Personal papers of medical and other staff at Great Ormond Street hospital, comprising GOS/11/1 Dr Charles West, including cases seen at the Waterloo Dispensary prior to his Great Ormond Street career, circa 1841-1859; his notebook on Gynaecology, and maternal conditions liable to affect childbirth, from circa 1841, photographs, press cuttings, correspondence, and printed circulars and reports relating to Dr West's dispute with the Committee of Management about aspects of the Hospital's administration, 1877-1878. GOS/11/1/11 includes letters and photographs of Dr West and his family, largely donated by Dr Peter West. And the manuscript text of R Clavering's notes on Dr West and the establishment of the Hospital, 1956.

GOS/11/2 comprises a letter from Archibald Bence-Jones concerning the role of his father, Dr Henry Bence-Jones, in the establishment of the Hospital, 1906; GOS/11/3 comprises the letter of resignation from Catherine J Wood, Hospital Matron, 1878-1888 and biographical data on her.

GOS/11/4 comprises the papers of Dr. Frederick John Poynton, 1933-1941; GOS/11/5, those of Dr Felix Besser, dermatologist (some donated by his son, Dr. Michael Besser), including correspondence, obituaries of Great Ormond Street Hospital staff, pamphlets, typescripts, and material on the foundation and history of the hospital, 1933-1977; GOS/11/5/26* contains literature and correspondence on pachyonychia congenita, and includes correspondence with the University of Dundee on named patients.

GOS/11/6/1 is the presentation book to Sir Arthur Lucas on his retirement as Chairman of the Board of Governors, 1921, signed by Governors and senior clinical staff; GOS/11/7 /1 is correspondence and a copy Trust Deed for the Alexander Simpson-Smith Memorial Lectureship, 1947, including correspondence with Margaret Simpson-Smith about the Lectureship, 1957.

GOS/11/8 contains the papers of John Wycliff Peck, hospital pharmacist, including correspondence, photographs and memorabilia of Mr. Wycliff Peck, Hospital Pharmacist, 1894-1935, including correspondence concerning the supply and invention of drugs and equipment, and his own invention of 'Pexuloid' Splints, 1912; published programmes and leaflets concerning Hospital events; leaflets of pharmaceutical suppliers to the Hospital.

GOS/11/9 comprises Mr. Thomas H Kellock's personal papers, 1836-1922; GOS/11/10 is a presentation book given to Mr McKay on his retirement as Hospital Secretary,1932, signed by staff and Board members.

GOS/11/11 are the papers of Dr J Alistair Dudgeon (later Professor and Dean of Institute of Child Health), comprising correspondence, 1968-1974; GOS/11/11/22 Patients Pending file, 1968; GOS/11/11/23 are Doctors' letters, relating to Great Ormond Street Patients, 1964-1973; case reports. 1964-1970 and articles for journals, GOS/11/11/33-37 is Correspondence relating to the Institute of Child Health, 1969-1974; GOS/11/11/38-4, London University Thesis Reports, lecture drafts and notes, 1964- 974; GOS/11/11/43 Papers of Board of Studies in Pathology, 1973; GOS/11/11/44-45, Papers of Joint Research Board, 1967-1970; other papers cover correspondence with the House Governor at the hospital, plans for the new cardiac wing 1972, charity and research grants, GOS/11/11/52 * is correspondence with and about Dr Keitha Fraser (New Zealand), 1960-1965; GOS/11/11/70-76 are papers concerning research outcomes 1968-1974; GOS/11/11/76-79 Rubella Clinic and experiments, papers and correspondence, 1965-1969; GOS/11/11/80-81 British Postgraduate Medical Federation, reports and correspondence of Working Parties and Advisory Council, 1970-1973; GOS/11/11/82-83 Polio Tissue Innoculation Reports, 1956; GOS/11/11/84 Planning Committee papers, 1966-1968; GOS/11/11/85 Pickering Committee papers, 1968; GOS/11/11/86 Tumour Committee papers, 1964-1971; GOS/11/11/87 Organ Transplant Committee Papers, 1964-1970; GOS/11/11/88 Immunological Products Advisory Group papers, 1969-1970;GOS/11/11/89-90 DHSS Vaccination and Immunisation Committee papers, 1969-1972; GOS/11/11/91 Workshop Course on Virological Techniques, 1967.

