Meeting minutes for the board of management between 25 February 1869 to 4 July 1871. Volume contains manuscript meeting minutes of the board, which are indexed alphabetically.
Meeting minutes for the board of management for the hospital between 13 July 1871 and 28 November 1873. The volume contains manuscript meeting minutes which are indexed alphabetically. There are also two loose attached manuscript meeting notes.
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.
Meeting minutes for the Hospital Board of Management dating from 11 December 1873 to 23 December 1875. The manuscript minutes are indexed and contain no inserts. The volume is entitled 'Royal Hospital for Incurables Board Minutes 1874".
Meeting minutes of the hospital board of management dating from 13 January 1876 to 15 March 1878. Manuscript minutes of the hospital board of management with index.
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.
Meeting minutes for the hospital board of management from 28 March 1878 to 11 March 1880. Manuscript meeting minutes with an alphabetically arranged front index.
Meeting minutes for the hospital board of management from 23 March 1880 to 16 June 1882. Manuscript meeting minutes with an alphabetically arranged front index. Also includes four manuscript letters received by J Lewis and C Burton, 1881.
Meeting minutes for the hospital board of management from 22 June 1882 to 11 December 1884. Manuscript meeting minutes with an alphabetically arranged front index.
Indexed register of legacies received to the hospital between 1884 and 1895, with annotations and corrections dated up to 1912. Each entry provides the following details of the legacy: date created, full name of the benefactor, executors, amount and notes (e.g. duty free, when payable, other trustees) and when paid.