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Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including J Bendon recommending that the new College be built on a vacant site east of Chancery Lane; Henry Bathurst ([1744]-1837), Bishop of Norwich, donating £200 to the College; Robert Bourne regarding the College’s rental of No. 2 Parliament Street.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Coutts & Co, bankers, regarding donations of the Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), Duke of Wellington and Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850); Richard Clay offering his services as printer to the College; the Duke of Cambridge regarding an article in John Bull lampooning the College; S Charwick enclosing a list of subscribers at Ripon, North Yorkshire; William Cotton (1786-1866), trustee and founding member of the College, enclosing a rough draft of the plan for setting up the College.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Thomas Farley, Bursar of Magdalen College, Oxford, enclosing the College’s subscription to King’s College; William Blennerhasset Fairman, ([1798]-1837) army officer, proposing an old artillery ground in Goodman’s Fields, Whitechapel, as a suitable site for the proposed College; the unsuccessful application of John Frost (1803-1840) for the Chair of Botany, including the terms of attendance of lectures and practice in the Medical and Surgical School of St. Thomas’s Hospital. Also includes the rough minutes of the Finance Committee.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Stanley Lees Giffard (1788-1868), Editor of the Standard and other newspapers, regarding the College’s relationship with his newspapers; Richard Gilbert offering his services as printer to the College.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including William Howley (1766-1848), Archbishop of Canterbury, suggesting the new College be built near Regent’s Park; Sir Andrew Halliday (1782-1839), physician, naming William Shrubsole as a shareholder; Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846), history painter and diarist, stating his wish to become an annual subscriber to the College; Leonard Horner (1785-1864), Secretary of London University (later University College London), requesting tickets for opening lectures at King’s. Also includes an anonymous letter from a ‘holder of 5 shares in the King’s College’, complaining about education being mixed with politics.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London from John Lane enclosing a donation from the Goldsmiths Company for the proposed College; Joseph Lowe regarding his statistical work for the College Library (later appointed the first Professor of the Principles and Practice of Commerce).

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including James Heywood Markland (1788-1864), College Solicitor, thanking the College for his appointment; John Morrison offering his services as the accountant or clerk in the Secretary’s office; John Masterman recommending Robert Harris as a publisher for the College; anonymous letter from ‘FHM’ informing the College of the benefits of building student residences; Robert Morrell enclosing the donation of the Bishop of Oxford; John Morlock & Sons enclosing the names of subscribers in Cambridge.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including W L Newman enclosing a list of the City Companies; Mr Nichols offering to advertise the College in The Gentleman’s Magazine.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including a lists of all the London Companies with names of clerks and addresses.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including an anonymous letter from ‘Rugbiensis’ suggesting the proposed College should be built in the Inner Circle area of Regent’s Park.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Francis Thackeray (1793-1842) offering books to the College Library; A Thisleton offering a site in ‘Little Chelsea’ with a navigable canal for the site of the new College.

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

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

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including M Young, Editor of The Sun, thanking the College for inserting its advert for subscriptions in his newspaper; the Archbishop of York, Edward Venables Vernon Harcourt (1757-1847), regarding the payment of his subscription.

Manuscript letters and papers to the Secretary of King’s College London including a document entitled ‘Loose thoughts on the Institution of King’s College London’.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Joseph Kay recommending a site for the new College, lying ‘about the same distance as the northern part of the Regent’s Park, from St Paul’s, Hyde Park Corner & Westminster Abbey’; John Knowles requesting permission to dedicate his second edition of his grammatical work to the College.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London in response to a circular from the College seeking new subscribers, apparently sent to district committees of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and agents acting on behalf of the College.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London in response to a circular from the College seeking new subscribers, apparently sent to district committees of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and agents acting on behalf of the College.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Saunders Son & Co informing the College of the names of subscribers in Exeter, Devon; Isaac Shaw requesting his school in Bootle, Lancashire, be brought into union with the College (‘Schools in Union’ were district and other grammar schools which the College awarded an annual scholarship and other privileges); Robert Smirke (1780-1867), architect, regarding the building of the College; Robert Stothard recommending the College create a school of arts. Also includes letters from subscribers to the College and a letter given to the College by Cozen Hardy & Jewsons, solicitors, in 1958, from Henry William Smith ([1788]-1872), Secretary of Morden College (former Secretary of King’s College London, 1829-1845), to William Blake, Norwich acknowledging payment of fee farm rents in Norfolk and informing him about the foundation of King’s College, 1828 Dec 15.

Manuscript letters in English, Italian and French to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the Chair of Italian Language and Literature, including Giuseppi (Joseph) Rossi who was appointed but never took up the post; Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti (1783-1854), Professor of Italian Language and Literature, thanking the College for his appointment; Rossetti’s resignation due to his failing eyesight; applications for the post; notes by a unknown author giving opinions on the suitability of candidates; the successful application of Valerio Pistrucci ([1817]-1883).