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Pattinson, Hugh Lee (1794-1858)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3805-3810

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Pattinson, Hugh Lee (1794-1858)

Date(s): 1828-1856

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 6 volumes

Name of creator(s): Pattinson | Hugh Lee | 1794-1858

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Not given.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter-books, containing letters on Hugh Pattinson's inventions, industrial chemical processes, his manufacturing and chemical businesses, family affairs, etc, 1828-1856. Carbon copies of holograph MSS. Vol. I. 1 April 1828-5 August, 1830. II. 18 August, 1830-25 July, 1834. III. 19 August, 1834-16 April, 1856. IV. 30 April, 1838-27 October, 1846. V. 29 June, 1845-11 August, 1847. VI. 14 August, 1847-7 July, 1852. Produced in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

6 vols. 4to. and folio. 271/2 × 24 cm., 311/2 × 21 cm. Vols. I, II, folio: half-calf binding; vols. III-VI 4to.: green calf binding except Vol. IV which is half-calf.

Finding aids:

Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

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: November 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Metals | Inorganic chemicals | Chemicals
Chemistry

Personal names
Pattinson | Hugh Lee | 1796-1858 | metallurgical chemist

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Places