COMPSON William (fl 1817-1818)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0100 G/PP1/13 |
Held at | : King's College London College Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ › |
Full title | : COMPSON William (fl 1817-1818) |
Date(s) | : 1817-1818 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 2 volumes |
Name of creator(s) | : Compson | William | fl 1917-1918 |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Two manuscript volumes titled 'Mr Astley Cooper's Surgical Lectures' containing notes taken William Compson, 1817-1818.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
2 volumes
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature on readers' undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archives and Corporate Records Services.
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Notes of Cooper's lectures [1800-1811] held by King's College London (Reference: TH/PP Davies; TH/PP Gruggen; TH/PP Hulbert; TH/PP Rayner; TH/PP Ware; TH/PP Warren; TH/PP Williams; G/PP1/62);
Correspondence and papers of Cooper are held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England; lecture notes, 1806-1807, are held by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (reference: Cooper); lecture notes, 1809-1815 (reference: MSS 1857-60, 5606) and 1816-1817 (reference: MS 7096) are held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; lecture notes, 1803-1832, are held by the McGill University, Osler Library, Canada; correspondence with Charles Lowe, 1824, held by Lincolnshire Archives (reference: Lowe); correspondence, 1823-1826, with Sir Robert Peel, held by the British Library, (reference: Add MSS 40359-90 passim); letters to T J Pettigrew, 1815-1838, held by Beinecke Library, Yale University; letters to the Duke of Wellington, 1833-1839, held by Southampton University Library (reference: MS 61).
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Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Sources: Historical Manuscripts Commission's On-line National Register of Archives; Dictionary of National Biography CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1995); British Library Public On-line catalogue; Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900), D T Bird (London, 1984); 'List of Books by Guy's Men in the Wills Library, Guy's Hospital' William Wale, in Guy's Hospital Reports Vol LXVII, 1913. 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:
January 2002. Revised June 2004
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