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SIMMONS, John (fl 1813)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-165

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SIMMONS, John (fl 1813)

Date(s): 1813

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Unknown.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Simmons seems to be a wine and general merchant of London. There are no entries in London directories for his business and it is possible that this is a fictional exercise by a student of bookkeeping.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Accounts ledger, journal and waste book, possibly belonging to John Simmons, wine merchant.

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 deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by a private individual, via Gloucestershire County Record Office, in 1955. 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
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Wine merchants | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names

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