RPS MSS 275-278. General Minute Books; 1813-1965. Except for the earliest entries, the principal concerns of general meetings are the laws of the Society and the election of members, etc. Normally two meeting were held each year. Four volumes.
RPS MSS 279-294. . Directors’ minute books (subsequently minutes of the Managers and then of the Council of Management); 1816-1959. Directors were elected annually at general meetings to manage the concerts. These minutes are principally concerned with artists, repertory and allied matters. Sixteen volumes.
RPS MSS 295-298. . Rough minute books; 1871-96. Drafts of full minutes for both general and directors’ meetings, kept by the Secretary and often also including notes for action arising from those meetings. Four volumes.
RPS MSS 306-307. Account ledgers; 1908-55. Income and expenditure, arranged under headings such as subscriptions, guarantees, broadcasting fees, recording royalties, etc., and orchestra, conductors and soloists, rent of halls, printing, etc. Two volumes. 317 x 205mm.
RPS MSS 308-310. ‘Cash Books’; 1908-68. Pages specially printed, receipts on versos, expenditure on rectos, with columns bearing headings for income from entrance fees, guarantors, etc., and expenditure on orchestra, soloists, ‘Q[ueen’s] H[all] Staff’ (in RPS MS 309 only), printing, etc. In all three volumes, some headings have been amended in MS, for example, in RPS MS 310 to allow for income from broadcasting. Three volumes.
‘Original letters’; 1813-1955, n.d. The principal part of the series, surviving from the Society’s archive since its inception, had been gathered together and arranged by 1910. Subsequently select later letters were inserted into the series, and the whole bound into these volumes on their incorporation as a loan in the British Museum. A small number of draft letters from the Society is included, placed in order with the letters from the addressee. The letters are arranged in alphabetical o...