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Copies and summaries of outgoing letters from the Clerk and Beadle, relating to subjects including appointment of staff, Company membership, historical research enquiries, Company events, Company and English Stock accounts, procedure, and insurance; index at front of volumes. Volume 1 covers 23 Apr 1956-14 May 1958; volume 2 covers 20 May 1958-23 Dec 1959.

Correspondence between the Clerk, Master, officers of the Royal Marines and others relating to the Company's adoption of the Royal Marines, dinners held in their honour and other related matters, 1949 and 1961-1965.

Correspondence of Henry Rivington (1797-1802) and C.R. Rivington (1873, 1888)

Loose sheets inserted in rear endpapers.

Mostly twentieth-century assorted correspondence and financial records with one document from 1875 (will of Mr J W Hodgson). Includes a letter from Rudyard Kipling that he enjoyed his dinner at Stationers' Hall, 1931.

Miscellaneous papers of the clerk, touching on almanacs, financial records, income tax certificates, City of London Compulsory Purchase Order, committee reports.
Correspondence 1886-1951, largely on taking up yeomanry shares, repairs to the Hall, research enquiries for the archives. Series of letters surrounding an inspection of the Royal Arms in the Hall. Request from a student to sketch Stationers’ Hall. Gentleman thanking the Company for assisting his son in acquiring a place at the London School of Printing (1951).
Other assorted items include newspaper cuttings, photographs, lists of court members, list of almanacs in Guildhall Library, lunch invitations.

Correspondence re the amalgamation of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and the Newspaper Makers' Company, with members' lists.

Correspondence between Sidney Hodgson, Clerks of the Company and a number of correspondents. Some files contain administrative correspondence of the archive and others contain letters written by Hodgson in a personal capacity. TSC/F/02/01/12 holds a large number of administrative papers.

Queries addressed to the Company; most letters date from 1952-1956.

Correspondents include:

Brown's Addressing and Mailing Service

H A Shield

Prosper Lalande

Eric T B Hicks

Penguin Guides

Chamber's Encyclopaedia

Professor T H Wheeler

British Museum

William Le Hardy, County Archivist of Middlesex

Francis Fry

Saint Bride Foundation

The Arms and Armour Society

Bror Danielsson

Correspondence relating to a catalogue of records at Stationers' Hall, 1922-1925, and a project to have the records microfilmed, 1951-1963; includes a letter from Hilary Jenkinson of the Public Record Office, 10 May 1948, regarding transfer of three remaining copyright registers and indexes under the authority of the Master of the Rolls by a warrant dated 3 Jul 1912; file also contains a copy of 'Catalogue of Records at Stationers' Hall'.

Correspondents include:

Edward Unwin

Richard Austen-Leigh

University Microfilms

British Museum

Bodleian Library

Arundell Esdaile

Hilary Jenkinson

Letters to Hodgson from personal guests thanking him for help, invitations, lunches, Company events and suchlike; most letters date from 1961-1969.

Correspondents include:

J R Abbey

David Baynes-Cope

Nicholsons Ltd

Alan Burns

Christopher Dobson

Tanner Paper-makers

University of London Library

Inner Temple Library

Simon Nowell Smith

Maggs Bros

Arnold Muirhead

Public Record Office

R Partridge

Lionel & Philip Robinson Ltd

Kenneth Child, Archdeacon of Sudbury

Letters from Rudyard Kipling to Sidney Hodgson; includes an autographed, annotated menu for the livery dinner, 17 Dec 1931, which Kipling attended, and notes of remarks made by Kipling to Hodgson at a dinner of 31 Mar 1932.

Correspondence relating to a range of subjects including William Alexander Jackson, exhibitions, historical research enquiries, the donation to the Company of a letter written by Charles Dickens, visits to Stationers' Hall, lectures by Hodgson, a bookseller's accounts at Somerset House, Hodgson's booklet on the history of the Company, the muniment room, a proposed history of the Company, Shakespeare's first folio and a John Graham painting of Mary, Queen of Scots; most letters date from 1938, 1951-1958 and 1960-1964.

Correspondents include:

The Fawcett Library

Mrs Bentley

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

Fulham History Society

Machine Shop Magazine

Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House

The Bibliographical Society

Cambridge University Library

Bodleian Library

British Museum

National Gallery of Scotland

Ministry of Public Building and Works

Folger Shakespeare Library

Sir Derek Greenaway

The Remembrancer

Correspondence relating to safe storage of Company records, paintings, furniture and fittings during the Second World War; most letters date 1940-1942.

Correpsondents include:

Herbert Cox

Ministry of Works

Guildhall Library

Victoria & Albert Museum

Lady David