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   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & 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.

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

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

Allied Materials

Related material:

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

Publication note:

Description Notes

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

Rules or conventions:

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).

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009