English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY

Date:
1765-1910
Reference:
MS.8854
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1. Thomas Healde - Letter to Mr. Nourse, bookseller on the Strand, London, regarding a list of required books, sent from Witham, Essex, 24 December 1765.

2. Christopher Heath - Letter to Dr. Garrod Thomas, regarding a baby's harelip, sent from Cavendish Square, London, 3 January 1881; Letter to an unnamed recipient, advocating that a baby of six weeks old is ready for a harelip operation, sent from Cavendish Square, London, 19 November 1881; Letter to an unnamed recipient regarding a harelip, sent from Cavendish Square, London, 14 December 1881.

3. Francis George Heath - Letter to F.B. Armstrong, sending him a copy of his book, Fairy plants (1910), sent from Silverton, Devon, 17 November 1910.

4. John (J.W.L.) Heaviside - Note, about a list, signed by Heaviside, 1 March 1797; Letter to Mr. Cliff, conservator at the Royal College of Surgeons, mentioning the museum, 21 September 1814; Letter to Donaldson, sent from Hertford, asking him to place the son of Count Zamnski in a public school, n.d.

5. Sir Arthur Helps - Letter to Farrar, sent on black-edged paper headed Stratton, Micheldever Station, regarding his attendance at a council at Balmoral held by Queen Victoria, 26 September 1869; Letter to Farrar, on paper headed Privy Council Office, regarding the next Levée, 11 February 1870.

6. W.S. Hendry - Autograph account, entitled 'Healing', unsigned and to an unknown correspondent (marked to be returned to W.S. Hendry, 222 Vauxhall Road, Victoria, S.W.) regarding methods of mesmeric healing practised by the writer, n.d.

7. Alexander Henry - Letter (with envelope) to T.W. Stone at the Royal College of Surgeons, requesting the return of his proof, including, 'Quain has made more corrections - which I have', 27 April 18--?.

8. Henry Mitchell - Letter to Charles Brook sent from 5 Harley Street, enquiring how many days per week each officer attends out-patients, and whether there are separate days for males and females, and how many to attend at a meeting, 17 March 1862.

9. Arthur Hensman - Letter to James Shuter, sent from Harley Street, London, regarding the 'Stone Testimonial' fund, 6 September 1882.

10. William Jory Henwood - Letter to Robert Hunt (1807-1887) a scientific writer, and fellow of the Royal Society, at the Museum of Practical Geology, London, sent from Penzance, 2 April 1867.

11. John Herapath - Letter to a Trustee ex officio of the British Museum, requiring library tickets, sent from Cranford, May 1828.

12. William Bird Herapath - Letter addressed to 'Gentlemen', possibly the editors of a Freemason's magazine, correcting errors in a biographical article on the Herapaths, sent from Bristol, 9 April 1859; newspaper cutting on W.B. Herapath's research, n.d.

13. C.L. Herbert - Prescription for Mr. Williamson, 27 September 1828.

14. John Herdman - Testimonial in favour of the Reverend Frederich Leo (formerly Chaplain to the Duke of Brunswick Corps) and his unparalelled exertions which he has made in distributing the Scriptures throughout the Continent, Oakbrook, 13 June 1823.

15. William Chapman Hewitson - Five letters sent from Oatlands Park, Walton on Thames, Surrey, all addressed to 'Gentlemen' (publisher) requesting various books to be ordered or sent, 16 and 20 March, 8 May, 24 October and 16 November (all dated 1860); Partially printed note to Messrs. Williams and Norgate (publisher) requesting the Natural History Review for 1861, 10 November 1860.

16. Leslie F. Hewitt - Letter to Dear Edgar, sent from the Serum Research Institute, Carshalton, Surrey, 29 March 1949.

17. Richard Hey - Fragment of a letter containing the signature of Richard Hey, n.d.

18. William Hey - Letter to Mr. Cooper, a surgeon at Bingley, advocating sarvaparilla to be taken daily, Leeds, 4 February 1814.

Publication/Creation

1765-1910

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1 File.

Acquisition note

Purchased from Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.56474), November 1931 (acc.68279); Miss Garrod Thomas (part of a collection of letters sent to Dr. Garrod Thomas), January 1932 (acc.58513); Glendining, London, September 1932 (acc.67718); Sotheby's, London, April 1932 (acc.65134), November 1933 (acc.67468), November 1933 (acc.67472); Winifred A. Myers, London, October 1992 (acc.349021); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; part of a batch of material transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum offices: provenance not known (acc.69200); Accession details not known (acc.92291); Acquisition details not known, probably acquired c.1982 (acc.349382).

Biographical note

Thomas Healde (1723-1789), physician. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated as a Medical Doctor in 1754. He gained his fellowship of the Royal Society of Physicians in 1760, became Gulstonian lecturer in 1763, Harveian orator in 1765, Croonian lecturer in 1770 and 1784-1786, and Lumleian lecturer in 1786-1789. He became a fellow of the Royal Society and was elected physician to the London Hospital in 1770, before becoming Gresham professor in 1771. He translated the New Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians in 1788.

