IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3961-3963 and 7440
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Power, Sir D'Arcy (1855-1941)
Date(s): 1890-1940
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 volumes and 1 file
Name of creator(s): Power | Sir | D'Arcy | Knight | 1855-1941
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Sir D'Arcy Power was surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital and a distinguished medical historian.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Material on medical history (particularly on syphilis) and the history of the Power and Simpson families; correspondence, 1890-1940.
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:
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).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
From the author's library, with his armorial book-plate.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased at Sotheby's 10/6/1941, Lot 312 (part).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
MSS.627-628 comprise material relating to the Barber-Surgeons' Company, London, compiled by Sir D'Arcy Power.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2008