IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MC
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Miscellaneous Correspondence
Date(s): 1800-1925
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 13,117 letter in total, in 17 volumes and 25 boxes.
Name of creator(s): Various
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Letters sent to the Royal Society, usually Officers or Assistant Secretaries.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Original of letters sent to the Royal Society, generally on official business, and usually to Officers or Assistant Secretaries. The collection is effectively in two parts; letters for the period 1800-1899 are bound as 17 volumes; those for 1903-1925 are held unbound in boxes. The full sequence forms a single chronological archive with only occasional gaps, the most notable being the complete absence of the years 1900-1902 and 1920. From 1885, the series may be used in conjunction with the New Letter Books, which contain the corresponding outgoing letters.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
By date.
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Physical characteristics:
17 leather bound volumes.
Finding aids:
Entries in Archive Card Catalogue; Volumes 1-17 include author, address, date, summary of contents and reference number. Subsequent entries are limited to noting the author with a combined reference number and date, such as MC.06039 May 21 (letter number 39 on 21 May 1906).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.