Christopher Heath (1835-1905), surgeon. He became a member (1856) and later a fellow (1860) of the Royal College of Physicians. He began his medical studies at King's College London in 1851, and became house surgeon at King's College Hospital to Sir William Fergusson in 1857. In 1858, he was consulting physician to the St. George and St. James's Dispensary. In 1860, he became surgeon to to the West London Hospital, and in 1870, surgeon to the Hospital for Women in Soho. He was later consulting surgeon to the National Dental Hospital, and in 1866 he became assistant surgeon and teacher of operative surgery at University College Hospital, before being appointed full surgeon there in 1871. In 1867, he was awarded the Royal College of Surgeons' Jacksonian prize for Injuries and diseases of the jaws, including those of the antrum, with the treatment by operation or otherwise (published 1868). During a trip to North America he was awarded the honorary degree of LLD from McGill University, Montreal, in 1877. He was president of the Clinical Society of London 1890-1891.

Francis George Heath (1843-1913), naturalist. He was born in Totnes, Devon. He entered the Civil Service in 1862, and became a pioneer for the open space movement. For many years he worked for the preservation of open spaces in and around London. He was also the author of numerous books on nature including, The fern world (1877) Garden rockery: how to make, plant and manage it (1908) and Tree Lore (1912).

John Heaviside (1748-1828), surgeon, anatomist and museum proprietor. Born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, in the early 1770s he was house surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and gained the diploma of the Company of Surgeons in 1771. In 1790, he was appointed surgeon-extraordinary to George III. In 1793, he bought the anatomical collection of the surgeon Henry Watson and formed a museum. In 1797 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society. He became notorious for having attended a duel in 1803 where one of the participants was killed.

Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), English historian and social reformer. Among his works are The Conquerors of the New World and their Bondsmen (1848-1852) and Spanish Conquest in America and its Relation to the History of Slavery (1855-1861). In 1860, he was made clerk of the privy council which brought him into the sphere of royalty and the prime ministers of the day. During the 1860s he edited extracts of Queen Victoria's journal, which was published in 1868.

W.S. Hendry.

Alexander Henry (1822-1893), doctor and writer. Graduated as a Medical Doctor at St. Andrews in 1845, and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. He was also sub-editor of the British Medical Journal for thirty-four years, author of various articles for the BMJ, including, 'Lectures on the history of medicine' (1860), and in 1861 published his Glossary of Scientific Terms for General Use, amongst other works.

Mitchell Henry (1826-1910), Irish politician. He studied medicine at Manchester, and gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1854. He was Member of Parliament for the county of Galway, 1871 to 1885. As a politician he supported Isaac Butt in the Home Rule Party including during the dispute with Charles Stewart Parnell, he opposed Gladstone's Irish University bill on the question of sectarian education and persistently denounced over-taxation of Ireland 1874-1877.

Arthur Hensman (1842-1893), surgeon. He was born in Northampton and studied at Northampton General Infirmary and University College Hospital, London. He became a member (1866) and a fellow (1879) of the Royal College of Surgeons. He gained his Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons (Edinburgh) and Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow) in 1869. He was a demonstrator of anatomy at Middlesex Hospital under the lecturer, Dr. R. Livering. In 1881, he succeeded Henry Morris as lecturer. He became known for being surgeon to the ear, nose and throat department, and as a lecturer on aural surgery.

William Jory Henwood (1805-1875), mineralogist and surveryor. He became a fellow of the Geological Society in 1828 and later in 1840, gained his fellowship of the Royal Society. He was supervisor of tin for Cornwall, 1832-1838, and later took charge of the Gongo-Soco goldmines in Brazil in 1843. He reported to the Indian goverment regarding metals of Kumaon and Gurhwal in 1855. Henwood became president of the Royal Institute of Cornwall in 1869, was a Murchison medallist in 1874, and gave his name to hydron phosphate of aluminium and copper.

John Herapath (1790-1868), physicist and mathematician. He was interested in finding an explanation for gravity. He contributed to the Annals of Philosophy with On the Causes, Laws and Phenomena of Heat, Gases, Gravitation but, in 1820, the Royal Society rejected his paper on the kinetic theory of gases. He published Mathematical Physics in 1847.

William Bird Herapath (1820-1868), English surgeon, chemist and toxicologist. Son of the chemist, William Herapath (1796-1868) and known for his discovery of Herapathite. He graduated as Medical Doctor in 1851, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1859.

C.L. Herbert (fl. 1828).

John Herdman (1762?-1842), physician and medical writer. He graduated as a Medical Doctor at the University of Aberdeen in 1800, and was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1806. After moving to London, he became physician to the Duke of Sussex and the City Dispensary. He was ordained as a Church of England deacon in 1816, having withdrawn from medical practice and embarked on studying at Cambridge. In 1795, he published An Essay on the Causes and Phenomena of Animal Life. In the early 1800s he wrote widely on disease and the poor.

William Chapman Hewitson (1806-1878), naturalist. He published British Oology (1833-1842) and many works on lepidoptera. He became a member of the Entomological Society in 1846, the Zoological Society in 1859 and the Linnean Society in 1862. In his will, he left many items and bequests to various institutions, including the British Museum where he bequeathed a good collection of diurnal lepidoptera, birds and pictures.

Leslie F. Hewitt (fl. 1949), Medical Research Council.

Richard Hey (d. 1860), surgeon and physician. He was elected a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1836, and a fellow in 1843 having been one of the original fellows in 1826. He was surgeon to York County Hospital, the Institute for the Blind, and the Female Penitentiary. He also lectured on surgery at the York School of Medicine.

Hey, William (1772-1844), surgeon. Hey trained as a surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, and became a member of the Company of Surgeons in 1794. He was made a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843, being one of the original 300 fellows. He followed his father as surgeon at Leeds Infirmary and was the author of Treatise on Puerperal Fever (1815).

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