-1980), including: minute books of the Eton Manor Boys' Club, 1911-1951; photographs and photograph albums of Eton Manor Boys' Club grounds (including Riseholme Street and the 'Wilderness'), sporting teams and activities, special events, Eton Manor Old Boys' events and several framed items, 1911-1980; copies of Chin-wag, the magazine of the Eton Manor Boys' Club (incomplete), 1913-1966; books, many signed with dedications, from the Eton Manor Boys' Club library, n.d.

'Poemata Etonensia': copies of Latin verses.

Papers of Leopold David Ettlinger, c 1948-1989, including personal documents, notebooks, notes, working papers for lectures, and correspondence. Topics covered include: Art and Theory of Art; German 16th Century Art; Italian Renaissance; Catalogue Raisonné of Pollaiuolo; Greek and Roman Gods; 19th Century Landscape Painting; Self-Portraits; Winckelmann and 'Wien und die Entwicklung der kunsthistorischen Methode'.

The initial deposit, sections A-K, consists mainly of correspondence and associated papers (leaflets, memoranda, extracts from minutes, etc.). There are two main series of correspondence: 'People' and 'General' and some other distinct smaller series such as 'Branches and other Societies'. The internal arrangement of these files is normally chronological, with a few exceptions (usually an alphabetical arrangement). There are also lecturers' report sheets, publications, slides, posters, charts, and photographs, mainly but not exclusively in Section G: Propaganda and Publicity. There is a set of Annual Reports and related material 1908-1979 (Section A). Under the will of Dr. Marie Stopes the Eugenics Society was left her birth control clinic, books from her library and certain emoluments. Three boxes of her correspondence and some miscellanea, were assigned to section K. In 1988 minute books and the Society's extensive collection of press cuttings plus some financial records were added as GB0120 SA/EUG/L-N.

Recipe book, with account of monies recieved, [1720].

Europe and Azores Telegraph Company Limited records comprise minutes of Board meetings and Annual General Meetings, Directors' annual reports and accounts, details of balance sheets, a journal, ledgers and a private ledger.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' European Committee, 1991-1998, comprising agenda, minutes and papers of the Committee.

Undated ephemera of the European Congress on Anaesthesiology, comprising menus and announcement.

Election ephemera for the European elections, including addresses from the Conservative Party, No2EU, Liberal Democrats, the Socialist Party, the Christian Party and Christian People's Alliance, We Can Europe and the British National Party (4 June 2009).

Papers of European Nuclear Disarmament, including:
Coordinating Committee records.
Papers regarding END Conventions and other events.
Documents regarding END's work with organisations and activists in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Campaign papers.
Administrative papers.
Publicity, including mailings, press releases, newsletters and leaflets.
Memos from E P Thompson and Mary Kaldor.
Papers regarding peace issues, activists and organisations in Europe and throughout the world.
Papers of END Chairperson, Lynne Jones.
Issues of the END Bulletin and END Journal.
Some of the papers have been annotated by the depositor, Patrick Burke.

European photographs collection, [1910-1920], comprises photographs of areas including Nuremberg, Venice, the Mittaghorn, Funchal, Camara de Lobos, Rome.

The collection consists of circulars issued by the Education Department of the London County Council and circulated to various Local Education Authorities as well as other memorandums and correspondence. The material concerns the possible and eventual evacuation of children and other vulnerable groups from London from 1939 until 1952. There is little information that is specific to Battersea, Wandsworth and individual schools, instead the material focuses on nationwide policies and initiatives. Most of the circulars seem to have been received by the Battersea Divisional Offices in St John's Hill.

Paper by H.R. Wilton Hall on church life in Clapham, with emphasis on Evangelicalism, 1890s.

Papers of Sir Arthur John Evans, relating to his journalistic and political activities in the Balkans, comprising:
Articles, lectures, memoranda, notebooks, notes, sketches and correspondence re the Balkans, including Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia and Macedonia, particularly the Adriatic question and possibilities for a South Slav state, 1875-1932; Evans' photographs of Balkan people and places, c 1884, 1932; press cuttings on the Balkans, 1877-1935, including volumes of articles by Evans as Balkans correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, based in Ragusa [now Dubrovnik], 1877-1888, press cuttings on Serbia, Montenegro and the creation of a united South Slav state, 1915-1919 and cuttings re relations between Italy and the new Yugoslav state mainly from the Italian press, 1918-1919; volume of cuttings by or about Evans on archaeology, 1880-1889; pamphlets, press bulletins and off prints mainly on the South Slavs, 1904-1922

Diaries of Margaret Evans, detailing a journey taken April-September 1883 with her husband the archaeologist and journalist, Arthur Evans, to Greece, Macedonia and Bulgaria. The first volume is entitled "Journal of Greek and Macedonian Travel" and the second "Journal of old Serbian and Bulgarian Travel".

Collection of title deeds, marriage settlements and other legal documents. Places mentioned include Camberwell, Chelsea, Clerkenwell, Finsbury, Blackfriars, Red Lion Square, Holborn, Bloomsbury, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Bromley, Saint Marylebone, Saint Pancras, Tottenham Court Road, Grays Inn Road, Norton Folgate, Southwark, Whitechapel, Stepney, Wapping, Spitalfields, Westminster, St Martins in the Fields, Covent Garden, City of London, Isleworth, Hendon, and Finchley.

Papers of Sir Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans, comprising notebooks of physiology experiments, 1903-1947, and one notebook by Shiro Tsubura, 1924-1925.

Papers of Arthur Geoffrey Evans, 1920-1949, comprising a volume titled Illustrations belonging to the text of my thesis for the MD degree entitled:- A contribution to the study of Arteriosclerosis, with special reference to its relation to chronic Nephritis - Dec 10th 1920, containing illustrations drawn by John R Ford, of Shiells and Ford. Illustrations numbered 14, 15, 21, 22 and 23 are missing; a letter from Ford to Evans, 23 Aug 1920, concerning the magnification of the illustrations; 2 lists of the illustrations; and 2 optical drawings drawn by Theodore Hamblin Ltd, 15 Wigmore Street, London, 8 Apr 1949.

The archive consists of drafts, typescripts, proofs, correspondence, comments on the drafts of Miss Evans' book 'Women and the Civil Service', published by Pitman. (4 folders)