Further Dudgeon papers, comprising GOS/11/11/92 International Paediatric Congress, Tokyo, 1965; GOS/11/11/93-98 Conference papers on rubella and other diseases, 1964-1974; GOS/11/11/99 North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board papers (Pathology Committee), 1971-1974; GOS/11/11/100-101, Epidemiology Course, Glasgow, 1967; GOS/11/11/102 ICH Symposium on Rubella Vaccines, 1968; GOS/11/11/103 International Paediatric Congress, Mexico, 1968; GOS/11/11/104 Bethesda Conference, February, 1969; GOS/11/11/105 Miscellaneous Rubella lectures for adaptation to articles, circa 1964-1974; GOS/11/11/106-107 Royal Society of Medicine Symposium on the Very Young, 1968; GOS/11/11/108-109 3rd Annual Conference on Congenital Malformation, GOS/11/11/110111 Bethesda Conference, May 1969; GOS/11/11/112 Pathology of Viral Diseases Symposium, 1969; GOS/11/11/113 Course in Advanced Paediatrics, 1968; GOS/11/11/114 119 Miscellaneous committee papers and lecture notes, 1964-1968.

GOS/11/12, Papers of Mr. David Waterston CBE (Cardiothoracic Surgeon), comprising GOS/11/12/1, Papers of British Association of Paediatric Surgeons' meetings, 1964-1974; GOS/11/12/2, Papers for British Paediatric Association meetings, 1965-1973; GOS/11/12/3, Papers for BPA meeting, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1975, with notes on earlier meetings at Great Ormond Street; GOS/11/12/4, Correspondence and reports concerning 'Denis Browne Memorial Travelling Scholarships', 1967-1973; GOS/11/12/5, Minutes, Agendas and correspondence for meetings of the Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, 1968-1974; GOS/11/12/6, Minutes, Agendas and Reports of the 'Paediatric Visiting Club', 1966-1974; GOS/11/12/7, Papers of meetings of 'Browne's Club', 1965-1971; GOS/11/12/8, Clinical reports on 'Persistent Truncus Arteriosis' and 'Tricuspid Ataxia'; GOS/11/12/9; Newsletters of the 'Janes Society'(Canadian Surgeons), 1971-1973; GOS/11/12/10, Correspondence concerning Mr Waterston's CBE award, 1972, and the accidental death of his son, 1970; GOS/11/12/11 Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, 1968-1975, including 1975 report on paediatric surgical training by Atwell and Gough.

GOS/11/13, Papers of Dr David N. Nabarro (Pathologist), 1895-1938, including GOS/11/13/2-6, Dr Nabarro's notebooks and Registers of patients with sexually-transmitted diseases seen by him at GOS; 1917-1920, 1924-1938; 1927-1929; 1935-1938; 1938-1939**; GOS/11/13/7, Printed articles and reports concerning Venereal Diseases written or collected by Dr Nabarro.

GOS/11/14, Papers of Dr Ian Cathie (Pathologist), comprising GOS/11/14/1-3 Dr. Cathie's correspondence on personal and clinical matters; 1954-1956 and 1958; GOS/11/15 Papers of Dr W W Payne (Chemical Pathologist), comprising GOS/11/15/1-3 Dr Payne's correspondence, 1957; GOS/11/16 Papers of Dr. Barbara Clayton, comprising GOS/11/16/1-2 Dr. Clayton's correspondence, 1962-1965, GOS/11/16/3, Draft articles by Dr. Clayton on growth and development, with related clinical statistical data, 1965; GOS/11/17, Papers of Dr D R C Willcox, comprising GOS/11/17/1 Correspondence concerning child growth and thyroid testing at the Bethlem Hospital, 1959-1965.

GOS/11/18 Papers and memorabilia of Great Ormond Street Nurses; comprising GOS/11/18/1, papers of Nurse Dorothy M. Roberts, 1920-1923; GOS/11/18/2, Papers of Nurse Dorothy Trotter, circa 1930-39; GOS/11/18/3, Papers of Nurse Nancy A. McDonnell, circa 1930-40; GOS/11/18/4, Memories of nurses at Runabouts, received from Mrs H Brooker; GOS/11/18/4, Papers of Nurse Amelia Mary Eynon-Williams', including material on the Miles quads, and material compiled subsequently on the quads; GOS/11/18/5, Papers of Nurse Nansi Jones, 1936-1970; GOS/11/18/6, Typescript, 'Memories of Tadworth Court', donated by Mrs Jean Clew; GOS/11/18/7, 'A Unique Nursing Experience', memories of nursing HRH Prince Charles, 1957, by Sister M. J. Hicks (Mrs McLean) and Mrs Gwyneth Robinson; GOS/11/18/8, Part of memoir of Nurse Joan Lamb, circa 1932-1937; GOS/11/18/9, comprising sketchbooks, with commentary, on nursing life at the Hospital, drawn by Nurse A G Bois, circa 1900-1904.

