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Colles Family receipt books


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.8012-8013

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Colles Family receipt books

Date(s): [1816-1890s]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Colles family

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Colles family were based in Dublin in the late 18th century, later moving to Great Britain.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Two receipt books from the 18th-early 19th century: mostly culinary but some medical and household recipes. MS.8012 contains accounts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

These items were handed down through the Colles family.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Dorothy Colles.

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
Animals | Zoology
Drugs, non-prescription | Pharmaceutical preparations
Food preparation | Home economics education
Perfumes | Industrial products
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Veterinary medicine | Medical sciences
Cookery x Food preparation
Agriculture
Brewing
Finance
Libraries

Personal names

Corporate names

Places