IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/269
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WULCKO, Laurance Marriott (1901-1977)
Date(s): 19--
Level of description: Collection
Extent: Two production units.
Name of creator(s): Wulcko | Laurance Marriott | 1901-1977 | local historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Laurance Marriott Wulcko was born in 1901 and died in 1977. He was a local historian and the author of A Forgotten Contemporary of Copernicus. Some notes concerning Mikolaj Wulkowski, Voivode of Pomerellia, and his family (1943) and Some Early Friendly Societies in Buckinghamshire (1951).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes relating to London coffee houses, including a bundle of correspondence between Wulcko and B Lillywhite, author of London Coffee Houses. Also drafts of various unpublished articles relating to the topography of Threadneedle Street, Sweetings Rents and Sweetings Alley and an article on the site and early history of the Stock Exchange of 1773.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The original order of these notes has been maintained.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Other papers of no discernable lasting value were destroyed.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Selected for preservation from the historical working papers of L M Wulcko in 1980, and deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
More of Wulcko's research notes can be found in the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, reference D119.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.