Colles Family receipt books

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.8012-8013
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Colles Family receipt books
Date(s)	: [1816-1890s]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Colles family
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Colles family were based in Dublin in the late 18th century, later moving to Great Britain.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Two receipt books from the 18th-early 19th century: mostly culinary but some medical and household recipes. MS.8012 contains accounts.

Access & 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:

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:

Archival Information

Archival history:

These items were handed down through the Colles family.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Dorothy Colles.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

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