Silk
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 100 Collections and/or Records:
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Correspondence re silk factory, 23 Nov. 1948-10 June 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/I21/4/193
Scope and Contents
Copies of correspondence between Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, and the Board of Trade, London; Durant, Bevan & Co., Macclesfield and Manchester; and Symons & MacDonald, Dumfries, regarding a plan for Matheson & Co. Ltd to establish a silk factory in the United Kingdom. The ring-binder is labelled 'Silk Factory File I'.
Dates:
23 Nov. 1948-10 June 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Correspondence re silk piece goods, 27 July 1934-14 May 1937
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/I21/3/12/8
Scope and Contents
A small set of copies and extracts of correspondence between D.G.M. Bernard, Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, and B.D.F. Beith and W.J. Keswick, Jardine Matheson, Shanghai. The folder is labelled 'Silk Piece Goods'.
Dates:
27 July 1934-14 May 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Correspondence re silk, tea and the Yokohama store, 3 Jan. 1950-17 Oct. 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/J11/1/16/2/10
Scope and Contents
The ring-binder is labelled '1950/51 Japan' and '10. Japan', and is divided into three sections:1. Silk: correspondence (including telegrams and extracts of letters) between Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, Jardine Matheson, Tokyo, and Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, with related letters and papers, including correspondence of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd with Durant, Bevan & Co. Ltd, Manchester, and Frank W. Kunze Co. Ltd, New York, 3 January 1950-17 October 1951.2....
Dates:
3 Jan. 1950-17 Oct. 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Documents on the Shanghai waste silk mill, 1894-1895
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/118/13
Scope and Contents
Memoranda and accounts regarding the waste silk mill, Shanghai, dated Shanghai and Hong Kong, including a memorandum of the probable loss on unsold stock of waste silk in the hands of William Keswick; the working account of the mill, May-October 1894, with a memorandum regarding the account (two copies), a response to queries in the memorandum, and a corrected account; notes on the mill account for the season 1894-1895; and a waste silk account balance sheet, September 1895.
Dates:
1894-1895
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Documents re silk filatures, etc., 8 Sep. 1860-30 June 1861
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/4/9
Scope and Contents
The documents are dated Shanghai, and are comprised of 'Yakee's account', including a note by John Major, 8 September 1860; two receipts for payments made by Major, 15-18 March 1861; and 'Observations on Filature Acct to 30 June 1861', by Major.
Dates:
8 Sep. 1860-30 June 1861
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Envelope for chop to Jardine, 1800-1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/H1/136
Scope and Contents
An envelope addressed to Mr Jardine on the front (in Chinese), with an English note on the reverse of a chop from Aymee (?) holding himself responsible for any damage resulting from the bad packing of silk. The document is undated.
Dates:
1800-1900
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Filature building account: Shanghai, 30 Apr. 1863
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/6/3
Scope and Contents
Signed by John Major. The document includes reference to silk.
Dates:
30 Apr. 1863
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Hong Kong and Lyon telegrams, Oct. 1881-Dec. 1881
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/E1/22
Scope and Contents
Fair copies, including coded texts and interpretations, of thirty-seven telegrams sent and received by Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, regarding silk. Some or perhaps all of the telegrams were exchanged with Arles & Co., Lyon.
Dates:
Oct. 1881-Dec. 1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Series:
Some of the records are unavailable due to their poor physical condition.
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Invoices for tea and silk, 1877
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/141/6
Scope and Contents
Copies of invoices from Foochow, Shanghai and Yokohama for tea and silk, including press copies.
Dates:
1877
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Invoices for tea and silk, 1874-1875
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/145/7
Scope and Contents
Copies (mainly press copies) of invoices from Shanghai for tea and silk shipped to London and Lyon, mostly consigned to Matheson & Co.
Dates:
1874-1875
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Market reports and circulars: China, Jan. 1892-Dec. 1892
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G79/2
Scope and Contents
Market reports and circulars from Shanghai, Hankow and Newchwang, including issues of 'Hankow Tea Statistics'; 'Bandinel & Co.'s Market Report'; 'Bush, Brothers' Circular'; and 'Shanghai Stocks of Malwa and Bengal Opium'. There are also exchange quotations; memoranda regarding waste silk at Shanghai from Jardine, Matheson & Co.; reports of silk buyers and settlements; and silk quotations.
