Roget, Peter Mark, F.R.S. F.R.C.P. (1779-1869), physician and polymath, editor of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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

1821-1848

17 items

Purchased from: Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.56474) and September 1933 (acc.68336); Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc.67540) and November 1933 (acc.67474); Desgranges, Paris, May 1932 (acc.65641 and 65642); Glendining, London, August 1934 (acc.67861); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. Accession details of no.1 not known.

At Wellcome Collection: Isolated letters by Roget also occur as MS.7108/11, MS.7402/5 and MS.7847/31. A copy of his Bridgewater Treatise, Animal and vegetable physiology, considered with reference to natural theology (1st edition: London, 1834) is held as PP/WAR/5/4; other copies are held in the Library's printed book collection.

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