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Humphreys, Thomas Brigstocke (fl 1859)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7702-7703

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Humphreys, Thomas Brigstocke (fl 1859)

Date(s): 1859-1907

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume, 1 file

Name of creator(s): Humphreys | Thomas Brigstocke | fl 1859 | chemist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Thomas Brigstocke Humphreys was a chemist in Portmadoc, he appears later to have relocated to London since some of the ephemera in the volume carry the same name but with an address in Blackheath.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Recipe and account book with ownership inscription of Thomas Brigstocke Humphreys, Portmadoc, 1859. The book has later been used to accommodate newspaper cuttings (including several relating to members of the Humphreys and Brigstocke families, among them H. Humphreys of Aberystwyth, also a chemist, and various Humphreys in Llanelli) and ephemera. The latter relate to a wide variety of chemists' firms, chiefly in London; these include Corbyn and Co. (see MSS. 5435-5460).

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:

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:

Purchased from A.R. Heath, Bristol, February 1999.

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
Drugs, non-prescription | Pharmaceutical preparations
Prescription drugs | Drugs | Pharmacology
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature

Personal names
Humphreys | Thomas Brigstocke | fl 1859 | chemist

Corporate names

Places