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Bundle of papers entitled 'experimental apparatus-electricity', comprising working notes and correspondence relating mainly to electric telegraph equipment including a letter between James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), physicist and  Professor of Natural Philosophy, King's College London, and Charles Wheatstone, concerning the quantity of electricity required to charge a wire, 1862; notes on various pieces of electrical apparatus, principally components in the electric telegraph, including the induction relay, finger input key, circuit breakers, and proposed equipment designed to improve the performance of telegraph printers and reduce the power consumption of the telegraph, with rough sketches and illustrations; inventory of telegraphic accessories; instructions for the construction of a portable meteorology station; correspondence by John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer, regarding Kew Observatory and academic vacancies at the University of Melbourne, Australia, 1848-1852, [1848-1862]. Correspondence between Alexander Siemens (1847-1928), electrical engineer, and John Cutler (1839-1925), Professor of English Law and Jurisprudence, King’s College London, on telegraphic cables, 1898.

Series of notes compiled by Charles Wheatstone describing experiments to test the electrical potential exhibited by different metals, chemical decomposition by means of an electric current, and on the measurement of electro-motive forces under variable laboratory conditions.

Ehrenberg, W.

Watercolours and drawings by Wilkins, including landscapes and abstracts. Also a sketch of water fowl by ‘Scottie Wilson’

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including William Grylls Adams (1836-1915), Professor of Natural Philosophy, including letters regarding his application for the post; his work as the Dean of the Applied Science Department; the formation of his syllabus; the creation of the Physics Laboratory and Workshop, including plans. Also includes a typescript paper The foundation of the Physical Laboratory for students in King’s College London by Adams [1905].

Leaflets, postcards and a guide book relating to Spain, notably Alcala de Henares..

Original portrait drawing of John Ashburner M D (c 1795-c 1879) by Wherry; and portrait sketches by an unidentified artist of T Acland, W Anderson, C J Cullingworth, Sir Hector Mackenzie, Sir George Makins, Sir Seymour Sharkey, and one unidentified.

Minutes and papers of the United Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals Accommodation Committee, a sub-committee of the School Council (Academic Board), 20 Dec 1982-3 Aug 1984, 10 Jan 1986, relating to the reallocation of space within the school buildings to various departments.

Papers attributed to Henry Holgate Carwardine comprising manuscript notes including extracts from the minute books of the United Company of Barber Surgeons respecting lectures, 1645-1744; and other notes.

Biographical information on Thomas Jacomb Hutton compiled by Janet Durbin, 2023, as part of research into patients treated at Polesden Lacey convalescent home for officers, 1915-1916. File includes: image of a letter by Dr George Spence Candy, 20 Aug 1915, detailing Hutton's symptoms; details of Hutton at Rossall School, Lancashire, including a copy group photograph; copy photographs and biographical notes relating to Hutton, his brother Lieutenant George Hutton, and his wife, psychiatrist Isabel Galloway Emslie Hutton.

Newspaper cutting, source unidentified, detailing appointment as General Officer Commanding, North Western Army, India. With cutting, listing senior military personnel appearing in the Victory Parade on Jun 8 1946. 1p

Correspondence between Maj Nairne and Prof Michael Howard, presenter of the television programme 'The Grand Stategy' concerning its presentation of Gen MacArthur. 2pp

Guy's Hospital (University of London) Register of Internal students.Register containing pasted in lists in alphabetical order of names of students alongside date of registration, and indication of registration in the Faculties of Science and Medicine [at the University of London].

Five postcards of images of Guy's Hospital sent by M Coulton to Miss K Baily, [1910, 1912] cards relate to their plans to meet. Images on postcards include Guy's Hospital surgical buildings, Mary Ward, Samaritan Ward, Chapel, and front quadrangle.

Engravings of John Haighton MD FRS, Lecturer on Midwifery and physiology at Guy's Hospital 1819; Thomas Guy, from a model made by his friend F Le Pipre, 2 copies; Sir Cloudesley Shovel, Knight, Fifth Rear Admiral of Great Britain, Shipwrecked 23 Oct 1707, age 57; Ignatius Loyola; and Giovanni Bocaccio.

Capt Thomas John Norman Hilken: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Mrs M. Oliphant to Mrs Maurice, inviting her to visit. Manuscript, 2p.

Reconnaissance report of "X" Flight, Akaba by Divers. Ma'an, Ghadier el Haj, Shedia.

Four undated letters received by Hamilton's grandfather, John George Hamilton, from Rev Dr Norman MacLeod, mainly relating to requests for charitable purposes, MacLeod's novel [The gold thread (Edinburgh, 1861)], and MacLeod's visit to Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, at Balmoral, Scotland. With letter from Macleod's brother, Rev Dr Donald Macleod, thanking Hamilton's uncle, Rev Harry Hamilton, for the use of his letters [for Donald Macleod's biography Memoir of Norman Macleod, 2 vols (London, 1876)]. 1 file, 5 letters

Papers of Enk, mainly comprising notebooks, relating to his work in school and college on classical texts and Latin literature, (predominantly 1894-1907), including notes on and partial translations into Dutch of the Annals of Publius Cornelius Tacitus, the Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, the works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Elegiae of Sextus Propertius, the Carmina of Giovanni Pascoli; working papers, 1876-1923, of Enk's former teacher, Professor Jacobus Johannes Hartman of Leiden (1851-1924), mainly comprising notebooks and partial translations into Dutch, of the Adelphoe , Andria , and Hecyra of Publius Terentius Afer, the Epistulae Ex Ponto of Publius Ovidius Naso, the Aeneid of Publius Vergilius Maro, the Seven against Thebes of Aeschylus; notebook by Hartman entitled 'Adversaria Lucianen', 1876; manuscript topographical notebook by Hartman entitled 'Romeinsche Antiquiteiten', 1905; press cuttings and obituaries of Hartman (predominantly 1924); correspondence of Enk and Hartman with Dutch, English and German scholars of Latin, [1920s and 1930s]; photographs and illustrations of classical sculpture and architectural sites; typescript inventories of Enk's library of classical texts and pamphlets as at 1 Jun 1960. With bound manuscript of the Thebais by Publius Papinius Statius, in an Italian humanistic script of the late 15th century.