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Johnston, James


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380594

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Johnston, James

Date(s): 1885-1913

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Johnston | James | fl 1885-1907 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1885-1913, concerning the marriage settlement between Dr James Johnston (of Shanghai and Hanover Square) and Margaret Elizabeth Leaf (of South Kensington), and relating to property in Shanghai, comprising power of attorney on behalf of Johnston, 1885; marriage settlement, 1885, with appendix concerning appointment of a new trustee, 1913; two letters concerning sale of the Shanghai property, 1907.

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:

Database.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1992 via the British Records Association.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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: Jul 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Land tenure | Land economics | Agricultural economics
Marriage

Personal names
Johnston | James | fl 1885-1907 | physician
Johnston | Margaret Elizabeth | fl 1885 | née Leaf x Leaf | Margaret Elizabeth

Corporate names

Places
Shanghai | Shanghai Shi | China | East Asia