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).
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