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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