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RC - Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Archive
1 - The Commission - correspondence
2 - Board of Management - Chairman
3 - Board of Management - Members' Correspondence
4 - Board of Management, Sub-committees Correspondence
5 - Science Scholarships Committee (Renamed Science and Engineering Fellowships Committee from 2006).
6 - Science Scholarships Committee Members Correspondence (renamed Science and Engineering Fellowships Committee from 2006)
7 - Science Scholarships Committee - Correspondence with External Examiners
8 - The Commission - meetings and memoranda etc
9 - Board of Management
10 - Board of Management Sub - Committees - Minutes
11 - Board of Management - Correspondence re Educational Policy
12 - Medals
13 - Science Scholarships Committee
14 - Science Scholarships Committee
15 - Science Scholarships Committee
16 - Board of Management - Industrial Bursaries. Correspondence with Universities
17 - Board of Management - Naval Architecture
18 - British School of Archaeology at Athens
19 - Royal School of Needlework
20 - Royal College of Music
21 - Queen Alexandra's House
22 - Income Tax
23 - Income Tax: Scholars, Fellows and Bursars.
24 - National Insurance
25 - The Institute of Physics, The Physical Society and the Optical Society.
26 - International Education Board
27 - Research Awarding Bodies
29 - Banking
30 - Commissioners' Investments
31 - Auditors
32 - Finance - Miscellaneous
36 - Inter-Trust Conference
37 - Press Announcement of the Award of 1851 Scholarships and Fellowships
38 - 1851 Scholars who became Fellows of the Royal Society
39B - Press Cuttings
40 - National Physical Laboratory
41A - Acquisition of Pictures, Portraits and Papers
41B - Prince Albert Trust
42 - Garton Scheme
44 - British School at Rome
46 - Various Memoranda
47 - Accounts, Notes and Estimates
48 - Kensington Gore Estate: Museums, Exhibitions and Galleries
49 - Scientific Societies, Other Bodies and the Award of Scholarships
50 - Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1853-1989
51 - Archives
52 - Commission's History
53 - Financial Statistics (relating to awards)
54 - Appeals from Organisations and Individuals; Special Awards
55 - Professors' Opinions - Science Research Scholarships, Overseas Scholarships and Research Fellowships
57A - Victoria and Albert Museum
57B - Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries (Formerly Royal Commission on National Museums and Galleries).
58 - Crystal Palace at Sydenham
59 - The Royal Society
60A - Royal College of Organists
60B - School of Art Woodcarving
61 - Scholars' Dinners and Cocktail Parties, and other events.
62 - The Commission's Offices
63 - South Kensington Redevelopment Scheme
64 - Surveyors
65 - Solicitors
66 - Rents
68 - Science Museum
69 - Subways and Railways
70 - Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History) )
71 - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
72 - Prince Consort Statue (Memorial to the Great Exhibition)
73 - Imperial War Museum
74 - Imperial Institute
75 - Royal Albert Hall
77 - Royal Geographical Society
78 - London Building Acts (Consolidation) Bill, 1928-29 Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 London Building Acts (Amendment) Bill, 1939
79 - City and Guilds' College (formerly City and Guilds of London Institute): open space at the rear of the building
80 - Science Scholarships schemes of the 1851 Commission
81 - Whole-time Research Awards
82 - India Museum
83 - Exhibition Galleries
84 - Royal Horticultural Society: Gardens on the Commission's Estate
85 - Free Passages
86 - Charitable Foundations and Trusts, and the Charity Commission
87 - Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference
88 - Printing and Stationery
89 - Hospitality Organisations and Schemes
98 - Estate - Properties outside the Commission's original Estate
99 - Kensington Gore Estate
100A - Albert Court
100B - Albert Hall Mansions
101 - Albert Hall Terraces and Vaults
102 - Cromwell Gardens
103 - Cromwell Road
104 - Elvaston Mews
105 - Elvaston Place
106 - Exhibition Road
107 - Gloucester Road
109 - Jay Mews
110 - Kensington Gore and the Royal College of Art
112 - Queensberry Mews
113 - Queensberry Place
114 - Queen's Gate
115 - Queen's Gate Mews
116 - Queen's Gate Terrace
117 - Thurloe Place
118 - Thurloe Place Mews
119 - 2 Lowther Gardens
120 - Roads on the Estate
A - 1851 Exhibition Correspondence - Letters Received
B - Correspondence and Papers, 1856-1909
C - Signed sets of Minutes of the various Committees of the Commission
D - Housekeeping Records of the Commission's Office
E - Maps, Plans, Drawings and Lithographs
F - Publications
G - Photographs and Lithographic Prints.
