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Collection of Sir John Vivian Dacie, [1930-1936], contain articles of clothing and photographs dating from Dacie's time on the King's College Hospital cricket team. The collection notably comprises a pair of wicket keeper's gloves, [1930-1936]; cricket blazer, [1930-1936]; two cricket caps [1930-1936]; photograph of the cricket team [1930-1936]; King's College Hospital scarf [1930-1936] and black and white photographs of blood cells taken through a microscope.

The collection comprises a copy of a diary compiled by the surgeon Harold Edwards in 1939, specifically describing the emergency arrangements undertaken at King's College Hospital with the outbreak of war. Edwards was in charge of implementing these plans and the diary outlines these and the reactions and opinions of staff between September and October 1939.

Papers, 1891-1960, including an alphabetical index of private pupils of Willoughby Lyle, 1891-1901; manuscript summary of the career of Katherine Henrietta Monk, Matron, King's College Hospital, submitted to Lyle by Alice Little, Sister, King's College Hospital, 1939; obituaries mainly from The Lancet , of Philip Franklin, otolaryngologist, John Alexander Drake, Physician for Diseases of the Skin, King's College Hospital, Francis Henry Mosse, medical missionary, and others, 1926-1952; pamphlet biography of William Frederick Danvers Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden, comprising obituaries and memorials from a number of newspapers and an address at his funeral at Remenham Church, 1928; a brief biography by Lyle of Professor Robert Bentley Todd, Physician to King's College Hospital, [1928].

Records of King's College Hospital, 1562-1999, comprising the governing and management bodies' and sub-committees' minutes and papers, 1839-1976; files of senior administrative staff including the Hospital Secretary, House Governor and District Administrator, 1853-1990; title deeds and other legal documents, 1562-[1970]; registers, indexes and inventories, 1879-1980; Medical School papers, 1833-1997, including the Medical Society/Listerian Society, the Clubs and Societies Union, and the Medical School Library; private papers of several professors, 1834-1988, including Albert Carless, Arthur Edmunds, Sir (Harold Arthur) Thomas Fairbank, and Herbert Willoughby Lyle; case notes, 1820-1959; ephemera, 1742-1998, including programmes for ceremonies and events, Hospital serials and publications, appeals and publicity, photographs and press cuttings; minutes and annual reports of the Friends of King's College Hospital, 1955-1988; Hospital accounts, 1961-1981; records of the Thrombosis Research Unit, [1972-1996]; records of the Nightingale Institute, 1813-1999.

Manuscript volume of summary surgical lecture notes compiled by Professor Albert Carless, 1907-1911, possibly for the instruction of nurses, under a wide variety of headings comprising surgical bacteriology and its manifestation in the descriptions of the types and treatment of skin lesions, gangrene, ulcers, septicaemia and tetanus; the treatment of arterio-venous wounds, aneurysms and haemorrhages, and the diagnosis and treatment of gastric ulcers and carcinomas, peritonitis and injuries to the abdominal walls; skeletal abnormalities including rickets, inflammation of the bone and spinal incongruities, syphilis and skull fractures. The collection also includes loose pages listing the subject of individual lectures.

Manuscript volume entitled 'Abnormalities of Development', comprising anatomical notes on a variety of foetal defects including conjoined twins, limb malformation, malformations of the blood vascular system and cyclopia, [1871-1917].

Typescript papers concerning hospital reform with particular reference to King's College Hospital, including preferred co-operation between hospitals and public provident dispensaries, 1905-1906; proposals from the British Medical Association designed to correct perceived abuses in the charitable status of hospitals, 1906-1909; report by the King Edward's Hospital fund for London into the treatment of out-patients in London hospitals, 1911-1912; papers relating to the relocation of King's College Hospital to Camberwell comprising building design alterations, finance committee reports and press releases, 1906-1912; Medical Committee reports on teaching at the Hospital and the organisation of the Medical School, 1907-1914; correspondence between Nestor Tirard and the British Medical Association on the management of the Association and on the treatment of children in voluntary hospitals, 1909-1911.