GOS/11/19 Papers of Mr D Lloyd-Roberts(Consulting Surgeon), comprising GOS/11/19/1, patient treatments and management of patient services at Tadworth Court, 1960-1974; GOS/11/20 Papers relating to Mr. William Pendle (Stoker), relating to the award of the George Medal to Mr. Pendle for his actions during the bombing of the Hospital in 1940, including award certificate, photographs of Mr Pendle and family attending the awards ceremony, 1941, and letter notifying the Order of St George of his death, 1951; GOS/11/21 Papers of Dr R H Wilkinson (Biochemist); comprising GOS/11//21/1-4, correspondence and papers, 1950-1957 and, GOS/11/21/5, Royal Society of Medicine papers, 1953.

GOS/11/22, Papers relating to Sir Denis J V Browne, comprising a biography and reminiscences by Mr. James Crooks, 1967, and an unidentified newspaper obituary; GOS/11/23, *Papers of Dr. John Sutcliffe (Radiologist), 1952-1960, including clinical and research correspondence with other doctors, some concerning individual patients, correspondence concerning departmental staffing, financing and equipment purchase.

GOS/11/24, Autograph book, signed by staff members, given to Arthur J. Lilly, engineer, on retiring from Hospital for Sisk Children in July 1959 after 40 years, including photograph of Mr Lilly in army uniform in 1915; GOS/11/25, Reminiscences of C W Hale (Great Ormond Street laboratory assistant, 1929-1930), dated 1988; GOS/11/26, Papers of Alfred William Gates, hospital volunteer, including original patients' letters, copyright forms and Assignment of Copyright relating to The Diaries of William Gates, A Personal and Moving Account of Great Ormond Street's Children, 2000; GOS/11/27 Frank Cole Madden's papers, comprising ornamental envelopes bearing Great Ormond Street address drawn by Frank Cole Madden during his term as GOSH Surgeon, 1897-1898, with a copy of his biography from Plarr's Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons ; GOS/11/28 Mala Trivedi and Behnaz Mohzakka, cards for the memorial service at Conway Hall, 5 October 2005, following their deaths in bomb attacks of 7 July 2005; GOS/11/29 Sir George Frederic Still, a picture-card sent by Sir Frederic to Miss Virginia Firth(daughter of his colleague Dr. Douglas Firth), circa 1932; GOS/11/30 Death Certificate of Henry Sykes Thornton, the Hospital’s banker and board member,1 December 1881; GOS/11/31 Mary D. Dawson's typescript recollections of working as a trainee in the Hospital Almoner’s office during World War II (from the author, Mrs. Mary Wilson, 2010); GOS/11/32 Items from former Clerical Assistant at the Hospital Miss Jean Parsons, including regarding the 1952 Centenary celebrations and invitation to staff Christmas Dance from Lady Southwood,1948 (gift of Miss Parsons’ son Derek Britton,2012); GOS/11/33 Nurse Training documentation, and notes made during training, by GOSH nurse (Dorothy) Beryl Faulkner (1941-1945) which includes her set of the Nurses’ League Journal, 1944-2005( missing 1945, 1948, 1968, 2003, 2004).

Letter from William Pitt (Pitt the younger) of Downing Street, [London] to Lord [Auckland], 30 Nov 1796. Relating to the Loyalty Loan and to the promise of its success. A postscript states: 'The Companies are I think nearly secure as far as towards four Millions, and may yield more. Many of the Leading Bankers and monied men are very eager, and one single House (not a Banker) has sent me a list of 350,000£'.

Autograph, with signature.