H - Collections on Permanent Loan
1 - Prince Albert's Archive
1 - Volume I : July 1849 - December 1849
2 - Volume II : December 1849 - March 1850
3 - Volume III : March 1850 - June 1850
4 - Volume IV : June 1850 - October 1850
5 - Volume V : September 1850 - February 1851
6 - Volume VI : February 1851 - April 1851
7 - Volume VII : April 1851 - July 1851
8 - Volume VIII : August 1851 - October 1851
9 - Volume IX : October 1851 - May 1852
10 - Volume X : May 1852 - January 1853
11 - Volume XI : December 1852 - August 1853
12 - Volume XII : August 1853 - December 1855
13 - Volume XIII : February 1856 - December 1856
14 - Volume XIV : January 1857 - December 1858
15 - Volume XV : January 1859 - July 1860
16 - Volume XVI : July 1860 - April 1861
17 - Volume XVII : May 1861 - December 1861
18 - Volume XVIII : January 1862 - August 1862
19 - Volume XIX : October 1862 - February 1864
1 - 13 Oct 1862 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
2 - 27 Oct 1862 Mr Murray to Gen Grey
3 - 11 Nov 1862 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
4 - 20 Nov 1862 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
5 - 1 Dec 1862 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
6 - 6 Dec 1862 Mr Murray to Gen Grey
7 - 10 Dec 1862 Lord Granville to Gen Grey
8 - 10 Dec 1862 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
9 - 11 Dec 1862 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
10 - 10 Dec 1862 Mr Murray to Edgar Bowring
11 - 12 Dec 1862 Gen Grey to Lord Granville
12 - 12 Dec 1862 Gen Grey to Edgar Bowring
13 - 13 Dec 1862 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
14 - 16 Dec 1862 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
15 - 18 Dec 1862 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
16 - 1 Jan 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
17 - Memorandum - Arcades & 1862 Exhibition Buildings
18 - 6 Jan 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
19 - 8 Jan 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
20 - 9 Jan 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
21 - Cole's memorandum
22 - 12 Jan 1863 Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
23 - 14 Jan 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
24 - 14 Jan 1863 Memorandum on the South Kensington Estate
25 - 16 Jan 1863 Gen Grey to Henry Cole
26 - 15th Jan 1863 Memorandum on the South Kensington Estate
27 - 1862 Exhibition building
28 - 16 Jan 1863 Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
29 - 16 Jan 1863 Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
30 - 20 Jan 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
31 - 23 Jan 1863 Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
32 - 26 Jan 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
33 - 30 Jan 1863 Henry Cole
34 - 26 Jan 1863 Memorandum on the use of the 1862 Exhibition Building
35 - 4 Feb 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
36 - 10 Feb 1863 Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
37 - 12 Feb 1863 Mr Murray to Gen Grey
38 - 25 Feb 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
39 - 9 Mar 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
40 - 13 Mar 1863 George Godwin to Gen Grey
41 - 14 Mar 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
42 - 24 Mar 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
43 - 28 Mar 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
44 - 30 Mar 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
45 - 20 Apr 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
46 - Mar 1863 Edgar Bowring's memorandum
47 - 1 May 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
48 - 13 May 1863 Gen Grey to Disraeli
49 - 15 May 1863 Disraeli to Gen Grey
50 - 18 May 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
51 - 20 May 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
52 - 22 May 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
53 - 23 May 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
54 - 23 May 1863 Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
55 - 24 May 1863 [Cole]
56 - 21 May 1863 Minutes of 78th Meeting of Commissioners
57 - 27 May 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
58 - 27 May 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
59 - 27 May 1863 Lord Elcho to Gen Grey
60 - 28 May 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
61 - 28 May 1863 Lord Granville to Gen Grey
62 - 28 May 1863 George Godwin to Gen Grey
63 - 28 May 1863 Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
64 - 29 May 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
65 - 29 May 1863 Estimate for Civil Services
66 - 30 May 1863 Lord Granville to Gen Grey
67 - 31 May 1863 William Cubitt to Edgar Bowring
68 - 1 June 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
69 - 10 Aug 1851 Prince Albert's memorandum
70 - 2 Jun 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
