IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS370
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Merchants' agreement to supply meat
Date(s): 1810
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
No information was available at the time of compilation.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copy of an agreement made in Madrid, 31 Mar 1810 between the authorities and 13 merchants to supply meat to the troops and hospitals for the months of April and May 1810.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Spanish
System of arrangement:
See hard-copy catalogue.
Conditions governing access:
Open for research. 24 hours notice should be given before a research visit.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
A hard-copy catalogue is also available in the Special Collections reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
In 1928 Edward Phelips bequeathed the collection to the Corporation of London in memory of his sister, Clare Louisa Eliot; in 1950 the Guildhall Library placed it on permanent deposit in the University Library.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Guildhall Library.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Imported from the Senate House catalogue and edited by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: 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: Feb 2009.