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Records of the London Passenger Transport Board, 1867-1919, comprising annotated plans and Ordnance Survey maps of railway lines. Stations, railway lines and certain other buildings have been coloured.

Records of the Railway Passengers Assurance Company, including Board minutes, deeds of settlement, Committee minutes and general meeting minutes.

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

Records of Railway Equipment and Construction Company, comprising minutes of meetings of Directors.

Herne Hill Methodist Church, Railton Road: Sunday School Teachers' minute book, 1910-1926.

An account book covering the period 31 March 1802-31 October 1808.

Papers of Julia Rahmer, 1989-1991, relate to activities of Neu Beginnen and the realities of life as a member and comprise copies of correspondence between Rahmer and various correspondents regarding documents related to Neu Beginnen, 1989-1991; a copy of Rahmer's account of life as a member of Neu Beginnen or ORG (as it was previously called) with an accompanying copy letter addressed to William Jones, 1991 and a copy of a list of members of Neu Beginnen.

Manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell [Robert Noonan], c 1910, with a short history of the original manuscript, and its publication history by Fred Ball

Case book of London boys from the Ragged School Union, admitted to a collecting centre for assisted emigrants to Canada, possibly at Walton-on-Thames, containing photographs of the boys. Readers are asked to use the facsimile version of the case book (CLC/225/MS05754A).

Group photograph of 3 Squadron RAF football team, plus officers, with handwritten caption on reverse, `taken 4 May 1918 at Hastings'. Also informal group snapshot photographs of British troops from various regiments, no caption, c 1918.

'Some recollections of a Scots Guardsman, 1935-1947', a memoir covering his military career during the period 1935-1947, notably his service at General HQ, Middle East Land Forces, 1940-1943, and with the Scots Guards in Italy, 1943-1944 and 1947, and Germany, 1945, written in [1992].

Papers and correspondence of George Rae, banker, relating to various banking topics including the Companies Act of 1879, and the Institute of Bankers.

Papers of Dr John Rae, 1852-1883, including drafts of eleven letters, 1852-1856, addressed to the Admiralty and others on Arctic exploration; letter to H W Feilden, 19 Apri 1878; six short essays on Arctic subjects including 'On certain phenomena observed on the Arctic coast', and on treatment of frostbite; nine letters to Rae from various correspondents, 1855-1883 and diary on board the screw yacht FOX on a north Atlantic voyage, Jul-Nov 1860.

Memorial addresses and obituaries, 1994, including details of his service as Commander, RAF Tengah, Singapore, 1942, and his subsequent capture and imprisonment by the Japanese, 1943-1945.

Minutes of Local Committee, 1817-1829; minutes of Teachers' and Committee meetings, 1821-1872; minutes of Day Schools Committee, 1886-1903; minutes of the Sunday School Council, 1912-1933; minutes of the Governing Council, 1899-1942; minutes of the Ragged School, 1899-1936; financial accounts, 1847-1959; Sunday School Log Book, 1820-1835; admission and attendance registers, 1835-1959; Board of Education schedules, reports and correspondence relating to the Day Schools, 1884 - 1903; correspondence and memoranda, 1880-1903 and 1954-1960; annual accounts, 1896-1959 (with gaps); correspondence and memoranda regarding tenancy at Bath Street London County Council School and war damage at Radnor Street School including plan of damage in basement and of proposed repairs, 1929-1950; general correspondence, 1854-1948, with pamphlet relating the history of the schools and renovation plans, 1928.

This collection consists of scrapbooks of newscuttings, notices, posters and so on documenting the career of Sir George Haynes, Radford, MP.

Typescript report, '23rd Armoured Bde operations in Greece, October 15 1944-January 7 1945' issued by Headquarters, Royal Armoured Corps, Central Mediterranean Forces, May 1945, and typescript volume, 'The Second World War 1939-1945 - Army - Planning' by Col Robert David Quixano Henriques, issued by the War Office, 1954.

Account book of an unidentified Dutch merchant in London, apparently trading mainly with Antwerp, Belgium.

