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Insanity, France, 19th Century


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5643-5646

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Insanity, France, 19th Century

Date(s): 1816-1890

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to asylums and the insane in France, 19th century.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

In sections as follows: Letters written for the most part by patients in the Salpêtrière, Paris, 1851-1856; Letters and drawings by patients in various French asylums, c 1857-1890; Letters from the Chevalier Marie Martial d'Arzac, confined as insane, 1816; Collection of letters relating to asylums in France, 1837-1887.

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.

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Asylums | Medical institutions | Health services
Mental diseases | Psychopathology | Psychiatry
Mentally ill persons | Disabled persons | Disadvantaged groups
Patients | Health services
Psychiatric hospitals | Hospitals | Health services

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe