GB 0120 MSS.7984-7986, 8124, 8149-8151, 8312-8315, 8348, 8442-8443, 8530, 8534 and 8573-8574 - Thompson, Charles John Samuel (1862-1943)

12 volumes, 2 files and 3 bundles

GB 0120 MSS.7984-7986, 8124, 8149-8151, 8312-8315, 8348, 8442-8443, 8530, 8534 and 8573-8574 1893-1936 Collection (fonds) 12 volumes, 2 files and 3 bundles Thompson , Charles John Samuel , 1862-1943 , medical librarian

Medical librarian and historian, attached to Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. For detail on the formative years of the Wellcome museum, Thompson's role in this and his disagreements with Henry Wellcome see John Symons, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: a short history (London: The Wellcome Trust, [1993]).

MSS.7984-7985 transferred to the Wellcome Library from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (MS.7984 presented to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain by Miss C.F. Thompson, daughter of C.J.S. Thompson, in January 1972; MS.7985 carries Pharmaceutical Society stamp dated August 1973, presumably date of acquisition by the Society). Remaining items transferred from elsewhere in Wellcome organisation: transferred from store, April 1936, 1941, January 1957. MS.8574 found in the Wellcome Library copy of Vidius, Chirurgia, 1544, and transferred to the Archives and Manuscripts department, March 2001 (acc.919).

Papers of Charles Thompson including essays, notes, recipe book (MS.7984) and correspondence, 1893-1936. Much of this material was created in Thompson's capacity as a Wellcome employee.

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.

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Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

In the Wellcome Library: Thompson's work is also documented in the Wellcome Archives (WA/). Material by him on the history of midwifery forceps is found at MS.8525. MSS.7625 and 8506-8507, which document the pioneering work of Henry Hill Hickman in anaesthesia, contain material relating to Thompson's investigation of Hickman's work.

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.
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MSS.7984-7985 transferred to the Wellcome Library from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (MS.7984 presented to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain by Miss C.F. Thompson, daughter of C.J.S. Thompson, in January 1972; MS.7985 carries Pharmaceutical Society stamp dated August 1973, presumably date of acquisition by the Society). Remaining items transferred from elsewhere in Wellcome organisation: transferred from store, April 1936, 1941, January 1957. MS.8574 found in the Wellcome Library copy of Vidius, Chirurgia, 1544, and transferred to the Archives and Manuscripts department, March 2001 (acc.919).

Papers of Charles Thompson including essays, notes, recipe book (MS.7984) and correspondence, 1893-1936. Much of this material was created in Thompson's capacity as a Wellcome employee.

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.

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In the Wellcome Library: Thompson's work is also documented in the Wellcome Archives (WA/). Material by him on the history of midwifery forceps is found at MS.8525. MSS.7625 and 8506-8507, which document the pioneering work of Henry Hill Hickman in anaesthesia, contain material relating to Thompson's investigation of Hickman's work.

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

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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