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- 1842-1890 (Creation)
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2 volumes
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GB 0120 MSS.5747-5748 1842-1890 Collection (fonds) 2 volumes Clay , Charles , 1801-1893 , ovariotomist
Acquired 1926 or earlier.
Correspondence of Charles Clay including letters to Clay from various correspondents, 1842-1890 and autograph album compiled from letters to Clay, containing signatures, fragments, and a few whole letters. The album consists of a volume of printed legal papers for the Glasgow Autumn Circuit 1846, the autographs being pasted over the printed matter.
As outlined in Scope and Content.
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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.
English
Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
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.
Jan 2009 Health occupations Medicine Specialties, surgical Gynecology Medical sciences Surgery Occupations Clay , Charles , 1801-1893 , ovariotomist
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Acquired 1926 or earlier.
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Scope and content
Correspondence of Charles Clay including letters to Clay from various correspondents, 1842-1890 and autograph album compiled from letters to Clay, containing signatures, fragments, and a few whole letters. The album consists of a volume of printed legal papers for the Glasgow Autumn Circuit 1846, the autographs being pasted over the printed matter.
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As outlined in Scope and Content.
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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.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
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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.
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- English