IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7573-7575
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Scheuer, Victor (fl.1874-1908), Belgian physician: Autograph Collection and Personal Papers
Date(s): 1894-1908
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 88 items
Name of creator(s): Scheuer | Victor | fl 1874-1908 | Belgian physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Victor Scheuer was a Belgian physician based at Spa, where he attended the Princes d'Orléans and other European nobility. He was a collector of autographs and his professional correspondence, involving contact with various notables, contributed to his collection.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Victor Scheuer including signed letters, mainly autograph, many with descriptive notes attached (nos. 2-4 originally grouped together), most concern various persons' health; autographs of various nobles or notables in the form of letters to Victor Scheuer and correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1894-1908.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
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 Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The majority of the collection purchased from Charavay, Paris, April 1931: in general, these accession numbers are not carried on the items themselves. The remainder of the collection purchased from: Seine stalls, Paris, July 1930 ; Charavay, Paris, September 1930, September 1934, November 1934, January 1936 and at an unknown date before 1937.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009