Hunt, Robert (1807-1887)

  • Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887
Date:
1846-1863
Reference:
MS.8470
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Letters by Hunt in chronological order (no.9 is undated and incomplete). Correspondents include W. Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879), traveller and writer (nos.2 and 7), S.C. Hall (1800-1889), science writer (nos.3 and 6), James Dafforne (d.1880), writer on art (no.4), and Charles Brooke (1804-1879), surgeon and inventor (no.9)..

Publication/Creation

1846-1863

Physical description

1 file (9 items)

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Acquisition note

Various sources: purchased from Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469), Glendining, London, January 1935 (acc.67974) and Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; provenance details not recorded (acc.67430).

Biographical note

Robert Hunt (1807-1887) was born in Plymouth Dock (Devonport). He was apprenticed to a surgeon but left after 18 months as a result of poor treatment; however, he continued to train as an apothecary and became manager of a London dispensary through the influence of the Quaker philanthropists Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) and William Allen (1770–1843). In 1831 he set up in business in Plymouth; from 1837 he was again in Devonport. He was heavily involved in the early development of photography, corresponding with Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), and also in education for working people. For further information see his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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  • 67430
  • 67469
  • 67974
  • 72200