Dates:
Jan. 1892-Dec. 1892
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
A few items in this series are unavailable due to their poor condition.
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Market reports and memoranda: Canton, Jan. 1883-Dec. 1884
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G69/1
Scope and Contents
Bound and disbound market reports and memoranda from Canton, mainly regarding silk, including issues of 'Herbert Dent & Co.'s Silk Memo.'; 'Deacon & Co.'s Canton Market Report'; and 'Birley & Co.'s Fortnightly Market Report'. There are also quotations of silk for Bombay from Canton; memoranda of exports from Canton waters, including comparative tables of exports of tea and silk for seasons from 1880; and issues of the 'Amoy & Formosa Price Current & Market Report' and 'J....
Dates:
Jan. 1883-Dec. 1884
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
A few items in this series are unavailable due to their poor condition.
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Market reports and memoranda: Canton, Jan. 1887-Dec. 1887
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G69/2
Scope and Contents
Bound and disbound market reports and memoranda from Canton, some addressed to Jardine, Matheson & Co., Hong Kong. The documents include issues of 'Birley & Co.'s Fortnightly Market Report'; 'Deacon & Co.'s Canton Market Report'; 'Herbert Dent & Co.'s Memo.'; and 'Tea Market Report'. There are also quotations of silk for Bombay from Canton, statistics regarding silk for the American mail, statements from Alfred Rowe regarding exports of Canton silk, and statements of exports...
Dates:
Jan. 1887-Dec. 1887
Conditions Governing Access:
Unavailable due to condition.
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Market reports and quotations: Shanghai, Oct. 1849-Apr. 1905 (mostly 1849-1879)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G73/1
Scope and Contents
Prices current, market reports and quotations from Shanghai, including issues of 'Alex. Bielfeld's Weekly Report'; 'The Shanghai Piece Goods Market Report'; 'Shanghai Price Current and Market Report'; 'Little & Co.'s Tea Market Report'; 'J. S. Robison's Shanghai Silk Circular'; and 'Report on the Shanghai Piece Goods Trade'. There is also a market report regarding opium from Benjamin Cobb, Woosung, October 1857; 'John Thorne & Co.'s Shanghai Coal Market Report for 1871'; and 'E. W....
Dates:
Oct. 1849-Apr. 1905 (mostly 1849-1879)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
A few items in this series are unavailable due to their poor condition.
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Market reports: Canton and Hong Kong, Jan. 1877-Dec. 1877
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G65/1
Scope and Contents
Market reports and circulars from Canton and Hong Kong, including issues of 'W. Kerfoot Hughes' Market Report'; 'J. P. N. da Silva's Cotton Market Report'; 'Exchange Circular'; 'Freight Circular'; 'Shanghai Price Current and Market Report'; 'Hughes & Legge's Market Report'; and 'Thomas & Mercer's Canton Market Report'. There are also memoranda of ships' cargoes and exports; quotations of silk for Bombay from Canton; and two market reports from Shanghai, January 1877.
Dates:
Jan. 1877-Dec. 1877
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
A few items in this series are unavailable due to their poor condition.
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Market reports: Canton, Hong Kong and Macao, Jan. 1879-Dec. 1879
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G65/2
Scope and Contents
Market reports and circulars from Canton, Hong Kong and Macao, including issues of the 'Canton Market Report'; 'Thomas & Mercer's Canton Market Report'; 'Hughes & Legge's Market Report'; 'Exchange Circular'; and 'Freight Circular'. There are also quotations of silk for Bombay from Canton; 2 copies of 'Herton, Ebell & Co.'s Hainan Trade Report', Hoihow, 1 July 1879; quotations from Margesson & Co., Macao; memoranda regarding silk and tea; and memoranda of ships' cargoes and...
Dates:
Jan. 1879-Dec. 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
A few items in this series are unavailable due to their poor condition.
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Market reports: Canton, Hong Kong and Macao, Jan. 1880-Dec. 1880
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G66/1
Scope and Contents
Bound and disbound market reports and circulars from Canton, Hong Kong and Macao, including issues of the 'Exchange Circular'; 'Hughes & Legge's Market Report'; 'J. P. N. da Silva's Cotton Market Report'; 'Freight Circular'; and 'Canton Market Report'. There are also quotations of silk for Bombay from Canton, and memoranda of ships' cargoes and exports.