71 - 2 Jun 1863 George Godwin to Gen Grey
72 - 10 Jun 1863 Henry Cole to Gen grey
73 - 10 Jun 1863 Queen Victoria to Lord Derby
74 - 11 Jun 1863 Lord Derby to Queen Victoria
75 - 11 Jun 1863 Gen Grey to Queen Victoria
76 - 12 Jun 1863 Lord Granville to Gen Grey
77 - 12 Jun 1863 Mr Higgins to Gen Grey
78 - 12 Jun 1863 Lord Elcho to Gen Grey
79 - 15 Jun 1863 Vote for Purchase of Land
80 - 16 Jun 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
81 - 15 Jun 1863 Ayes and Noes
82 - 18 Jun 1863 Lord Elcho to Gen Grey
83 - 17 Jun 1863 Gen Grey to Queen Victoria
84 - 19 Jun 1863 Henry Lennox to Gen Grey
85 - 20 Jun 1864 Gen Grey to Lord Elcho
86 - 20 Jun 1863 Lord Granville to Col Grey
87 - 20 Jun 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
88 - Kensington Estate
89 - 22 Jun 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
90 - 22 Jun 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
91 - 23 Jun 1863 Lord Granville to Gen Grey
92 - 24 Jun 1863 Henry Cole to GenGrey
93 - 25 Jun 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
94 - 25 Jun 1863 Stafford Northcote to Gen Grey
95 - 26 Jun 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
96 - 27 Jun 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
97 - 29 Jun 1863 Henry Lennox to Gen Grey
98 - 27 Jun 1863 Andrew Murray to Gen Grey
99 - RHS accounts
100 - 30 Jun 1863 Disraeli to Gen Grey
101 - 1 Jul 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
102 - 30 Jun 1863 Minutes of the 79th Meeting of Commissioners
103 - 30 Jun 1863 Response to Mr Ayrton's motion
104 - 2 Jul 1863 Lord Granville to Gen Grey
105 - 2 Jul 1863 Henry Lennox to Gen Grey
106 - 3 Jul 1863 Lord Elcho to Gen Grey
107 - 3 Jul 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
108 - Gen Grey to Queen Victoria
109 - 3 Jul 1863 Disraeli to Gen Grey
110 - 3 Jul 1863 Lord Torrington to Gen Grey
111 - 3 Jul 1863 Henry Lennox to Gen Grey
112 - 3 Jul 1863 Queen Victoria to Lord Palmerstone
113 - 3 Jul 1863 Lord Palmerstone to Queen Victoria
114 - 4 Jul 1863 Lord Sydney to Col Phipps
115 - 9 Jul 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
116 - 20 Jul 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
117 - 20 Aug 1853 Memorandum
118 - Missing - map
119 - 29 Sep 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
120 - 8 Oct 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
121 - 16 Oct 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
122 - 28 Oct 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
123 - 1 Nov 1863 Henry Cole to Gen grey
124 - 18 Nov 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
125 - 24 Nov 1863 Henry Cole to Gen grey
126 - 30 Nov 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
127 - 2 Dec 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
128 - 15 Dec 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
129 - 14 Dec 1863 Hunt's report
130 - 16 Dec 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
131 - 19 Dec 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
132 - 23 Dec 1863 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
133 - 11 Dec 1863 Henry Cole to Wentworth Dilke and Andrew Murray to Henry Cole
134 - 24 Dec 1863 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
135 - 26 Dec 1865 Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
136 - 14 Jan 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
137 - 20 Jan 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
138 - 23 Jan 1864 Henry Cole to Sir Charles Phipps
139 - Horticultural Society to 1851 Commissioners
140 - January 1864 Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society
141 - Jan 1864 Band Competition
142 - Jan 1864 Fellows' Recreation Clubs
143 - 27 Jan 1864 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
144 - 1 Feb 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
145 - 5 Feb 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
146 - 5 Feb 1864 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
147 - 6 Feb 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
148 - 6 Feb 1864 Minutes of the 80th meeting of Commissioners
149 - 8 Feb 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
150 - 9 Feb 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
151 - 15 Feb 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
152 - 1863 Accounts
153 - 16 Feb 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
154 - 23 Feb 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
155 - 29 Feb 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
20 - Volume XX : March 1864 - May 1865
21 - Volume XXI : June 1865 - August 1867
22 - Volume XXII : June 1873 - July 1886
A - Box 1
B - Box 2
C - Box 3
D - Box 4
2 - Crystal Palace Drawings
I - Donations and Acquisitions
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Estate Plan c.1862
Great International Exhibition 1862
C. R. Cockerell
G. Baxter
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