Papers relating to the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria

Title

Papers relating to the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria

Shelfmark

MS. D.D. Radcliffe b. 25

Summary

Papers concerning Trust business including meeting and agenda papers, Observer's Progress Report (1937), Observatory letters and some Observatory site property papers. Also comprises bundles of indentures between The Trustees of the Will of Dr. John Radcliffe and:

Mrs. K. Lindsay, 'Agreement for letting fields belonging to the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford', 1924

Sir William Richard Morris, 'Conditional Agreement for the sale and purchase of the Radcliffe Observatory and the land and buildings held therewith in the City of Oxford', Jan 1930

Sir Wiliam Richard Morris, including:

The Presidenct and Scholars of St. John Baptist College Oxford, 'Conveyance of Ground in the Parish of St. Giles...with the Observatory and other buildings thereon', Feb 1821

Conveyance and Declaration of Trust

Other deeds and correspondence relating to the Radcliffe Observatory, 1929-1930

'Draft Conditional Agreement for the sale and purchase of the Radcliffe Observatory', Jan 1930

Sir William Richard Morris, lease, conveyance and deed 'allowing portions of buildings on the site of the Radcliffe Observatory', Oxford, 1930-1931

'Draft Deed altering positions of buildings on the site of the Radcliffe Observatory', Mar 1931

Sir W. R. Morris Bart. and others, 'Copy Counterpart Lease of the Radcliffe Observatory' and correspondence with the Morris Trust, 1930-1932

Date

1821, 1924-1931

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box