Papers, 1880-1916, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Ealing, including marriage settlements, assignments, mortgages, leases, agreements and sales particulars.

Contains 2 prospectuses for the Rachel McMillan College of Education (1973-1977), an open day poster and a photograph of the building.

Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets produced by Lex Service, which later became RAC PLC. 'The Lex Service Pension Scheme Explained' (1993); 'The 1994 Lex Service Pension Scheme' (1994); 'The Multipart Section of the Lex Service pension Scheme' (1999); 'Formula 4 Guide for RAC Employees' (1996); 'The Lex Service Pension Scheme Senior Management Section'(2000); 'The Lex Service Pension Scheme Executive Section'(2000); 'Additional Voluntary Contributions Will you be ready for retirement?' (2000); 'The RAC Pension Scheme 1997 Scheme' (2002); 'The RAC 2003 Pension Scheme Summary' (2003); 'The RAC 2003 Pension Scheme Senior Management Section' (1993); The RAC 2003 Pension Scheme Updated Booklet for the Non-Contributory 1994 and Multipart Sections' (2004); 'The RAC 2003 Pension Scheme Looking further ahead' (1997) and 'RAC pensions Flexiplan Your benefits explained' (2007).

Records of the Rabbinical Commission for the Licensing of Shochetim, including Commission minutes; general correspondence and correspondence with Shechita Boards.

Manuscript volume, 13th century: In Mattheum (commentaries on the Gospel of St Matthew by Rabanus Maurus).

Prescription books, account books, ledgers, and note book of chemists R Woollatt and J Boyd, 1880-1944.

Records of R White and Sons Limited, soft drinks manufacturers, including a ledger covering profits and sales figures for R White & Sons from 1845 through to 1951 along with obituaries, details on property and wages, and a corporate and financial history of the Company. Also included are examples of bottle labelling and newspaper cuttings of Company adverts.

The collection contains publications and reports by R Watson and Sons (1975-1993), business correspondence and publications by Paul N Thornton (1986-1997).

Records of R J Spargo (Proprietary) Limited, dealers in rubber, comprising memorandum and articles of association.

Staff records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including wages sheets; papers relating to taxation, including income tax; papers relating to the fidelity guarantee policy; correspondence about staff, accounts, remuneration and auditors; papers regarding compensation of staff on the closure of the brewery.

Sales records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including daily and weekly sales summaries; stock books; Board of Trade census of production; correspondence with suppliers; order delivery schedules and gallonage table.

Property records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including leases; papers relating to development of Slough premises; papers regarding redevelopment of Slough High Street; correspondence; papers regarding insurance; rate demands.

Financial records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including correspondence; paid cheques; bought ledger; purchase ledger; general (expenses) ledger; transfer journal; rough balances and price lists.

Corporate records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including Board and annual general meeting minutes; papers relating to the acquisition by Harmans Uxbridge Brewery; general correspondence; papers of the Board; papers of the Company Secretary; and annual reports with accounts.

Papers, 1884-1950, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in the High Street, Putney; including assignment of lease, leases, conveyance and contracts of sale.

Four scrapbooks: one entitled 'Quidnunc Cricket Club 1861', one entitled 'R A F G', one is blank. Scrapbooks including correspondence, fixture cards, advertisements, newspaper cuttings, menu cards, invoices, telegrams, rules of the Massachusetts Association of Cricket Clubs. Includes accounts of R A Fitzgerald's tour to North America in 1972, matches played by MCC, I Zingari and Quidnunc Cricket Club, photographs of gentleman playing croquet, articles on lawn tennis, pictures of Germany, drinking songs, plays written by Fitzgerald, rules of the Massachusetts Association of Cricket Clubs.

