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Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of Edgar Thomas Marsh for the post of Master of the Commercial Division of King’s College School.

Manuscript and typescript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of David Sing Capper (1864-1926) for the Chair of Mechanical Engineering.

Manuscript and typescript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of Victor Gustave Plarr (1863-1929) for the post of College Librarian, including testimonials from George Charles Winter Warr (1845-1901), Professor of Classical Literature and Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1849-1912), librarian.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of John Knox Laughton (1830-1915) for the Chair of Modern History, including testimonials from Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe (1814-1906), naval officer; Thomas Archer Hirst (1830-1892), mathematician; Thomas John Main (1818-1885), mathematician; Brooke Lambert (1834-1901), social reformer and Church of England clergyman; and Henry Reeve (1813-1895), translator and magazine editor.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of David Don (1799-1841) for the Chair of Botany, including testimonials from Francis Boott (1792-1863), physician and botanist; Robert Brown (1773-1858), botanist; Sir Robert Christison, first baronet (1797-1882), toxicologist and physician; Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1795-1867), chemist and botanist; Edward Forster, the younger (1765-1849), botanist; Robert Graham (1786-1845), physician and botanist; Robert Kaye Greville (1794-1866), botanist; John Stevens Henslow, (1796-1861), botanist and Church of England clergyman; Thomas Horsfield (1773-1859), physician and naturalist; John Lindley (1799-1865), botanist and horticulturist; Robert Jameson (1774-1854), geologist and natural historian; David Low (1786-1859), Professor of Agriculture at Edinburgh University; Archibald Menzies (1754-1842), naval surgeon and botanical collector; Thomas Stewart Traill (1781-1862), physician and specialist in medical jurisprudence.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the foundation of the Gilbart Lectures on Banking.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of Orlando Haydon Hyman ([1815]-1878) for the Lectureship of Classical Literature.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of Charles Henry Pearson (1830-1894) for the Lectureship of English Language and the Chair of Modern history, including testimonials from John Conington (1825-1869), classical scholar.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London from Robert Harry Inglis (1786-1855) member of the College Council, regarding the conduct of the Medical School and the unsuccessful application of Christopher Irving for the Chair of Experimental Philosophy.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the fitting out of a new drawing school for the School of Fine Art and classrooms built above the George III Museum mainly from Stephen Salter ([1826]-1896), the College architect.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of Victoriano Carrias for the post of Spanish Lecturer in the Evening Classes Department.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of Ernest Lloyd Gardner for the Worsley Scholarship, founded by Maj. Gen. Sir Henry Worsley (1768-1841), for the education of missionaries to India.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London comprising applications for the Chair of Classical Literature.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the application of Mrs Carter for the post of washerwoman at the College.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the proposed amalgamation of the duties of the Curator of the Museum and the attendant in the dissecting room, with letters from Robert Ferguson (1799-1865), Professor of Obstetric Medicine; Joseph Henry Green (1791-1863), Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery; Francis Hawkins (1794-1877), Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London from Leone Levi (1821-1888), Professor of Principles and Practice of Commerce, including a list of his students’ examination results.

Manuscript letters and papers sent to the Secretary of King’s College London from Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840-1899), former Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, regarding his work as the Principal of the Punjab University, Lahore, (formerly the Government College), with a manuscript copy of ‘the National Anthem in Urdu and Persian as circulated in Rawalpindi’.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the Wheatstone Physics Laboratory, mainly from William Grylls Adams, (1836-1915), Professor of Natural Philosophy and Richard Evan Day ([1845]-1928), Lecturer of Experimental Physics.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the successful application of William Dyce (1806-1864) for the Chair of the Theory of Fine Art, including his proposals for conducting his classes.