MEM/1998/06
Memorandum: the disposition of the Record following my death
- Kind:
- Correspondence
- Date:
- 29 September 1998
- Origin:
- The Vale property
- Access:
- Restricted. Description open; body withheld under the author's instruction.
Estate and archival planning by Eleanor Vale, addressed to the stewardship. Catalogued in full; the body is restricted at the author's instruction until a further review.
Held outside the Common RecordThe papers described are retained and not catalogued.
Catalogue card · MEM/1998/06 · silver gelatin, contact print
CATALOGUE ENTRY MEM/1998/06
Author: Eleanor Vale. Two sheets, typed, signed.
Addressed to: the stewardship.
Description. Instructions for the handling of the author's papers, the disposal of her personal library, the treatment of correspondence held on behalf of others, and the wish that no likeness be displayed at any house. Names three members to act. Sets out which classes of material are to be entered in the Common Record and which are to be returned to their writers unread.
Restriction. The body is restricted at the author's instruction. The instruction names no term. The stewardship reviewed the restriction in 2009 and again in 2021 and retained it on both occasions.
What may be said of the contents: the memorandum is administrative throughout, concerns the archive rather than the Institute's governance, and contains no direction to the stewardship on any other matter.
Filed with the 1999 accession note (ACC/1999/03).
Members may consult the description, the date, and the list of classes. Applications to read the body are answered in writing.
Catalogued at the North House · reproduction permitted for study · redactions are not itemised
Elsewhere in the catalogue
Read together
Made about the same matter by different hands. They are not in agreement and neither has been set aside.
- Statement of Loss and Reinstatement, autumn 1998 (LED/1998/04)
The accounts for the same quarter, which withhold the house name the memorandum takes as settled.
Related records
- Accession note: the effects of Eleanor Vale (ACC/1999/03)
What was received into the Common Record after the same events.
- Minutes of the stewardship, November 1998
The meeting at which the disposition was reported.