IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0024
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: NAPLES, Joshua (fl 1811-1812)
Date(s): 1811-1812
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Naples | Joshua | fl 1811-1812 | resurrectionist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The author of the diary, probably Joshua Naples, was a resurrectionist supplying bodies to anatomy teachers, and was active during 1811 and 1812.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Diary of a resurrectionist, 1811-1812, probably Joshua Naples, describing his activities supplying bodies to anatomists in London, including to St Thomas's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records are arranged as outlined in the scope and content.
Conditions governing access:
Open to bona fide researchers by written appointment.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the Librarian.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The diary was presented to the Royal College of Surgeons of England by Sir Thomas Longmore, a dresser to Bransby Cooper in his early days. Cooper's uncle, Sir Astley Cooper was closely associated with resurrectionists of the time.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Publication note:
Text of the diary is published in: The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812: to which are added 'The Resurrection Men in London', and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act James Blake Bailey (London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1896).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Royal College of Surgeons of England on-line catalogue. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
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: October 2002