Edward Johnston & Company Ltd Records

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 JOHNSTON
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Edward Johnston & Company Ltd Records
Date(s)	: 1884-1942
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Edward Johnston & Company Ltd | coffee traders
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Edward Johnston & Company Ltd was a Brazilian coffee exporting house based in Santos. It was founded in 1842 by Edward Johnston who had an expert knowledge of Brazil. It became one of the leading firms in the coffee trade and is now Brazilian owned.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Edward Johnston & Company Ltd, 1884-1942, comprising private letter copy-books from Santos to London, 1892-1904; printed parity tables relating to the coffee trade, 1884-1903; and a volume, One hundred years of coffee (privately printed, London, 1942).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open. 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. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Handlist. See also A Guide to Manuscript Sources for the History of Latin America and the Caribbean in the British Isles, ed Peter Walne (Oxford University Press, London, 1973).

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
1999