Christmas appeal by William Scriven, illustrated by and Lancelot Speed and Godfrey Hall. Appeal in the form of letters about visiting pensioners [hospital out-patients] in Worcestershire, Shropshire and Merseyside and the patients from the hospital visiting the hospital's holiday home in St Leonard's on the Sea in East Sussex.
Papers relating to newspaper advertised appeals and television and radio appeals including a copy of a pamphlet of a radio broadcast appeal on 27 August 1939 by Mr Geoffrey Gilbey, and a review of some of the replies received by him from contributors; and a printed advertisement in The Spectator, a current affairs magazine, dated 12 June 1953, featuring a fundraising notice for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables on the back page.
Handbooks, leaflets, brochures chiefly relating to rules for hospital employees and patients. These include: the 1938 and 1944 editions of the handbook for rules, including salary information for all staff in the latter; a list of rules for patients mounted on card, 1926; patient's handbook, c.1985; patient's handbook, c.1995 and a patient welcome pack, c. 2009.
Printed staff and patient handbooks and printed guides providing guidance and information for staff and patients about the hospital. The patient handbook provide a guide of the services' and activities available, along with rules regarding visitors, smoking and alcohol, and also contain a floorplan for the hospital.
Booklets and wall-charts relating to published histories of the Royal Hospital, these include: 'The Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables and its Founder, 1936; Notes & Sketches: Past and Present: A century in the life of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, 1981 and 'A Short History of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, 2004.
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.
Brochures and leaflets relating to services provided by the hospital, including information pack about the RHHP with specific leaflets relating to specialist care and treatment provided for certain groups of patient e.g. chronic and progressive neurological disorders and a brochure for the 'Transitional Living Unit', c. 1992.
Brochure includes inner sleeve with brochures and leaflets regarding the transitional living unit, leaflets for John Howard's House and other leaflets relating to types of injuries.