Royal Society: outgoing letters of the Foreign Secretaries

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0117 MS 581
Held at	: Royal Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ ›
Full title	: Royal Society: outgoing letters of the Foreign Secretaries
Date(s)	: 1784-1847
Level of description	: Sub-fonds
Extent	: 115 letters bound into one volume
Name of creator(s)	: Young | Thomas | 1773-1829 | physician, physicist and Egyptologist Smyth | William Henry | 1788-1865 | scientist and antiquary | Admiral Daniell | John Frederic | 1790-1845 | chemist Sabine | Sir | Edward | 1788-1883 | Knight | General and geophysicist Konig | Charles Dietrich Eberhard | 1774-1851 | mineralogist Layard | Charles Peter | 1749-1803 | clergyman
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Foreign Secretaries of the Royal Society:
17 June 1784 Charles Peter Layard
22 March 1804 Thomas Young M.D.
30 November 1830 Charles Konig
30 November 1837 Captain William Henry Smyth, R.N.
30 November 1839 John Frederic Daniell
1 December 1845 Lieutenant Colonel Edward Sabine
30 November 1850 Captain William Henry Smyth R.N.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of the outgoing letters written by the Foreign Secretaries of the Royal Society.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

List of letters, persons and dates, in front of box.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
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:
Feb 2009.