Item KA/IC/S/8 - Letters, 1831, to the Secretary of King’s College London from correspondents with surnames or topics beginning with S

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including Henry William Smith ([1788]-1872), Secretary to the College, regarding the building of the College and the possible appointment of Mr Gilbert as the College printer; Mary Smith supporting her unnamed sister’s application for the post of House Keeper at the College; the Society for the Printing and Publishing of the Work of Emanuel Swedenborg, (Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) the Swedish scientist and Christian mystic), requesting permission to place their publications in the College Library; the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge donating books to the College Library; James De Carle Sowerby (1787-1871), naturalist and artist, and Charles Edward Sowerby offering, to the College, a collection of minerals from the natural history collections of their father, James Sowerby (1756-1822), natural history artist; J G Stovie of the Free Grammar School, Camberwell, requesting his school be brought in union with the College, (‘Schools in Union’ were district and other grammar schools which the College awarded an annual scholarship and other privileges).