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Liquidator's accounts for DL Thomson and Company, stockbrokers.

The Dry Docks Corporation of London Limited records comprise the minute book of the board of directors and finance committee, and accompanying index. The whereabouts of any other records is not known.

Records of the Emma Silver Mining Company, comprising annual report and accounts for 1879, notice of AGM 1880 and blank voting forms.

Records of insurance brokers Fenning and Shepard, comprising annual abstracts of balances, which were drawn from company ledgers 'A' and 'B' (whereabouts now unknown).

Record and account book of Nicholas Geffe, relating to properties including Glastonbury Place in West Smithfield; houses in the parish of St Antholin Budge Row, and a tenement in Cheapside.

Board minute book of the Guarantee Insurance and Investment Company.

Day book of Holmes and Pyke, coachbuilders.

Letters sent to Hurrell and Mayo, solicitors, including receipts, commission notes, authorisations for the purchase and sale of stocks and shares and for making payments on behalf of clients; the correspondents are chiefly commercial companies, but include some individual clients.

Letters to William Hurt from Thomas Rogers, writing from Surrat (Surat), Mesulapatam (Masulipatam) and Gulcondah (Golconda, now Hyderabad).

Executive committee meeting minutes of the International Submarine Telegraph Memorial.

Order book of Stephen Jackson, wine and spirit merchant.

Client ledger of Jenings, Bolton and Jenings, attorneys.

Records of Lindsay, Greenfield and Masons, solicitors, comprising correspondence with Eden Fisher and Company, manufacturing stationers and printers.

Out-letter book of Lister, Beck and Company, wine merchants.

Deeds of settlement of the Llantysilio Slate Company.

Day book of a Northamptonshire wool broker, recording purchases and sales.

Records of the Ouvah Coffee Company Limited, comprising a cash book and notes on the history of the company and of coffee planting in Ceylon.

Daybooks of Sir Charles Peers, relating to his business as London partner of William Morley and Company, of Malaga, merchants and importers.

Particulars of expenses incurred on the account of Thomas Pengelly, merchant of London, by the purchase of broadcloths at Aleppo [Syria], 8 Dec 1656.

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

Job order books of Edwin Robert Sills, watch and chronometer finisher.

Accounts ledger of Sills, Ramsay and Gray, wharfingers.

Accounts ledger, journal and waste book, possibly belonging to John Simmons, wine merchant.

Letters from Thomas Laugher to the manager of his colour manufacturing business about the progress of the business in Laugher's absence.

Financial accounts ledger of Toye and Bromley, yarn, hemp and fibre merchants.

Agreement between Abel Wilkinson and John Timbrell concerning their partnership as linen drapers.

Business papers of Willis, Fairthorne and Clarke, solicitors and attorneys at law.

Note, account and estimate book of Thomas Wood, carpenter. He worked on the almshouses and school of the Drapers' Company in Mile End left to them by Francis Bancroft in 1728: a substantial portion of the volume contains detailed notes and calculations on the erection and fittings of the buildings to the design of Henry Barratt, architect.

Index of the register, 1669-1849, of the Hamburg Lutheran Church on the site of Holy Trinity the Less. The index was compiled by Mrs Pam Freeman and Len Metzner of the Anglo-German Family History Society.

Records of the Association for Promoting the Equalization of the Poor Rates, comprising: minutes, 1857-67 (Ms 1088); report of the inaugural meeting, 1857 (Ms 1089); and rough cash book, 1857-60 (Ms 1090).

Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials for the British Factory at Oporto, 1716-1807.

Minute book of the City of London Union Rating Association.

These papers relate to the property of Sir John Buckworth and his family. They comprise deeds and related papers concerning property in or near Great Winchester Street within the parishes of All Hallows London Wall and St Peter le Poer.

Records of the City Parochial Foundation comprise minutes of the Central Governing Body and its committees, 1891-1959 (Mss 8965-70); financial records, 1894-1952 (Mss 8972-81, 10897-8, 10902); register of applications for pensions, 1916-46 (Ms 10901); rentals, land valuation papers, insurance registers, 1898-1948 (Mss 10892-6) and deeds, 1308-1955 (Mss 11018-9, 23737-737A).

