Key Information
Reference code
KA/IC/A/2
Title
Letters, 1829, to the Secretary of King’s College London from correspondents with surnames or topics beginning with A
Date(s)
- 1829 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
10pp
Scope and content
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’.