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Pocket map of England. (Manuscript)
PTR/19/10
'Half Inch' Map of England by Gall and Inglis.
Newspaper cuttings, postcards and a 1915 Admiralty cablegram. (Manuscript)
1913-1915
PTR/18/1
Newspaper cuttings: article "Their Majesties' Court. Attendance and Dresses", The Morning Post, 10 June 1913; article "The Public Health.…
Letters from Lady Porter and her children to Sir James Porter. (Manuscript)
1899
PTR/11/10
Letters from Lady Porter and her children to Sir James Porter, HMS DORIS (Cape Station), August to October 1899. Letters from Lady Porter are numbered 90-99.
Letters from Lady Porter and her children to Sir James Porter. (Manuscript)
1898
PTR/11/4
Letters from Lady Porter and her children to Sir James Porter, HMS DORIS (Cape Station), June to August 1898. Letters from Lady Porter are numbered 30-39.
Letters from Lady Porter and her children to Sir James Porter (Manuscript)
1899
PTR/11/9
Letters from Lady Porter and her children to Sir James Porter, HMS DORIS (Cape Station), April to June 1899. Letters from Lady Porter are numbered 80-89.
Panoramic photograph of Cape Town. (Manuscript)
PTR/18/11
Panoramic photograph of Cape Town, Table Mountain and Lion's Head.
Hospital Ships present daily at Mediterranean ports, August to October 1915. (Manuscript)
1915
PTR/8/1/6
Hospital Ships present daily at Helles, Kephalos, Anzac, Suvla Bay, Salonika, covering 18 August to 31 October 1915.
Receipts for instructions. (Manuscript)
circa 1915
PTR/8/1/3
Receipts for instructions.
Order of service for the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary. (Manuscript)
1911
PTR/16/5
Dark blue booklet containing the form and order of the service that is to be performed and of the ceremonies that are to be observed in the Coronation of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, on 22 June 1911.…
Miscellaneous letters and photographs relating to extended family. (Manuscript)
1884-1933
PTR/12/13
Small bundle of letters between Sir James Porter, Lady Porter and their daughter, 1900 - 1903 (headed Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham); small bundle of letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter and her parents whilst they were living in Bermuda, 1886 (headed HMS CALYPSO); photographs of J.G.…
Daguerreotype of M.W. Cowan. (Daguerreotype)
PTR/18/4
Glazed daguerreotype in leather and velvet case, most likely a portrait of M.W. Cowan, with note.
Ambrotype possibly of a son of Captain J.W. Pritchard. (Ambrotype)
circa 1860
PTR/18/8
Glazed ambrotype (also known as wet collodion positive), with some colour applied, in leather and velvet case, possibly a portrait of one of the sons of Captain J.W. Pritchard, with note.
Material relating to Porter's First World War Service, chiefly concerning medical transport during the Gallipoli / Dardanelles Campaign, 1915-1916. (Manuscript)
1914 - 1920
PTR/8
Wartime Service. See hierarchy for details.
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