IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 14
Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Title: JOHNSTON, Thomas Crawford (1913-1965): correspondence
Date(s): 1914-1921
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Johnston | Thomas Crawford | 1913-1965 | author
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas Crawford Johnston was a scholar working in San Francisco, USA. He was an honorary member of the Geographical Society of California.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Bound correspondence of Thomas Crawford Johnston, 1914-1921, on the subject of his book Did the Phoenicians discover America? (published by James Nisbet & Company, Ltd., Berner Street, London, 1913), including correspondence with Prof. G C Chisholm, Prof. J S Nicholson, Thomas Athol Joyce, Prof. Grafton Elliot Smith, Prof. Herbert E Gregory and Prof. Louis R Sullivan.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
Appointments are necessary for all visits; please contact the archivist by email to arrange; a fee of £10 is payable by all visitors except Fellows and Members; membership details can be found on the RAI web site; access to material referring to the most recent thirty years is restricted; some material is very fragile and may not be available for view; a few items are of restricted or forbidden access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies and scans for personal research only may be arranged at the discretion of the archivist; charges apply; in all cases forms governing use of copies must be signed; use of digital cameras is not allowed.
Physical characteristics:
151 pp. 27 cm Typescript. Light brown cloth boards; lettered in gold on upper cover.
Finding aids:
Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Digital copy of the second edition of Did the Phoenicians discover America? (St Thomas Press, Texas, 1965) is available online.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2008