The catalogued Pamphlet Collection comprises over 12,000 titles dating from approximately 1830 to the present. The Pamphlet Collection consists of printed material less than 60 pages in length and includes government policies, reports, annual reports and campaigning material, primary law, including Bills and Acts. The subject material of the collection reflects and enriches the wide range of topics held elsewhere in the Women's Library.The topics covered include: English fiction, children's stories, poetry, women's organisations, feminism, role of women in society - UK and abroad, nursing, sex discrimination law, divorce law, employment, occupations, careers, equal opportunities, labour law, pension law, social security, taxation, housing, health, pregnancy, abortion, birth control, domestic violence, mothers, one-parent families, children, family life, housekeeping, religion, ordination, arts, costume, suffrage. Organisations include Equal Opportunities Commission, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, National Union of Suffragettes, National Society for Women's Suffrage, US Women's Bureau, American National Red Cross, Union of Jewish Women, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, National Federation of Women's Institutes, Fawcett Society, National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child, British Federation of University Women, Association of University Women Teachers, Divorce Law Reform Union. Most of the material is in English, but there are also pamphlets in other languages, such as Italian, German and French.The pamphlets are arranged in two sections - one for standard sized pamphlets and one for oversized pamphlets.

The 'UDC Pamphlet Collection' [Universal Dewey Decimal Classification]: In addition to the main Pamphlet Collection is the 'UDC Pamphlet Collection.' The UDC collection was the first pamphlet collection created by the Library and consists of approximately 10,000 pamphlets dating from mid nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries, covering all subjects. As the collection was gradually acquired during the Library's first 20 years of life, it was arranged by subject, using the Universal Decimal Classification system. The pamphlets were primarily deposited by organisations and individuals, although some purchases were made. There is a finding aid kept with the collection but the collection was never catalogued and therefore remained a hidden resource within the Library for more than 80 years. Unsurprisingly other libraries did not collect most of these pamphlets. In 2007 as part of a cataloguing funding bid preliminary sampling of the collection against Copac (the merged online catalogues of 24 university research libraries in the UK, plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland) found that over 60% of the UDC pamphlets were not listed in these major research collections. This is a very significant level of unique printed material.Cataloguing of the UDC collection started in 2007 and as the pamphlets are catatogued, they are transferred to the main pamphlet collection described above. As at 2009 the collection was partially catalogued and The Library was seeking additional funds to complete the project.

Records of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to diseases of animals and regulation of performing animals, 1892-1963, including files on foot and mouth disease; anthrax; glanders (a contagious disease in horses); parasitic mange; rabies and hydrophobia; sheep scab; sheep pox; Johne's Disease (wasting condition of cattle); fowl pest; the Report of the Committee on the Slaughtering of Livestock, 1932; the Departmental Committee of Inquiry into Cruelty to British Wild Animals; Interdepartmental Committee on Slaughterhouses; importation of dogs and cats orders; transit of animals orders; animals (sea-transport) orders; destruction of carcases; overcrowding of animals in railway trucks; transit of unfit animals by rail and road; the Control of Dogs Orders and Dogs Act, 1906; Exported Cattle Protection Order, 1957; Protection of Animals Act, 1911; Pet Animals Act, 1951; Animals Boarding Establishments Act, 1963; Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876; Protection of Birds Act, 1954; the Markets (Protection of Animals) Order, 1964; Animal (Cruel Poisons) Act, 1962. Also registers compiled under the Performing Animals (Regulation) Act, 1925.

Records of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to Shops and Markets, 1886-1965, including papers on the catering trade; sale of fireworks; mock auctions; analysis of statistics of shops and stalls in the county of London; effect of the First and Second World Wars on shops; Consumer Rationing Order, 1941; sale of contraceptives from automatic machines; the Shops Act, 1912 and 1913; Shops (Early Closing) Acts, 1920 and 1921; Shops (Hours of Closing) Act, 1928; Shops Act, 1950; Government Investigation into hours and conditions of Employment in shops and Select Committee on Shop Assistants; Shops (Sunday Trading Restriction) Act, 1936; Fabrics (Misdescription) Act, 1913; Departmental Committee on Hours of Employment of Young Persons in unregulated occupations; Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1938; Covent Garden Market; Billingsgate Fish Market; Deptford Cattle Market; Whitechapel Hay Market; street trading; register of shops for Sunday Trading and examples of posters for public display giving notice of orders, regulations, and so on.

