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Letter from Stephen Demainbray, astronomer, to Isaac Hawkins Browne, Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth, Shropshire, concerning the dedication to King George III of A treatise on the construction and properties of arches (London, 1801) and its Supplement (London, 1804), by George Atwood, Fellow of the Royal Society. [1805]. 1 letter

The collection comprises manuscript notebooks, printed pamphlets, correspondence, a minute book, and photographic and other catalogues, 1768-1970. These notably include notebooks containing descriptions and viewing data relating to astronomical observations carried out at Kew Observatory, Richmond, Surrey, on behalf of King George III, with a printed pamphlet by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, entitled Observations of the transit of Venus over the Sun , 1768-1769; manuscript notebook containing measurements recorded during a test of the accuracy of the H5 chronometer designed by John Harrison, 1772; manuscript notebooks recording daily temperature, barometric, hygrometric and rainfall readings taken at Kew Observatory, Richmond, Surrey, 1773-1840; a printed pamphlet by George Atwood, Fellow of the Royal Society, entitled A Supplement to 'A treatise on the construction and properties of arches' (London, 1804), with manuscript dedication to King George III and related correspondence, 1804-1805; a folio signature book of visits by dignitaries to the George III Museum, 1843-1929; manuscript diary describing the work of the George III Museum including the upkeep of equipment and use of exhibits in experiments, 1850-1880; manuscript minutes of the George III Museum Committee charged with managing the collection, 1880-1885; catalogues relating to the collection, [1841-1970]; correspondence by George Calver, astronomer, relating to telescope design, 1897; series of copper plates and labels advertising the George III Museum, [1841-1926].

Report to the Medical Research Council (MRC), Dec 1952, on the progress of research in the MRC Biophysics Research Unit, King’s College London, including the findings to date in nucleic acid research by Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling (Max Perutz, on the MRC Biophysics Research Committee, passed the information to Francis Crick and James Watson, Cavendish Laboratory,Cambridge). Also photocopy first page of a MRC report, [1951], including information on Wilkins’ research using ultraviolet microscopy and microspectrography

Large anatomical illustrations on the back of a list relating to statistics on medical education. 2 illustrations

Correspondence with scientific colleagues, including Arne Engstrom, Korolinska Institute, Sweden, Cyril Domb, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Dieter Middendorf Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, chiefly relating to gathering their personal reminiscences about John Turton Randall, and attendance at a commemorative event, 1985. Original file title ‘Randall letters papers’.

Scrapbook relating to Hamilton's service in the Second Boer War, including telegrams notifying Hamilton of his selection for staff duties in South Africa, 9 Sep, and to Jean Hamilton informing her of Hamilton's successful action at Wagon Hill, 8 Jan; copies of press photographs, including retreating British forces in Ladysmith, 30 Oct, Nicholson's Nek, British ambulance wagon, British troops with Maxim machine gun, Royal Engineers gunnery observation balloon, detachment of the Royal Naval Div, firing line of 1 Bn Devonshire Regt; newspaper cuttings on the battle of Elandslaagte and Hamilton's recommendation for the Victoria Cross, 23 Oct-25 Nov; on the battle of Ladysmith, 1-4 Nov; on the repulse of Boer attacks at Wagon Hill and Caesar's Camp, Ladysmith, 8 Jan, on the relief of Ladysmith, 2-3 Mar. With manuscript letter to Lt Gen Sir George Stuart White, from Lt Gen Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, with congratulations on his appointment as governor of Gibraltar and compliments on Hamilton's recent camp of instruction, 29 Aug 1899; typescript copies of two letters from Lt Archibald James Leofric Temple-Blackwood, Earl of Ava, at Ladysmith, to his parents Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and Harriet Georgina Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, 1st Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, on his experience of the battle of Elandslaagte, 23 Oct and 25 Oct 1899. 1 vol - EXTREMELY FRAGILE, CANNOT BE PRODUCED.

