Letters to Power

Letters to Power, chiefly autograph. Correspondents include:

Sidney Young F.S.A. (1843-1914), historian of the Barber's Company (no.1; also newspaper cutting of Young's obituary);

Dr. George Auden (b.1872), father of the poet W.H. Auden (1907-1973) (nos.3, 10-11);

Charles L. Hartwell A.R.A. (fl. 1923), with 2 pencil designs for a medal commemorating the 800th anniversary of the founding of St. Bartholomew's Hospital (no.6);

Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston (1862-1944) (no.7), the Medical Officer of Health for the Metropolitan Borough of St. Marylebone, thanking Power (in a duplicated letter) for volunteering to give medical help at air raid first aid posts, with on the back of this letter an outline of the life of Anton, Freiherr von Eiselsberg (1860-1939) (no.9);

H.P. Cholmeley of The Lancet concerning an obituary of the physician Sir Richard Quain (1816-1898) (no.12).

1890-1938

12 items (1 file).

No acquisition details noted.

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

Formerly held in the Wellcome Library Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.