Reports, including Select Committee on Shop Hours Regulation Bill Report, 1886; Select Committee on Shop Hours Bill Report and Special Report, 1892; Departmental Committee on the Shops (Early Closing) Acts 1920 and 1921 Report and Evidence, 1927; Departmental Committee on the Wholesale Food Markets of London Reports, 1920-1921.

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

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

Records of the London County Council Restaurant and Catering Department (later the School Meals and Catering Department), 1940-1956, including a history of the Londoners' Meals Service (1944); correspondence with the Ministry of Food; papers of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the organisation of the Londoners' Meals Service; papers on the delegation of powers to Borough Councils under the Civic Restaurants Act 1947; annual accounts and reports on operations; papers on the re-organisation of the Restaurants and Catering Department; paper by Chief Officer on 'Emergency Feeding in London, the Experience of World War II and Plans for the Future', given at the Combined Conference on Administrative and Scientific Problems of Food Aspects of Civil Defence; general files on meals for old age pensioners, nutrition of young people in wartime, closures of restaurants, school meals, take-away lunches, outdoor catering and special functions catering, opening hours, serving alcohol, and the discontinuance of restaurants service.

Papers of individual civic restaurants including the Bun House Restaurant, 111 High Holborn, Bell Tower Restaurant, 76-79 St Paul's Churchyard, Netherhall Restaurant, 251-253 Finchley Road and Ramillies Restaurant, 197-205 Oxford Street. Statistics and analysis including weekly returns of meals provided for children under the School Scheme, weekly returns of adult meals, weekly summaries of meals served in each division or area and weekly analyses of returns.

Blitz Circulars relating to the Londoners' Meals Service; Ministry of Food Circulars; directories of restaurants and children's meals centres; handbook of instructions for superintendents; pamphlet on hygiene in relation to the service of meals; newspaper cuttings on civic restaurants and on the Department's activities; informative notices for display at Meals Centres; 'The Organisation and Work of the Restaurants and Catering Department', handbook for new entrants and training notes.

Photograph of staff from the kitchen of the Ritz Hotel, 1925.

Roger Cunliffe, Sons and Company records comprising partnership agreements 1835 and 1851-83.

Records of the Royal Holloway College Association, 1887-1972, comprising publications, 1890-1972, mainly comprising copies of the College Letter. Subscription records, 1903-1960, including lists of life members of the RHCA, 1903-1960, and the annual membership, 1914-1926. Records of the RHCA Committee, 1914-1947, notably minute books, 1914-1947, and returns and letters supplied for a survey of the occupations of old students between 1939 and 1942. Minute book of the Principal's Portrait Committee, 1925-1926.

Records of R S Murray and Company Limited, sweet manufacturers, including recipe books, reports and related correspondence. The recipe books include details of product development, specifying appropriate ingredients and methods. Other papers concern H.J. Norton, who was Managing Director of R.S. Murray and Co. Ltd from 1914-1940s.

Papers of Bernard Sandler, 1946-1989 including correspondence, reprints and unpublished material on infertility, sex education and allied subjects.

Papers of John Guyett Scadding's including photocopies of reminiscences on development of thoracic surgery, 1970; lecture on the Institute of Diseases of the Chest, 1970; article on the history of the Thoracic Society, 1983; undated note 'Russell Brain's notes on his encounter with Winston Churchill'.

Scrapbook of press cuttings on women in domestic service, restaurant work, catering, household management, and related fields, 1915-1935.

Records of Sissons, Bersey, Gain, Vincent and Company, chartered accountants, comprising articles of partnership and related deeds and papers, 1895-1953, a balance sheet, 1934, menus for staff dinners and other occasions, 1919-70, and correspondence to do with the accountancy careers of Joseph Walter Vincent, 1895-1902.

The records of Skilbeck Brothers Limited, drysalters, and their predecessors comprise: estate book of Lemuel Leppington 1715; bill and day book 1787-1809 and ledger 1801-1808 of William Gouthit; day book 1809-1810, draft ledger 1810, 1857, and cash book 1832-43 of John Joseph Skilbeck; ledgers 1815-1917 and general ledgers 1912-27; journals 1895-1949; cash books 1934-1954; bill book 1898-1952; contract book 1913-1951; laundry ledgers 1897-1927; laundry sundries book 1910-16; purchase ledgers 1911-39, 1923-51; prices book 1863-1867; sales day books 1912-1949; and dock, wharf and warehouse ledger 1908-39.

