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Barrett, Francis


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1072-1073

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Barrett, Francis

Date(s): 1801-1802

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Barrett | Francis

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Two works on magic: 'The Magus or Celestial Intelligencer', 1801 and 'Directions for the invocation of spirits', and an essay on spiritual vision, 1802.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In 2 volumes.

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 1908 and 1928.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Magic | Mysticism
Spiritualism | Mysticism
Astrology x Spiritualism

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