IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP128 Child
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: CHILD, Edwin (b 1846)
Date(s): 1866-1871
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres.
Name of creator(s): Child | Edwin | b 1846 | seed merchant
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in London, 1846; worked in the family business, Nottinghamshire, as a seed merchant; trapped in the city during the siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War, and volunteered for the Garde Nationale de la Seine, Nov 1870-Feb 1871; returned to England after the lifting of the siege in 1871.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Edwin Child, 1866-1871, notably relating to his experiences during the Siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War, Sep 1870-Jan 1871, comprising diaries, 1866-1871, containing daily entries recording events and often weather, part of which is written on copies of Lettre-Journal de Paris: Gazette des Absents, 1870; letters (as balloon post) to his family and 'Mary-Ann', describing conditions under the siege, 1870-1871; papers relating to his service in the Garde Nationale de la Seine, 1870-1871, including record of service, testimonial, passes for safe-conduct, identity papers and bread ration coupons; photographs of Child and of scenes of the Franco-Prussian War; printed journals and books comprising French publications largely relating to the siege, 1870-1871.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and French
System of arrangement:
The papers are arranged as follows: manuscripts, letters, miscellaneous papers and documents, photographs, printed journals and books.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description available in hard copy in the reading room of King's College London Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were presented to King's College by Miss Edwina Child, the daughter of Edwin Child, in 1964 via Professor Sir Michael Howard.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: King's College London, Manuscripts and Private Papers, A Select Guide. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2001