IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1133
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Ford, Richard (Thomas Bean Research Collection)
Date(s): c1991-c2007
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Bean | Thomas James | 1943- | local politician, scholar
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas James Bean wrote a number of articles on the art connoisseur and writer, Richard Ford (1796-1858). Bean also amassed significant collections of Ford's letters and books, which were alluded to in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Ford of 2004. Among the papers on Ford given by Bean were those to the Richard Ford bi-centenary conference and the 1991 George Borrow Conference. Thomas Bean was also a farmer and in 2006 was a Liberal Democrat representative on Worcestershire County Council.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Draft conference papers and publications on the art connoisseur and author, Richard Ford (1796-1858).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file
Conditions governing access:
Open for research
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:
Fonds level description
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Transferred by the collection creator.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Thomas Bean
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Archives of Richard Ford are held at the Bodleian Library, the British Library, Glasgow City Archives, Hispanic Society of New York.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Richard Temple.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2007-01-03