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Dolben Family


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2201-2203

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Dolben Family

Date(s): c 1785-1860

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s): Dolben Family

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Dolben family came from Finedon, Buckinghamshire.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Receipt books, with medical and culinary recipes plus pasted-in material including newspaper cuttings, c 1785-1860.

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1912.

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: Feb 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Amphibia | Organisms
Food preparation | Home economics education
Medicine, traditional | Culture
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Cookery x Food preparation
Aquatic animals

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Buckinghamshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe