James Matthews Duncan (1826-1890): Archives

1. Two letters to Dr Dobie, 4 September 1879, and 17 June 1886.

2. Letter to Dr J. H. Stowers, 24 December 1880.

3. Letter to Dr Milner Fothergill, 17 March 1884.

4. Letter to an unnamed doctor, 15 October 1885.

5. Letter to Dr Thomas, 31 October 1885.

6. Letter to Mr Dorand, 10 September 1887.

7. Note to Manley Sims, 25 March 1889.

8. Two autographs of James Matthews Duncan, n.d.

1879-1889

1 File

Purchased from Stevens, London, April 1931 (acc.68568); and Miss Garrod Thomas (part of a collection of letters sent to Dr. Garrod Thomas), January 1932 (acc.58513). Presented by Mrs. Fothergill, September 1927 (acc.67370); and H.J. Fuller, May 1929 (acc.91885). Transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800). Accession details for (acc.A.121) and (acc.A.253) not recorded.

James Matthews Duncan was a Scottish obstetric physician. A Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and London, Duncan was President of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh, 1873-1875. After lecturing in midwifery in Edinburgh, he moved to London in 1877 to take up the post of midwifery lecturer and obstetric physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1883.