Papers, c1909-1976, of Sister Gladys Stephenson, comprising diary of journey to China, 1915; journals of visits to Korea and Peking, 1926, 1936 and undated; journal of her time in the internment camp, 1942-1945; diaries recording daily events, 1946-1971; long letter from Gladys Stephenson, 1945, from the Shanghai internment camp recounting her experiences, and typescript copies; manuscript and typescript accounts of a journey to Hong Kong, Malaya and the Holy Land, 1961; other typescript and manuscript notes, accounts, or addresses by Gladys Stephenson recounting her experiences, largely undated, including one relating to the great floods (1931); two photographs of a chapel used by the Methodist hospital, Hankow, and papers relating to a stained glass window, 1940; printed material on Christianity, missionary work and missionaries, nursing and training, and other aspects of life in China, including hospitals in Hankow, 1909-1976, largely dating, 1920s-1960s.

Papers, 1828-[1933], of Samuel Palmer and his wife Sarah, comprising memo book, dated 1828, including diary entries on the journey to South Africa, 1829, various accounts, lists of equipment, and other notes, many entries undated; letter from Samuel Palmer to John Dunman concerning his wife, preparations for the voyage to Africa, and ordination, 1829; account of travels in southern Africa [by Mrs Palmer], 1830; letter from Mrs Palmer to her family following her husband's death, 1846; manuscript copy of an obituary notice of Samuel Palmer from the Watchman [1846]; account of journey from South Africa to St Helena [by Mrs Palmer], 1853, with a short inventory of children's clothes appended; typescript copy [1933] of the couple's marriage certificate (1829); manuscript notes on the lives of Samuel and Sarah Palmer [early 20th century].

Papers, 1786-1875, of John and Sarah Thomas, including John Thomas's journals and memoranda books, 1821-1875, including his religious reflections, life in England and Tonga, and missionary work; sermon notes, undated; manuscripts on Tonga and the South Seas, including mythology, religion, history, and ranks of chiefs, undated; photographs, prints and drawings, most unlabelled, of people and places in Tonga, undated [1820s-1850s?]; two accounts of the life of Sarah Thomas by John Thomas [1867 or after]; miscellaneous correspondence, 1825-1873, of John and Sarah Thomas, including letters from John Thomas to Wesleyan Mission House; journals of Sarah Thomas (née Hartshorn), 1826-1855, including her experiences in Tonga; account book for building a new Methodist chapel in Glasgow, 1786-1792; steward's account book, 1813-1820, of the Methodist Society, Glasgow, including Leaders' meetings minutes, 1813-1820.

Journals, 1873-1890, of Samuel Goodyer, describing his training, preparations for missionary work in Jamaica, religious practices including preaching and praying, his reading, the journey to Jamaica, missionary work and impressions of Jamaica, and his return to England.

Photocopies of journals, 1887-1889, of A J Mounteney Jephson, comprising Books One to Four, giving a detailed description of activities of H M Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, including the journey via Zanzibar, and the hardships faced. Book Three includes copies of some of Stanley's correspondence. Book Four, covering April to [October] 1889, is less detailed than Books One to Three, and less accurately dated. With typescript transcriptions of the journals [1960s] for Dorothy Middleton's published edition.

Manuscript journals, Aug 1946-Sep 1948, of Philip Rounds, including the period while he worked for the teak merchants McGregor & Co in Toungoo, Burma (Myanmar), containing detailed daily entries including religious reflections, his preparations and journey to Burma, work and life there, and trip home via Africa, also including notes of letters sent and finances. Also includes miscellaneous inserted ephemera, some undated, including invitations, advertisements for hotels, and press cuttings.

