IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS899
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Mead, Geoffrey John de Cusance (fl 1939-1979)
Date(s): c 1950-1980
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5 boxes
Name of creator(s): Mead | Geoffrey John Cusance de | fl 1939-1979 | historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
No information was available at the time of compilation.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, notes, tables, etc. relating to Geoffrey John Cusance de Mead's research (for which he was awarded a London PhD in 1954) on the administrative noblesse of France during the eighteenth century, with special reference to the Intendants of the généralités.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and French
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open for research although individual files may be closed under the Freedom of Information Act. See Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is necessary for research visits.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description. Box listed.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Given by Mrs Mead in 1983.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Imported from the Senate House catalogue and edited by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: 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: 2008; Feb 2009.