Correspondence and reports.
Minutes, agenda and correspondence.
Minutes and correspondence on attaining charitable status for Stationers' Hall. Includes correspondence and reports from Jansons Solicitors.
Minutes and agenda, newsletters.
Correspondence and reports re the adoption by the Stationers' Company of a school in Islington.
Correspondence, reports and administrative papers relating to the Stationers' Company merger of its Educational Charity, Welfare Fund, Charity Fund 1961 and Library Fund to form the Stationers' Foundation.
William Leybourn (1626-1716) was appointed by the Stationers' Company to complete this survey on their holdings, following the damage caused by the 1666 Fire of London and their subsequent reconstruction work.
A rental of the houses of the Company including information such as tenants, rents, land tax, and dates of payment. Information relates to the following properties: Nos. 11-13 Wood Street, a house in Friars Alley, the Dark House in Billingsgate, the barge house, warehouses in the Hall garden, Brown public house, a house in Ludgate Street.
i: (1) letter from Mr Lawrence requesting permission to make a window, 6 May 1786, (2) report on windows requested by Mr Lawrence, 4 Sep 1786 (3) petition of William Andrews stating objections against removing his bow windows as suggested by Mr Lawrence, [Sep] 1786, and (4) letters from Charles Beazley to Mr Milne concerning windows in the Goldsmiths' Company house in Stationers' Court, 21 Mar-7 Aug 1800 [8 items].
ii: notebook containing minutes of the Window Committee relating to Thomas Cadell's proposal to give a window to Stationers' Hall, 28 May 1802-24 May 1803.
i: letter from Susan Pother to Mr Stephens concerning accusation of theft of a kitchen rack from Stationers' Hall, 12 Oct 1715.
ii: letter from Joseph Baldwin to Mr Bacon offering use of the hall to the stewards of the Sons of the Clergy, 6 Feb 1793.
iii: fragment concerning repairs to the kitchen, undated.
iv: letter concerning an addition to Mr Tagg's premises, 25 Sep 1794.
i: copy letter to John Reid from Simpkin Marshall and Co. regarding deprivation of light and air at 33 Ludgate Street, 3 May 1859, with copies of John Reid's reply and receipt for 150 pounds, 3 May 1859.
ii: letter from I Saddler regarding proofs and drawings of Eaton Hall and other buildings for Mr O'Connor, 15 Jun 1885.
iii: letter from Henry Dawson to C R Rivington regarding 2 Stationers' Hall Court, 18 Apr 1899.
iv: letter from Henry Dawson and Son to C R Rivington regarding the Oxford and Cambridge Press buildings at Stationers' Hall Court, 7 Feb 1905.
v: letter from the city surveyor to C R Rivington regarding Sessions House, 14 Mar 1907.
vi: fragment of plan with Stationers' Hall and surrounding buildings highlighted, undated.
Robert Mylne:
i: letter regarding a defect in part of the outside wall of Stationers' Hall, 25 Jul 1789.
ii: particulars and estimate of a new state covering for the large hall roof, 5 Oct 1789.
iii: letter containing a report on the hall roof, 19 Oct 1789.
iv: report regarding Mr Fuller's request to create a doorway in a building on Friar's Alley and Clements Court, Wood Street, 15 May 1800.
v: report regarding Mr Bowman's request to build a party wall in a house on Dark House Lane, 1798.
vi: letter regarding plans and leases for the Wood Street estate, 23 Nov 1793.
vii: letter regarding the deficiencies of Mr Heath's edition of Lambert's schedule respecting the Wood Street estate, 23 Jan.
viii: letter regarding plans, possibly for the Wood Street estate, 11 Jul 1795.
ix: letter requesting that he can have an appointment to explain business to Mr Dann, possibly for the Wood Street estate, 16 Jan 1796.
x: letter regarding a form of advertisement and particulars for two houses in Wood Street, 4 Sep 1794.
Robert William Mylne:
xi: letter to the stock board concerning a proposed exterior of Simpkin and Marshall's premises, 22 Jan 1878.
xii: letters between Mr Mylne, Mr Haywood and C R Rivington regarding sewer ventilation in Ave Maria Lane, 29 Apr-5 May 1882, and from Mr Haywood to Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott and C R Rivington regarding alterations at Amen Corner, 22 Jun-16 Jul 1888 [5 items].
xiii: letters from Arthur Cater to Mr Mylne regarding the Rolls estate, Fetter Lane, 24-28 Feb 1883 [3 items].
xiv: bills for surveying work done respecting Marshall and Simpkin, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press premises, 1881-1883, with receipt, 16 Nov 1885 [4 items].
xv: specifications of works and estimate for repairs to a section of parquetry floor at Stationers' Hall, [19th century], and letters from Robert William Mylne to the company regarding repairs to the hall's kitchen ceiling, 1 Jun-24 Jul 1876 [5 items].
i: account by Richard Roberts of valuation work done for Stationers' Hall and adjoining buildings, 19 Jun 1895.
ii: estate agent's bill for work on 24 Ludgate Hill and Stationers' Hall Court, Jun 1911.
iii: letters from Henry Dawson and Son, returning documents relating to Stationers' Hall, 20-22 Aug 1900 [2 items].
iv: letter from surveyor George Head to Emily Edith Bentham regarding 24 Ludgate Hill, 2 Aug 1911, with an agreement between Emily Edith Bentham and Brooke Robinson, owner of 26 Ludgate Hill, 16 Nov 1910. The agreement includes a plan of the party wall between 24 and 26 Ludgate Hill. [3 items].
v: schedule of deeds and documents relating to 24 Ludgate Hill, Jun 1951.