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.