• TM/1 Constitution
• TM/2 AGM and Annual Report
• TM/3 Honorary Secretary
• TM/4 Dean
• TM/5 Director
• TM/6 Committee/ Council
• TM/7 Executive Management Committee
• TM/8 Finance Committee and General Finance
• TM/9 Voluntary Funds Committee
• TM/10 Professional Committee
• TM/11 Staff Academic Committee
• TM/12 Sub-Committees and Groups
• TM/13 School Administration incorporating Dean's Office and Director's Office
• TM/14 Library
• TM/15 Editorial Committee ("Annals")
• TM/16 Medals and Prizes
• TM/17 Expeditions
• TM/18 School Outposts
• TM/19 Museum/ Learning Laboratory
• TM/20 Medical Illustration
• TM/21 Departments/ Divisions
• TM/22 Collaborative Programmes
• TM/23 Clinical Records
• TM/24 Overseas Development Administration Work Programmes
• TM/25 School Publications
• TM/26 Unidentified Material

The collection comprises 6 letters which were sent by Marjorie Robertson to her friend Elsie M. Atlñnson at 20 Elers Road, Ealing, London Wl3. The letters were also sent to a Miss Saville of the Baptist Missionary Society (19 Furnival Street, London EC4) to duplicate and distribute to her friends in the UIF.

The letters detail Marjorie Robertson's activities in Chengtu, Szechwan (West China), including various activities with the small missionary community there and at the university. The letters are written like journal entries and are addressed to 'Friends'.

Letters are dated Aug 1937, 9 Jan 1938, 21 Aug 1938, 29 Apr 1939, Nov 1939 and 30 Apr 1940. In the letter written in 1940 there is a note apologising for its late arrival, saying this is due to the office having been bombed twice.

The archive of Eric Hardwicke Rideout was collected during the late 1920s and early 30s. Rideout was interested in the Shipping Ports of the North West during the period 1700-1850, especially in terms of Customs and Excise and related topics such as trade and quarantine.

The main areas of research for Rideout were: the Ports of Liverpool, Chester, Poulton, Isle of Man, and Whitehaven; their Customs Houses, Trade, Quays, and Quarantine regulations. The archive also contains material relating to Rideout MA thesis, submitted to the University of Liverpool in 1931, on Navigation Law in the 18th Century.

Much of Rideout's research was done at various Customs Houses in the North West with a huge body of transcriptions being made from the Customs Letter Books of the various Customs Houses. These recorded the day-to-day activities of the Houses and the events of the port. The archive is littered with these transcripts, both typescript and manuscript but the majority are based upon Rideout's original transcripts which, recorded onto index cards, are gathered at Rideout II.2.

Also of use will be a file of letters located at Rideout I.6 which includes his correspondence with various individuals concerning his research, visits to various Customs Houses and correspondence concerning the publishing of his findings.

The Grenfell papers comprise: correspondence, log books and other manuscripts and printed material, Grenfell's Commisions, honours and invitations, newspapers and newscuttings in English, Portuguese and Spanish mainly relating to Grenfell's career in the Brazilian navy and a folder containing genealogical material relating to the Granville and Grenfell families, especially John Granville Grenfell (1829-1866). The Grenfell papers include a manuscript account of the 'Cutting out of the Esmeralda', a bound volume containing the logs of four Brazilian naval vessels commanded by Grenfell, the Brig Marnham, the frigate Imperatrice, the Brig Cabocolo and the schooner Grecian and and a manuscript copy of the defence of Captain Grenfell on his court martial at Rio.

Correspondence in the collection include:

• Letter books in English and Portuguese dating from 1844-54, 1846-60 and 1851-52
• A large collection of letters from Thomas Cochrane 10th Earl of Dundonald the bulk of which date from 1843-62 relating to prize money owed to them both by the Chilean and Brazilian Governments with petitions to those governments.
• Letters from S S de Oliveira President of Rio Grande relative to operations in 1840.
• Letters from the Baron de Caxias relative to the operations in Rio Grande in 1843
• Correspondence with Rear Admiral Lainé Montevideo 1844-45
• Correspondence with British Authorities 1844-46
• Orders and letters relative to the voyage of His Imperial Majesty [Pedro II] to Rio Grande and S. Paulo, ca. 1846
• Letters and papers concerning the fire on the Ocean Monarch 1848
• Correspondence with French, British and U.S. authorities 1851-1852
• Letters from Manuel Moreira Castro, (friend and editor of Rio's Journal do Commercio)1851-1852.
• Letters from the Argentine (rebel) Governor J J Urquiza of Entre Rios 1851-54

[ Note: The Grenfell papers contains items written in Portuguese, Spanish and French, material written in a language other than English has been indicated in the list. ]

The archival part of the Fraser collection contains of a wide range of material predominantly relating to tobacco, but also reflecting other interests of John Fraser (1836-1902) and, subsequently, his sons, John Fraser ([18--]-1943) and Donald Fraser ([18--?]-1963). The majority of items were collected by John Fraser (1836-1902) during his period of employment for Cope Brothers & Co., a tobacco manufacturing company in Liverpool.

Items within this collection include publications and advertising material produced for Cope's under Fraser's direction, original drawings and watercolours, manuscript copies of literary work submitted to Fraser, correspondence, and other materials produced to facilitate the publishing process of Cope publications (e.g. printing plates, galley proofs). Also included are non-Cope publications and ephemera on the topic of tobacco (including anti-tobacconist literature), and material relating to book collecting, the Church of Humanity, and positivism.

This collection includes racial prejudices in the form of offensive language and/or illustrative depictions of people. The University of Liverpool’s Special Collections and Archives are committed to addressing the legacies of slavery and colonialism as present within the collections, and supports their ongoing contextualisation as evidence of historic inequalities and racial prejudice. Please contact scastaff@liverpool.ac.uk for more information.