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Holmes, Samuel

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 72

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Holmes, Samuel

Date(s): 1792-1793

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Holmes | Samuel | fl 1792-1793 | Sergeant-Major

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Samuel Holmes was Sergeant-Major of the 12th light dragoons.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'Journal of Samuel Holmes of a Voyage to China and Tartary, 1792-1793, during his attendance, as one of the guard, on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China'. The original manuscript of the book published in 1795. Also a letter dated Reading 7 December 1799 from Holmes to Sir William Young.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Paper, bound, 74 ff, size 12.5 x 8.5

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

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Publication note:

The Journal of Samuel Homes ... during his attendance as one of the guard on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China and Tartary 1792-1793, S. Homes (1798).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.