Papers, 1919-1990, of and relating to John Emmett Woodall and Tientsin Grammar School (TGS).
Papers, 1927-1946, of John Emmett Woodall comprise applications for positions at the TGS and contracts of employment, 1927-1937; correspondence and papers, 1941-1943, relating to the occupation of the TGS by the Japanese; correspondence and papers, 1942-1945 and undated, relating to the Woodall's family's case for repatriation after internment; personal correspondence, 1935-1942, including two letters from Woodall to his parents; applications for employment in the UK, 1945-1946.
Records, 1919-1990, of and relating to Tientsin Grammar School comprise publications, 1919-1938, 1990 and undated, including prospectuses, Speech Day pamphlets, and alumni magazines; school documents, 1926-1942 and undated, relating to student numbers, examinations, finance, school activities, and text books, and including school journal and order of examination of Daphne Payne, 1928; press cuttings on the TGS, 1928-1939, 1982; photographs, 1919-1941, including staff, students, school activities and buildings, and miniature photographs of scenes in Tientsin (Tianjin), including floods and Japanese bombing; miscellaneous papers and ephemera, 1928-1940, 1978-1987 and undated, relating to the TGS and its alumni and to Tientsin, including the flood (1939).

Papers, c1910-1983, of Sir Ralph Turner.

Papers relating to his military experience comprise leave pass, Cambridge University Officer Training Corps, undated, c1910 (Ref: 1); volume containing manuscript 'Diary of Small Events', 1915-1917, compiled from war diary, battalion orders, Turner's letters, and diaries of other soldiers, containing brief entries on subjects including work and personnel changes, with some days blank (Ref: 2), and another volume containing a similar manuscript diary, 1917-1919 (Ref: 3); file containing typescript and manuscript notes, correspondence, maps, and other documents on military action in Egypt and the Middle East, 1915-1919, including personnel, awards and casualties, also including papers, 1919-1922, relating to a proposed history of the battalion 2nd/3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles (Ref: 4); file containing typescript and manuscript notes and texts and cutting on military action in Palestine, 1917-1918, including later copies of other participants' accounts (Ref: 5).

Language papers comprise a bound manuscript, 'Dvâvimúatyavadâna', 1911, collected from 9 manuscripts in various locations (Ref: 6); file on the Dvâvimúatyavadânakathâ, containing loose manuscript and typescript notes and texts, undated (Ref: 7); notebook entitled 'Dvâváúatyavadânakathâ Notes', containing numbered manuscript notes (index), with additional notes inserted, undated (Ref: 8); postcard on language to Turner from Jules Bloch, 1913 (Ref: 9); file entitled 'IA Introduction', containing manuscript notes and texts on Indo-Aryan languages, including lectures, largely undated [1920s or after] (Ref: 10); draft letter from Turner to [Sir Edward Denison?] Ross, 1926, on Turner's edition of the Dvavimúatyavadânakathâ manuscripts (Ref: 11); two letters from C E A W Oldham and three letters from Turner to Oldham, 1936, concerning place-names in Indic languages, and Turner's appointment [presumably as Director of the School of Oriental Studies] (Ref: 12); letter to Turner from J C Powell-Price, 1962, concerning various matters relating to India and Asia (Ref: 13); copy of a typescript foreword by J Brough to a collection of articles by Turner, undated [before 1983] (Ref: 14).

Copies of five plans and one drawn view of the School of Oriental Studies, 1938 (Ref: 15).

Papers relating to Turner's death comprise two letters from his daughter Audrey [Turner] to 'Clifford' [Wright?] concerning his death, 1983 (Ref: 16); printed order of thanksgiving service in memory of Turner, 1983 (Ref: 17).

Letters, diaries, drafts of published works, papers and photographs, 1917-1980, of William Gawan Sewell, relating largely to his time in China. Material on the West China Union University includes histories, brochures, detailed descriptions, plans and photographs.

Papers, 1924-c1958, of James Philip Mills, comprising correspondence, diaries, reports, lecture notes and articles, relating to his experiences in North East India, and his later teaching and research on the area.

