Marjolin, Jean Nicholas (1780-1850) and his son , (Nicholas) René Marjolin (1812-1895): surgeons and morbid anatomists

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.3443, 5652, 7061 & 7310
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Marjolin, Jean Nicholas (1780-1850) and his son , (Nicholas) René Marjolin (1812-1895): surgeons and morbid anatomists
Date(s)	: 1849-1894
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes and 2 files
Name of creator(s)	: Marjolin | Jean Nicolas | 1780-1850 | surgeon and morbid anatomist Marjolin | Nicolas Rene | 1812-1895 | surgeon and morbid anatomist
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Jean Nicolas Marjolin (1780-1850) was a surgeon and morbid anatomist who lectured at the Paris Faculté de Médécine.

René Marjolin (1812-1895), son of the surgeon Jean Nicolas Marjolin, served as surgeon to the children's hospital of Sainte Eugénie, Paris. During the siege of Paris and the Commune, 1870-1871, Marjolin was active in treating the wounded until he was arrested as a Bonapartist agent.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Jean Nicholas Marjolin and his son René Marjolin, 1849-1894, including notes of Jean Nicolas Marjolin's lectures, by a medical student; letters from René Marjolin to his friend Edmond Dascols relating mainly to personal affairs, and the health of the Dascols family (with advice on cholera and other maladies) and letters from Paris at the time of the siege and the Commune, 1870-1871, when René Marjolin was active in treating the wounded prior to his arrest as a Bonapartist agent.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and French

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: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973); 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); and typescript supplements to those catalogues, produced by Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371), March 1928 (acc.67375), October 1928 and April 1929 (acc.63700), July 1929 (acc.57070), April 1931 (acc.64715), January 1932 (acc.64878) and September 1934 (acc. 67126); from Degrange, Paris, October 1928 (acc.56987), February 1929 (acc.56146), 1932 (acc.65658) and 1933 (acc.66034); from an unknown vendor in Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); from Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc. 67540); from Desgranges, Paris, April 1933 (acc.66041); and from James Tait Goodrich, USA, 1993 (acc.349371).

Allied Materials

Related material:

In the Wellcome Library: Jean Nicholas Marjolin (1780-1850) also occurs as a signatory of documents held in MS.5421 and MS.7465.

Publication note:

Description Notes

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

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009