Collection GB 0120 GC/22 - Insley, Nellie (fl 1915)

1 box

GB 0120 GC/22 1914-1915 Collection 1 box Insley , Nellie , fl 1915

This volume is one of a few typed copies of Miss Nellie Insley's account, written in 1915, with a 'Prefatory Note' by Henry Curtis, FRCS, written in 1923 giving both details of Miss Insley and her family and a note on the subsequent history of the hospital at St Malo.

This volume was found in the strongroom of the Wellcome Institute Library in 1977 and accessioned as a Western Manuscript. It had been given to the Library by S W Brown, Esq., at some unspecified date. It was transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.

'The story of a great adventure. The history of the foundation of the English Hospital for French Soldiers, at the Old Chateau at St Malo, September 1914, transferred March 1915 to the Grand Hotel des Greves now known as the Hospital Notre Dame des Greves, St Malo, 1915.'

As set out above in Scope and Content.

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.

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

Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

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 2009 Nursing Midwifery Medical institutions Community health nursing Wars (events) World wars (events) World War One (1914-1918) Health services Hospitals Military hospitals Medical sciences English Hospital for French Soldiers, Old Chateau, St Malo France Western Europe Europe

This volume was found in the strongroom of the Wellcome Institute Library in 1977 and accessioned as a Western Manuscript. It had been given to the Library by S W Brown, Esq., at some unspecified date. It was transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.

'The story of a great adventure. The history of the foundation of the English Hospital for French Soldiers, at the Old Chateau at St Malo, September 1914, transferred March 1915 to the Grand Hotel des Greves now known as the Hospital Notre Dame des Greves, St Malo, 1915.'

As set out above in Scope and Content.

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.

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

• Latin

English

Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

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.

• English