IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0165
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Nesham Family Papers
Date(s): 1820-1860
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 5 volumes
Name of creator(s): Nesham | William | fl 1820-1876 | surgeon
Nesham | Thomas Cargill | d 1899 | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
No biographical information was available at the time of compilation.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Nesham Family, 1820-1860, comprising 4 volumes of notes by William Nesham, taken at lectures given by Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie FRCS (1783-1862), 1820-1821; and a volume of notes by Nesham's son Thomas Cargill Nesham, taken at lectures given by Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), 1860-1861.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Finding aids:
Additional manuscripts catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by Mrs Robert Nesham in 1945, on behalf of the late Dr Nesham, through Surgeon Rear Admiral Robert Joseph Willan (FRCS).
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
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: Sep 2008