Records of Wilkinson Novatex Limited, manufacturers in plastics, including articles of association; minutes, agendas and papers presented; annual reports and accounts; and papers relating to liquidation.

Records of the Borneo Company, as follows:
1.Deed of settlement; memorandum and articles of association: Ms 27174-7;

2. Board, AGM and committee minutes; annual reports and accounts: Ms 27178-90;
3. Secretary's papers: Ms 27191-8;
4. Accounts: Ms 27199-231;
5. Overseas operations records:-
   Agency and general agreements-Ms 27232-43;
   Java and Sumatra-Ms 27244-58;
   Malaya and Singapore-Ms 27259-76;
   Philippines-Ms 27277;
   Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei-Ms 27278-304;
   Siam-Ms 27305-29;
6. Investments, takeovers and subsidiary company papers:-
   Australia-Ms 27330-45;
   Canada -Ms 27346-50;
   Hong Kong-Ms 27351;
   Colombia-Ms 27352;
   Cuba-Ms 27353;
   India-Ms 27354-5;
   Java and Sumatra-Ms 27356-9;
   Malaya and Singapore-Ms 27360-400;
   Netherlands-Ms 27401-2;
   Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei-Ms 27403-19;
   Siam-Ms 27420;
   United Kingdom-Ms 27421-3;
7. Publicity and sales material: Ms 27424-6;
8. Staff records: Ms 27427-43;
9. Property records (London only): Ms 27430-6;
10. Centenary celebrations and notes for centenary history: Ms 27437-43;
11. Photographs: Ms 27444-66;
12. Branch records:-
    Sarawak: Kuching-Ms 27467-70;
    Siam: Bangkok -Ms 27471-4.

Records of Garden Reach Spinning and Manufacturing Company Limited, comprising board meeting minutes.

Records of Gilman (Holdings) Limited, comprising memoranda and agendas for meetings.

Records of MacKinnon, MacKenzie and Company, general merchants and agents of Calcutta, India; comprising: partnership deeds and other records concerning the establishment and regulation of the company, 1854-1955 (Ms 27793-6, 27838-41); private journals, 1929-51 (Ms 27797); correspondence, 1852-1955 (Ms 27798-814) operational records, 1847-1940 (Ms 27815-27); photographs, ca. 1905-31 (Ms 27828-8A); historical notes, c 1860-1955 (Ms 27829-34, 27847); and accounts, 1927-51 (Ms 27835-7, Ms 27842-6, 27848).

Records of Janson, Cobb, Pearson and Company, solicitors. The records fall into 3 broad categories: the general business archives of the firm (Mss 18743-61); the records of partners, relating both to business and family concerns (Mss 18762-75; 18797); and documents deposited with or retained by the firm in the course of its business on behalf of clients (Mss 18776-96). 24 hours notice is required for access to these records.

Records of Joseph Barber and Company Limited, wharfingers and warehouse keepers, comprising constitutional documents, financial material, a list of rates and title deeds. This material requires 24 hours notice for access.

Records of attorneys John Lane, Thomas Lane and John Lane, comprising: account books 1768-1821 (Ms 11453-11453A, 11454-7) , out-letter book 1778-1781 (Ms 11453B) and miscellaneous correspondence and legal papers 1783-1847 (Ms 11457A-B).

Records of Billingsgate Cold Stores Limited, comprising financial accounts.

London Wholesale Fish Trade Limited records comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1940 (Ms 19815); minutes 1940-5 (Ms 19816); and accounts 1940-1 (Ms 19817).

Records of Matthew Clark and Sons, wine and spirit brokers, comprising partnership agreements, 1887-1923; annual reports and accounts, 1948-98; correspondence and other administrative papers, 1804-1992; memoranda books, 1861-c 1930; accounts, 1810-1945; sale catalogues and price lists, 1821-1995; papers concerning operations, 1849-1995; accounts of the directors of the firm, 1888-1970; photographs; staff list; leases and histories of the company, 1847-2005.

Papers of John Michie, director of the East India Company, and Jonathan Michie, wine merchant, comprising personal and East India Company papers, including correspondence, accounts, receipts and memoranda.

