River Gambia Trading Company Ltd, merchants of London

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 RIVER GAMBIA
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: River Gambia Trading Company Ltd, merchants of London
Date(s)	: 1860-1920
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 12 shelves
Name of creator(s)	: River Gambia Trading Company Ltd

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

No further information available at present.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the River Gambia Trading Company Ltd, 1860-1920, including accounts, ledgers, stock books, invoice books, cash books, wages books, expenses books, receipt books and letter books. Also includes: papers regarding the Bathurst Trading Company of Mincing Lane, London; papers regarding the will of Richard Lloyd (died 1853) of Bathurst, Gambia and Harriet Fanny, his wife (died 1855).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Unsorted

Conditions governing access:

Mainly closed; some items open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.

Finding aids:

Draft catalogue available from Archives staff.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Copied from LSE Archives CALM database by Anna Towlson.

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:
Apr 2008