IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 FAG
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
Title: GOODENOUGH, Frederick Addington (1827-1870)
Date(s): 1858-1869
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 2 folders
Name of creator(s): Goodenough | Frederick Addington | 1827-1870 | merchant
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1827; merchant in Calcutta and London; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1867, died, 1870.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Frederick Addington Goodenough, 1858-1869, from Assam to China on the opening up of communication between Assam and Western China, comprising two memoranda, one by Col Hopkinson on a paper by Goodenough and the second a reply, both concerning communication between China and Assam, 1858; and manuscript and printed lecture on the same subject, 1868-1869.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in the Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying at Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Parts of Ms are very faded
Finding aids:
The RGS archives: a handlist / compiled by Christine Kelly. London: RGS, 1977.
Hand list and card index.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
None expected
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
RGS Journal Mss S E Asia 1868 and letter 1869 with Journal Mss S E Asia.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) ed.2, name authority NRA.
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2008