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London Metropolitan Archives

LADIES' POCKET BOOK


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/512

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LADIES' POCKET BOOK

Date(s): 1807

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Unknown.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Pocket books were popular publications and included printed songs and verses, useful information and even fashion plates.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Pocket book owned by unknown lady, with manuscript annotations recording details of political, military and naval events, and domestic details such as visitors and laundry.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One volume.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gifted to the Archive in July 1974.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: Records prepared May to September 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Personal archives | Archives
Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources

Personal names

Corporate names

Places