| Description | Divided into two bundles for ease of use.
1. Contains: printed Annual Report for the Warneford Leamington & South Warwickshire Hospital [1868]; printed Laws and Bye-laws of Queen's Hospital, Birmingham [1869]; printed Annual Report of the South Staffordshire General Hospital [1868]; printed Annual Report for the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham [1868]; printed Rules of the South Staffordshire General Hospital [c.1870]; printed Laws and Bye-laws of the General Hospital, Birmingham; and Rules of the Warneford General Bathing Institution and Leamington Hospital [1864].
2. Contains correspondence and related papers referring to financial securities; general finance; opening/inauguration of the hospital; subscriptions; Trustees' meetings; drainage [with plans]; mining operations by Baker and Elwell (in packet endorsed: '465 B16') with plan [tracing]; and land given to the hospital [with plan]. Includes: In-patient ticket for the Guest Hospital [1870s]; various financial papers; table plan for marquee and memoranda regarding the opening of the Guest Hospital (including wines drunk) on 25 Oct 1871; short history on the Guest Hospital in Dudley including conversion from the Earl's Blind Asylum; and advertising leaflet of Geo. W. Legg, Flag and Banner Painter, Decorator, etc.
Correspondents include: Edward Fisher Smith; London & North Western Railway; W. H. Brooke; Matterson, Huxley & Watson; John B. Davies; S. Garratt & Son; J. Renand & Son; George Taylor; W. Searle; George King Patten; George Osborne; James Shedden; T. J. Graham; James Jeffries; Queen Insurance Co.; G. H. Claughton; Benbow, Saltwell & Tryon; H. Coldicott; W. F. Taylor; A. P. Taft; Arthur Bird; William Bourne; J. Hadley; J. & S. Roberts; John Owen; Llewelyn M. Thomas; Joseph Bate; H. Burton; Thomas Sheppard; Charles Cochrane; Charles H. Westley; B. Britton; Lisseter & Miller; J. Fletcher; Capt Edward J. Renard (Worcester Volunteers); George Jones; E. Poole; T. J. Graham; Dudley New Garrick Club; James Holcroft; Isaac Whitehouse; John R. Tilly; J. H. Morgan; D. Jordan; E. P. & W. Baldwin; David Rose; and William Barrow.
Bundle covers endorsed: 'The Guest Hospital [Treasurer's Papers] to Dec 1891 For subsequent correspondence see General Packet & Letter Book J.D. - Special' and '409 - The Guest Hospital Dudley - Special Packet' |