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STRINGER AND RICHARDSON (FIRM)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-174

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: STRINGER AND RICHARDSON (FIRM)

Date(s): 1827-1829

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Stringer and Richardson | merchants and tea and spice dealers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This firm of merchants and tea and spice dealers, of 5 Monument Yard, Fish Street Hill, was originally a partnership between Miles Stringer and Thomas Richardson. The partnership ended in May 1828. Later in the same year a Mr Cooper took Richardson's place and the firm was renamed Stringer, Cooper and Company.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter book of Stringer and Richardson, merchants and tea and spice dealers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One volume.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This volume was purchased by the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1987. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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 to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Spice trade | Trade (practice)
Tea | Plant products | Agricultural products
Tea trade | Food trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Stringer and Richardson | merchants and tea and spice dealers

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe