GB 0100 G/PP1/13 - COMPSON William (fl 1817-1818)

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Reference code

GB 0100 G/PP1/13

Title

COMPSON William (fl 1817-1818)

Date(s)

  • 1817-1818 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

2 volumes

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Unknown

Archival history

GB 0100 G/PP1/13 1817-1818 Collection (fonds) 2 volumes Compson , William , fl 1917-1918

Unknown

Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Two manuscript volumes titled 'Mr Astley Cooper's Surgical Lectures' containing notes taken William Compson, 1817-1818.

2 volumes

Open, subject to signature on readers' undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archives and Corporate Records Services.
English

Detailed catalogue

Notes of Cooper's lectures [1800-1811] held by King's College London (Reference: TH/PP Davies; TH/PP Gruggen; TH/PP Hulbert; TH/PP Rayner; TH/PP Ware; TH/PP Warren; TH/PP Williams; G/PP1/62);

Correspondence and papers of Cooper are held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England; lecture notes, 1806-1807, are held by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (reference: Cooper); lecture notes, 1809-1815 (reference: MSS 1857-60, 5606) and 1816-1817 (reference: MS 7096) are held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; lecture notes, 1803-1832, are held by the McGill University, Osler Library, Canada; correspondence with Charles Lowe, 1824, held by Lincolnshire Archives (reference: Lowe); correspondence, 1823-1826, with Sir Robert Peel, held by the British Library, (reference: Add MSS 40359-90 passim); letters to T J Pettigrew, 1815-1838, held by Beinecke Library, Yale University; letters to the Duke of Wellington, 1833-1839, held by Southampton University Library (reference: MS 61).

Sources: Historical Manuscripts Commission's On-line National Register of Archives; Dictionary of National Biography CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1995); British Library Public On-line catalogue; Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900), D T Bird (London, 1984); 'List of Books by Guy's Men in the Wills Library, Guy's Hospital' William Wale, in Guy's Hospital Reports Vol LXVII, 1913. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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.

January 2002. Revised June 2004 Compson , Williams Fl 1917-1918 , medical student Cooper , Sir , Astley Paston , 1768-1841 , 1st Baronet , surgeon England Europe Guy's Hospital , London Health services Higher science education Hospitals London Medical education Medical institutions Medical personnel Medical profession Medical sciences Personnel Physicians Social sciences Social welfare Southwark Surgeons Surgery UK Western Europe People by occupation People

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Two manuscript volumes titled 'Mr Astley Cooper's Surgical Lectures' containing notes taken William Compson, 1817-1818.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

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System of arrangement

2 volumes

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature on readers' undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archives and Corporate Records Services.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Notes of Cooper's lectures [1800-1811] held by King's College London (Reference: TH/PP Davies; TH/PP Gruggen; TH/PP Hulbert; TH/PP Rayner; TH/PP Ware; TH/PP Warren; TH/PP Williams; G/PP1/62);

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Related units of description

Correspondence and papers of Cooper are held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England; lecture notes, 1806-1807, are held by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (reference: Cooper); lecture notes, 1809-1815 (reference: MSS 1857-60, 5606) and 1816-1817 (reference: MS 7096) are held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; lecture notes, 1803-1832, are held by the McGill University, Osler Library, Canada; correspondence with Charles Lowe, 1824, held by Lincolnshire Archives (reference: Lowe); correspondence, 1823-1826, with Sir Robert Peel, held by the British Library, (reference: Add MSS 40359-90 passim); letters to T J Pettigrew, 1815-1838, held by Beinecke Library, Yale University; letters to the Duke of Wellington, 1833-1839, held by Southampton University Library (reference: MS 61).

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King's College London College Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

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.

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Language(s)

  • English

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