IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 72
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Holmes, Samuel
Date(s): 1792-1793
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Holmes | Samuel | fl 1792-1793 | Sergeant-Major
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Samuel Holmes was Sergeant-Major of the 12th light dragoons.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
'Journal of Samuel Holmes of a Voyage to China and Tartary, 1792-1793, during his attendance, as one of the guard, on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China'. The original manuscript of the book published in 1795. Also a letter dated Reading 7 December 1799 from Holmes to Sir William Young.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Paper, bound, 74 ff, size 12.5 x 8.5
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Publication note:
The Journal of Samuel Homes ... during his attendance as one of the guard on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China and Tartary 1792-1793, S. Homes (1798).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue 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: Feb 2009.