IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3074-3077
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Jermyn, Emily Harriott (1793-1824)
Date(s): 1818
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 volumes
Name of creator(s): Jermyn | Emily Harriott | 1793-1824
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The authoress was the daughter of the Suffolk Antiquary, Henry Jermyn [1767-1820]. She married her cousin James Jermyn [ -1852], the philologist.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Emily Jermyn papers, 1818, comprising: 'Botanic etymology, or an attempt to derive from their original language, and to explain the names and terms, generic and specific, used in the Science of Botany: and to determine from such sources their proper and correct prosody. With short biographical notices of such eminent persons whose names have been honored in their adaption to plants: and many anecdotes ... relating to their cultivations, properties and uses. Author's holograph MSS. An exhaustive work which must have involved enormous labour: it is unpublished.' Produced in Sibton (Suffolk).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As set out above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
4 vols. folio. 32 × 20 cm. Original diced calf bindings, by Shalders of Yarmouth: with his label inside the first fly-leaves. Titles within a pen-drawn panel.
Finding aids:
Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1934.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Date(s) of descriptions: October 2008