IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1132
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Maxwell, Sir Herbert (1845-1937)
Date(s): 1911 January
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 letter
Name of creator(s): Maxwell | Sir | Herbert Eustace | 1845-1937 | 7th baronet | politician and author
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Sir Herbert Maxwell was Conservative member of Parliament for Wigtownshire from 1880-1906; during the latter years of his parliamentary career he was a supporter of Joseph Chamberlain's campign for tariff reform; Maxwell was a prolific author: his numerous books included a biography of the Duke of Wellington, written in 1899. He was the President of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland, 1900-1913.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letter to Lord Carlisle, 1911, regarding work on the Lanercost Chronicle, a medieval chronicle on the history of Scotland.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 item only
Conditions governing access:
Open for research
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:
Fonds level description
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Transferred from Senate House Library.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Senate House Library
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The following repositories also hold archives of Sir Herbert Maxwell: National Library of Scotland (correspondence 1863-1937); Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (letters to Lady Londonderry, 1924-1937); Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (correspondence, 1924-1927).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Richard Temple.
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: 2007-01-03, Richard Temple