IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 8
Held at: University College London
Title: Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor Records
Date(s): 1854-1888
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes and 1 file
Name of creator(s): Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor | Spitalfields
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The soup kitchen first operated in 1853 and was founded to relieve Jewish poor in Spitalfields, London, taking on premises and providing rations to local recipients.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minute books of meetings of donors to the Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor, Spitalfields, London, 1854-1872, with minutes of Finance Committee meetings, 1858-1871; correspondence and papers, 1857-1888, including printed accounts, 1857-1858, 1869-1872, 1883-1884, letters, 1871, 1887, and printed notices of meetings, 1888.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogued in Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935), p 113.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Deposited with the Mocatta Library at University College London by F W Samuel in 1932.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Mocatta Library (subsequently the Jewish Studies Library) of University College London.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
London Metropolitan Archives hold records, 1872-1980, including minutes, financial and distribution records, of Food for the Jewish Poor, Spitalfields (Ref: Acc 2942).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2001