Records relating to the career of George Qvist, surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital (RFH), 1946-1975, and Surgical Tutor, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (RFHSM), and and also his wife Dame Frances Violet Gardner, Consultant Physician, RFH, and Dean of the RFHSM, comprising:

Correspondence and papers of George Qvist, relating to his surgical and teaching career, including personal correspondence, photographs and press cuttings, 1952-1979; job applications and testimonials, 1933-1952; copies of articles, lectures and papers by Qvist, 1941-1979, on surgical subjects, and on the National Health Service, particularly the problems facing General Practitioners, 1964-1966; patient photographs from hospitals in the Royal Free Group, 1949-1974, illustrating a wide variety of medical conditions, used by Qvist for teaching and research, including chest photographs, slides and X-Rays acquired by Arthur Tudor Edwards FRCS (d 1946), Surgeon-in-Charge, Department of Thoracic Surgery, London Hospital; obituaries of Qvist, 1981; papers on memorials to Qvist, including the opening of George Qvist Ward in the Accident and Emergency Department at the RFH, and the George Qvist Lectures at RFH, 1986-1990;

Correspondence and papers of Dame Frances Violet Gardner, on her career as a cardiologist at the RFH and as a teacher and administrator at the RFHSM; including personal correspondence and photographs, 1946-c.1981; copies of articles by Gardner on cardiology; photographs and cuttings on Gardner's visit to Saudi Arabia, to advise on the establishment of a School of Medicine at the University of Riyadh, 1966; obituaries, 1989.

Papers of Randolph Quirk, [1950-1989] including on English teaching abroad and related examinations; Survey of English Usage test cards; research papers; correspondence including with former students, publishers and correspondence relating to Vice-Chancellorship; minutes of the Sub Committee in English; press cuttings; testimonials, 1980s; publications and related notes and correspondence; lecture and seminar notes; typescripts of lectures, broadcasts and speeches; accounts; papers relating to the Ford Foundation; papers relating to students; papers relating to University College London English department staff and institutional papers of University College London and the English Department.

Cash books, ledgers and day books, of general practice in New Cross, London SE4, 1918-1933.

Copies of 'The credibility of an independent British contribution to NATO deterrence' and 'How much striking power is enough for British strategy?', texts of lectures given at a conference at Windsor Castle, 1982; copy of text on 'NATO nuclear deterrence concepts', a shortened version of a talk given at the Royal College of Defence Studies, 1982. Also obituary from the Times, 3 March 2009.

Typed copies of 11 letters from Samuel Quincy of London and of St John's, Antigua, to his wife Hannah Quincy, 1771-1781. Including a copy of 1 letter to 'Hal' [probably Hannah's brother, Henry Hill].

With a covering letter from Miss Grace W Treadwell of 42 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, to Edward Alfred Jones, 1915. Forwarding the copies. Autograph, with signature.

'Uitlegging van der Verbeelding van Quincampoix of, de Groote Windt en Koolverkoper'.

Records of the predecessor companies of stockbrokers Quilter Goodison and Company Limited; comprising a day book and ledgers.

(i) 5 letters from Edward Thring, headmaster of Uppingham School to R H Quick, 1882-1885. Relating to educational matters.

(ii) 2 letters from officers of the Teachers' Guild to Mrs [Harriet] Quick (Quick's widow), 1896-1900. Relating to her husband's library and its transfer to the Guild.

All letters autograph, with signatures.

Minutes of Trustees' Meetings, 1869-1941; minutes of Leaders' Meetings, 1892-1964; minutes of Sunday School Council, 1868-1948 and minutes of Sunday School Teachers' Meetings, 1868-1886.

Letter from William Tufnell Le Queux of Castor, Peterborough to George Horsfield of the Railway Passengers Assurance Company, Hitchin, 29 May 1895. Stating that he has no necessity to renew a policy.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from William Tufnell Le Queux of 5 Talbot House, St Martin's Lane, London to Mr Sutton. Regretting that he is unable to accept an invitation to Southsea.

Autograph, with signature.

Manuscript volume containing a series of fifteen questions directed against the farming out of the customs, [1662], the first beginning 'If the customes or any other part of his Majestie's revenue settled by parliament should be farmed'.

