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Nasmyth, Dorothea Clara


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/219

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Nasmyth, Dorothea Clara

Date(s): 1897-1920

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1/2 box

Name of creator(s): Nasmyth | Dorothea Clara | 1879-1967 | nee Maude | General Practitioner

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Dorothea Nasmyth (nee Maude) was a General Practitioner who wrote a diary of her experiences during the First World War.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Dr Dorothea Clara Nasmyth, comprising memoirs entitled, 'Memoirs of a Medical Woman - Oxford September 1897', 1920 and material on her early life and World War One experience, edited from her diaries by her son James A Nasmyth.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the 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:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These papers were given by James A Nasmyth, Dr Nasmyth's son, to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (known as Archives and Manuscripts following its merger with Western Manuscripts in July 2000) in February 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Details of Dr Nasmyth's career can be found in the Medical Directory.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Diaries | Nonfiction
Women physicians | Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Personnel
Primary documents

Personal names
Nasmyth | Dorothea Clara | 1879-1967 | nee Maude | General Practitioner

Corporate names

Places