English Language Autograph Letters: FA-FE

Date:
1695-1911
Reference:
MS.9160
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1. George Stanley Faber - A concluding part of a larger work possibly preface of a published work, dated 22 January 1845.

2. Sir William Fairbairn - Letter to Dr. Sharpey re some recognition of the services rendered by the late Mr C to the advancement and present improves state of the Oron manufacture, Manchester 24 January 1857; letter to Mrs Pender re invitation, London 20 June 1861; Letter to Miss Watkens re a photo, 30 September 1813; Letter to Madam Bunsen re invitation, 26 May 1869.

3. Matthew Fanjoux - Petition to the Bishop of Worcester to enable Matthew Fanjoux to practise physick in the borough of Warwick, 18 October 1695.

4. Sir John Bretland Farmer - Letter to Foster, written on Royal College of Science, London headed notepaper, 4 July 1902.

5. John Farmer - letter to Mary, n.d.

6 Sir Walter Farquhar - Letter of reference for Thomas Fox, servant, 12 August 17??; Note about Farquhar from a patient of his, praising his treatment of their eye problems. The writer notes that their father was at college with Farquhar in Aberdeen, n.d.: letter addressed to My Lord, concerning lady Spencer's illness and forwarding a request from an un-named Brother of Seven Scotch Virgins, n.d.

7. William Farr - Letter to an un-named recipient, concerning the frost and survival of goldfishes in his garden pond, 7 April 1789.

8. William Farr - Note to Dr Hooker, 28 March 1873; note to Dr Hendricks, early November 1878; note to Mr Wilding, mounted on card with biographical detail of William Farr, n.d.

9. Arthur Farre - Letter written in third person to the Library Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons, 20 October 1837; Letter to my dear Cooke, 16 December 1878; Letter to James Shuter, 13 September 1882.

10. John Richard Farre - Prescription, 4 November; Letter to Mrs Paternoster postponing a planned visit, 24 August 1838.

11. Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner - Letter written on behalf of Faulkner to Dr Robert Anderson, 24 April 1805; letter to E. T. Coulton, 23 January 1824.

12. Gregor von Feinaigle - Letter to Knight Spencer, 27 March 1812; Letter to John Taylor, written from the Feinaiglian Institute of Luxembourgh, Dublin, 7 January 1814.

13. Robert Fellowes - Letter to an un-named recipient, n.d.

14. Sir Adam Ferguson - Letter to Mrs Drysdale, 14 April.

15. George Bagot Ferguson - Letter to Mr Shuter re. the Stone testimonial, 9 September 1882.

16. James Ferguson - Signature (cut from a letter), 8 June 1775; Drawing of a compass, n.d.

17. Robert Ferguson - Letter to the Royal College of Physicians asking to attend a lecture given by Charles Bell and Mr. Green, n.d.; letter to an un-named recipient regarding a review on Sir Charles Bell, n.d.

18. Sir David Ferrier - Letter to Fairbank regarding a patient "doomed by heredity to suffer from these alternations of excitement and depression", 24 January 1911.

19. James Frederick Ferrier - Letter to W. S. Herrick re. portraits in the Great Hall at St Andrews, 14 August.

20. John Ferriar - Letter to Messrs. Cadell and Davies, booksellers, regarding his works Medical Histories and Reflections and Illustrations of Sterne, 13 July 1810.

Publication/Creation

1695-1911

Physical description

1 File

Acquisition note

Purchased from Stevens, London, August 1928 (acc.77598), March 1931 (acc.56471, acc.56474, acc.56482, acc.68130, and acc.68133), August 1931 (acc.68226), and September 1932 (acc.77504); from Sotheby's, London, February 1931 (acc.56320), November 1931 (acc.75331), December 1931 (acc.75873), and December 1932 (acc.67553); and from Glendining, London, July 1932 (acc.67688), and December 1934 (acc.67938). Other material purchased from Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; and from "an official" (probably of the cathedral), Worcester, October 1932 (acc.58836). Transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800). Provenance details not recorded (acc.67430).

Biographical note

George Stanley Faber (1773-1854), an Anglican theologian and author; He was educated at Hipperholme Grammar School and Oxford University; Faber was a fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford.

Sir William Fairbairn, first baronet (1789-1874), an engineer; He was president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1854, and was president of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (1855- 1860); He made great contribution to the Transactions of the Royal Society and to the proceedings of other learned societies; Fairbairn received the gold medal of the Royal Society in 1860, and was president of the British Association in 1861. He received the honorary LLD degree of Edinburgh in 1860 and of Cambridge in 1862; His work includes a handbook for engineers, an examination of the properties of iron, and a treatise on mills, all of which went through further editions.

Matthew Fanjoux (fl. 1695), French Divine and physick.

Sir John Bretland Farmer (1865-1944). Botanist and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Sir Walter Farquhar (1738-1819). Physician in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, 1796.

William Farr (1730-1809). Physician at the Royal Hospital, Plymouth, and Fellow of the Royal Society.

William Farr (1807-1883). Physician and statistician of Kenley, Shropshire. Fellow of the Royal Society.

Arthur Farre (1811-1887). Obstetric physician, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

John Richard Farre (1775-1862). Ophthalmologist, and co-founder of the Royak London Ophthalmic Hospital.

Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner (1779-1845). Irish physician.

Gregor von Feinaigle (1765-1819). Mnemonist.

Robert Fellowes (1771-1847).

Sir Adam Ferguson (1771-1855). Keeper of the regalia in Scotland, 1818.

George Bagot Ferguson (1843-1906). Surgeon and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

James Ferguson (1710-1776). Astronomer.

Robert ferguson (1799-1865). Physician and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Sir David Ferrier (1843-1928). Physician.

James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864). Metaphysical writer who introduced the term "Epistemology".

John Ferriar (1761-1815). Physician and writer.

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