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Manuscript notebook listing requests for leave from senior hospital staff (steward, matron). Entries are approved by the signature of the Chairman.

Copy of the 1975 presentation film for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables (RHHI).
This film is silent film and possibly is of the raw footage collected for the presentation. The film includes additional footage shots of the construction of the Chatsworth Wing and footage of the John Howard's Convalescent Home in Brighton, which the hospital had recently taken over. Track duration: 53:23.

Copy of the 1975 presentation film for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables (RHHI). Film is silent and unlike the soundtracked copies includes a mixture of footage which is not in its final order, including initial additional footage of John Howard's Convalescent Home, Brighton. Track duration: 10:16.

Double page illustrated newsletter for the hospital, including article of Queen Elizabeth II's visit to open the Chatsworth Wing on 19 May 1976.

Colour and black and white photographs of construction of Chatsworth ward in construction and finished empty wards. Also includes architectural drawing of the ward, interior shots of rooms within ward, including day room and bedrooms and exterior shots of the ward.

Register of patients.

Biographical account of the life of a patient at the hospital, Joan Gandan.

Typescript minutes of the House Committee.

Bound meeting minutes of the Hospital's Committee Board, who governed the charity. The Board met every fortnight and would make all decisions in relates to policy. When the charity first started the Chairman of the Board was the Treasurer until 1911 when an independent office of chairman was created. The Secretary (now Chief Executive) would prepare the agenda and circulate the minutes to the other committee members.

Committee members for the Board of Management were initially composed of businessmen working in the City of London and later retired military service men, with usually no less than twenty members present at one time.

The meeting minutes are predominantly handwritten but become typescript in the mid 20th century and usually include various inserts of papers discussed during meetings as well as letters and statements transcribed into the minutes.

Meeting minutes of the hospital board of management dating from 30 January 1967 to 23 January 1980. The minutes are indexed and also include a list of board members and when they were first elected.

Papers relating to fundraising appeals sent out on behalf of the hospital, 1950-1980. These primarily includes circulated letters requsting donations from the public, as well as more targeted appeals to certain groups such as universities, schools and local sport clubs. Papers also include circulars relating to broadcast appeals for the charity by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), which were delivered by public figures such as John Betjeman (1959), Michael Flanders (1961) and Godfrey Winn (1965).

Booklet, Nursing the Long-stay patient' by Mrs M C Bodington. An address delivered to Association of Independent Hospitals. Booklet No 4/81.

Booklet of international seminar on the long term care of disabled people held at Drapers' Hall, London, 13 January 1981. Booklet No. 5/81

Booklet, Caring for the disabled- adversity and caring' by Maureen Tudor, based on an address delivered at Ware College, Hertfordshire. Published by J Walter Thompson Company, London. Booklet No. 2/81.