24 HOURS NOTICE IS REQUIRED FOR ACCESS TO THESE RECORDS.

Records of discount bankers Smith St Aubyn and Company Limited, comprising ledgers and general ledgers 1891-1954, ledgers of partners' and trustees' accounts 1930-1939, trade acceptors ledgers 1927-1955, cash books 1891-1960, daybooks and rough daybooks 1891-1958, journals 1946-50, loans books and ledgers 1932-1952, private accounts loans and interest books 1931-1952, bills books 1891-1892 and 1933-1956, business and appointments diaries 1891-1959.

Letters of attorney given by holders of South Sea stock in Amsterdam, The Hague and Geneva to London merchants respecting their stock, 1731-1739.

Records of Spicer and Pegler, chartered accountants, comprising private letterbooks 1902-12 and 1972, and photographs of Ernest Pegler, 1936.

Records of Spicers, formerly undertakers, later funeral directors, 1891-1969. The records consist of business registers and journals. Although the period covered is 1891-1969, the high commmencing folio in volume one (foliating through successive volumes was common stationers' practice in the nineteenth century) suggests that there may have been an earlier volume which has not survived. Details range from the size of coffin in the first volume to comprehensive coverage of names, addresses, ages, where died, where service held, where buried or cremated, grave nos, cost etc. in the third. Also two photographs of premises.

Mainly records of predecessor companies of Standard Chartered Bank, including African Banking Corporation; Bank of British West Africa; Bank of Nigeria; Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; Eastern Bank Limited; E D Sassoon Banking Company Limited and related companies, London and South African Bank; P & O Banking Corporation Limited; Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited (together with Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited)

The papers include foundation papers; minutes and agendas (except signed Board and Committee minutes which are retained by the bank); annual reports and accounts; financial and taxation records; papers relating to branches and agencies; agreements; papers relating to shareholders and investments; correspondence (including a large series of letterbooks for Standard Bank of South Africa); statistics; photographs; publicity material; administrative records and original banknotes and cheques.

Notes by Robert Storrs, 1823-1896, recording interesting cases and medical events from his practice, together with transcripts of two papers read at the Sheffield Medical Society. With additional notes on drugs by an unidentified contributor, possibly one of Storrs's apprentices, and later notes by Storrs's grandson, Reginald Storrs, a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

Records of the Tailors Benevolent Institution. Despite a few gaps in the minute books, the most regrettable being the absence of the first minute book, the records give a clear picture of the development of a trade benevolent enterprise. The gaps are in part compensated for by the survival of accounts and cash books from the foundation of the institution and by a diary for 1837 belonging probably to the first secretary. The records are in good condition.

Records of J Lyons and Company Limited and Lyons Tetley Limited, food manufacturers and caterers, W H and F J Horniman and Company Limited and Joseph Tetley and Company, tea merchants, 1849-1978.

This collection contains records relating to all three companies (Horniman, Lyons and Tetley) when they were trading as separate businesses and when they were united under various incarnations of the one "Lyons" name. (They include references to other companies such as Symbol biscuits which Lyons took over in 1944)

However, despite the fact that some corporate records such as minutes have been retained by the Tetley Group Limited the majority of this collection is in fact composed of records relating to the Lyons company (which is necessarily linked with the former due to the fact it was a major competitor for years before taking it over in 1973).

Marketing and publicity aspects are the most heavily represented. As such this is a visually appealing collection and of particular note are the photograph albums and volumes of artwork, product labels and advertisments which are a testiment to the impact tea drinking has had on British society and its way of life.

