IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2863 and 8956
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Holden, Henry (1662-1710)
Date(s): late 17th century - early 20th century
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Holden | Henry | 1662-1710
Haggis | A W (Alec William James) | 1889-1946
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
In the note on the first leaf of MS.2863 Henry Holden MD is described as having been one of the Senior Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford. He obtained his MD in 1700, lived at Erdington, and was buried at Aston Church, Birmingham.
A W J Haggis was employed by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and carried out historical research on a number of topics, including work specifically for Henry Wellcome. In 1939-1944 he was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust to write 'The Life and Work of Sir Henry Wellcome' (this remains unpublished although copies can be found in the Wellcome Archive); also, an Oxford D Phil thesis on 'An historical survey of English ecclesiastical and secular medical licensing systems between the years 1512 and 1858' was left unfinished at his death.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Commonplace book by Henry Holden (MS.2863), plus notes by A W J Haggis of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (MS.8956) summarising the volume and comprising a contents list and some transcriptions.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and Latin
System of arrangement:
As above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973) and typescript supplements by Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
MS.2863 purchased from Maggs Ltd., May 1929 (acc.43229); MS.8956 generated within the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Further material by A.W.J. Haggis on medical history is held as MSS.5328-5355, 8280-8282, 8285-8287 and 8662-8663.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Date(s) of descriptions: October 2008