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Georgievsky, Catherine (1898-1944)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.8264-8268

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Georgievsky, Catherine (1898-1944)

Date(s): early 20th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 volumes

Name of creator(s): Georgievsky | Catherine | 1898-1944

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes and reports by Catherine Georgievsky, chiefly on Czechoslovakia comprising, reports on medical history collection and museums in Czechoslovakia, inspected over three visits, 1933-1935; notes on Dr John Dee (1527-1608) and Edward Kelley (1555-1597), with particular regard to their stay in Bohmeia (establishing Kelley's date of death as 1597 and not 1595), 1932-1935; notes on watering places of Czechoslovakia, 1932-1935; Letterbook recording letters sent from Prague concerning acquisitions, 1932-1933; notes on Prague: report on Franzensbad: St John Nepomuk: 2 copies (second lacking note on St John Nepomuk), 1932.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

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.

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred form WHMM filing cabinets, January 1957.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Health resorts | Public facilities | Sanitation | Environmental engineering
History of medicine | History
Magic | Mysticism
Saints | Religious groups
Spiritualism | Mysticism
Occultism x Spiritualism

Personal names
Dee | John | 1527-1608 | mathematician and astrologer
Georgievsky | Catherine | 1898-1944
Kelley | Sir | Edward | 1555-1597/8 | Knight | alchemist

Corporate names

Places
Prague | Czechoslovakia | Eastern Europe
Europe