The Manuscript archive collection consists of:
- material arising out of the conduct of Society business
- manuscripts relating to persons or subjects of special interest
Individual special collections may not be fully comprehensive but do complement those in other establishments.
The document collection includes a few papers from before the Society's foundation in 1830.
The collection is particularly useful to:
- biographers of nineteenth and early twentieth century travellers and geographers
- research into the development of geographical knowledge and the historical development of geography
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