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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 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.

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.

This sub-series also contains papers regarding the Medical Department; Medical Library; applications for posts as masters at King’s College School.

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.

This sub-series also contains letters from the University of London

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

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