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Papers relating to management of The City Museum at the Municipal Buildings
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
1957-1994
Papers relating to the City Council’s proposed merging of the posts of Director of Art Galleries and Director of Museums
1957-1958
(i) Cutting from the Evening Post, 27 December 1957, concerning the Society’s opposition to the City Council’s proposed merging of the posts of Director of Art Galleries and Director of Museums...
Plan for 'The transfer of the City Museum to accommodation at the Municipal Buildings'
1963
Typed document headed “The transfer of the City Museum to accommodation at the Municipal Buildings”, setting out the City Council’s proposal to transfer the Museum from Park Row and listing poin...
Arrangement plans for the transfer of museum collections
Unknown
Typed stencilled document headed “The New City Museum, Leeds. To be opened by Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret. Thursday, November 6th, 1969”, describing the arrangement of the Museum and its...
Article: 'The Philosophical Hall'
c. 1963
Photocopy of typed article headed “The Philosophical Hall”, describing the origins of the Society and its Philosophical Hall and Museum, the transfer of the Museum to the City Council in 1921, and...
Notes regarding the progress in rehousing of the Museum
1963- 1969
Sheet of manuscript notes in A.C. Chadwick’s hand on progress in rehousing of Museum from Jan. 1963 - Nov. 1969.
Correspondence between A.C. Chadwick and solicitors regarding the dissolution of the City Council’s Museum sub-committee
1993-1994
Correspondence between Dr A.C. Chadwick and W.M. Wrigley of Dibb, Lupton, Broomhead, solicitors, on the dissolution of the City Council’s Museum sub-committee. 4 letters (inc. copy of one from DoE),...
Correspondence from solicitors to Dr H. Henson and A.C. Chadwick relating to the City Council’s obligations to the Society arising from the 1921 agreement
1965-1978
Letters from solicitors to Dr H. Henson and A.C. Chadwick relating to the City Council’s obligations to the Society arising from the 1921 agreement. 6 pp. 1965-1978.
Correspondence from Councillor Bernard Atha to A.C. Chadwick, inviting the Society to join a working party with members of the City Council’s Cultural Services Committee
1992
Typed letter, 12 June 1992, from Councillor Bernard Atha to A.C. Chadwick, inviting the Society to join a working party with members of the City Council’s Cultural Services Committee, following the ...