Also deposited with the records of the Foundation were a few records relating to the London Polytechnic Council. Records comprise minutes 1894-1904 (Ms 8971). Chelsea Physic Garden records comprise minutes 1899-1936 and cash books 1903-53 (Mss 10899-900). People's Palace Theatre records comprise a cash book 1950-53 (Ms 10903).

Records of the London Committee for the Relief of the Distressed Irish including subscription books and papers 1822-3 (Mss 7440-3, 7469); general financial records 1822-4 (Mss 7444-7); Friendly Loan Society Bank accounts 1839-43 and indexes to loans 1837-43 (Mss 7448-50); letter books 1822-3 (Mss 7451-4); resolutions, some minutes and correspondence 1822-4 (Mss 7455-8); vouchers, receipts and miscellaneous papers 1822-3 (Mss 7459-64); agents' reports 1822 (Ms 7465) and reports and papers re local administration of relief, arranged by county, 1822-4 (Mss 7470-92); letters and reports of the British and Irish Ladies Association for Improving the Condition of Female Peasantry 1822-4 (Ms 7466); committee resolutions and correspondence of the Irish Peasantry Society 1822-4 (Ms 7467) and correspondence with the Irish Fishery Board 1822-3 (Ms 7468).

The collection was previously catalogued as the 'Irish Relief Fund' until 2007, when it was renamed 'The London Committee for the Relief of the Distressed Irish' following a reassessment of its contents.

Records of the Turner Exhibition Fund, an educational charity, including papers of the governors of the fund; reports; applications for exhibitions; registers of awards made; correspondence; copies of the Charity Commissioners' schemes; financial accounts and history of the fund.

Minutes of the trustees of the Colonial and Foreign Banks Guarantee Fund.

Records of St Alphage Society comprising minutes 1782-1940 and agendas 1925-40 (Mss 7021, 10479); financial records 1800-1940 (Mss 7022, 10481, 18917); admissions register 1903-38 (Ms 10480); copy will of James White dated 1794 (Ms 7023); vouchers and correspondence 1880-1940 and counsel's opinion 1903 (Ms 10482-3); list of officers and subscribers 1891, and histories of the Society 1907 and 1910 (Ms 18917).

Memorandum book of the English Church in Siena, including agreement concerning the Protestant cemetery (1843), abstract of receipts and payments (1841-1846), correspondence and notes.

Court roll of the manor of Aldbury, Hertfordshire.

Records of the manor of Manor of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet, Hertfordshire. They include minutes, court rolls and rentals.

Rental for the manor of Hendon, Middlesex.

Court roll of the manor of Marshalls, in North Weald Bassett, Essex, 1519-36; with (at back) pen and ink drawing of the Great Garner at Leadenhall and the "chapel of St Michael on the East" (Leadenhall chapel?), by William Wright, 1539.

Records of the Manor of Southwark, including court leet rolls for the Clink Liberty, memorandum book and ordinances of the Southwark court leet.

Records of the Dutch Church at Austin Friars, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; financial accounts; letter books; lists of members; council and committee minute books; memoranda books; legal papers; property records including title deeds; rules and regulations relating to the governance of the church.

The records of the Scots Church before 1856 comprise constitutional documents, registers and records of the congregation, financial material, letterbooks and administrative papers, and deeds. Also papers of Dr Robert Young (1801-1813).

Records of the English Reformed Church, Hamburg, comprising registers (and related papers) of baptisms, marriages and burials. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff.

Records of the Hamburg Lutheran Church, including letters patent granting the right to establish the church; registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials; consistorial act books; papers relating to the construction of the new church in Dalston; and financial accounts.

Collection of records relating to non-established religion in London, including papers of the Freethinking Christians, the Dutch churches in Colchester and Norwich and St Martin Orgar French Church. The record of the latter comprise minutes, lists of members and seatholders, and financial material.

Records specifically relating to the Cass School, managed by the Sir John Cass's Foundation, comprising minutes, accounts, pupil registers, hymn sheets and photographs.