Holmes, Samuel

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0117 MS 72
Held at	: Royal Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ ›
Full title	: Holmes, Samuel
Date(s)	: 1792-1793
Level of description	: Sub-fonds
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Holmes | Samuel | fl 1792-1793 | Sergeant-Major
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Samuel Holmes was Sergeant-Major of the 12th light dragoons.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

'Journal of Samuel Holmes of a Voyage to China and Tartary, 1792-1793, during his attendance, as one of the guard, on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China'. The original manuscript of the book published in 1795. Also a letter dated Reading 7 December 1799 from Holmes to Sir William Young.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

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Publication note:

The Journal of Samuel Homes ... during his attendance as one of the guard on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China and Tartary 1792-1793, S. Homes (1798).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
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:
Feb 2009.