IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2537-2539
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Godlee, Sir Rickman John (1847-1925)
Date(s): 1867-1924
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s): Godlee | Sir | Rickman John | 1849-1925 | 1st Baronet | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Rickman Godlee was a Quaker, surgeon and biographer of Lord Lister. For further information see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Rickman Godlee as a student comprising notes of lectures given by Thomas Huxley, sketches of anatomical dissections, and volume on surgery for the anniversary of University College London, 1867-1924.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
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: 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
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Lady Godlee, 1926.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
In the Wellcome Library: Godlee, and other members of his family, are represented in the correspondence of the Hodgkin family (PP/HO).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009