Boiler Guarantee and Inspection Reports from the Manchester Steam Users Association

• RET/3/6/5/1
• item
• 1877 (3 items), 1902 (1 item)

Part of The Retreat Archive

Booklet and letter concerning Manchester Cathedral

• MD/257
• file
• 19 May 1958

Part of Miscellaneous Documents

Booklet about Manchester Cathedral containing a letter from the Manchester Cathedral Architect, Sir Hubert Worthington, to George G. Pace, 19 May 1958 concerning Pace’s visit to see the cathedral.

Handbill issued during a dispute between Manchester doctors, March 1815

• RET/8/8/2
• item
• 1815

Part of The Retreat Archive

This handbill reprints copies of letters to the editor of The Manchester Mercury written by Drs Edward Carbutt and Henry Hardie. The handbill was issued by Carbutt to refute the charges that he has been denigrating Hardie's abilities with a v...

Handbill on the projected new House of Recovery [Manchester], c 1803

• RET/8/8/1
• item
• c 1803

Part of The Retreat Archive

This is a report by the House of Recovery Committee about the sums required, necessity for the institution, and how it will workThe first Manchester House of Recovery was opened in 1796, and was an innovative attempt to treat fever by isolating ca...

Manchester Grammar School

• JAM/1
• series
• 1940-1962

Part of Records of Lord James of Rusholme

Manuscript extract from the Rules of the Manchester Lunatic Asylum, stating the graded fees payable by patients to the physician

• RET/8/2/4/1
• item
• Late 18th c

Part of The Retreat Archive

Annotated 'Dr Fowler's Autograph. Samuel Tuke'. Fowler (died 1801) was the first physician to The Retreat and this was presumably information he extracted in relation to his position

Personal Correspondence

• JAM/2/2/2
• file
• 1961-1980

Part of Records of Lord James of Rusholme

Correspondents include: Canada Club, March 1962; Geelong Church of England School; T. Weaver, Ministry of Education; Danforth Foundation, California; Manchester Statistical Society, 1966; Longmans; Patrick Harding, October 1968 (with photograph); ...

Records of the Wilberforce Memorial

• WM
• fonds
• 1833-1996

Material relating primarily to the establishment, funding and administration of Yorkshire School for the Blind, including minutes of governors’ meetings, managing committee meetings, and minutes of subcommittee meetings for salaries, workshops, ed...

Wilberforce Trust