IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0985
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HAMPTON COURT
Date(s): 1846-1870
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Office of Works
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
These letters, addressed to Robert Bainbridge, Keeper of Hampton Court Park, are (except for the first two) from the Office of Works and are signed usually by the Secretary, Alfred Austin (1856-68) or George Russell (1869-70). These are all official letters requesting returns of the numbers of deer or of estimates of expenditure, giving approval for the acquisition of additional deer or for purchase of hay. Bainbridge died early in 1870 and the last letters are addressed to his son E. W. Bainbridge until the new keeper was appointed and to his widow stating that the Board had no power to grant a pension.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters to the Keeper of Hampton Court Park from the Office of Works.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Letters in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records deposited in December 1967.
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.