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Published charitable appeals produced by the hospital, including earliest appeals from the Royal Hospital, 1854-1861. File also includes later printed appeal pamphlets, 1980s-1990s, including introduction to the Evitt Ward produced by the Disabled Trust for Young Disabled, and John Howard's House, Brighton.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Papers relating to annual fundraising dinner
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Printed speech by Charles Dickens at 2nd anniversary dinner of the Royal Hospital, 1857
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Annual publication containing a fundraising appeal and a list of subscribers to the hospital. Each volume provides a list of senior staff and board members of the charity, constitution, appeal for funding, information about providing a financial contribution, a record of the previous years election results, a list of gifts and bequests received in the previous year and a list of subscribers, in alphabetical order. This list provides the names of the subscribers and their addresses, the number of votes that they held, the date when they began subscribers and whether they were an annual or life subscriber.
Early appeals, 1858 to 1901, include a copy of the annual report and accounts.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Life in Shadow: A narrative of visits to the Royal Hospital for Incurables, West Hill, Putney Health
Christmas appeal of a series of visits to the hospital by by Miss Thackeray, J C Parkinson, Rev Gordon Calthop M.A, Rev Thomas Binney and Dr Guthrie.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability