IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/102
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: GOSCHENS AND CUNLIFFE
Date(s): 1903-1941
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 13 production units.
Name of creator(s): Goschens and Cunliffe | merchants and bankers
Fruhling, Goschens and Co | merchants and bankers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The firm was established by German merchants in London in 1814 as Fruhling, Goschen and Company to act as commission agents exporting colonial produce and cotton to Germany. It later acted as merchant and foreign bankers, and merged in 1920 with Cunliffe Brothers to form Goschens and Cunliffe. The firm ceased trading in 1940. It was based at 12 Austin Friars.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Goschens and Cunliffe, merchants and bankers, comprising out-letter books, telegram books and register of policies. Also records of predecessor Fruhling, Goschens and Company, comprising letters to their agent in Germany.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
CLC/B/102-01: Goschens and Cunliffe; CLC/B/102-02: Fruhling, Goschens and Company.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.
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
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The archives of the firm were deposited with the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1963 by Antony Gibbs and Sons. H K Goschen had become a partner of Antony Gibbs in 1947. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.