Watson, Sir Thomas P.R.C.P. (1792-1882)
- Watson, Sir Thomas, P.R.C.P., 1792-1882
- Date:
- 1851-1879
- Reference:
- MS.7827
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
8 autograph letters, signed, formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. Correspondents include "Mr. Murchison", presumably the physician Charles Murchison F.R.S. (1830-1879) (nos. 2 and 8); John Flint South F.R.C.S. (1797-1882) (no. 3); James Sheridan Muspratt (1821-1871), chemist (nos. 5-6); and the botanist and traveller Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) (no. 7). Also 1 photograph of Watson (no. 9), which is not the photograph he alludes to in nos. 5-6.
Publication/Creation
1851-1879
Physical description
9 items
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased from: Stevens, London, August 1928 (acc.73621); Sotheby's, London, February 1932 (acc.76088); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; Winifred A. Myers, London, November 1990 (acc.348393). Nos.2 and 5 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800), previous provenance not recorded. Accession details of nos.6-7 not recorded.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
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- Various - see Acquisition note.