GOMME, Sir George Laurence (1853-1916): A Handbook to Folk-lore

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1446 MS 20
Held at	: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.therai.org.uk/ ›
Full title	: GOMME, Sir George Laurence (1853-1916): A Handbook to Folk-lore
Date(s)	: 1910
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 1 item
Name of creator(s)	: Gomme | Sir | George Laurence | 1853-1916 | Knight | author and founder of the Folklore Society

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1853; educated, City of London School; worked for a railway company, 1869; moved to Fulham district board of works; worked for the Metropolitan Board of Works (later the London County Council), 1873-1914; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Statistical Society, the Anthropological Institute, and other learned societies; founder member (1878) and sometime Secretary and President of the Folk-Lore Society; died, 1916.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript and manuscript copy of A Handbook to Folk-lore, edited by George Laurence Gomme and published for the Folk Lore Society, 1890. This copy was made in 1910 because the original was out of print.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item

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Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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:
May 2008