Small group of papers of Joseph Payne (1808-1876) and of his family including his sons (Joseph) Frank Payne (1840-1910) and John Burnell Payne (1839-1869) and his father-in-law the Rev John Dyer. The collection comprises Joseph Frank Payne's personal copies of the volumes of his father's work which he edited, namely Lectures on the History of Education (1892) and Lectures on the Science and Art of Education (1883); bound copy of Joseph Frank Payne's Harveian Oration, entitled 'Harvey and Galen', 1897; manuscript journal of Joseph Payne, Jan-Apr 1825; sermon given by Edward Steane on the death of the Rev John Dyer, 1841; printed testimonials in favour of Rev John Burnell Payne, candidate for the Profressorship of English Literature and History at Owen's College, Manchester, 1866; photograph of Joseph Payne; printed sermon given by William Steadman on the death of the Rev James Dyer, 1797; family notebooks, 1821-1828, some on literary subjects; correspondence, including of John Burnell Payne with Mrs Lewes [George Eliot]; various notes, journal entries, reflections and verse in different hands.

Two volumes of handwritten memoires describing the life of Amelia Archer on the Pampas in detail. There are 7 photographs of family groups and six postcards of scenes in the Pampas and at Punta Arenas held, also correspondence with Reading Museum, in a separate envelope.

Papers of Hugh Robert Mill including manuscript and printed papers relating to Antarctic whaling expeditions; collection of approximately 200 letters to Mill from officers of the Royal Geographical Society chiefly concerning the affairs of the RGS, 1847-1944; collection of approximately 800 letters to Mill from geographers, travellers cartographers and others, 1833-1944; 'Daily Doings', two volumes, 1861-1919 and 1920-1945, which briefly record the events of each day, contain lists of Mill's published works and the appointments he held, and are indexed by personal and place names.

Diaries of Sir Keith George Jackson, 1868-1916, which include records of some long periods of residence in Argentina as an estancia owner. Also includes some periods of residence in England and Canada. One of the volumes contains photographs of Jackson with companions.

Copies of the travel journals of Sir David Wedderburn, 1866-1892, including Vol 1: 1866, United States, Canada, Atlantic passages; Vol 1A: 1868, Ireland; 1873, France, Germany, Luxembourg; Vol 2: 1869, Hungary, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt; Vol 3: 1870-1871, France, Spain, Gibraltar; 1873, Algeria; Vol 3A: 1871-1872, France, Switzerland, Italy; Vol 3B: 1872-1873 Austria, Channel Islands; Vol 4: 1874, Ceylon. Australia; Vol 5: 1874, Australia, and New Zealand; Vol 6: (Missing); Vol 7: 1876-1877 India; Vol 8: 1877-1878, Ceylon, Java, China, Japan; Vol 9: 1877, Japan and USA, June 1878 Iceland; Vol 10: 1878 Denmark, Russia, Greece, Italy: Vol 11: 1880, Brittany, Ireland, Russia, Pyrenees; Vol 12: 1881-1882 South Africa and a 'Life Sketch' of Sir David Wedderburn 1835-1882, by D A Percival.

Papers of Sir Samuel White Baker including diaries (which include sketches) of expeditions to the Upper Nile between 1861 and 1873, and notes on hunting in Ceylon 1844-1853; cash book for 1869; observations taken in Central Africa, 1860-1873 and papers and letters to John Petherick (1863) and Mr Kerrison (1873).

Records relating to the Nursery School, Camp School, and Rachel McMillan College, [1860]-1977, comprising copy photographs of Deptford Health Centre, School Clinic and patients, views of Albury Street and residents, scenes of Girls' and Boys' Camps, Rachel McMillan Nursery School, visits by Queen Mary to the School, [1910-1929]; legal and financial papers, including wills and deeds, bequests, shares and bonds, off site properties and accommodation; Camp School Committee and Nursery School Committee minutes, [1910s]; College log books, 1923-1929; Nursery School log books, 1923-1928, 1954-1963;

student teaching practice and course notes, [1938];

Nursery School and Camp School pupil events and activities; visitations and inspections; publications and prospectuses; press cuttings; recollections of former students;

minutes of Rachel McMillan College Governors' meetings, 1930-1977; minutes of the Academic Council, 1957-1977; papers relating to the transfer of the College to the Inner London Education Authority, [1960s], and to Goldsmiths' College, [1970s] ;

photographs of the nursery school, School Clinic, nurse at work in the School Clinic, exterior and interior views of Albury Street, Deptford, the first Deptford Health Centre/School Clinic, [1910-1911].

Papers relating to Margaret McMillan and and the McMillan family, comprising copy correspondence, notes and articles, photographs, including of Rachel and Margaret McMillan and other family members, [1860-1917], press cuttings (originals at Lewisham); reminiscences of ex-students and friends about Margaret McMillan; books and pamplets by Margaret McMillan (most of this material is copied from originals held at Lewisham Local Studies Centre).

Papers of Madeline Payne (1879-1962), concert pianist and former student of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, including correspondence, photographs, programmes, articles and newspaper cuttings, 1893-1957.

Papers of Major Harry Ronald Jacobs and his father Hyman Jacobs acquired during their service as Common Councilmen, including programmes and menus from Corporation and linked functions, 1938-1966; programmes and menus from non-Corporation functions including London County Council 1960, Freemasons 1948-1965, Bassishaw Ward 1962, Portsoken Ward 1946-1963, Livery Companies: Haberdashers' Company 1960-1961, Paviors' Company 1947-1966, Skinners' Company no date [c. 1950s?], Solicitors' Company 1960, Wheelwrights' Company 1964, City Pickwick Club 1962-1966, City University 1966, United Synagogue Orders of Service 1960; official Corporation publications and guides; art, library and museum catalogues 1950-1965; brochures from the Festival of the City of London 1962-1966; and publication The Corporation of the City of London and the First Twelve of the Great City Guilds in the Diamond Jubilee Year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897. Also Broker's Medal of Charles Telford, 1841.

Custumals including the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, an historical, political and domestic chronicle covering 1188-1274, compiled in 1274; the Liber Horn, made in 1311 under the direction of Andrew Horn, City Chamberlain, containing transcripts of charters, statutes, grants, customs, charters of companies and towns, precedents, oaths, writs and the "Laws of Oleron" [code of maritime regulation, written 1150]; the Liber de Assisa Panis containing the customs, regulations and punishments connected with the Assize of Bread, 1293-1438; the Liber Ordinationum, a volume of ordinances, customs, legal treatises and statutes from Magna Carta (1215) to 1330; the Liber Custumarum, a volume of City customs, laws, charters, proceedings and municipal regulations, 1324?; the Carte Antique, illuminated transcripts of charters and statutes, 1327-1498; the Statuta Antiqua Angliae, a copy of the Carte Antique covering the period 1327-1430; the Decretales Gregorii Papae, compilation of decretals [papal decrees] promulgated in 1235, with glosses upon the text; the Liber Dunthorn, containing transcripts of charters and extracts from Letter Books and other City records, compiled under the direction of William Dunthorn, Town Clerk, 1474?; the Liber Fleetwood, presented to the City by William Fleetwood, Recorder, 1576, containing information on the Courts of Law and the Mayor, Aldermen and other officers in the year 1576, as well as the liberties, franchises and customs of the City, the liberties, customs and charters of the Cinque Ports [Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich], the Queen's prerogative in the salt shores and the liberties of Saint Martin le Grand; the Liber Albus, compiled under the direction of John Carpenter, Town Clerk, 1419, containing information regarding customs, laws, social conditions, trade and the general conduct of a municipality; the Liber Legum [or Liber Legum Civitatis], extracts from the City Letter Books, 1342-1590; the Liber Lynne, transcripts of deeds of the possessions of the families of Lawneye and Wyth in Lynne, London and Southwark, 1281-1452; proceedings in the Star Chamber with extracts from charters, statutes, inquisitions and other authorities as to the preservation of the navigation of the River Lea, particularly in relation to Waltham Bridge, 1524 and a book containing proceedings against the Hanse merchants of the Steelyard [Hanse merchants traded with foreign ports] resulting in loss of their privileges, 1551-1556, with papers added in relation to the exemption of the Steelyard from assessments and taxes, 1653-1699.

Recognizances of debts, 1285, 1291-1296, 1298-1299, 1309-1311, 1313-1317, 1345-1346, 1363-1364, 1377-1393.

