Banks Family papers

Correspondence and papers:

1. Plague order issued [probably by Joseph Banks (1665-1727) on behalf of the Lindsey Quarter Sessions] for watches to be kept on the Lincolnshire coast for ships from places infected with plague. Produced in Revesby.

2-13 Letters to Joseph Banks (1695-1741), FRS, and his wife Catherine, from Thomas Wallis (d. 1753), MD, 1733-1739.

1721-1739

13 items

Stevens' 7 Oct. 1930, lot 341.

Wallis was a brother of Catherine Banks' first husband.

These papers supplement The letters and papers of the Banks family of Revesby Abbey 1704-1760, ed. J W F Hill (Lincoln Record Soc. Vol. 45, 1952). For further Banks papers, see MSS. 1049, 2826, 5215-5219.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).