IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/500
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAMUEL, Wilfred Sampson (d 1958)
Date(s): 1937-1952?
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 13 production units.
Name of creator(s): Samuel | Wilfred Sampson | d 1958 | historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
These manuscripts were collected and compiled c 1937-52 by Wilfred S Samuel in connection with his research involving the daybook of Sir Charles Peers (1661-1737), Spanish merchant and Lord Mayor of London (1715-16) (see CLC/B/227/MS10187) and the journal of his protege Carleton Smith, kept during his service in charge of prisoners in Newgate who had participated in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. The latter was borrowed from the Lord Mayor's descendant Sir Charles Peers (1868-1952), but was destroyed by enemy action in 1941. However a photocopy of it survives in this collection.
It is likely that this researcher is the same Wilfred S Samuel (d 1958) who was a prominent scholar of Jewish history, and a co-founder of the Jewish Museum.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Research papers of Wilfred S Samuel relating to a mayoral day-book and the Jacobite rebellion of 1715; including notes, genealogy, indicese and correspondence.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were received by Guildhall Library from a private individual in 1959 (Ms 10188-A) and in 1977 (Ms 17875-83). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1959 (recatalogued in 1984) and in 1977 respectively. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Working papers of Wilfred S Samuel relating to Jewish colonists in Bardados can be found at the University of Southampton Special Collections, reference MS 158.
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: Records prepared May to September 2011.