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DANIEL HARVEY AND COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-059

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DANIEL HARVEY AND COMPANY

Date(s): 1623-1646

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 production units.

Name of creator(s): Daniel Harvey and Co | merchants

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Daniel Harvey (1587-1647), a brother of the William Harvey who discovered the circulation of the blood, was a City merchant trading with the Levant. Among his customers was Henry Garraway (Lord Mayor 1639-40), sometime Governor of the Levant Company, of which Harvey was also a Court member.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Daniel Harvey and Company, merchants, comprising a ledger and loose accounts found inside. The ledger shows trade in silk, velvet and other cloth with merchants in Aleppo, Constantinople [Istanbul], Genoa, Livorno, Naples, Rouen and Hamburg.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Chronological order.

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:

Purchased at auction in 2001.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

London Metropolitan Archives also holds later papers of the Harvey family of Chigwell, Essex. See CLC/460.

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
Overseas trade | Trade (practice)
Silk | Textiles
Textile industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Velvet | Textiles

Personal names

Corporate names
Daniel Harvey and Co | merchants

Places
Aleppo | Syrian AR | Middle East
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Genoa | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Hamburg | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Istanbul | Marmara | Turkey | Middle East
Livorno | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Naples | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Rouen | France | Western Europe | Europe