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Collection comprises copies of correspondence, lecture notes and ephemera relating to the career of Charles Bloxam, including correspondence with other chemists such as John Frederic Daniell, Professor of Chemistry, King's College London, Sir Frederick Augustus Abel and Professor August Wilhelm Hofmann, Director of the Royal College of Chemistry, especially concerning the properties of electricity, the publication of chemistry text books by Bloxam and Abel, and the education received by Bloxam at the Royal College, 1834-1929; correspondence relating to the management of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and Bloxam's resignation as lecturer, 1856-1882; papers concerning Bloxam's tenure at King's College London, notably including reference to the reorganisation of the teaching of chemistry at King's, 1854-1873; working papers on the teaching of chemistry at King's, including outlines of the content of lectures and syllabuses, 1846-1871; lecture notes on the properties of allotropes of carbon, the calcium group of earth metals, metals in solution and solutions of acids and non- metallic bodies, 1870-1887; notebook compiled by Bloxam describing a wide variety of basic experiments including the the decomposition of water, distillation of coal and the fermentation of sugar, [1870-1887]; texts of various lectures delivered by Bloxam, 1858-1865; accounts relating to the supply of laboratory equipment to King's College and with John Churchill, Bloxam's publishing company, 1832-1890; school report for Bloxam, 1842-1846; documentation relating mainly to the funeral and marriage arrangements of family members, 1856-1872; obituaries and biography of Bloxam by David Ian Davies, published in Analytical Proceedings , August, 1981.

Experimental notebook thought to be kept by Bloxam with sketches, comprising descriptions of lectures on a diverse collection of experiments including the decomposition of water, the properties of hydrogen and carbonates, the distillation of coal and on the manufacture of gunpowder; experiments involving various metals including copper, lead, bismuth, gold, silver, platinum, mercury and arsenic; brief list of 1196 rudimentary experiments notably involving the combustion of oxygen, properties of lime light and the collection of carbon dioxide from the fermentation of sugar; inventory of equipment for the use of students in particular experiments

Photocopies of accounts and correspondence between Bloxam and Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, and J & A Churchill (John Churchill), medical publishers, for the printing, binding and advertising of various chemistry textbooks by the authors including Handbook of chemistry (London, 2nd edition, 1865), and Laboratory teaching (London, 1874)

Photocopies of financial accounts of instrument maker John Newman with King’s College London for quantities of laboratory equipment

Photocopies of correspondence between John Frederic Daniell, Professor of Chemistry, King’s College London, William Snow Harris, electricity pioneer, John Pereira, pharmacologist, and Charles Lyell, late Professor of Geology, King’s College London, principally on lightning, lightning conductors and electro magnets

Photocopies of miscellaneous personal and professional correspondence between Bloxam, Sir Frederick Augustus Abel and others including the publication of chemistry textbooks, the death of Abel and drafts of poetry

Photocopies of correspondence relating to the Royal College of Chemistry, including the report of Professor August Wilhelm Hofmann, Director of the College, assessing the quality of its instruction, 1846; correspondence between Hofmann and William Bloxam, Charles Bloxam’s father, regarding his son’s education, 1846-1856, including testimonials; ode entitled ‘Random Recollections of the Royal College of Chemistry’

Photocopies of correspondence mainly relating to the career of Bloxam at King’s College London but also including his candidature for the Chair of Natural Science at Melbourne University, Australia, 1854; appointment to the Chair of Practical Chemistry at King’s, 1856; proposals for the reorganisation of the teaching of chemistry at King’s, and Bloxam’s appointment to the Chair of Chemistry, 1870, including copy of a letter from the Principal of King’s College, Alfred Barry, 1868-1873

Photocopies of correspondence relating to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, at which Bloxam lectured, 1858-1882, principally administrative, but also including a copy of Bloxam’s pamphlet entitled On the present condition of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich (London, 1882), criticising the disruptive and unruly behaviour of students at the Academy, including their erection of obscene murals and an attempt to blow up the east wing of the building by means of a gas explosion, with correspondence from supporters of Bloxam’s opinions and copies of review articles from The Times and The Woolwich Gazette, 1882

Photocopies of lecture notes on the properties of various allotropes of carbon, including graphite and diamond, 1870-1886; copies of lecture notes on the forms and properties of the calcium group of alkaline earth metals, 1886-1887; working papers by Bloxam describing the preparation and analysis of a variety of compounds or minerals including manganese ore, potassium dichromate and brass; on alkaloids; a series of tables on the analysis of various metals in solution, metallic precipitates formed by chemical processes, and on solutions of acids and non-metallic bodies

Photocopies of miscellaneous papers comprising a chart illustrating the exchange rates of various currencies with the pound sterling; manuscript translations by Frederica Bloxam of Heinrich Hoffmann’s children’s tale, Der Struwwelpeter

Photocopies of mark sheets and admission card for Bloxam issued by King’s College School, 1842-1846; obituaries of Bloxam, 1887; receipts and other documentation relating mainly to the funeral arrangements of family members including Bloxam; biography of Bloxam by David Ian Davies, Department of Chemistry, King’s College London, published in Analytical Proceedings, August 1981

Photocopies of papers relating to the teaching of chemistry at King’s College London, principally summaries of the organisation of lessons and syllabuses

Photocopies of private and family correspondence, notably including letters between Bloxam and his son Arthur

Photocopy of diary comprising mainly working agenda and an outline itinerary of lectures and experiments

Photocopies of inaugural address to medical students on the value of a medical education, with comparisons with the study of chemistry, October 1858; introductory lecture by Bloxam at the opening of evening classes at King’s College London, 1862; poem entitled The Feast of the Blues describing contemporary chemists and their work, 1865; address on the causes and possible remedies for explosions in coal mines, nd