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Material relating to Sir James Porter's work with the Ministry of National Service. (Manuscript)
1917-1920
PTR/8/8
Material relating to the Cowan family, and Sir James Porter's time at Aberdeen. (Manuscript)
1840-1935
PTR/1
Documents relating to Sir James Porter's time at Royal Naval Hospitals Haslar and Chatham. (Manuscript)
1901-1905
PTR/7/1
Newspapers and magazines collected by Sir James Porter. (Manuscript)
1899-1902
PTR/6/1
Documents relating to Sir James Porter's post as Medical Director General of the Royal Navy. (Manuscript)
1909-1913
PTR/7/3
Letters from Lady Porter to Sir James Porter. (Manuscript)
1890-1891
PTR/15
Letters, historical notes, and printed material relating to the Porter, Cowan, and Waddy families. (Manuscript)
1850-1974
PTR/17
Letters from Lady Porter to Sir James Porter. (Manuscript)
1889-1890
PTR/14
Historical notes. (Manuscript)
PTR/20
Photographs, postcards, newspaper cuttings and daguerreotypes relating to the Porter, Cowan and Pritchard families. (Manuscript)
PTR/18
Cowan and Porter correspondence, photographs, clippings, account books and journal. (Manuscript)
1884-1926
PTR/3
Documents relating to Royal Naval hospitals at Gibraltar and Haslar. (Manuscript)
1905-1908
PTR/7/2
Letters to and from members of the Porter, Cowan, Ogilvie and other extended family and friends. (Manuscript)
circa 1870-1935
PTR/12
Historical notes, and transcriptions of letters by Sir James Porter. (Manuscript)
circa 1870-1900
PTR/13
Printed booklets, publications and ephemera. (Manuscript)
1884-1973
PTR/16
Transcriptions of Sir James Porter's letters from HMS SCOUT, HMS HIBERNIA and HMS TAMAR, October 1889 to March 1890. (Manuscript)
1889-1890
PTR/13/6
Transcriptions of letters of Staff Surgeon James Porter M.A.M.B. April - June 1890 (Manuscript)
1890
PTR/13/7
Transcripts of the letters of Sir James Porter, HMS HIBERNIA, October to December 1889. (Manuscript)
1889
PTR/13/4
Transcriptions of letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter, from HMS SCOUT, 1890. (Manuscript)
1890
PTR/13/5
Material relating to Sir James Porter's career between 1883 and 1885. (Manuscript)
1883-1954
PTR/13/2
Material relating to Sir James Porter's life and career between 1885 and 1894. (Manuscript)
1885-1930
PTR/13/3
Copies of Sir James Porter's letters, South Africa, 1899-1900. (Manuscript)
1899-1900
PTR/13/9
Letters labeled "Cowan Letters 1885/6, Bermuda". (Manuscript)
1885-1886
PTR/12/2
Letters from Lady Porter to Sir James Porter. (Manuscript)
1900-1901
PTR/12/8
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