Assignment of goodwill of business, Reginald Marriage (trading as Marriage & Hicks) to E Marriage and Son Ltd. Southgate Mills, Bury St Edmunds. Purchase Finance Company Ltd acting as a third party. Includes 1941 transfer of land at Southgate Mills from E Marriage and Son Ltd to Goldsmith Brothers Ltd, of Bury St Edmunds.

Conveyance of Warmley Flour Mills, Siston, Gloucestershire: James Collins Sons & Brain Ltd to Thomas & Evans Ltd. Covenant between Thomas & Evans Ltd and Hosegood Industries Ltd (holding company of James Collins Sons & Brain) relating to the same. Associated correspondence.

Acknowledgement of receipt of Deed of Covenant (missing) between the Purchase Finance Company Ltd, Millers' Mutual Association and James Nutter Ltd of 'Station Mill', Fulbourn.

Covenant between The Patent Knitting Company (users of 'The Roller Mill', Dale Street, Menai Bridge, Anglesey) and the Purchase Finance Company Ltd.

Deed of covenant between Purchase Finance Company Ltd and Mona Products Ltd, ending the latter's use of premises at 'The Roller Mill', Dale St., Menai Bridge, Anglesey for flour milling.

Covenants between the Millers' Mutual Association/Purchase Finance Company Ltd and Johnsons Ltd of Darley Dale mill, Derbyshire.

Covenants between the Millers' Mutual Association/Purchase Finance Company Ltd and Francis Coales & Son of Town Flour Mills, Newport Pagnell.

Agreement and covenant that Alfred and Florence Bullock (of The Donnington Wood Mill Co, Trench, Shropshire) will enter into a covenant with the Millers' Mutual Association, restricting their milling of flour for the next ten years.

Conveyance of Hipper Corn Mills, Lordsmill St., Chesterfield, from Townrows Ltd (of Trent Mills, Gainsborough), to Thomas Irving & Co Ltd (of Chesterfield). Purchase Finance Company Ltd acting as third party to agreement.

60 page 'letter' sent to Wailes' wife, Enid. The letter is in the form of a diary recording Wailes' trip to the Leipzig Trade Fair. It records Wailes' impressions of his train trip through Germany, his fellow travellers and a visit to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

The last ten pages record Wailes' trip north of Leipzig 'on the main Berlin road & as soon as we got out of the suburbs, there was a mill to every village we saw. Nearly all were post mills, & nearly all were the same. Patent sails, no round house tailpole with a winch on the end, straight pitched roof, vertical weatherboarding all tarred.' He comments that those mills near the main road had advertisments on their sides.

Wailes records a visit to a mill near Delitzsch where he meets the miller, Kurt Schumann, and 'took many photos, both inside and out'. There was also a visit to an unidentified tower mill, built in 1886, which Schumann described as a 'Hollandsche műhle,' which was brick-built with a fan-tail and octagonal cap. Wailes is particularly struck by the fact that it, 'had a lift instead of a chain for the sack hoist!!'.

A 'poltrok' mill at Rődgen is also visited (converted from a post mill in 1924, the original dating from 1614). Wailes comments, 'the mill is chock full of new machinery and new methods of drive, sufficient of the old being left to make it intensely interesting'.

Wailes concludes the letter, 'Must stop now. Dresden tomorrow'.

Bundle of research notes on:

• a draft address/paper relating to the Newcomen Society and the emergence of the term, 'Industrial Archaeology' (pre 1970);
• Thaxted Mill (30 November 1964);
• Broxted Mill (24 July 1938);
• an unidentified author's 'list of Post Mills In Essex that I know' addressed to 'Mr Wailes';
• brief typed notes on mills at South Ockenden, Stock and Southminster (undated);
• 8 pages of notes taken from the 'Historic Monuments Commission of the Province of Quebec' (Proulx, 1928) and from the 'Legal Archives of Quebec'. The focus is on historic 'Banal' and 'Seignorial' mills of Canada, including those listed at 'Place access points' below as well as notes about several unindexed mills (a 'First known mill on the Island of Orleans', 'Windmill [or Banal Mill] Saint Famille','The Mill Pointe aux Trembles', 'Fleming Mill, Ville La Salle', 'The Banal Mill, Vinceloth Signeur, Cap Saint Ignace', 'The Banal Mill, Grondines', 'old windmills at Fort Erie, Niagara and Windmill Point, Prescott' and the 'Old Windmill Sandwich'. An unidentified mill at 'Saint Plerve' is also noted;
• a brief note on the depiction of mills in art, 'This is not place to illustrate derelicts but mills when in their glory...' (undated);
• labels for plates in a paper or book, most of the items depicted being described as, 'in the possession of the author', for example, 'Puzzle jug inscribed, 'The Miller, the house & the mill but where is the Donkey'.

Assignment of goodwill of business: Cunliffe & Swire Ltd (of Brown Street Mills, Salford) to the Purchase Finance Company Ltd. Spillers Ltd to be responsible for the rent of the premises thereafter. Various associated paperwork enclosed.

Conveyance of freehold portion of the Roman River Roller Mills at Fingringhoe, Essex, from E Chopping & Sons Ltd to C Hitchcock Ltd. Deed re. the sale of E Chopping & Sons' company shares to E Marriage & Son Ltd.

Agreement for purchase of Goodwill and Deed of Covenant relating to King's Mills Cullompton: Marks & Son to E J Coombe Ltd (owners of mills at Thorverton). Purchase Finance Company Ltd acting as third party. Enclosed note from 1948.

Sale of property (1939) at Tower Mill, Wrentham (Suffolk) by R J Read Ltd to Charles Clarke, baker, of Halesworth. Purchase Finance Company Ltd acting as third party. Also paperwork (1951) relating to modification of a covenant in the conveyance.