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Marsh, George (1723- ), Commissioner of the Navy, Director of Greenwich Hospital


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7628-7629

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Marsh, George (1723- ), Commissioner of the Navy, Director of Greenwich Hospital

Date(s): 18th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Marsh | George | b 1723 | Commissioner of the Navy and Director of Greenwich Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Scrapbook kept by George Marsh, with notes on a wide variety of subjects and many newspaper cuttings inserted, 18th century.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

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 Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from A.R. Heath, Bristol, August 1998.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Anecdotes | Oral tradition | Cultural heritage
Calculi | Pathological conditions, anatomical | Pathological conditions, signs and symptoms
Diet | Dietetics | Systems of medicine
Fever | Diseases | Pathology
Hospitals, military | Hospitals | Health services
Mental diseases | Psychopathology | Psychiatry
Monarchy | Political systems
Music | Performing arts
Naval medicine | Military medicine | Medical sciences
Nutrition | Physiology
Nutrition disorders | Nutritional and metabolic diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Poetry | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Prisoners | Disadvantaged groups
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Scurvy | Nutritional diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Mental disorders x Mental diseases
Balloons
Body temperature changes
Finance
Health behavior
Medical institutions
Religion

Personal names
Marsh | George | b 1723 | Commissioner of the Navy and Director of Greenwich Hospital

Corporate names

Places