Recognizances of freemen and sureties, [1436-1497]

Miscellaneous recognizances on bonds, [1612-1685].

Registers and day books of burials in consecrated or church ground and unconsecrated or chapel ground, 1841-1952, showing name, abode, when buried, age, place of burial, when and by whom buried, private vault or grave, purchased monuments and where placed (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilms X64/1-41); fee books, 1902-1966, including remarks, registrar, sub-district, date of certificate, digger, stone, bill number, name of deceased, age, time, depth, received by, minister, undertaker, secretary's signature, price, description of graves, square position (not always), size of coffin, undertaker's commission, amount; registers of private graves, 1841-1941, showing number of graves, description of place of burial, date and consideration of grant, names and addresses of purchasers, name and description of person interred, year and number (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilms X64/42-46); registers of public graves, 1900-1965, showing number, date, name, age and time of burial (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilm X64/47); register of private grave transfers, 1938-1966, showing transfer number, date, grave number, transfer from/to, address and remarks; correspondence relating to private graves; incumbents' account book, divided parish by parish, 1922-1966, and plans of the graves.

Also deeds and legal papers, 1841-1898; report to Directors by Committee of Proprietors appointed by an Extraordinary Court, to investigate expenditure and general state of the Company's affairs, 1843; report to Directors by Henry George Haywood on proposals for draining the cemetery, 1857; correspondence relating to staffing, sewers and the East London Eastern Extension Railway, 1849-1871; bills, 1841-1897; specification for sewers and roads, with sections, 1884; plans of cemetery including proposed southern extension, 1800s; impression in red wax of seal of Company, 1841; legal records, 1844-1942.

Records of Bacon's Free School, Bermondsey, including copy of Josiah Bacon's will; copies of Chancery orders relating to the school; copy of articles of agreement for building the school; leases, releases and assignments of annuity relating to school property; minutes of Governor's and Trustee's meetings; financial records; reports; and school log-books.

Address by John Wilkes to voters in Middlesex where he was standing for Parliamentary election, delievered from the Kings Bench Prison where he was imprisoned for seditious libel, 1769.

This collection consists of the papers and correspondence of James Hayward of Bridgewater, a wholesale confectioner, and one of the most energetic of Joanna's followers in the West Country, with a wide circle of correspondents throughout the country, 1789-1888. He also collected, during the middle and later nineteenth century, the papers of many other of Joanna's followers, most notably Edmund Baker, who was minister of a chapel held by the sect in Teddington, Middlesex from about 1809 to 1811, and later minister in Dowlish, Somerset. The collection includes a roll of members, and register book for the Teddington chapel and lists of members and signed testimonies from Dowlish and Ilminster. It also includes a large number of printed books by and concerning Joanna, many of them from the libraries of James Hayward and Edmund Baker.

Records of the Edmonton Methodist Church, 1841-1966, including register of baptisms, papers relating to Edmonton Central Hall building work (including blueprints and printing blocks), register of membership, Junior Society class book, minutes, financial records, obituaries, pulpit notice books, circuit preaching plans and directories and tenancy agreements.

Registers of marriages, 1914-1971.

Registers of marraiges, 1905-1931.

Registers of marriage, 1943-1973.

Registers of marriages, 1948-1965.

Registers of marriages, 1929-1939.

Registers of marriages, 1918-1951.

Registers of marriages, 1942-1969.

Registers of marriages, 1926-1961.

Registers of marriages, 1927-1960.

Baptism registers for Bruce Road Central Hall, 1833-1940.

Records of Hayes Methodist Church including Trustees' Meetings Minutes, 1922-1946; Trustees' Accounts, 1909-1920, 1940-1966; Leaders' Meetings Minutes, 1924-1969; Collection Journals, 1920-1977; Women's Bright Hour, 1933-1972; Methodist Guild, 1941-1945; Senior Club, 1950-1974; Queen's Hall Thrift Club, 1959-1980; Missionary Committee, 1934-1965; Pulpit Notices, 1947-1972; Church Registers, 1949-1963; Annual Reports, 1946, 1972; Sunday School, 1924-1976; Orders of Service, 1935-1973; Year Books, 1950-1959; Church Magazines, 1957-1984.