Papers of William Yule, 1964-2002, including: questionnaires, test instructions, notes, progress reports, conference papers and articles, 1964-1969, relating to a longitudinal educational and medical survey of schoolchildren on the Isle of Wight (selected as a relatively static but socially and economically cross-representative population: this was the first epidemiological survey of this size to cover child health and the impact of health on educational achievement); questionnaire, articles and notes relating to 1982-1983 study on the effect of lead on children's development, and assessments of the tests used; reports and correspondence, 1987-1990, relating to survivors of the 1987 HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE cross-channel ferry disaster; reports, correspondence, questionnaires and articles, 1988-1996, relating to survivors of the 1988 sinking of the educational cruise ship JUPITER off the coast of Greece, including two studies, 1989-1992 and 1994-1996, of survivors and their experience of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which established the previously debated capacity of adolescents to suffer from PTSD; notes, questionnaires and articles, 1992-1993, relating to a World Health Organisation study, 'Brain development in utero', in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, concerning the prenatal development of children born shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident; reports, 1993-2002, relating to the charitably-funded School for Life, assisting children with severe learning difficulties, Kiev, Ukraine; reports, correspondence and notes, 1995-1996, concerning the joint United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Institute of Psychiatry project to provide psychosocial support to war-affected children, Bosnia.

Papers of William James Entwistle collection, [1945-1947] comprising correspondence to and from Entwistle regarding the Chronicle of John I of Portugal and also includes a draft edition of the first 136 chapters,[1945-1947].

The correspondence section notably includes a letter, in Portuguese script, from Florentino dos Santos Cardoso, of Évora Public Library, to William James Entwistle, 1945, concerning the Chronica de El Rei D. João I by Fernão Lopes and a reproduction made and held by the Évora Public Library. Florentino dos Santos Cardoso asks Entwistle whether he would be interested in purchasing a complete reproduction. Correspondence also includes a letter from Entwistle to Edgar Prestage (1881-1949), regarding the printing of the final chapters of Chronicle of John I of Portugal , 1945; letter from Entwistle to Prestage regarding the progress of the printing of a complete copy of Chronicle of John I of Portugal , suggesting the proofs are the 'pre first edition of book which will never appear', 1947.

The collection also includes a copy of the unpublished text of Chronicle of John I of Portugal [1945-1946], written by Fernão Lopes 1380-1459.

Examination question papers of King's College London, 1933-1998, mainly comprising papers for undergraduates sitting finals, postgraduates sitting Masters' degree examinations, as well as a number of undergraduate yearly and mid-sessional examinations and copies of examination papers set by the University of London. The papers comprise a series of individual files containing assorted examination papers from all or most faculties for the period 1933-1961. Thereafter papers are held for individual departments of the Faculty of Arts, including English, 1975-1994; Geography, 1980-1992; German, 1975-1997; History, 1975-1992; Italian, 1975-1995; Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, 1975-1997; Spanish, 1975-1996; French, 1985-1997; Linguistics and Humanities Applied Computing, 1989-1994; Classics, 1965-1998; Modern Greek, 1988-1998; Philosophy, 1985-1998; Japanese, 1992-1995; Russian, 1994-1995; War Studies, 1989-1992; Faculty of Laws, 1964-1974; Faculty of Medical Science, 1963-1993; Faculty of Education, 1977-1990; Faculty of Physical Sciences, including Chemistry, 1948-1993; Computing, 1982-1993; Mathematics, 1963-1993; Management Studies, 1986-1992; Physics, 1947-1993); Faculty of Engineering, 1927-1992, including Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Westfield College, 1983. Faculty of Natural Science, including Botany and Zoology, 1962-1985; Chemistry, 1952-1984; Geography, 1978-1984; Geology, 1978-1984; Human Environmental Science, 1978-1985; Pharmacology, 1978-1984; Biochemistry, 1978-1985; Physiology, 1978-1986; Anatomy, 1980-1983; Faculty of Life Sciences, including Anatomy and Human Biology; Biochemistry, Biophysics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Gerontology, Food Science, Nursing Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Pharmacy, 1985-1994; Faculty of Music, 1968-1997; Faculty of Theology, 1933-1999, including examinations for Associates of King's College, 1969-1995, and with Masters' dissertations and extended essays of students, 1994; Nightingale Institute and Department of Nursing Studies, 1986-1996.

Between the foundation of King's College London in 1829 and the incorporation of all faculties of the College (with the exception of Theology) into the University of London in 1908, students were assessed under examinations set by the College, as well as the examinations of professional and learned societies, and were also able to attend classes for matriculation from the University of London. Thereafter students of the College took examinations set by departments of the College and in the case of final undergraduate and postgraduate examinations, papers approved by the University.

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.