Papers, 1858-1937, relating to hermaphroditism and hypospadias, particularly concerning their surgical treatment, including correspondence, photographs, diagrams, case notes, case histories, articles from medical journals, newspaper cuttings and text; typed instructions, [1920], with diagrams, for various minor surgical procedures; notes on a surgical procedure [plastic surgery] for the eye area, [1920].

Collection consists of photographs taken by William Speed Hayman of Joseph Lister and his colleagues with related correspondence and Hayman's personal papers. Comprises one file of photographs of Joseph Lister and his colleagues in King's College Hospital, Portugal Street taken by Hayman 1890-1891; one file of correspondence between Miss Morwenna Hayman, daughter of William Speed Hayman, Walter Frank Gunn, Secretary of the King's College London Medical School, and Herbert Willoughby Lyle, author of King's and some King's men (London, 1935), relating to the photographs of Joseph Lister and his colleagues, and the identification of the personalities in the photographs, 1952-1953; article from King's College Hospital Gazette, Christmas 1952, relating to the above photographs and one file of ephemera including King's College School assessment reports for Hayman, 1876-1877; series of admission cards for King's College London Medical Department, 1877-1883; receipts for payment of fees by Hayman for classes at St Thomas's Hospital and Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, 1884-1885; mark sheets for Hayman at King's College London Medical Department, 1877-1882; British Museum Reading Room admission ticket, 1881; certificates of proficiency and attendance at classes in midwifery, vaccination, The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, and the Society of Apothecaries of London, 1884-1889; University of London Bachelor of Medicine Pass List, 1890; Medical Registration Certificate, 1890; testimonials for Hayman by the Dean of the Medical Faculty, John Curnow, and Lionel Smith Beale, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, 1891; photograph of Hayman, 1900; fabric blazer badge of King's College mascot, Reggie the lion.

One file of miscellaneous papers relating mainly to obstetrics, and comprising rough notes on embryology, the staining of blood, the condition of bones, and sketching the topography of the brain, 1899; a list of examination questions from the Royal College of Physicians of London and Royal College of Surgeons of England midwifery exam, 10 July 1902; King's College London Faculty of Medicine Tanner Prize examination question paper on obstetrics, 16 July, 1902; list of questions from the King's College London Faculty of Medicine Obstetric Medicine Prize Class Examination, 17 July, 1902; two examination appointment cards for Cheatle issued by the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons for examinations leading to membership of the Colleges, taking place at the Exam Hall, Victoria Embankment, London, 14, 21 October 1903; programme sheet for a complimentary dinner in honour of Sir William Watson Cheyne at the Waldorf Hotel, London, 17 July 1908; circular from the Ministry of Health on orthopaedic services and on tetanus antitoxin,10 August 1946; an errata page from a printed formulary; typescript summaries of the symptoms and treatment of nasal catarrh and the means of avoiding accidental haemorrhage of the placenta [1945-1951]; photograph, probably late nineteenth century showing reclining clergyman in a walled garden, probably a cathedral or university cloister.

Papers, 1914-1961, including correspondence, mainly between Fairbank and Hubert Lyon-Campbell Wood, Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon, King's College Hospital, on various cases such as oxycephaly, cystic changes in the femora, dislocation of the elbow, Fairbank's birthday dinner, 1956, 1935-1961; scrapbook containing signatures of guests at dinners held in honour of Fairbank, 1936-1956; list of Fairbank's publications, 1957; articles by Fairbank reprinted from medical journals, including 'Dysplasia epiphysealis multiplex', 'Fibrocystic disease of the bone', 'Haemangioma of bone', 1914-1956; programme of a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section on Orthopaedics, with abstract of a paper by Fairbank on the internal derangement of the knee in children and adolescents, 1936; newspaper cuttings of Fairbank's obituaries and memorial service programmes, 1961; a brief typescript biography describing Fairbank's time at King's College Hospital, by Lyon-Campbell Wood, 1961.