English Language Autograph Letters: LO

1. Letter from Conrad Loddiges to John Gould (1804-1881), ornithologist, agreeing to show him some hummingbirds, 25 February 1847.

2. Letter from Sir William Edmond Logan to Mr Salter, 2 January 1865.

3. Letter from Cosmo Gordon Logie to Thomas Madden Stone, 23 July 1881.

4. Letter from Sir Thomas Longmore to an un-named recipient, discussing testing the vision of army recruits, including those unable to read, 5 October 1864. Photograph of Longmore, mounted.

5. Note from Edward Lonsdale to Charles Brooke re. iron legs, n.d.

6. Two letters from William Lonsdale, one to Mrs Phillips of Tottenham, 27 January 1830; and one to an un-named recipient of Keynsham, 13 June 1850.

7. Three letters from John Claudius Loudon. One to an un-named recipient in Lancaster, 13 January 1834; One to J. C. Ridgeway of Piccadilly, 1835; and one to an un-named recipient, 19 January 1839.

8. Three letters from Jane Loudon to un-named recipients. One concerning plates for the October issue of Ladies Flower Garden, 6 September 1839; one requesting and article, 25 November 1849; and one asking to see the recipient's collection of shells, n.d.

9. Letter from Sir John Low to Dr F N Ramsey MD, regarding the election of pensioners from the Corporation of the Scottish Hospitals, 18 April 1873.

10. Two letters from Edward Joseph Lowe, one to John J Bennett FRS regarding his election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 10 February 1857; and one to Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836-1907) concerning his ozone experiments and meteors, 23 August 1863.

11. Letter to Sir Hudson Lowe from Mr Egg regarding proofs, 9 April 1825. Document granting power of attorney to Messrs James and John Meyrick, authorising them to recover and receive all monies due to Sir Hudson Lowe, 6 June 1798.

12. Note from John Lowe to Maynard, n.d.

13. Note from John Lowe to C. J. Hackett of the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science, 21 January 1953.

14. Letter from Richard Thomas Lowe to the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, sending papers and drawings for publication in the next edition of the Society's Transactions, 25 January 1837.

15. Note from Percival Lowell to an un-named recipient, sending his signature, 10 April 1910.

16. Letter from Benjamin Thompson Lowne to Jebbs re. his paper on ophthalmica, and refuting Dr Lankester's theory on the subject, 13 December 1888.

17. Letter from Wilson Lowry to Mr Phillips, apologising for being unable to keep an appointment, 18 October 1811.

1798-1953

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Purchased from Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc.57468); Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.56483 and acc.56490); from Glendining, London, December 1931 (acc.67595), December 1934 (acc.67935), January 1935 (acc.67950), February 1935 (acc.68424), and August 1935 (possibly an error for 1934) (acc.67880); from Desgranges, Paris, October 1930 (acc.63459); and from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69293). Also purchased from Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; and Winifred A. Myers, London, October 1992 (acc.349021). Accession details are not known for acc.92291 and acc.60590.

Conrad Loddiges II (1821-1865). Nursery manager.

Sir William Edmond Logan (1798-1875). Canadian geologist and fellow of the Royal Society.

Cosmo Gordon Logie (1822-1886). Military surgeon and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.

Sir Thomas Longmore (1816-1895). Professor of military surgery.

Edward F Lonsdale (d.1857). Surgeon to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Bloomsbury Square, and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

William Lonsdale (1794-1871). Geologist; curator and librarian of the Geological Society, 1829-1842.

John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843). Landscape gardener and horticultural writer. Fellow of the Linnean Society.

Jane Loudon (1807-1858). Horticultural writer, and wife of John Claudius Loudon.

Sir John Low (1788-1880). Indian army General and political administrator.

Edward Joseph Lowe (1825-1900). Meteorologist. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical, Geological, Linnean, Meteorological, Zoological and Horticultural Societies.

Sir Hudson Lowe (1769-1844). Governor of St Helena (1815-1821).

John Lowe (fl. 1871). One of the doctors who treated the Prince of Wales in December 1871.

John Lowe (fl. 1953).

Richard Thomas Lowe (1802-1874). Naturalist.

Percival Lowell (1855-1916). American astronomer.

Benjamin Thompson Lowne (1839-1925). Ophthalmic surgeon and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Wilson Lowry (1762-1824). Engraver.