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MANCHESTER FOREIGN LIBRARY
Catalogue reference: M555
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This record is about the MANCHESTER FOREIGN LIBRARY dating from 1823 - 1922.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- M555
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Title (The name of the record)
- MANCHESTER FOREIGN LIBRARY
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1823 - 1922
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes, accounts and other miscellany
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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They were formerly numbered MS f027.3 M1 and f027.442 M32.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Manchester Archives and Local Studies
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>Manchester Foreign Library, 1830-1903, Lancashire</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 files
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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The archives were given to the Library in 1904 and 1940
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Library was founded in 1830 as a subscription library for French, German and Italian literature. At the end of the century interest declined due to the "indifference of the public" and its "love for serials and periodicals".
The books were purchased by the Public Libraries Committee in 1903, forming the nucleus of a Foreign Library, which has since been absorbed into the Language and Literature Library of the Central Library.
There are articles on the Manchester Foreign Library in The Manchester Librarian, Oct. 1922, by A. F. Jones, The Manchester Review, 1950, by W. H. Shercliff, and The Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 71, No. 3, Autumn 1989, by Lyn Shepherd.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/92ef7dab-b952-4e79-89c2-9e44238b59e8/
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MANCHESTER FOREIGN LIBRARY