Collection GB 1446 MS 14 - JOHNSTON, Thomas Crawford (1913-1965): correspondence

Identity area

Reference code

GB 1446 MS 14

Title

JOHNSTON, Thomas Crawford (1913-1965): correspondence

Date(s)

  • 1914-1921 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 item

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Thomas Crawford Johnston was a scholar working in San Francisco, USA. He was an honorary member of the Geographical Society of California.

Archival history

GB 1446 MS 14 1914-1921 collection 1 item Johnston , Thomas Crawford , 1913-1965 , author

Thomas Crawford Johnston was a scholar working in San Francisco, USA. He was an honorary member of the Geographical Society of California.

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Bound correspondence of Thomas Crawford Johnston, 1914-1921, on the subject of his book Did the Phoenicians discover America? (published by James Nisbet & Company, Ltd., Berner Street, London, 1913), including correspondence with Prof. G C Chisholm, Prof. J S Nicholson, Thomas Athol Joyce, Prof. Grafton Elliot Smith, Prof. Herbert E Gregory and Prof. Louis R Sullivan.

Single item

Appointments are necessary for all visits; please contact the archivist by email to arrange; a fee of £10 is payable by all visitors except Fellows and Members; membership details can be found on the RAI web site; access to material referring to the most recent thirty years is restricted; some material is very fragile and may not be available for view; a few items are of restricted or forbidden access.

Photocopies and scans for personal research only may be arranged at the discretion of the archivist; charges apply; in all cases forms governing use of copies must be signed; use of digital cameras is not allowed.

English

151 pp. 27 cm

Typescript.

Light brown cloth boards; lettered in gold on upper cover.

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

Digital copy of the second edition of Did the Phoenicians discover America? (St Thomas Press, Texas, 1965) is available
online.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Unknown

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Bound correspondence of Thomas Crawford Johnston, 1914-1921, on the subject of his book Did the Phoenicians discover America? (published by James Nisbet & Company, Ltd., Berner Street, London, 1913), including correspondence with Prof. G C Chisholm, Prof. J S Nicholson, Thomas Athol Joyce, Prof. Grafton Elliot Smith, Prof. Herbert E Gregory and Prof. Louis R Sullivan.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Single item

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Appointments are necessary for all visits; please contact the archivist by email to arrange; a fee of £10 is payable by all visitors except Fellows and Members; membership details can be found on the RAI web site; access to material referring to the most recent thirty years is restricted; some material is very fragile and may not be available for view; a few items are of restricted or forbidden access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Photocopies and scans for personal research only may be arranged at the discretion of the archivist; charges apply; in all cases forms governing use of copies must be signed; use of digital cameras is not allowed.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Digital copy of the second edition of Did the Phoenicians discover America? (St Thomas Press, Texas, 1965) is available
online.

Finding aids

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

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Existence and location of copies

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Institution identifier

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

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.

Status

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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