Large old British postal history and family correspondence album, covering roughly the period from the early 19th century to 1946–1947. This is a substantial archival group containing early folded letters, covers, postcards, postal stationery, airmail, censor mail, official and service mail, first day covers, slogan and machine cancellations, cut-out franking impressions, and other postal-history elements preserved together in one old album. The collection combines family and social history with the wider postal history of Britain and the British Empire. Clear correspondence nuclei can be seen around the Wilson family (Chislehurst / Bickley, Kent) and the Lang family (Bath, Somerset), together with a broader circle of related correspondents, schools, homes and religious institutions. Repeated addresses include Golf View, Chislehurst; Alverstone, Park Farm Road, Bickley; 1 Oxford Row, Bath; and 17 Belmont / Lansdown Road, Bath. The archive also contains an earlier associated 19th-century layer, including folded manuscript letters, among them a letter to Lady Bath and other early Bath-related papers. The main body of the material belongs to the interwar and wartime period and includes a wide range of private, social, official, commercial and overseas correspondence. The geographical range is broad. In addition to Great Britain, the photographs showed material connected with the following countries and territories: India / British India, Ceylon, Palestine, Jerusalem, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Morocco / Tangier, Iraq / Basra, Egypt, Burma, Malaya, Spain / Tenerife, France, Montenegro, and Japan (Hakodate, Hokkaido). Strong themes within the lot include: - early 19th-century folded letters; - family and social correspondence; - British and British Empire postal history; - airmail / air mail / par avion; - censor and wartime mail; - official mail / On His Majesty’s Service; - tax, banking and administrative correspondence; - first day covers; - slogan cancels, machine slogans and meter impressions; - unusual frankings and preserved postal cut-outs; - a clear combination of family archive and postal-history collecting interest. Names and family lines appearing in the album include Wilson, Talbot Wilson, Emmeline S. Wilson, Lang, D. Marshall Lang / David Marshall Lang, Preston King, Lightfoot, Story / Storey, Bond, Kimball, Spencer, Hay, Payne, Todd, Sheppard and other correspondents. There is also material connected with schools, homes and religious institutions including St Denys’ Home, St Christopher’s School, St John’s College Cambridge and related establishments. The album additionally contains commercial and business correspondence, including company covers, official envelopes, and items bearing advertising and exhibition-style machine postal markings. There are censor labels and censor handstamps, including markings such as Passed by Censor, Passed for Transmission and Opened by Censor. This is therefore far more than a random accumulation of covers. It is a layered and coherent old archive, preserved with both archival and postal-historical logic. The lot should be of interest to collectors of postal history, British Empire mail, censor mail, airmail, family correspondence and social history. Condition is mixed, as expected for an old archival album: age wear, old mounts and tape, folds, creases, toning, occasional tears and some cut-out fragments. However, the breadth of locations, the wartime and Empire content, the family connections and the survival of the material in one old album make this a particularly attractive and unusual lot. Offered as one substantial archival lot.