Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

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

1803-1942

92 items

Purchased from: R.V. Westcott, May 1927 (acc.45498); Charavay, Paris, March 1928 (acc.67375) and November 1932 (acc.65657); Sotheby's, London, February 1930 (acc.52479 and 52480), July 1930 (acc.56370), February 1931 (acc.56320) November 1931 (acc.75331), and May 1934 (acc.62777); S. Summerson, Llyngyril, Merionydd, probably late 1928 (acc.56995); Desgranges, Paris, February 1930 (acc.55165), October 1930 (acc.63455), October 1935 (acc.69099); Mrs. Barrett, London, March 1930 (acc.91327); Stevens, London, November 1930 (acc.55796), March 1931 (acc.56474, 68126 and 68133) and September 1932 (acc.89090); Hodgsons, London, June 1931 (acc.80890) and October 1931 (acc.83558); Glendining, London, January 1932 (acc.67619), August 1932 (acc.67693), September 1932 (acc.67635), September 1933 (acc.67769), August 1934 (acc.67858 and 67904), December 1934 (acc.67935) and May 1935 (acc.68611); A.P.R. Willis, March 1932 (acc.64896); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65892); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; F.E. Whitehart, June 1993 (acc.349199). No.1 previously formed part of the papers of Sir William Maddock Bayliss F.R.S. (GC/223). No.9 passed from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum administrative documentation at an unknown date; nos.13, 24, 49 and 76 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum c.1939 (acc.91800), of these no.13 probably originally purchased c.1906 (acc.16489) and no.76 late 1905 (acc.16465) but details not known; no.14 presented by Professor C.B. Allsop, Cambridge, June 1971 (acc.319250); provenance details of nos.16-17, 25-31, 34, 47, 73-74, 81, 85, 91-92 not recorded (acc.67430). Acquisition details of nos.7, 19, 60-61, 63-64, 67, 88 not known.

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