GB 0117 MC - Miscellaneous Correspondence

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0117 MC

Title

Miscellaneous Correspondence

Date(s)

  • 1800-1925 (Creation)

Level of description

Extent and medium

13,117 letter in total, in 17 volumes and 25 boxes.

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Letters sent to the Royal Society, usually Officers or Assistant Secretaries.

Repository

Archival history

GB 0117 MC 1800-1925 Collection (fonds) 13,117 letter in total, in 17 volumes and 25 boxes. Various

Letters sent to the Royal Society, usually Officers or Assistant Secretaries.

Original of letters sent to the Royal Society, generally on official business, and usually to Officers or Assistant Secretaries. The collection is effectively in two parts; letters for the period 1800-1899 are bound as 17 volumes; those for 1903-1925 are held unbound in boxes. The full sequence forms a single chronological archive with only occasional gaps, the most notable being the complete absence of the years 1900-1902 and 1920. From 1885, the series may be used in conjunction with the New Letter Books, which contain the corresponding outgoing letters.

By date.

English

17 leather bound volumes.

Entries in Archive Card Catalogue; Volumes 1-17 include author, address, date, summary of contents and reference number. Subsequent entries are limited to noting the author with a combined reference number and date, such as MC.06039 May 21 (letter number 39 on 21 May 1906).

Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

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.

Feb 2009. Associations Societies Societies, scientific Organizations Learned societies Royal Society

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Original of letters sent to the Royal Society, generally on official business, and usually to Officers or Assistant Secretaries. The collection is effectively in two parts; letters for the period 1800-1899 are bound as 17 volumes; those for 1903-1925 are held unbound in boxes. The full sequence forms a single chronological archive with only occasional gaps, the most notable being the complete absence of the years 1900-1902 and 1920. From 1885, the series may be used in conjunction with the New Letter Books, which contain the corresponding outgoing letters.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

By date.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Entries in Archive Card Catalogue; Volumes 1-17 include author, address, date, summary of contents and reference number. Subsequent entries are limited to noting the author with a combined reference number and date, such as MC.06039 May 21 (letter number 39 on 21 May 1906).

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

Related descriptions

Publication note

Notes area

Note

Alternative identifier(s)

Access points

Place access points

Name access points

Genre access points

Description control area

Description identifier

Institution identifier

Royal Society

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

    Sources

    Accession area