Papers of Frederick Toulmin, and J[oseph] Toulmin, including letters relating mostly to particular medical cases from C Aston Key, 1841, 17 Aug 1843, 6 Dec; Bransby B Cooper, 8 Aug 1844, 5 Dec 1846; W Laurence, 13 Nov 1846; J[ames] Pereira, 19 Jan 1847; Samuel Soley, 21 Dec [1860]; William Withey Gull, 6 Jul 1867, ND, 11 Aug 1884, 24 Apr 1865, 11 Apr 1865; K Letheby, 2 May [1882]; S[amuel] Wilks, 10 Oct 1883, concerning Dr Addison's letter; B Travers, Jul [1883]; E Smith and Daniel Arthur, 13 Mar; letter from J Addison, 20 Aug 1853, relating to the death of Bransby B Cooper.
Also includes manuscript copies of an experimental remedy against epilepsy and other diseases by G Bisschop; Post mortem report on Henry Nalder, W T Nicholson and Frederick Toulmin, 31 May 1823; fragment of post mortem report of Mrs Henry Patteson, addressed to Mrs Frederick T[oulmin]; [prescription] signed by F J Toulmin and [William Gull], 28 Dec 1869; document titled 'Dr Brodie's suggestions on lateral curvature', ND, and letters from Sir Benjamin C Brodie, 26 Jan, relating to a testimonial for the applicant for the position of medical advisor to the Fire Insurance Office, and letters of 14 Feb 1843, 31 Aug 1843, 2 Jan 1845, 13 Mar [1857], relating to various medical cases;
Testimonial for Frederick Toulmin, from C Aston Key, 27 Jan 1835; letter attributed to Sir Astley Cooper, 4 Jul 1822. Also letter from Francis J Toulmin, 31 Mar 1947 concerning donation of the material to Guy's.

Notes taken from the lectures of Luca Tozzi on 'Anathomica synthesis, Anthropologia selecta, Synthesis geneanthropologica and Liber practices', c 1685.

Turquand Youngs and Company records entirely comprise financial records apart from a few items in Ms 31382 relating to Parr's Bank, for which accountants' notebooks concerning audit, c 1900-1919 also survive (Ms 31381). Unfortunately, the two main series of ledgers, 1858-1910 (Ms 31377) and cash books, 1860-1910 (Ms 31378) are incomplete.

Records of the Union Discount Company of London Limited, including photographs of offices and board members; notes on businesses and individuals with which the company had contact; agreement; and minutes of annual general meetings.

The collection comprises minutes and supporting paperwork for meetings of the Committee of Management of the Audio-Visual Centre; teaching and training notes including lecture notes and questionnaires; production accounts and financial papers; shooting and activity logs and production notes; video tapes of events at the University of London; a photograph album; audio-visual reels (NOT YET CATALOGUED); annual reports and printed material including workshop handbooks, catalogues, newsletters and a review of the Audio-Visual Centre.

Notes of lectures given at Naples University, all apparently taken by the same student, c 1750.

Papers of Wallace Brothers and Company Limited, East India Merchants, bankers and London agents, later known as Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited. Most of the records emanate from the core business of the Wallace Brothers partnership and its successors; but some emanate from the business of associated or subsidiary companies which were based in London. The latter include the records of Wyer and Hawke, London agents of Bombay Company Limited, who operated from the London office of Wallace Brothers between 1912 and 1968.

The archive does not hold the papers of Wallace Brothers' associated or subsidiary companies based overseas. No lists of the papers of these companies are held, and their whereabouts and accessibility are unknown. However the archives transferred to Guildhall from Wallace Brothers' London office include a considerable amount of information about the activities of many of these companies, including numerous copy and original documents sent to London by the companies concerned.

Besides papers created or received in the course of business, the Wallace Brothers archives include some memoirs of partners, directors or members of staff, and notes of research into the history of Wallace Brothers and its associates and subsidiaries.

The business papers date from 1862 to 1989, and relate to all aspects of Wallace Brothers' operations, although few banking records are held, and only formal business records survive from the period ca. 1966-1989.

Access is subject to a 45-year closure period (70 years in the case of personnel records). Annual reports and other published documents are not subject to closure.

The associated and subsidiary companies whose activities are known to be reflected in the Wallace Brothers archives are (provisionally) listed below, in the order in which the records will be arranged in the catalogue:

