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SSC2 - Sheffield Smelting Company Limited, Smelters and Refiners of Gold, Silver and Other Precious Metals, Sheffield
1 - Partnership Deeds and papers relating to the Directors/Shareholders
2 - Premises
3 - Finance and Accounts
4 - Stock and Equipment
5 - Trading
6 - Overseas Trade and Visits Abroad
7 - Processes
1 - A few letters to William Wilson and copies of replies relating to a visit to Beverley to see a mill designed to grind minerals
2 - Copies of letters from William Wilson to Samuel Hall
3 - Letters from John Reeve of Liverpool to Edmund John Read and William Wilson
4 - Some miscellaneous calculations relating to parting grains
5 - Notes by Henry Joseph Wilson on Claudet's methods of assaying
6 - Some miscellaneous calculations of assays of slag
7 - Letters from William Baker of the Collegiate Laboratory
8 - Miscellaneous notes on various technical matters
9 - Receipt for a gold assay with some rough calculations
10 - Letter from John Wycliffe Wilson in Baslow to Henry Joseph Wilson
11 - Copies of analyses of slags taken from Percy's book on lead and sent, with a covering letter, by W. Baker
12 - Miscellaneous notes on the manufacture of standard silver
13 - Notes on the cost of work done by the new blast furnace
14 - Notes of experiments with various types of material in the new blast furnace, including the furnace sheets
15 - Plan of new blast furnace for the Sheffield Smelting Company Limited
16 - Estimates from Tangye Brothers and from the Savile Street Foundry and Engineering Company Sheffield for a horizontal condensing engine
17 - Duplicate of a report upon the development of blast furnace operations and their general improvement
18 - Letters and a report
19 - Handwritten notes
20 - Notes on sulphate of copper manufacture, and on the amalgamating plant
21 - Letter from F. J. Greenway to the Sheffield Smelting Company Limited
22 - Letter from Fraser and Chalmer of Chicago, U.S.A
23 - Three letters from A. E. Fletcher
24 - 2 record sheets from the melting department
25 - Letter from Cecil Wilson to Talbot Wilson
26 - Letter to the works from Cecil Wilson (on holiday)
27 - Influence of small quantities of impurities on gold and copper
28 - Letter from Cecil Wilson (on holiday)
29 - Copy of a letter from Cecil Wilson to Messrs. Goldsmith of Chicago
30 - Letter from F. J. Greenway in Broken Hill, Australia
31 - An improved process for the extraction of the rare metals from rich ores without the use of lead
32 - Some rough notes on the Freiberg method of concentrating scoria
33 - Some miscellaneous notes by John Wycliffe Wilson and Cecil Wilson
34 - Suggestions by Cecil Wilson for experiments to be made during his absence in U.S.A. in the refining of white metal and the production of copper sulphate
35 - Suggestions for alterations in the company's methods made by Cecil Wilson after his visit to U.S.A
36 - Notes (rough copy and typewritten copy)
37 - Typewritten notes and memoranda of Cecil Wilson and John Howard Wilson
38 - An investigation by Cecil Wilson into the costs of sweep smelting and refining operations with suggestions for reducing them
39 - Miscellaneous papers relating to assays
40 - Miscellaneous notes by Ronald Eliot Wilson
41 - Notes by Ronald Eliot Wilson
42 - Some notes by Ronald Eliot Wilson
43 - Andrew French
1 - Report by Andrew French
2 - Report by Andrew French
3 - Letters Patent
4 - Printed specification of Henry Joseph Wilson and John Wycliffe Wilson and Andrew French
5 - Andrew French's first instructions for the final specification of the fume condensing plant
6 - Agreement
7 - Drafts for a paper entitled 'On Lead Fumes, with a description of a New Process of Fume Condensing'
8 - Newspaper cutting from the Sheffield Independent
9 - Plan of part of the fume condensing plant
10 - Some miscellaneous papers relating to the sharing of royalties from the fume condensing patent
11 - Statements of accounts
12 - French patent for the fume condensing plant with plans and specifications
13 - Photograph of the North Yard of the Smelting Works showing the patented fume condensing plant
14 - Seven copies of agreements with various firms to license the use of the fume condensing plant
15 - Letter from Henry Joseph Wilson to his family
16 - Agreement
17 - Notes by Ronald Eliot Wilson
44 - Cecil H. Wilson notebooks
45 - Ronald Eliot Wilson's notebooks
46 - Photographs of works processes
8 - Staff and Workpeople
9 - Branches
10 - Correspondence relating to the Business
11 - Business taken over
12 - Papers relating to Theft and Fraud
13 - Miscellaneous
14 - Business Records of Subsidiaries and Associated Companies
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