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Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including the successful application of Joseph Anstice (1808-1836) for the Chair of Classical Literature (1830-1835); anonymous letter regarding the suitability of Dr Alexander Thompson for an unstated position at 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.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary including anonymous objections against the construction of the College on the vacant site next to Somerset House; Robert Thompson Ambler, Headmaster of Shooting Hill Academy, proposing that a district boarding school should be attached to the College, with a printed circular regarding the Shooting Hill Academy; R Armstrong withdrawing his subscription to the College as he objected to the College being built in ‘the heart of the metropolis’.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including the successful application of Henry Angelo (1780-1852) for the post of Professor of Fencing and Fencing Master at King’s College School; Joseph Anstice (1808-1836) Professor of Classical Literature, thanking College Council for his appointment. Also includes a copy of a statement from the Audit Office regarding a report given to them by Robert Smirke (1780-1867), College Architect, on the construction of the College buildings.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Charles Andrews regarding the inability of Louis Theodore Ventouillac, Professor of French Language and Literature, to deliver any more lectures at the College.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including James Moncrieff Arnott (1794-1885), thanking College Council for his appointment to the Chair of Surgery; Robert Upton, Clerk of the Apothecaries Society, regarding the Society’s desire to donate specimens to the College for the Materia Medica Museum. Also includes a statement regarding the conduct of James Field, a carpenter in the employ of Messer Peto & Grisell, architects.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including William Allsup, Assistant Arithmetic and Writing Master of King’s College School, thanking College Council for appointing him the Arithmetic and Writing Master. Also includes letters regarding the resignation of Henry Appleby, Porter in the Anatomy Room, who was accused of stealing from the College.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Henry Appleby, former Porter in the Anatomy Room, rebutting the accusation that he was stealing from the College; John Allen ([1809]-1886), Lecturer of Mathematics and Chaplain, requesting the College provide blank music books for medical students singing in the Chapel; Henry Angelo (1780-1852), Professor of Fencing, requesting a room in the College is fitted out for the fencing class.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including the resignation of José Maria Ximenez de Alcalà, Professor of Spanish Literature and Language in order to return to Spain; John Allen ([1809]-1886), Lecturer of Mathematics and Chaplain, resigning his Lectureship and requesting payment for his Saturday Greek Testament Lectures; James Moncrieff Arnott (1794-1885), Professor of Surgery, thanking College Council for his appointment as Consulting Surgeon at King’s College Hospital.

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

Applications from students for the AKC (Associateship of King’s College London), the College’s own academic award.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Don Modesto Benito Aguirre offering to teach Spanish at the College (later appointed Spanish Evening Lecturer); David Thomas Ansted (1814-1880), Professor of Geology, announcing his retirement and recommending James Tennant (1808-1881), Professor of Mineralogy, as his replacement.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Michael Carlisle of the Society of Antiquities forwarding volumes of Archaeologia to the College library; John Allen ([1809]-1886), Chaplain, enclosing a list of alms received at Holy Communion at the College Chapel. Also includes a circular regarding ‘Dr Arnott’s thermometer Stove’ manufactured by May and Morrit of Oxford Street, London.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the provision of additional accommodation for students on the College premises.

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

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London comprising of letters regarding the successful application of David Thomas Ansted (1814-1880) for the Chair of Geology, including testimonials from Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), geologist and former Professor of Geology; William Whewell (1794-1866), writer on the history and philosophy of science.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London comprising of enquires for details of the vacant post of Arithmetic and Writing Master at King’s College School.

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including letters from David Thomas Ansted, (1814-1880), Professor of Geology.

Applications from students for the AKC (Associateship of King’s College London), the College’s own academic award.

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