• Arrancan Company Limited, Burma rice merchants;
  • Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associaties of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited: Amalgamated Saw Mills Limited, Anamallais Ropeway Company Limited, Bombay Burmah Plantations Limited, East India Rubber Corporation Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of East India Rubber Corporation Limited (Bombay-Java Trading Company, Indo-Java Rubber Planting and Trading Company Limited), Joint Timber Company Limited, Thailand, North Borneo Timbers Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of North Borneo Timbers Limited (Wallace Bay Limited), Rangoon Mining Company, Sumatra Petroleum Company, Thai Tapioca Limited;
  • Bombay Company Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of Bombay Company Limited: BCL Limited, BMD Agency Limited, Dymes and Company, cotton mill owners and oilseed processors, Madras, Karachi Company Limited (formerly the Karachi branch of Bombay Company Limited; established as a separate company in 1952), Lakhshmi Cotton Manufacturing Company, Sholapur, India, Wyer and Hawke, London agents of Bombay Company Limited;
  • Chrestian and Company, mica producers, India;
  • DP Investments Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of DP Investments Limited: Development Participations Limited;
  • Glazebrook, Steel and Company Limited, textile manufacturers, Manchester;
  • Hermes Securities Limited;
  • subsidiaries and associates of Hermes Securities Limited: Hermes Credit Corporation Limited;
  • Kerosene Oil Company Limited;
  • Leslie and Anderson Limited;
  • Malaysian Company Limited;
  • Tannadine Company Limited, Sumatra;
  • Wallace and Adam Limited, agricultural equipment importers, Kenya;
  • subsidiaries and associates of Wallace and Adam Limited: Kiu Estate Limited, Ol Pejeta Ranching Company Limited, Pyrita Limited;
  • Wallace and Company, Bombay;
  • Wallace Brothers Developments Limited;
  • Wallace Brothers Finance Limited;
  • Wallace Brothers Nominees Limited;
  • Wallace Evans and Company Limited (known as Wallace Brothers Commodities Limited from 1967).

Manuscript volume containing notes on Robert Whytt's clinical lectures, delivered at Edinburgh University, [1760], taken by an unidentified student. Also includes some 'Directions given by the Physician General at the Havannah to the surgeons of the Army relating to the management of the sick'.

These records comprise account books of funerals performed by John Houghton Wickes, 1816-36 and by John Houghton Wickes and Alfred Nelson Wickes 1840-7 and 1855-66.

Records of the Worshipful Company of Butchers. Apart from deeds, charters and wardens' accounts (the latter starting in 1543/4), the company's records date from the later 17th century; court minutes begin in 1682, freedom admission registers in 1658 and apprentice binding registers in 1654. Other records include Beadles' summoning books; livery books; correspondence; legal case papers; papers relating to charities and charitable bequests; and papers relating to property including inventories.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.

Records of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, 1300? - 2002. IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.

Note that many loose papers, relating to every aspect of the Company's business, and dating from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century, were gathered together, sorted and placed in 277 boxes and a further ca.430 bundles by the Company in ca.1925-30. Most of these boxes, and all surviving bundles, were deposited in the Manuscripts Section in 1996, and their arrangement has been retained with minimal alteration as Mss 34100-1. For schedules of these papers see Ms 34102. Readers should therefore be alert to the possibility that papers on any particular subject of interest to them may be contained within these two series, but obscured because the online catalogue does not include the detailed list contained in Ms 34102, though cross-references from the rest of the catalogue have been provided where possible.

Written permission from the Clerk of the Company is required for access to post-1965 material deposited in the Manuscripts Section, and for a few items of an earlier date which remain confidential.

Records of the Merchant Taylors' School include constitutional documents, minutes, prospectuses, register sof pupils and staff, reports to the Company, accounts, correspondence, legal papers, photos and plans, catalogues of the library and other miscellaneous administrative papers. Note that Ms 34100, the series of miscellaneous documents in numbered boxes, contains various documents about Merchant Taylors' School and/or St John's College, Oxford: see Ms 34100/70, 111-4, 121, 139, 147, 156, 158, 160-1, 163, 165-70, 181, 191 and 193. So also does Ms 34101, the series of miscellaneous legal papers in numbered bundles: see Ms 34101/20 (bundles 181, 185, 187-8), 21 (bundle 190), 24 (bundle 251), 33 (bundle 381), 34 (bundle 393) and 36 (bundle 409). For plans see as follows: Suffolk Lane: Ms 34214/2, 8; Charterhouse Square: Ms 34214/9-12, 14; Sandy Lodge: Ms 34214/13, 15. Further plans may be in the plan books (Mss 34216-23). The records were deposited with the records for the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1996. They were catalogued by members of the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library.

Records of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers, 1365-1961. The records of the Company include registers of freedom admissions from 1694; apprentice bindings from 1571; charters; Court minute books; quarterage books; financial accounts; letter books and deeds and other papers relating to properties.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.

Papers of Helena Wright including correspondence, papers and photographs: personal and re family planning movement, 1920s-1970s, and alternative medicine, 1970s.

Records of Yule, Catto and Company Limited comprising financial accounts, correspondence and a brief history of the company.