NAPLES, Joshua (fl 1811-1812)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0024
Held at	: Royal College of Surgeons of England   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/ ›
Full title	: NAPLES, Joshua (fl 1811-1812)
Date(s)	: 1811-1812
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Naples | Joshua | fl 1811-1812 | resurrectionist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The author of the diary, probably Joshua Naples, was a resurrectionist supplying bodies to anatomy teachers, and was active during 1811 and 1812.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Diary of a resurrectionist, 1811-1812, probably Joshua Naples, describing his activities supplying bodies to anatomists in London, including to St Thomas's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged as outlined in the scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Open to bona fide researchers by written appointment.

Conditions governing reproduction:

At the discretion of the Librarian.

Finding aids:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The diary was presented to the Royal College of Surgeons of England by Sir Thomas Longmore, a dresser to Bransby Cooper in his early days. Cooper's uncle, Sir Astley Cooper was closely associated with resurrectionists of the time.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Text of the diary is published in: The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812: to which are added 'The Resurrection Men in London', and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act James Blake Bailey (London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1896).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Royal College of Surgeons of England on-line catalogue. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with 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:
October 2002