A summary of a report prepared by Churchill Fellow James Bruce. The hand restoration methods of the Public Record Office, London, are described in this extract. Hand restoration and preservation of documents and maps involve the following procedures: 1) inspection of document, 2) cleaning and bleaching, 3) deacidification, 4) resizing and drying. Other topics are: 1) types of repair tissue, 2) working conditions, 3) map restoration, and 4) document repair.