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Manuscript letter to the Secretary of King’s College London from Craven Ord ([1755-1832]), antiquarian and brass-rubber, giving the names of College subscribers in Ongar, Essex.

A rough manuscript draft of the College Charter.

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

A rough draft of the regulations of the College Library.

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 from anonymous authors including a proposal for a site for the new College in Nun Road (between Edgware Road and Oxford Street); a suggestion that students should become missionaries.

Printed copies of E Statutis Collegii regalis Medicorum Excerpta (extracts from the statutes of the Royal College of Physicians, England, in Latin).

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 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 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 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 mainly regarding payments of instalments for shares in 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 an anonymous letter from ‘Rugbiensis’ suggesting the proposed College should be built in the Inner Circle area of Regent’s Park.