I get particularly cross about nd or not dated. While this may
certainly be true in many cases, any archivist worth their salt should
be able to use their palaeographical and diplomatic skills and
contextual information to at least ascribe a century! [in square
brackets!]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Sheppard [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 February 2011 10:26
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Bad Catalogues
I would endorse Nat Alcock's note of caution about discarding
'fragments, illegible'. Wearing an archivist's hat, it is tempting to
consider that they are all of no use.
However since working on the biography of Silas Burroughs (of Burroughs,
Wellcome & Co), I have been struck by how often such fragments in his
personal papers have yielded unexpected information of value.
Recognition of the writer, or a clue that links a fragment to another
item, is not always easy or possible for the hard pressed cataloguer.
Better sometimes to retain the fragments,(which may include newspaper
cuttings by the way), even if that is how they have to be described,
than discard them altogether.
Julia Sheppard
Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL 020 7254 9514
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