Holden, Henry (1662-1710)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.2863 and 8956
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Holden, Henry (1662-1710)
Date(s)	: late 17th century - early 20th century
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Holden | Henry | 1662-1710 Haggis | A W (Alec William James) | 1889-1946
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

In the note on the first leaf of MS.2863 Henry Holden MD is described as having been one of the Senior Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford. He obtained his MD in 1700, lived at Erdington, and was buried at Aston Church, Birmingham.

A W J Haggis was employed by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and carried out historical research on a number of topics, including work specifically for Henry Wellcome. In 1939-1944 he was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust to write 'The Life and Work of Sir Henry Wellcome' (this remains unpublished although copies can be found in the Wellcome Archive); also, an Oxford D Phil thesis on 'An historical survey of English ecclesiastical and secular medical licensing systems between the years 1512 and 1858' was left unfinished at his death.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Commonplace book by Henry Holden (MS.2863), plus notes by A W J Haggis of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (MS.8956) summarising the volume and comprising a contents list and some transcriptions.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and Latin

System of arrangement:

As above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. 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) and typescript supplements by Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

MS.2863 purchased from Maggs Ltd., May 1929 (acc.43229); MS.8956 generated within the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Further material by A.W.J. Haggis on medical history is held as MSS.5328-5355, 8280-8282, 8285-8287 and 8662-8663.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

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:
October 2008