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

Records of Parker, Garrett and Company, solicitors, including ledgers, 1928-50; cash books, 1935-1938, and petty disbursement ledgers, 1927-1929. Also records of Rivington and Son, solicitors, including letter book, ledgers, account books and scrapbooks of material relating to the firm.

Records of the Russia Company, including:

• Copies of charters, 1554-1628;
• Court minute books, 1666-1999;
• Financial records, 1699-1995;
• Correspondence, 1879-1943;
• Correspondence and other papers, 1711-1888, 1885-c.1908, 1916-1919, 2005;
• Annual reports, 1905-1953;
• Stamp duty book, 1896-1947;
• Administrative records, 1877-1946;
• Papers relating to the Anglican chaplaincies in Russia, 1894-1917, 1993-7;
• Records of the Council for British Repatriated from Russia, 1919-1932;
• Records of the British Factory, St. Petersburg, 1774-1875.

The records of Searle and Company Limited, jewellers and silversmiths, comprising customer ledgers recording sales to private clients 1896-1968.

24 HOURS NOTICE IS REQUIRED FOR ACCESS TO THESE RECORDS.

Records of Wallace Brothers concerning Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; board minutes; annual reports and accounts; agreements; papers relating to shareholders; correspondence; financial records; and papers relating to branches in Rangoon, Moulmein, Bangkok and Borneo.

Records of T Wiggin and Company, merchants, comprising ledgers 1858-74; waste books 1864-72; out-letter book 1865; correspondence and accounts 1865-72.

Records of William James Barnsdale and Son, watch and clockmakers, comprising order and repair books and accounts, as well as a pedigree of the family from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

Journal of business and private expenditure of John Bridgman, West India merchant.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

Records of the Gresham Club, a City of London dining club. The majority of the records presented to Guildhall Library on the liquidation of the Club in 1991/2 (catalogued as Mss 28834-28864) relate to the Club's time at Abchurch Lane. All Victorian records of the Club, excluding the deed of settlement of 1844 (Ms 28834) and a single notice of annual general meeting of 1845 (Ms 28837), appear not to have survived. The records include constitutional documents, minutes, accounts, records of membership, legal papers, photographs and miscellaneous administrative papers.

The Club's archives also include records of Gresham Club Trustees Ltd (Mss 28861-864), formed in 1915 to administer the lease of the premises at 15-17 Abchurch Lane. It was created to deal with all subsequent property transactions entered into by the Club, and enabled to borrow money, where appropriate, on the strength of the Club's property holdings. For a short history of the Club, written in 1943 for its centenary, see Ms 28856. The background papers used for this history have been catalogued as Ms 28857.

Most of the records are subject to a 30 year closure rule.

Records of the Metropolitan District Nursing Association, formerly the Metropolitan Nursing Association for Providing Nurses for the Sick Poor. The records comprise: minutes and annual reports, 1873-1974 (Ms 14618-24); correspondence and reports, 1876-1974 (Ms 14625-7); agreements 1917-38 (Ms 14628-31, 14811-12); financial records, 1924-74 (Ms 14632-6, 14891-3); and staff records, 1875-1974 (Ms 14637-51). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1973-4. The whereabouts of any further records is unknown.

Minute book of the Fish Trades Consultative Council of London.

Minute books of the Inland Wholesale Fish Merchants Advisory Committee.

Pawnbroking Parliamentary Reform Association records comprising: minutes and reports, 1868-71; telegrams, 1872; and photograph album, 1873. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1987.

Records relating to the Cook's Company, including extracts from the Company records and transcript of the register of freedom admissions and apprentice bindings.

Papers of the Court of Aldermen of the Corporation of London, including cases relating to constables, 1748-1784; extracts from proceedings of the Court of Aldermen, 1532 and 1631; and documents relating to the swearing in (and discharge from) the office of alderman of the ward of Farringdon Within of Thomas Polhill, 1669.

Records relating to the Sheriffs of the Corporation of London; including notes on the duties of office; armorial bearings of the sheriffs, 1470-1638; and papers relating to legal cases.

Books and papers relating to the re-election of Lord Mayor William Cubitt, September-October 1861.

Records of William Mawhood, woollen draper, comprising: diaries, 1764-90; cash account and note book, 1771-2; estate, legal and family papers, 1606, 1709-96; and letters and other papers relating to the diaries, 1875-1910.