| Description | Papers found within a lever-arch file titled "Business. De Beer".
Papers regarding the estates of De Beer's parents, Herbert and Mabel De Beer, consisting of copy wills, administrators accounts, letters from family members regarding bequests, and letters from solicitors regarding the execution of the estates.
Copy of De Beer's birth certificate.
Correspondence between De Beer, his sister Irene Anne Porter, and her husband Noel; regarding De Beer's will, and the disposition of property and money bequeathed to Irene by her mother and an individual named Mrs Bird.
Letters from solicitors and various banks regarding De Beer's finances, his tax status, and his plans for the disposition of his estate; plus statements of assets, statements of account, stock and share certificates; pension and life insurance annuity papers.
Letters from H P Morrison regarding De Beer's retirement from the British Museum (Natural History), inviting him to join Thomas Nelson & Sons; plus letters from Nelson & Sons regarding financial and administrative arrangements. |