Correspondence and papers
- Date:
- 1824-1938
- Reference:
- MS.5254
- Part of:
- Lillie, Denis Gascoigne (1888-1963), biologist
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Correspondence and papers, some undated, comprising letters to his grandfather John Lillie, DD, by various correspondents, and to his maternal relatives the Macaire family, 1824-63 (items 1-5); letters to D G Lillie from E A N Arber, Caroline Oates and others, 1903-28 (6-38); and miscellaneous papers, 1900-11 and n.d. (39-64) Included is a comic souvenir signed by D G Lillie and orders of a dinner for G H F Nuttall and G S Graham-Smith after their lectures on bacteriology and protozoology at Cambridge, c. 1909-1910 (showing bacteria and protozoa at table); and illustrated postcards (a skit on geology 1904, and views of Madeira and South Africa en route to the Antarctic 1910).
Publication/Creation
1824-1938
Physical description
64 items.
Related material
At Wellcome Collection: see MSS.3286-3287 for material relating to Lillie's grandfather grandfather John Lillie, DD
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores