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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 Parents and Guardians of pupils in Ancaster, Peterborough House and Sargants inviting them to the Thanksgiving service in Chapel for Henrietta Lea.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Richard Hill, Joseph Perkins, Mrs David Atter and Mr and Mrs Matthews regarding their donations to the Chapel and their visiting the School in May 1991.

This sub-series contains files and items related to Henrietta Lea. most of the collection is made of sympathy cards and letters from Parents and Staff to Jon and Kim Wills.

A note from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Housemasters and other staff regarding the arrangements for the Service of Thanksgiving for Henrietta Lea in Chapel.