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HMS DORIS and South Africa. (Manuscript) 1897-1901 PTR/2/14
Report published in 1901 by the Royal Commission on South African Hospitals; ephemera related to Porter's time on HMS DORIS; orders and certificates; hand drawn maps; a copy of the 1864 Accession of the British Government to the Geneva Convention; The London Gazette from 12 March 1901, regardin…
Army Book 166. (Manuscript) 1900 PTR/6/2/1
Pocket book, with pencil attached, of labels or tags for military medical patients. Some are filled in, but most are left blank. Tag gives the name and number of the individual, his rank or regiment, wound and treatment. The first tag is dated 19 February 1900.
South Africa. (Manuscript) 1898-1900 PTR/2/15
Army orders, ephemera, reports, lists of supplies, designs for an aluminium stretcher, a photograph of Porter, lists of casualties, other medical reports and observations, and an image of HMS DORIS.
Medical Officers Order Book. (Manuscript) 1899-1900 PTR/6/2/3
Small red book containing orders for medical officers at Naval Brigade Camp, Modder River, 1899 to 1900.
Cowan letters, Bermuda. (Manuscript) 1884-1887 PTR/3/1
A file of letters, some incomplete, relating to the Cowan family at Bermuda, including a note about the marriage between James Porter and Emma Louisa Kay Cowan (later Lady Porter, known as Lutie), eldest daughter of M.W. Cowan at Paget Parish Church, Bermuda.
Journal, Chatham, January to April 1905. (Manuscript) 1905 PTR/7/1/4
Parts of a journal kept by Sir James Porter, (or perhaps Mrs Porter), regarding daily social life, finances and correspondence, covering January, some of February, March, and some of April.
Records of hospital ships in the Mediterranean in 1915. (Manuscript) 1915 PTR/8/1/12
Records kept in September and October 1915 by medical officers aboard several hospital ships, including NEURALIA, SOMALI, NEVASA and REWA, of numbers of people on board and their state of health upon arriving or departing a port.
Documents relating to Sir James Porter's time at the Royal Naval Hospital, Gibraltar. (Manuscript) 1905-1906 PTR/7/2/1
Letters, photographs, certificates, newspapers and ephemera relating to Porter's time as Deputy Inspector General of the Royal Naval Hospital, Gibraltar, March 1905 to December 1906.
Documents relating to Sir James Porter's time at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar. (Manuscript) 1901-1904 PTR/7/1/1
Documents relating to Porter's time at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar: two photographs of Imperial Japanese Navy officers, K. Yamaji and Y. Kamimura, circa 1902; a booklet of images of the RNH Haslar, and a postcard; seven letters to Porter, 1901-1904, including several from Y.…
Letters relating to Sir James Porter's time at Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar. (Manuscript) 1901-1902 PTR/7/1/2
Letters from a variety of correspondents, to Sir James Porter, and some from Porter to his family, whilst at Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, 1901-1902.
Letters received by Sir James Porter in the aftermath of the Gallipoli campaign. (Manuscript) 1916-1935 PTR/8/4/5
Letters received by Sir James Porter in the aftermath of the Gallipoli campaign, from Officers involved in Hospital Transport, also contains a few letters from Sir James to Lady Porter and his children.
Letters received by Sir James Porter, 1913-1915. (Manuscript) 1913-1915 PTR/7/6/3
Letters received (and some written) by Porter and Lady Porter, largely from friends and family, but some professional aquaintances as well.
Addresses and speeches from the Opening Ceremony of the Historical Medical Museum. (Manuscript) 1913 PTR/7/6/4
Book: "XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London 1913, Opening Ceremony of the Historical Medical Museum" by Dr Norman Moore, published 24 June 1913, containing addresses and speeches made.
Rough note book dated 1914. (Manuscript) 1914 PTR/7/6/6
Rough note book kept by Sir James Porter during 1914.
Guest list for Darwin celebrations at Cambridge, 1909. (Manuscript) 1909-1913 PTR/7/3/6
Booklet: "Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Origin of Species / To be Celebrated at Cambridge, June 22, 23, 24, 1909 / List of Delegates and other Guests invited by the University", published Cambridge 1909, with the "Order…
Porter Family letters, June to November 1909. (Manuscript) 1909-1913 PTR/7/3/7
Letters June to November 1909, largely from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter, some from Porter to his children.
Rough notebooks and a diary kept by Sir James Porter. (Manuscript) 1908-1913 PTR/7/3/8
Five small notebooks approximately dating between 1908 and 1913 and a pocket diary for 1911.
Ephemera and papers largely relating to formal events attended by Sir James Porter in 1911. (Manuscript) 1908-1912 PTR/7/4/1
Two small notebooks, 1908-1909; papers relating to a meeting of Osborne Consulting Staff, 1910; photograph of Inspector General at Chatham (Dearton?) 1910; booklet "Papers for Naval Cadetships, July 1911"; papers relating to a Florence Nightingale Memorial; ephemera relating to various Ro…
Correspondence to and from Sir James Porter, 1911. (Manuscript) 1911 PTR/7/4/3
Correspondence to and from Porter, 1911. There are also several letters to and from Lady Porter, and a Memorial Service for Vice-Admiral Richard George Kinahan.
Report of the Committee on the Naval Medical Service. (Manuscript) 1913 PTR/7/4/8
Booklet: "Report of the Committee on the Naval Medical Service. / Part II. / Sick Berth and Nursing Staff. / Part III. / Reserves and Organization for War." annotated, with a cutting from the British Medical Journal, 6 February 1913.
Newspaper cuttings and parts of medical assocation meeting agenda. (Manuscript) 1913-1931 PTR/7/4/10
Cuttings, including pages from The British Medical Journal, 2 May 1914, and The Times, 7 August 1931, 20 July 1934; cuttings from Council Agenda for a Naval and Military Committee meeting, 1914; pages from British Medical Association meeting agenda, 1913.
Two photographs of delegates at a meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. (Manuscript) 1909 PTR/7/4/11
Two large group photographs, one of foreign delegates, the other of all delegates, at the 18th annual meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Washington D.C., 5 to 8 October 1909. Photographs by the National Press Association, Washington D.C.
Statistical Report of the Health of the Navy for the year 1913. (Manuscript) 1913-1914 PTR/7/4/7
Soft cover book: "Statistical Report of the Health of the Navy for the year 1913" by W. Graham Greene, Admiralty Secretary, published October 1914.