Wilkes, Richard (1691-1760)

Diary and Observations from 1 January, 1739 to 7 July 1754. Copied from the original by Richard Wilkes Unett. On the second preliminary leaf the copyist states: 'Doctor Richard Wilkes in the following Observations frequently makes mention of such a Page Vol. I, but from all the Enquiries I can make, neither my Father (the Revd. Thomas Unett) nor any of the Family ever saw any thing of the first Volume!! Richard Wilkes Unett.' Produced in Wolverhampton.

c. 1790

1 volume 2 ll. + 250 pp. + 4 bl. ll. + 7 ll. 4to. 24 × 181/2 cm. Modern morocco-gilt binding, in slip case. The first two leaves are slightly defective and laid down.

On permanent loan. 1970.

Volume 1 of this diary, which seems to be the original rather than a transcript, is held in Staffordshire Record Office, ref D5320

Armorial book-plate of R.W. Unett pasted inside the upper cover. With an inserted typed copy of a letter from the Director of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, dated 1 July, 1970, to T. Unett Esqre of Edgbaston, the owner of the volume.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).