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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.

Account books of financial investments by the home along with loose bank receipt and statements

Correspondence, memoranda, board minutes and reports relating to the change of the hospital's name from Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables to an alternative name which no longer includes the term 'incurables', which had become "increasingly problematic". File includes correspondence between the hospital and representatives of the Privy Purse, HRH Prince Charles, and members of the public regarding changing the name; an annotated list of alternative names drawn up; report on the case for changing the charity's name; notes from a meeting with J Walter Thompson, the marketing and communications firm, regarding name change, 1987. File also includes a letter from HRH Prince Charles congratulating the Development Trust for the Young Disabled new appeal for a 45 bed unit in November 1986.

Manuscript meeting minutes of the House Committee dating from 15 February 1922 to 7 February 1923. The minutes are indexed and contains several enclosures including letters relating to patient complaints about treatment at the hospital, request for change in visiting hours by Matron Lucy Begg.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee of the Hospital for the year, 1925. Minutes are handwritten and the volume contains loose paper inserts of correspondence and memorandum. Indexed. The minutes include reports and press cutting relating to the accidental death of Mabel Agnes Turner, a pantry maid at the hospital; minutes and letters received from and behalf of Mr Luscombe, the long-serving Steward of the Hospital, who was dismissed following embezzling funds from the hospital.

Minutes of the House Committee, including index.

Minutes of the House Committee, including index.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 9 January 1946 to 5 May 1948.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 18 June 1952 to 12 May 1954. Indexed.

Manuscript minutes for the House Committee dating from 9 January 1957 to 12 March 1958. Indexed.

Manuscript minutes for the House Committee dating from 19 March 1958 to 20 August 1958. Indexed.

Typescript minutes of the authorised visitors committee, 1982-1991. Minutes include reports on patient welfare, Matron's report to the committee, general news and changes in hospital personale, such as new admissions and deaths.

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).