Hunt, Rosa Louise

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/40
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Hunt, Rosa Louise
Date(s)	: 1915-1916
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Hunt | Rosa Louise | fl 1915
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

It has not been possible to discover any background details about the writer of this diary.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

'Journal of a Red Cross VAD member on Special Service during the Great War' (in Malta), 1915-1916. The writer, Rosa Louise Hunt, describes her service with the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 25 Nov 1915 until 5 Mar 1916, in Malta, beginning with the news that she was being posted to a military hospital abroad, but breaking off abruptly while she was still in Malta.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

This volume was purchased by the Wellcome Institute Library in 1971, and transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.

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.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
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:
Mar 2009.