IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5208-5214
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Prew, James (d 1846), surgeon dentist, of Bristol and Bath
Date(s): 1830-1847
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 7 volumes and 13 other items
Name of creator(s): Prew | James | d 1846 | surgeon dentist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
James Prew was a surgeon dentist of Bristol and Bath.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Account books and miscellaneous papers relating to James Prew's dental practice, {Bristol and Bath], 1830-1847.
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:
hotocopies/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:
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
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from Mr H Kessler, 1983.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Prew's will, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1846, is in the National Archives (PROB 11/2038, 455).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
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