File includes draft/copy correspondence from Mr Gaskell of the School of Art to Mr Mitchell regarding staffing and salaries within the School.. The file includes names of staff members and a list of student teachers for 1916-1917 and their salaries (Miss Dark, Miss Small, Mr Williams, Miss Dorette [illegible]. Much of the correspondence is on Polytechnic School of Art headed paper.
There is also a bundle of papers giving statistics of student numbers and fees for comparable institutions in 1908-1909 in relation to LCC maintenance grants, with detailed statistics of expenses and receipts for the Polytechnic Electrical section, Chemistry classes, School of Engineering, School of Photography, and School of Art; attendance figures for the English for Foreigners, Economics, English Literature, Upholstery, French lectures, Elementary Art, Domestic hygiene, Sunday Choir, Sight Singing, Choral Society, Book-keeping and Botany classes, as well as lectures by Dr Reich and Mr Gaskell.
The file includes printed copies of the LCC Minutes of Proceedings for 27 Feb 1907; a proof copy of the LCC-Education Committee Polytechnics and Evening Schools Sub-committee report by the Educational Advisor on the report by the Education office on Polytechnics and some other institutions, annotated 'Mr Mitchell'; minutes of the Education Committee 10 Oct 1907 with a marked passage pertaining to the Polytechnic; and a printed one page report on the work of the Regent Street Polytechnic Technical Secondary School and School of Art.
