A collection of letters and documents relating to Victorian London (1859-1880), particularly the areas of Hampstead, Camden Town, Marylebone and Paddington, and a wide variety of subjects, some of which are road and bridge building, drainage and sewerage schemes, schools and housing, crime, workhouses, poor laws, epidemics and disease prevention, hospitals and asylums, posts and telegraphs, water supply, trams, railways and omnibuses, fire brigades, markets, breweries, education and insurance. Some of the many correspondents are Edwin Lankester, Russell Gurney, D. Galton, James Simpson, George Graham, G. S. Sealous J. Stapleton, Robert Scott, E. Cooper, William Russell, Rev. J. M. Rodwell, W. H. Sollas, Sir Francis Palgrave, Dr. S. S. Alford, Frederick Hill, Major Generals Upton and Boileau, William J. Foster, Baron Ebury, William de Morgan, George T. Edwards, John Hollingshead, H. M. Bompas, Lord George Paulet, Rev. Newman Hall, Lord George Hamilton, Samuel Hoare, S. H., C. and E. Fry, Thomas Yeo, A. Conder, J. Carwardine, Sir H. Cole, Thomas Singer, William Dobson, Charles Mackeson, Arthur Cope, Thomas Potter, Anna Newton, D. Nunn, Mrs. Pim, Captain Nugent, A. A. Cooper and John Churchill. À4.
