TAIT, W W (died 1982)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 TH/PP63
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: TAIT, W W (died 1982)
Date(s)	: 1922-1960s
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Tait | Miss | W W | died 1982 | St Thomas's Hospital Almoner

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to Miss W W Tait, Almoner, St Thomas Hospital, including letters of appreciation for her work, 1925-1948; typescript diary of events (at St Thomas' Hospital) Sept 1940; photograph of Miss Cumming; extract from St Thomas Hospital Gazette concerning the resignation of Miss Cummins as Lady Almoner; also ephemera relating to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School collected by Tait including invitations, 1951, 1963; and order of service, 1951; newspaper cuttings relating to the Hospital, 1930-1960s; crest; photograph of the hospital; printed open letter to Almoners at Hospitals, C S Loch, 1909; printed address 'The work of Hospital Almoners', A E Cummins, 1922; printed illustration of the Minister of Health and his colleagues, 1943. Includes letter relating to the deposit of the material, 1983.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

Archival Information

Archival history:

Presented to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library, 1983, by Dr James Tait, nephew of W W Tait.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Alison Field.

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:
January 2004