Visited the archive in Solly Street earlier this week.
I was able to access some letters from the personal collection of Hugh Robert Mill, received between 1893 and 1944. They were given to the GA in 2000 by Arthur Hunt, who received them from L J Jay's widow.
L J Jay was a former GA librarian.
They included a letter sent by B B Dickinson to Hugh Robert Mill, who seems to have been addressed as Mill, and which was sent just a week after the meeting where the GA was founded, explaining that the meeting had taken place.
There was also a set of facsimiles of early documents, including a list of attendees at the meeting where ideas for geography teaching were discussed.
There is a list of those who were unable to attend but who had showed an interest. As you can see, these were public school masters generally. The first thing that was discussed was the use of the optical lantern, and ideas were shared for effective use of lantern slides.
This is linked with the Geographer's Gaze project which is coming soon to the GA website.
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