IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380687
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies
Title: Russell, Alexander
Date(s): 1882-1899
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Russell | Alexander | fl 1882-1899 | seaman
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Alexander Russell was skipper of various vessels based in Fiji including the John Hunt and the Meda. These ships helped supply missionaries in the region.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopies of 13 letters, 1882-1899, from Alexander Russell to his sister, Barbara Russell, recounting trips on missionary and other vessels in the South Pacific, including visits to Sydney (Australia) and Fiji.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Unpublished handlist and database.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The material was presented by Mrs Bobby Shackleton, grand-niece of Alexander Russell, in 1998.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Revised 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: Apr 2002