IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.6170-6176
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Ward, John (c 1629-1681)
Date(s): 17th Century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 7 volumes
Name of creator(s): Power | Sir | D'Arcy | 1855-1941 | Knight | surgeon and historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Ward was vicar of Stratford-on-Avon and a medical practitioner.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Diary of John Ward, transcribed by Sir D'Arcy Power (1855-1941).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In two sections.
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.
Physical characteristics:
Incomplete transcript. Partly typewritten.
Finding aids:
Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The manuscript collection of the Medical Society of London, of which this material formerly was part, was purchased by the Wellcome Library in 1984.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
The original diaries, covering the years 1648 to 1681, were sold by the Medical Society of London in 1928, and are now in the Folger Shakespeare Library (MSS. V.a. 284-299).
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Publication note:
On the Ward diaries, see Robert G Frank, 'The John Ward diaries: mirror of seventeenth century science and medicine', Journal of the History of Medicine 1974, 29: 147-179.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2008