Collection of manuscripts relating to bankruptcy, 1850-1851, comprising answers to questionnaires circulated by the Committee for the Improvement of the Law of Debtor and Creditor from business firms in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA. Many of the replies are on printed questionnaires addressed to the Chairman of the Committee, William Hawes, MP.

Copies of papers relating to his military service, 1898-1945, dated 1917 and [1945], comprising a letter to his wife describing the fall of Baghdad, 10 Mar 1917, and subsequent conditions in the city, dated 16-17 March 1917; official Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force General HQ 'Despatch on operations', 28 Aug 1916-31 Mar 1917, dated Apr 1917; summary of his military service, 1898-1945, written in [1945].

Papers of John Thomas Quekett, [1840-1854], relating to his work as Conservator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, comprising diaries, 1840-1848, which include references to prominent microscopists of the time, such as Carpenter, West, Ross, Sowerby, and Smith of Smith and Beck; notebook, containing some sketches and including notes on experiments on frogs, 1841; ?draft catalogues of the Histological Series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and catalogue of Pathology, [c1840-1860]; catalogue of Hewson's Preparations, [c1840-1860]; unpublished part of Quekett's catalogue of histological series; Lectures on Histology delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons 1852-1854 with annotations by Quekett; notes for lectures on histology delivered in the session 1853-1853, on the structure on the skeleton of vertebrate animals, with original drawings.

Court of Session minute books, including annual reports, 1844-1920; minute books of the Diaconate, 1845-1927 and Communicants' roll book, 1863-1913.

The administrative records of the Institute form the core of the collection: minutes, annual reports and legal and financial material. Supporting correspondence is more patchy. Five bundles of early letters and reports had been kept (these have been listed as F.2/1, F.2/3, F.4/1-2 and S.2/2): apart from these and the runs of post-war correspondence (F.6-7), correspondence was scattered amongst the 'historical' filing cabinets and the 'Archive' files, and the archivist has had to reconstruct the series from which letters and files might have been extracted. Correspondence around the founding and early years of the Institute has been placed together with what appears to be collected or deposited correspondence of the founders (F.1), and a series of 'Subject files' has been created, pulling together scattered files and publications on particular topics (some 'files' consisting only of two or three letters). The destruction of correspondence files leaves sadly little to illustrate conditions under which district nurses worked in the early years. Some impression can be gained from correspondence with the Scottish and Irish branches (S.1-2) as well as less vividly in the reports in section Q. One letter dated 1904 survived alone, mentioning somewhat obliquely conditions in the East End of London: it has been placed with the bundles of letters and reports, ref F.4.

There is a good accumulation of publications and information put out by the Institute, and other publications relating to district nursing (Section P). It was feared that the only record relating to Florence Lees's 1875 survey of district nursing provision in London was the single letter from Florence Nightingale to JJ Frederick (F.1/3), but in 1998 the QNI offered a manuscript volume which appears to be a transcript of at least part of the report, plus a report to William Rathbone on district nursing in Liverpool (also dated 1875). This volume has been added to the archive as Y.1.

Records of other bodies which had been collected or accumulated over the years include Federations of member associations of the Institute (R.2-3), nurses' representative bodies (Section V) and individual district nursing associations (Section X). Minutes and memorabilia of Elizabeth Fry's Institution of Nursing Sisters (Protestant Sisters of Charity) dating from 1840 to 1939, have been listed as section W; unfortunately, only the first of each of that body's registers of nurses survive, the rest having been sent for salvage during the Second World War. The National Gardens Scheme, although established to raise funds for the Institute, is now separately administered, and no records of the administration are found here apart from the sub-committee minutes in C.3, but five bundles of correspondence in Section F.6 touch on the subject, including one with Alfred Wagg.

Papers of individuals also occur. Those of Dame Rosalind Paget have been sorted into an order reflecting the different stages and interests of her life (Z.1): they include Dame Rosalind's annotated copy of the 1925 report on maternal mortality by Mary Beard of the Rockefeller Foundation. Memorabilia of district nurses sent to the Institute at other times, and obituaries of Institute officers, also occur in Section Z.