Suhm, Peter Frederik (1728-1798)

Eight letters from Suhm to Linnaeus: transcribed from autographs in the possession of Sir James Edward Smith [1759-1828]. The letters, which are in Swedish, are dated between 1769 and 1776: the originals are now in the library of the Linnaean Society in London. It is probable that these are holograph transcripts made by Anna Gurney [1795-1857], the Anglo-Saxon scholar, as this MS. was among a collection of her works purchased for the Wellcome Library.

c. 1825

1 volume 27 pp. + 124 bl. ll. 8vo. 161/2 × 11 cm. Original half-calf binding. The paper has a water-mark dated 1820.

Purchased 1930.

The writer of these letters was a Danish historian and Royal Chamberlain: his large and important library was bequeathed to the state.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).