IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 AEG
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
Title: GOSTLING, Archibald Ernest Alfred
Date(s): 1932
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 2 folders
Name of creator(s): Gostling | Archibald Ernest Alfred | fl 1927-1932
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1927-1932; travelled widely in South America.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Typescript translations by Archibald Gostling, 1932, from the Spanish of accounts of a voyage to the Canary Islands by Nunez Cabeza da Vaca (c 1490-1564) and of book by Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566) [possibly 'Very brief account of the Destruction of the Indies'].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in the Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying at Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Typed
Finding aids:
The RGS archives: a handlist / compiled by Christine Kelly. London: RGS, 1977.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
None expected
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) ed.2, name authority NRA.
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2008.