Also records relating to Hayes and Harlington Club for the Blind, 1943-1955 and Barnhill Hill Methodist Church, 1960.

Records of the Whitechapel Methodist Mission, 1876-1978, comprising records of the Whitechapel Station (Circuit), 1897-1975, including quarterly meetings and accounts (Section A); records of the central administration of the social work of the Mission, 1893-1978, including records of the Trustees, Executive Committee, financial records and staff records (Section B); records of the Working Lad's Institute, 1897-1975, including records from before its take over by the Reverend Jackson in 1897, and of its later developments, Whitechapel House Tulse Hill and Whitechapel House Maple Place, including photographs (Section C); records of Brunswick Hall and the Night Shelter, 1900-1970, including some accounts of life as a homeless person in 1926 (Section D); records of the holiday homes, Southend, 1901-1954 (Section E); records of Windyridge Hostel, 1925-1977 (Section F) and records of other stations brought by Revd Jackson to Whitechapel, 1876-1974 (Section G).

Pembroke Road Methodist Church, Friern Barnet, registers of marriage, 1954-1972.

Register of Marriages, 7 Aug 1961-12 May 1979.

Register of Marriages, 1958-1971.

Records of the Upper Holloway Baptist Church, 1867-1982, including Committee of Management minutes and papers; Deacons Meeting minutes and papers; Church Meeting minutes and papers; registers of church members; registers of marriages; financial accounts; papers relating to the Sunday School; papers relating to the Sisterhood Society; papers relating to the Baptist Women's League; papers relating to the Youth Club; papers relating to the Choir; Year Books and papers relating to the Rupert Road Mission Hall.

Marriage register of the Salvation Army Citadel, Adelaide Road, Southall, 1982-1985.

Marriage registers for the following Baptist churches: Broadway Baptist Church, High Street, Hounslow, 1929-1971; Baptist Free Church, Newton Avenue, Acton (known as the South Acton Baptist Church from 1960), 1946-1976; Grange Park Baptist Church, Lansbury Drive, Hayes, 1966-1987; Baptist Chapel, Bridge Street, Staines, 1978 and Baptist Chapel, North Road, Old Brentford, 1981.

Records of the Southall Methodist Mission and associated churches, 1967-1968, including General Committee minutes for the Southall and Uxbridge Mission; Quarterly Meeting minutes and a circuit schedule book for the Southall and Uxbridge Circuit and Quarterly Meeting minutes, circuit schedule book and Local Preachers' Meeting minutes for the Southall Mission.

Records of the King's Hall Methodist Church, Southall, including baptism registers, 1919-1952; Trustees Meeting minutes; Leader's Meeting minutes; membership rolls; collection journals and other financial papers; press cuttings; brochures and booklets; issues of the Church Magazine; photographs; papers relating to the Sunday School; papers relating to the Sisterhood and papers relating to the Women's Work Society.

Records of the Western Road Methodist Church, Southall, including baptism registers, 1937-1967; Trustee's Meeting mintues; financial accounts; membership rolls and photographs.

Marriage registers for Kingdom Hall, Balvernie Grove, Wandsworth, 1957-1991.

Register of marriages for Saint John the Divine Spiritual Baptist Church, Deptford, 1991. (Please note this register contains only one entry).

Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, South Lambeth, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; Parochial Church Council minutes; minutes of the Joint Council of All Saints and Saint Barnabas; financial accounts; and registers of baptisms at Saint Silas Mission Church, Dawlish Street.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Gipsy Hill, Norwood, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and banns; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; records of the Churchwardens; papers relating to the maintenance of the church including faculties; photographs; parish magazines; papers regarding endowments and the benefice; financial records.

Also papers of Saint Jude's Mission Church including preachers' books; account book; and photographs.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, North Brixton, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of preachers; papers relating to the church building including faculties and photographs; financial accounts; administrative papers including minute books; papers relating to parish schools and church societies.