IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/089
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LONDON PHONETIC SHORTHAND WRITERS' ASSOCIATION
Date(s): 1872-1894
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 8 production units.
Name of creator(s): London Phonetic Shorthand Writers' Association
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Association was formed in 1872 and its members met weekly in the City, most often at 8 Queen Street, Cheapside. It became the London district branch of the National Phonographic Society in 1894. In 1898 this body became the Incorporated Phonographic Society, a society still in existence.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
London Phonetic Shorthand Writers' Association records comprise: an Association magazine, articles written in shorthand, and miscellaneous letters and notes. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 2005.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
CLC/089/MS35907: magazine; CLC/089/MS35908-910: Papers.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These records were given to Guildhall Library by Bishopsgate Institute in 2002. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
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: June to August 2010.