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Martin, Dr. Thomas (d 1851)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7530-7531

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Martin, Dr. Thomas (d 1851)

Date(s): Early 19th Century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Martin | Thomas | d 1851 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Thomas Martin was a General Practitioner in Dorking.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Recipe book, manuscript with a few printed cuttings pasted in, detailing chiefly medical recipes plus a few culinary ones. Stated by the original donor probably to have belonged to Thomas Martin and photocopy of Martin's diary for 1805-1815, detailing patients seen.

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:

Originally donated to the Royal College of General Practitioners by Dr. L. Dulake, Reigate.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Wellcome Institute Library by the Royal College of General Practitioners, October 1997. Originally donated to the Royal College by Dr. L. Dulake, Reigate.

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
Food preparation | Home economics education
General practitioners | Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Prescriptions | Documents | Information sources
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Cookery x Food preparation
Personnel

Personal names
Martin | Thomas | d 1851 | physician

Corporate names

Places