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Whiffen and Sons Ltd, manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, London

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5878-5894

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Whiffen and Sons Ltd, manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, London

Date(s): 1749-1971

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 13 volumes, 4 files

Name of creator(s): Whiffen and Sons Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Whiffen and Sons Ltd, founded by Thomas Whiffen (1819-1904). Whiffen's chief products were of medical application, including poisons and alkaloids, with a special interest in quinine and strychnine.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Whiffen and Sons Ltd, founded by Thomas Whiffen (1819-1904), and of predecessor wholesale and manufacturing chemists, 1749-1971.

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.

Physical characteristics:

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Dr Elsa Lewkowitsch 1971-74 (accessions 318901, 318902, 322580 and 323212).

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

At other repositories: Further records of Whiffen and Sons Ltd are in London Metropolitan Archives (ref. B/WHF).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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