IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/211
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: T. T. CURWEN AND SONS
Date(s): 1860-1951
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 12 production units.
Name of creator(s): T.T. Curwen and Sons | stock and share broker
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas Tayler Curwen (1820-1879) went into business as a stock and share broker in around 1849. In 1878 he took his sons, Edward Spedding Curwen (b. 1852) and Thomas Cecil Curwen (b 1854) into partnership with him, and the name of the firm was changed to T T Curwen and Sons. In 1974 the firm was incorporated into William Morris and Company.
The firm was based at 3 Bartholomew Lane (1849-67), 19 Change Alley (1868-1905), 1 Cornhill (1905-33), 80 Cornhill (1933-53), Westminster House, Old Broad Street (1954-64), and 39/41 New Broad Street (1965-74).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of T T Curwen and Sons, stock and share brokers, including correspondence; notebooks giving details of transactions; and address books.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection 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 donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1994 and 1999. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 2007. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.