13 Leather bound Scrap book albums of newspaper cuttings (note volume numbers are not consecutive).

Volume 1: the history of the Green and Blackwall company in cuttings, covering the lives of members of the Green family, lectures and details of the vessels built by them.
Volume 3: Municipal events around the turn of the nineteenth century, social engagements and invitations, contemporary developments such as motor cars, airships, 1900 - 191906.
Volume 4: As volume 3, 1908-1910.
Volume 5: 1910- 1912, events documented include the King's funeral, launch of HMS THUNDERER (the last battleship built on the Thames) and the loss of the Titanic.
Volume 6: As above, 1910-1914.
Volume 10: First World War seen through newspapers, campaigns, 1915-1916.
Volume 11: Roll of Honour for British & Commonwealth troops, 1915-1916, including Dardanelles campaign, death of Lord Kitchener.
Volume 18: First World War campaigns, 1917.
Volume 19: First World War campaigns, 1916-1920, including the Russian Revolution.
Volume 22: First World War campaigns, August 1918, break through to the end of the war.
Volume 23: Summaries of the war, reparations and post war planning.

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Administrative / biographical background
Joseph Fletcher Green was the second son of Frederick Green (1814-1876) of the Blackwall shipbuilding family and his wife Elizabeth (nee Fletcher) of Stepney (1813-1870). He was educated at Rugby School and during his youth excelled in sports, being selected to play rugby for England and cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club. He married Ellen, daughter of the marine engine engineer John Penn (1805-1878) of Blackheath, at St Margaret's church at Lee, on 1 August 1877. At the same service, Frederick Stokes, the solicitor and former England rugby captain, married Ellen's sister Isabella. It is presumed that Joseph Fletcher Green and his elder brother Sir Frederick Green were both involved in F. Green & Co., the passenger and cargo-managing arm of the Green family enterprise, later subsumed in the Orient Steam Navigation Co.