Correspondence received by the College

Correspondence received by the College on subjects such as the presentation of catalogues, invitations to the Hunterian Oration, execution of criminals whose bodies might then be dissected and other matters.

Writers include representatives of the Admiralty, Army Medical Department, British Museum, Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons at Glasgow, London Institution, Museum of Comparative Anatomy at the Paris Jardin du Roi, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, Portuguese Legation, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal College of Surgeons at Madrid, Royal Society of Sciences at Göttingen, St. Thomas's Hospital and the Zoological Society; journalists from the Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Illustrated London News and the Daily News.

Also represented are individuals such as Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820); Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London (1786-1857); the naturalist and author Sara Bowdich (1791-1856) (nos.7-8); Mr. Justice Coleridge; Lord Denman; Lord Derby (Edward Smith Stanley, thirteenth earl of Derby, formerly Lord Stanley) (1775-1851) (nos.32 and 39), politician and naturalist; Baron Gurney (no.25); Edmund Head, probably the administrator and scholar Sir Edmund Walker Head (1805-1868) (no.27); the artist and secretary of the Royal Society of Arts Henry Howard (1769-1847) (no.24); John Howship (1781-1841), suregon and anatomist (no.23); Sir Robert Inglis (1786-1855), politician; Sir James McGrigor (1771-1858), military surgeon and Director-General of the Army Medical Department; the politician Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) (nos.29 and 37), Lord Chief Justice Tindal (Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal (1776-1846) (no.31); and the soldier and statesman the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington (1769-1852)) (no.30).

Individuals within the Royal College of Surgeons receiving or writing letters include Edmund Belfour, O'Key Belfour, William Clift (1775-1849), Sir Anthony Carlisle (1768-1840) and George James Guthrie (1785-1856).