IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5747-5748
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Clay, Charles (1801-1893)
Date(s): 1842-1890
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Clay | Charles | 1801-1893 | ovariotomist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence of Charles Clay including letters to Clay from various correspondents, 1842-1890 and autograph album compiled from letters to Clay, containing signatures, fragments, and a few whole letters. The album consists of a volume of printed legal papers for the Glasgow Autumn Circuit 1846, the autographs being pasted over the printed matter.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
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 Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Acquired 1926 or earlier.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009