IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380683
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies
Title: Lawford, Lancelot
Date(s): 1913-1917
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Lawford | Lancelot | fl 1913-1917 | employee of the Chinese Maritime Customs
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Lancelot Lawford worked for the Chinese Maritime Customs in Shanghai and Peking at a period of political instability and fighting following the Chinese revolution of 1911 and the establishment of a republic.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopies of nine letters of Lancelot Lawford to his wife (unnamed) from Shanghai, 1913, and Peking (Beijing), 1917, describing political and military events in China.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Unpublished handlist and database.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
This material was presented by Nigel Lawford in 1997.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
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: Apr 2002