Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1831 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
54pp
Scope and content
Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including the successful application of Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835) for the Chair of Botany; Adolphus Bernays (1795-1864), accepting the post of Professor of German; William Thomas Brande (1788-1866), Chemist, presenting the College with a complete set of the Quarterly Journal of Science; Dr Batten complaining about students being allowed to enter the College Chapel after the service had started; Francis Bedford (1799-1883), bookbinder, recommending the College appoint their own bookbinder for the new library; George Black offering his services as a porter or messenger; George Blake and William Hayes, Assistant Masters at King’s College School, regarding the their salaries; C Bower proposing the College offer a ‘Logical Class’; Henry Bryceson (1775-1870), organ maker, regarding the organ he sold to the College for the Chapel.