PLEASE NOTE: there are duplicate sets of T E Lawrence's photographs held in other repositories, including Crusader castle photographs held by the Society of Antiquaries, and extensive photographs relating to World War One and the Arab Rebellion held by the Imperial War Museum.
In 1951 Liddell Hart wrote to Heinrich Franke, 'Lawrence left me his collection of photographs (more than 2000) which he took during his travels in Syria and Arabia before and during the first world war. I presented copies of part of them to the Imperial War Museum, and others have been reproduced in various books' (LH 9/13/71/606). If this number is accurate, Liddell Hart disposed of more than half of his T E Lawrence photographs before the Liddell Hart collection came to King's College London.
Liddell Hart sold much of his original collection of T E Lawrence material to the University of Texas at Austin in 1962 (see LH 9/13/71/78 for more information).
Crusader castle photographs have been dated as far as possible with reference to Crusader Castles by T E Lawrence (London, Folio Society, 2010). Further information has been taken from the online catalogue of the Imperial War Museum, and from Jeremy Wilson's T E Lawrence, 1988.

Place names and personal names have been identified as far as possible.

Papers of the Abinger and Clarke family, including diaries, letterbooks and memoirs of Frances Scarlett, comprising diaries in 5 volumes, 1842-1854; notebook containing Scarlett's memoirs, 1904 and letterbook containing copies of family letters, 1855 and 1916, including a copy of a letter fron Sir James York Scarlett describing the charge of the Light Brigade, 7 Dec 1854. Abinger family memoirs entitled 'Fanny Scarlett: Extracts from her Journals 1840-55, and from her Letters and Memoirs', by Frances' granddaughters Hester Smith and Priscilla Douglas-Jones including photographs and family tree, 1974. Letterbook of Robert Astley Scarlett, including copy of letter sent home from the Boer War, 1900. Family correspondence including to Frances Scarlett and two silhouettes of Sydney and Charles Lidderdale-Smith. Diaries of Mrs John Plomer Clarke, 1780-1800, in 3 volumes; day book, 1800; record of Helen Emilia Clarke by her governess Eliza Denis, 1794 and a travelogue of a member of the Clarke family.

Memoir of Brig Derrick Baynham, 1939-1942, including descriptions of assisting in the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940; work in the Local Defence Volunteers, 1941; Special Operations Executive (SOE) training, including resisting interrogation and handling explosives; preparation for mission to support agents in occupied France and identify targets for sabotage; account of the mission including encounter with Milice (Vichy police), liasion with sympathetic French locals in Limoges, recovery of radio transmission equipment from the Milice, establishment of permanent base station in Perigueux and return to England, 1942. Also accounts of the attempted rescue of the surviving crew member of a crashed British bomber off the coast of Anglesey, 1941, for which Baynham was awarded the George Medal, and account of his capture by German troops and subsequent escape, Germany, April 1945.

Correspondence between Wilkins and Prof Laurens van Deenen, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, chiefly relating to the supply of samples of lecithins of differing chain lengths for Wilkins’ research on lipid bilayers. Original file ‘van Deenen A-Z desk cabinet’.

Letter from Wilkins to Dorothy Hodgkin, Department of Crystallography, Oxford University, Oct 1965, requesting the loan of a model relating to her recent research for a British Biophysical Society display. Letter from Hodgkin, Zoology Department, Oxford, to Wilkins, Nov 1972, requesting the loan of a component for a Hilger microfocus x-ray camera. Review by Wilkins of a National Portrait Gallery exhibition, ‘In close-up: Dorothy Hodgkin’, 1986, published in New Scientist, Mar 1986, with copies of portrait sketches by Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore.

Correspondence with (Robert Donald) Bruce Fraser (1924-2019) and Mary Fraser, former colleagues in the Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit, King’s College London, chiefly relating to the need to publicise Fraser’s 1952 unpublished structural model of DNA, following the publication of James Watson, The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA (Atheneum, New York, 1968) and Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA (Norton, New York, 1975). File also includes text of Wilkins’ unpublished article, ‘The relation of the King’s work to that at Cambridge’, and correspondence, 1999-2000, relating to exhibits in the Science Museum, London, and proposals for a DNA museum at King’s College London. Original file title ‘Fraser 1953 and 76 DNA’. File includes personal data, CLOSED during the lifetime of Mary Fraser, or for review 2080

Samuel Palmer: reproduction of his painting, 'The Magic Apple Tree'