| Description | Letters and papers regarding: the Beaumont Trust purchasing Bancroft's Hospital and School site from the Drapers' Company as the site for the People's Palace; and the Drapers' Company granting twenty thousand pounds to the Beaumont Trust for the People's Palace Technical Schools.
Includes letters from W. P. Sawyer, Clerk to the Drapers' Company, to A. Brownlow, Honourary Secretary of the Beaumont Trust, Sir Edmund Hay Currie, Chairman of the Beaumont Trust, and others. It also includes letters from the Chief Clerk of the Charity Commission to A. Brownlow, and copies of the resolution made at the Court of Assistants of the Drapers' Company on 20 May 1885, signed by W.P. Sawyer, that the Drapers' Company would grant £20,000 to Beaumont Trust. |