Charles Maxwell papers

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 1228
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1865, 1884-1925, 1980s
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Russian
  • Physical Description
    • 52 ff., manuscript and typescript (partly photocopy)

Scope and Content

Comprises photocopies of an extract from the register of C.J. Maxwell's birth and baptism, St Petersburg, 1865; annual statements of his account with Egerton Hubbard and Co, St Petersburg/Petrograd, 1884-1917, and with John Hubbard and Co, London, 1885, together with his business correspondence with Egerton Hubbard and Co, John Hubbard and Co, Walter Webb, and E. Durrant (Anglo-Russian Cotton Factories Ltd) (8, 1888, 1916-1918, 1925); also, a report on Petroffsky and Spassky Cotton Mills and Schlusselburg Print-Works, nd, and a Maxwell family tree

Administrative / Biographical History

Charles James Maxwell (1863-1934) was a member of the British community in pre-revolutionary Russia

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Daphne Henniker, March 1992

Note

In English, Russian

Other Finding Aids

A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the Leeds Russian Archive online catalogue http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/index.htm

Family Names

Maxwell family