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Off the highway: a rambling narrative
Christmas appeal, including an account of visits to pensioners [hospital out-patient] in Kent and Sussex. Illustrated by Robert Barnes and Godfrey Hall.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Christmas appeal by Margaret Oliphant, including a few sketches of patients and folding sketch of the hospital. Illustrations by Richard R Holmes, engraved by Miss M Oliphant Wilson.
Christmas appeal, 'Cured by an Incurable, a tale' by Rev P.B. Power, M.A., illustrated by Edmund Fitzpatrick, second edition, features an account of a doctor who takes two of his patients to the hospital where they are cured, including comic illustrations. Same as previous year's appeal but the author is shown not under his pen name.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Digital copy of the second part of the Christmas appeal, Cured by an Incurable. 2 of 2.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Digital copy of the first part of the Christmas appeal, Cured by an Incurable. 1 of 2.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Christmas appeal by Crowquill Pencilpoint [pseudonym for the author, Rev P B Power] featuring an account of a doctor who takes two of his patients to the hospital where they are cured, including comic illustrations.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
The Unseen Good: A summer quest
Christmas appeal of an account of a writer and artist visiting a number of pensioners [hospital outpatients] in their homes. With illustrations.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Christmas appeal, 'A Strange Holiday by Zeta', an account of a holiday spent at the hospital.
Christmas appeal written by the Rev. Thomas W Aveling D.D., that gives an account of a visit to the hospital. In the pamphlet, the author visits the female and the male wards and communal areas and provides descriptions of some of the patients that he encounters. The volume has an introduction by the Hospital's Secretary, Frederic Andrews, who states that due to the popularity of the pamphlet that it had been reproduced for two years' running.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Life in Shadow: A narrative of visits to the Royal Hospital for Incurables, West Hill, Putney Health
Christmas appeal of a series of visits to the hospital by by Miss Thackeray, J C Parkinson, Rev Gordon Calthop M.A, Rev Thomas Binney and Dr Guthrie.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Published annual Christmas appeals produced by the hospital. The appeals were widely sold and distributed around the United Kingdom and formed an important part of the hospital's fundraising activities from 1872 to 1937. The appeals often took the form of an account or sketch of the hospital and its patients and were often produced by well known writers, such as Anne Thackeray (1837-1919), Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) and Rev Philip Power (1822-1899) and illustrators, such as Lancelot Speed (1860-1931).
The Archive has an incomplete set of the appeals but several others can be found in other collections, namely the British Library.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability