IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 20
Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Title: GOMME, Sir George Laurence (1853-1916): A Handbook to Folk-lore
Date(s): 1910
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Gomme | Sir | George Laurence | 1853-1916 | Knight | author and founder of the Folklore Society
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1853; educated, City of London School; worked for a railway company, 1869; moved to Fulham district board of works; worked for the Metropolitan Board of Works (later the London County Council), 1873-1914; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Statistical Society, the Anthropological Institute, and other learned societies; founder member (1878) and sometime Secretary and President of the Folk-Lore Society; died, 1916.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Typescript and manuscript copy of A Handbook to Folk-lore, edited by George Laurence Gomme and published for the Folk Lore Society, 1890. This copy was made in 1910 because the original was out of print.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
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Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2008