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Financial papers

(1) Specifications of works, invoices and receipts for 84 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, [bought on the family's return from Mexico] including list of articles bought at the De la Rue’s sale, 1866-1899
(2) Insurance certificate for the ‘Christina’, sailing from Rangoon to the UK, 1877
(3) George Stewart & Co payment receipts [3] to AF Low, 1891-1899
(4) Receipt for donation by AF Low to Paddington Green Children’s Hospital, 1895

Postcards

Folder consists of 3 postcards:

/ titled 'La vaccine au Chateau de Liancourt, Peinture de C. Desbordes, 1812'
/ titled 'Florence Nightingale photographed with Sir Harry Verney, Miss Crossland and a group of \
Nightingale nurses at Claydon House, 1886'
/ titled 'Premiers essais du traitement du cancer par rayons X, Peinture de G. Chicotot, 1908'

Emily Beek nee Alston (1837-1911)

Letters from Emily and her companion, Agnes Taylor, to AG Low, initially requesting financial aid, ‘for your dear Father’s & Mother’s sake’, as ‘Dr Beke left me quite destitute’. Includes copy letters, 1889, of the National Portrait Gallery, referring to a portrait of Dr Beke, 1902-1909

Photographs

(1) Photo album, likely Emily Jane Halley’s, and containing portraits of adults, couples and choldren, some annotated including ‘Hudson, Eggar, Nelson James Graham, William Halley-yg doctor’,[source: Philpott/Low], 19C
(2) Embroidered frame [loose and dirty] with photograph of Emily, Alexander Halley Low and Annie Low, [1893]
(3) Pack of photographs of testimonial of thanks from the Halleys, listing them all, to Nurse Hannah Ford, who served the family 1850-1900
(4) Mounted [damaged] photo of elderly Emily surrounded by family, c 1905
(5) Framed [damaged] portrait of elderly Emily c1905
(6) Photographs [9] of an elderly Emily Jane many featuring her family including daughter Annie and son-in-law AG Low and their children, c1905 - 1910

Personal papers

(1) The Excellent Woman as described in the Book of Proverbs, inscribed ‘Emily’ 1831
(2) Letters [2] from 'Emmie' to her father, with concerns about his health, her husband's financial difficulties and general family news, nd, 1865
(3) Letters [8] from Emily to Nell [her daughter], 188[6?]-1908
(4) News cutting on ‘Miss Katherine Eggar’s composition’, 1908
(5) Order of service for the burial of Emily Jane Halley, 1910

Employment Documents

UR-SF 71/1/1 John Kimber’s Educational Institute of Scotland certificate. 27th Nov 1906
UR-SF 71/1/2 John Kimber’s First Class certificate from Staff Gymnasium at Portsmouth. n.d.
UR-SF 71/1/3 Book of Testimonials for John Kimber in applying for the post of Superintendent in Physical Training under the Edinburgh School Board. 1904-1910

Estate papers

(1) ‘Dr & Mrs Halleys Marriage Settlement Authority to Trustees’, 1887
(2) Marriage Settlement ‘Husbands Fund’ trustees account, 1910-1911
(3) Executors Account [2], 1910-1911
(4) Account of the Trustees of the Settlement made by Emily Jane Haley on her marriage with Dr Alexander Halley, [ 2 copies], 1913
(5) Trustees Account of the Residuary Legatees of EJ Halley’s estate, 1911-1913
(6) Rev AH Halley and Thomas Eggar, trustees, second account [2 copies], 1911-1913
(7) MS copy of valuation extract of estates in the parishes of Brampton, Yorkshire, nd
(8) Letters [2] addressed to Mrs Low outlining her mother’s marriage settlement and estate, May 1911
(9) Copies [2] of Mrs EJ Halley’s Estate Partial Further Division of the Residuary Estate of Sir EJ Harland deceased among the four legatees, with accompanying accounts and letters, 1912

Personal papers

(1) Birth certificate, for the son of Matthew Richard West, 1875
(2) Passports for George Evelyn Annesley West journey to Russia and his return to England, 1905, 1912
(3) ‘Russian as she is spoke’, typescript, c1910

Legal papers

(1) Articles of co-partnership between WJ Gilder & Alexander Halley, 1847
(2) Receipt for £700 paid for dissolving Gilder & Halley partnership, 1850
(3) Witnessed note dissolving partnership of Halley and Gilder, 1850
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