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This collection of documents has been filed by Jane Matthews, Senior Mistress of Oakham School. They related to H.M.C. Co-Educational Group Meetings of Senior Mistresses, resources for staff and pupils regarding wellbeing, maternity leave, health, and various correspondence. The collection spreads over a few years from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

This file relates to the Headmaster's Annual report to the Trustees, from the 1950s to 1980s. The reports cover all aspects of School, academic, examination results, extra-curricular activities, Estates and Maintenance, staff and individual faculty report, vision for the future of the School. All reports are private and confidential.

This sub-series focuses on the history of the 1993 Organ in the School Chapel. After the 1930 organ expired and was replaced by a computer organ in the 1980s, the headmaster Graham Smallbone commissioned for a new organ to be built. Some items highlight the various proposals, the correspondence focuses on the building and installation of the organ and the photographic file finally shows the organ in Chapel.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins regarding the carvings on the organ and the tuning of the new organ.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins regarding the installation of the organ and the proposed festival for the following year and discussing an exhibition in the Bowes Room.

A letter from Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins regarding problems with the new instruments and the upset at the unfinished nature of the organ.

A letter from the headmaster Graham Smallbone thanking Peter Collins, Organ Builder, for all of his work on the new organ and, despite it's unfinished nature, how magnificent the instrument is.

A paper written by Graham Smallbone on the organ in Chapel, revised for the full meeting of Trustees following the Financial & General purposes Committee Meeting. Contents: Decline and Fall; Solutions, The Pipe Organ; The Alternative; and Conclusion.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to T.M. Reay, Mrs Wheway, Roger Blackmore and the Housekeepers, containing the minutes of a meeting regarding OSEL, conferences and support to house staff. Two pages A and B.

A letter (A) from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to be sent to Old Oakhamians after the Appeal launch. Attached are two lists (B and C) of recipients.