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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

Correspondence relating to a proposed history of the Company, later undertaken by Cyprian Blagden; includes a list of prominent members of the livery in earlier times.

Correspondents include:

British Museum

Cyprian Blagden

Ellic Howe

R T Rivington

B W Young

Correspondence relating to the discovery of former Master Samuel Richardson's coffin in St Bride's Church, the threatened demolition of Richardson's former residence The Grange in Fulham, a historical research enquiry regarding Richardson and the National Portrait Gallery's catalogue entry on Richardson's portraits; letters date from 1952 and 1959-1962; file also holds printed material, papers and newspaper clippings relating to Richardson and the correspondence subject matter.

Correspondents include:

Church of St Bride Restoration Fund

Fulham History Society

The Grange, Fulham, Preservation Committee

T C Duncan Eaves, University of Arkansas College of Arts and Sciences Fayetteville

National Portrait Gallery

Correspondence relating to celebrations of the bicentenary of Dr Johnson's Dictionary; file also includes programmes for, and an invitation to, the Company's commemoration event, 19 Apr 1955, and an appeal by the Governor's of Dr Johnson's House Trust for funds for the preservation of Dr Johnson's House.

Correspondents include:

Dr Johnson's House trust

H Clifford Smith

Harold Williams

Longmans, Green & Co

W A Foyle

Basil Barlow

Maggs Bros

Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co

Letters from F Plaat, Assistant Editor of The British Printer, regarding an article on the company's 400th anniversary celebrations; file includes Sunday Times and City Press articles and an information sheet about Stationers' Hall.

Letters from Allardyce Nicoll, director of the Shakespeare Institute, regarding his request for a copy of microfilm of Company records.

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.

Correspondence and documents re acquisition, maintenance and disposal of the Company's silver.

Photographic reproduction of a sketch of the interior of the Hall looking south east. By Howard Penton, 1904. From The Halls of the Livery Companies of the City of London, Lubbock, 1981.

Photographic reproduction of a sketch of the north west corner of the garden, viewed from the passage under the west wall of the Hall, before the rebuilding of the south wall of the Court Room, the construction of the exterior staircase, and the redesign

Photographic reproduction of a sketch of the north east façade of the Hall and the East Wing. By Howard Penton, 1903. From The Halls of the Livery Companies of the City of London, Lubbock, 1981.

Two photographic reproduction of a sketch of the Hall, looking south, from a drawing by Hedley Fitton, 1900.

Folder also includes a bound fascimile account of disposal of £540.40 in South Sea Stock and the purchase of annuities and India Stock.