Correspondence between Pulteney and Dr William Cuming
- Date:
- 1779-1785
- Reference:
- MS.7441/8-10
- Part of:
- Pulteney, Richard (1730-1801), physician and botanist
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
The letters comprise:
MS.7441/8: letter from Dr Cuming covering various matters including Pulteney's deteriorating eye-sight, 27 Feb 1779
MS.7441/8a: letter from Pulteney to Cuming covering various matters including the Influenza and Gustavus Katterfelto, the death of Daniel Solander, botanist, William Pryce's book Mineralogia Cornubienses, and various published papers he has recently read, 7 Jun 1872 (inlcudes a full transcript and background information with the original letter)
MS.7441/9: letter from Pulteney to Cuming covering various matters including specimens of shells he has recently received, 14 Jul 1782
MS.7441/10: letter from Dr Cuming covering various matters including a patient he has treated with digitalis, 31 Oct 1785
Publication/Creation
1779-1785
Physical description
4 items
Acquisition note
Items 8, 9 and 10 were received as accession 1712; Item 8a was received as accession 1873.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 1712
- 1873