Parry, Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward, (1790-1855), Arctic explorer

Correspondence formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1819-1854

28 items

Purchased from: R. Atkinson, London, August 1930 (acc.63107); Stevens, London, September 1930 (acc.56565), March 1931 (acc.68135) and August 1934 (acc.68369); Sotheby's, London, April 1931 (acc.67516) and February 1932 (acc.76066); Glendining, London, January 1932 (acc.67620) and August 1932 (acc.67698); Heck, Vienna, 1934 (acc.68627); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936 or Glendining, London, circa 1932 (acc.69291). No.9 part of a batch of material transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum offices: provenance not known (acc.69200); provenance details of nos.14 (acc.67430) and 27 not recorded; no.28 created within Wellcome Institute.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.