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Papers relating to changes in accounting procedures, including memorandum, correspondence, reports and lists.

Various reports from sub-committees, including admissions, general purpose, staff accommodation, private patients, salaries and wages, appeals, garden and assembly room renovation.

Alphabetical list of patient addresses, ordered by initial admission into hospital. Includes their last known address, address of friends/relatives, date of birth and religion. Patients listed by date of admission from 1890s to 1970. Third volume includes a typescript contact list of people to contact of various religious faiths and philosophies of life.

Produced by the Christian Theology Trust, ISBN 1 897705018

Photos of an ambulance outside the main entrance, c. 1970

Issue number 230, February 1971.

A history created by Brigadier A E Stokes-Roberts, includes amended first edition created in 1966 and second amended edition from 1972.

Typescript minutes for the House Committee dating from 8 January 1969 to 24 October 1973. The minutes are indexed and include committee papers including information about the financial contribution of patients to the charity and from the Appeals Department. The minutes include discussion on the acquisition of John Howard's House, Brighton.

Register of deaths of patients from October 1938 to March 1973. Entries include name of the patient, date admitted, case book number, whether they are inmate or pensioner and date of death.

Admission case book with entries numbered 15501-16000.

Colour presentation films for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables. The narrated films provide an overview of the activities and facilities available to patients and includes soundbites from patients. The films shows a typical patient bedroom and common areas of the hospital, such as the cafeteria, Assembly Room and gardens, and some of the activities and services available to patients, including: physiotherapy, occupational therapy, art and pottery classes, furniture making, a patient using a possum typewriter (which was operated with a mouth piece), music therapy and the work undertaken by patients at 'The Factory', where patients were paid to undertaken simple manufacturing tasks for a small income. Finally, the video ends with plans for the new Chatsworth Wing at the hospital, which initially designed to house young disabled residents.

Copy of the 1975 presentation film for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables (RHHI). Film includes narrated sound track, though the audio quality is fairly poor, with an audible background crackle throughout the recording. Track duration: 05:54.

Copy of the presentation film for the RHHI (Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables). This version of the film is identical to the film(archive ref: GB 3544 RHN-AV-1-2) but the sound quality has been slightly better preserved. Track length: 05:54.