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Bashford, J.E.L. (fl 1907-1918)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5733-5740

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Bashford, J.E.L. (fl 1907-1918)

Date(s): 1907-1918

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 8 volumes

Name of creator(s): Bashford | J E L | fl 1907-1918 | naval officer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

J E L Bashford served in the Royal Navy. He served with HMS VIRAGO, a destroyer on the China station, and HMS VERNON.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notebooks and diary including notebooks containing notes taken from lectures on physics and electricity given at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, illustrated with sketches and diagrams, 1902; pilotage notes, 1907; Diary while serving with HMS VIRAGO, a destroyer on the China station, including visits to Hong Kong, Japan and elsewhere in the Far East, 1908 and notebooks containing lecture notes on electricity and mechanics, illustrated with small sketches and diagrams. Inscriptions 'J E L Bashford, HMS Vernon, Aug. 1911.' MS. 5740 also includes notes on mine-sweeping and on torpedoes fired, 1916-1918.

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Puttick and Simpson's 6 Dec. 1928, lot 236.

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
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Naval medicine | Military medicine | Medical sciences
Electricity
Engineering
Mechanics
Physics

Personal names

Corporate names
Royal Navy

Places
China | East Asia
Hong Kong | East Asia
Japan | East Asia