Dates:
Jan. 1880-Dec. 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
A few items in this series are unavailable due to their poor condition.
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Market reports: Canton, Hong Kong and Macao, Jan. 1882-May 1882
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G66/2
Scope and Contents
Market reports and circulars from Canton, Hong Kong and Macao, including issues of the 'Freight Circular'; 'Exchange Circular'; 'Fortnightly Market Report'; 'Tea Report'; 'Canton Market Report'; 'Deacon & Co.'s Canton Market Report'; and 'Herbert Dent & Co.'s Silk Memo'. There are also quotations of silk for Bombay from Canton; memoranda of ships' cargoes and exports; and two special notices issued by Hip Lun Tong regarding business practice in the silk trade, Canton, April-May...
Dates:
Jan. 1882-May 1882
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
A few items in this series are unavailable due to their poor condition.
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Market reports, etc.: Canton, Jan. 1889-Dec. 1891
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G70
Scope and Contents
Bound and disbound market reports, memoranda and quotations from Canton, some addressed to Jardine, Matheson & Co., Hong Kong. The documents include issues of the 'Tea Market Report'; 'Herbert Dent & Co.'s Memo.'; 'Deacon & Co.'s Canton Market Report'; and 'Herbert Dent & Co.'s Fortnightly Tea Report'. There are also memoranda regarding waste silk from Jardine, Matheson & Co., statistics regarding silk for the American mail, quotations of silk for Bombay from Canton,...
Dates:
Jan. 1889-Dec. 1891
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
A few items in this series are unavailable due to their poor condition.
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Memoranda on prices of silk, circa 1871
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/118/12
Scope and Contents
The memoranda are dated Hong Kong, Canton and no place, 1871 and undated.
Dates:
circa 1871
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Memorandum and silk samples, 1873
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/150
Scope and Contents
A memorandum by Frederick W. Coles listing silk musters sent to F.G. Horne, London, dated Canton, 28 October 1873, accompanied by three samples of embroidered crape shawls listed in the memorandum as D-F. There are also three pieces of papers which were used as wrappers for the samples and include markings left by them. Samples A-C, which are missing, are listed in the memorandum as netted silk sashes.
Dates:
1873
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
Item
Memorandum on Italian silk production, c. 1850 (undated, 19th century)
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/99/10
Scope and Contents
An undated memorandum regarding the production of silk in Italy by province from Devecchi's statistics, giving figures for the period 'previous to the invasion of disease', and for 1863-1868, with notes on the 1870 crop.
Dates:
c. 1850 (undated, 19th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Miscellaneous commercial information, circa 1824-circa 1903
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/G85
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous printed commercial information in the form of circulars, periodicals, reports and supplements from throughout the world. Some documents are in French. The publications include 'Bulletin de l'Union des Marchands de Soie de Lyon'; 'The Calcutta Exchange Gazette and Daily Advertiser'; 'Calcutta Gazette Extra'; 'The Ceylon Times, Extraordinary'; 'Commercial Supplement to the "Newcastle Pilot"' (Australia); 'Daily Press Shipping Extra' (Hong Kong); 'Dixson's Hongkong...
Dates:
circa 1824-circa 1903
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
A few items in this series are unavailable due to their poor condition.
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Notes and papers re Shanghai silk, 1949-1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/I21/14/24
Scope and Contents
A small set of miscellaneous papers regarding Shanghai silk compiled by B.D.F. Beith during 1949-1950:1. An extract from the 'British Chamber of Commerce Journal', Shanghai, March 1920, pp. 97-99, entitled 'British Enterprises in Shanghai VIII. Ewo Silk Filature'.2. A memorandum on the Silk Department of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd by Rene Plattner, 2 June 1950, with a covering letter from W.J. Keswick, Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, to B.D.F. Beith, London, 20 June...
Dates:
1949-1950
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
Item
Notice of Chin lien tang, 1849
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/H1/52
Scope and Contents
A printed notice by Chin lien tang (Jin lian tang), a cloth and silk guild in Kwangtung (Guangdong province), 20 March 1849, concerning the foreign merchants. The notice begins by stating that since the trouble with Britain in 1841 the guild's business has declined. The authors record that there have been rumours recently that the English have been entering the city, and they express their shock at this news, because for hundred years none of the foreign businessmen have ever been allowed to...
Dates:
1849
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.