Printed circular/appeal of Professor Reilly on the proposal to purchase the old Blue Coat Hospital and use it for the School of Architecture and perhaps for the Institute of Archaeology, n.d. [1908], and covering letters to the Vice-Chancellor, 28 April & 18 May 1908.

(Copies of original circular and of amended circular, and print of photograph of the Hospital which was inserted in each circular).

Copy of letter from the Board of Education to Messrs. Whitley & Co. 19 Feb. 1908 stating that the School of Architecture should be given the opportunity to purchase [the Bluecoat School buildings] by private treaty for £32,200, and the Vice-Chancellor's manuscript notes on his interview & discussion at the Board of Education on the financial terms, n.d. [c.1908]

Letters (and copies of letters) of Alsop, Stevens, Crooks & Co., and Whitley & Co., both solicitors of Liverpool between themselves and to the Vice-Chancellor on the above subject, 31 July 1909 - 28 July 1910.

Letters of Mr. W.H. Lever to the Vice-Chancellor, 20 March & 11 Aug. 1909 (in which Mr. Lever refers to the case several years ago of Birkenhead Corporation, the debts owed on the old library to the government and Mr. Carnegie's offer to provide a new library).

Extract from letter of Mr. Lever to Professor Reilly 4 Feb. 1909 and copy of his letters to Reilly dated 5 & 19 Aug. 1909.

Letters from Professor Reilly to the Vice-Chancellor regarding payment for alterations, 2 Sept. & 10 Nov. 1909.

Correspondence of Lever Bros.Ltd., with the Treasurer upon the forwarding to the latter of an album containing the report of Libel actions of the company v. various newspapers, 15-21 Feb. 1910.