IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3930-3946
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Poisson, Albert (1868-1894)
Date(s): 1885-1904
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 16 volumes, 5 folders
Name of creator(s): Poisson | Albert | 1868-1894 | alchemist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Albert Poisson is described by Caillet, as 'savant alchimiste moderne, né et mort à Paris. Étudiant de médecine'. He wrote several works on Alchemy and translated some ancient alchemical texts. He used the pseudonym 'Philophotos'.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers on alchemy by Albert Poisson, including correspondence, translations, essays, notes on chemistry, John Dee, the occult, extracts from books on alchemy, 1885-1904.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Not given
System of arrangement:
As set out 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.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Wellcome Library catalogue online.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Not given.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
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: November 2008