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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.

Printed appeals, list of charity subscribers and fundraising event literature.

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.

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.

Minutes of the board of management of the hospital covering 28 January 1858 to 12 April 1860. Manuscript meeting minutes with an alphabetically arranged index.

Meeting minutes of the House Committee dating from 23 December 1868 to 6 April 1870.

Register of legacies received by charity with updates on when legacy has been received.

Black and white photographs with captions of tree removal from the grounds of the hospital. The photographs document the different stages of the tree removal from the site and seem to be part of the Wandsworth Council scheme for a new housing development on land near Beaumont Road, which was purchased by the council in 1962. Photographs show chopping down of the trees and images of the landscape.

Manuscript report of the 45th annual general meeting of the Hospital held at the Cannon Street Hotel, London on Friday 25 November 1898. The chair was Herbert John Allcroft. The transcript includes a lengthy discussion of the inclusion of female members on the Hospital's Board of Management which was eventually dismissed.

Incomplete series of minute books of the House Building Estate Committee dating from 1865 to 1879. Manuscript meeting minutes for the weekly committee, which discussed matters chiefly relating to building and household furnishing costs for the hospital, as well as discussing household appointments, new admissions and deaths, patient requests and complaints, medical reports and other activities at the hospitals such as concerts and religious services.

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.

Christmas appeal, 'A Strange Holiday by Zeta', an account of a holiday spent at the hospital.

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.

Mixed photographs and negatives of images of various events and visits to the hospital. These include Royal visits, such as Queen Elizabeth II visit to open the Chatsworth Wing in 1976; galas and musical performances and other fundraising events and annual activities at the hospital including the Founder's Day staff awards, garden fete and sport's day.

Records of nursing staff with dates of entry to the hospital from 17 October 1949 to 17 March 1954. Contains an alphabetical index at the front. Includes signatures and personal remarks by Matrons Corbett and Howard.

Meeting minutes for the Board of Management of the Hospital from 16 April 1860 to 22 August 1861. The manuscript minutes in this volume include an indexed in alphabetical order.