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Christmas appeal, including an account of visits to pensioners [hospital out-patient] in Kent and Sussex. Illustrated by Robert Barnes and Godfrey Hall.

Booklet, 'The Dynamic approach to the residential care of disabled people in an integrating society', an International (EEC) seminar held in London on 10 April 1984. Booklet No 2/84.

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.

Quarterly magazine produced for patients, staff and supporters, including news, information, stories, poems and cartoons and schedules for forthcoming activities at the hospital. The contents of the magazine was created by staff and patients with occasional excerpts from other publications such as the Wandsworth Borough News.

Annual reports for the charity, 1905-present, which typically include a financial statement, a list of board of management members and senior staff, donation details and photographs and illustrations of the hospital. The reports were published as a single pamphlet or booklet, some of the early reports have been bound together into hardboard volumes. Reports dating from 1858-1901 were not published separately and can be found within the subscription books (archive ref: RHN/FU/2/2). The reports may also be found within the reports of the general meeting volumes (archive ref: RHN/AD/1/1).

Christmas appeal, illustrated by Godfrey Hall. Appeal in the form of letters about visiting pensioners [hospital out-patients].

Booklet, 'Physical Management in Long-term disability' by Mrs Pauline M Pope. Booklet No. 1/85.

Images from different angles of John Howard House in Brighton

Correspondence, memorandum, reports, grant applications and promotional material relating to the Hospital's fundraising department, these include: a memorandum from 22 December 1993 regarding the need for improving hospital fundraising; applications for the role of fundraising manager, with attached curriculum vitae; grant application for the National Lotteries Charity Board, 1996; details of the fundraising campaign for the cloistered garden for the Hospital, and planning for the official opening, and letters relating to individual gifts received by the hospital.

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.

Bound volumes containing reports produced by the authorised visitor's committee. The reports relate to the condition of the hospital and general services in the hospital, along with the occasional comment from patients. The visits happened irregularly initially over the course of the year, with the reports being a few comments but developed into a more thorough analysis of the services in the hospital. The reports are a mixture of handwritten reports and typed, stuck-in, reports from 1938 onwards. Each report is signed by the visitor.

Register of appointed domestic staff at the hospital, arranged alphabetically by surname. Entries include surname, forename, date appointed, salary, position and sometimes date of birth and leaving date.