Miscellaneous papers of Sir James Paget

Date:
1837-1888
Reference:
MS.5705
Part of:
Paget, Sir James (1814-1899), surgeon
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About this work

Description

Including items relating to the medical school at St Bartholomew's Hospital (with his licence to practise anatomy there, 1843), and autobiographical notes probably written in connection with his Memoirs.

Detailed listing of items:

1 Passport for a journey to France. 23 Jan 1837

2 Reflections on wordly honours, following the death of Sir A. P. Cooper. 26 Feb 1841

3 'Arrangements respecting the demonstrations, dissecting rooms, lectures, museum etc' [at St. Bartholomew's Hospital]. July 1841.

4 Obituary of J. B. Chrome, artist, of Yarmouth. Copy from the Norwich Mercury. 17 Sept 1842

5 Licence to practice anatomy in the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Whitehall, 3 Oct 1843.

6 Bond. E. D. Rees to Lydia North, 24 April 1844

7/1-2 Proposal, in Paget's hand, concerning the finances of the medical school at St Bartholomew's Hospital. 20 Sept 1847.

8 Resolutions on religious behaviour in marriage [? in the hand of Lydia North], n.d.

9/1-5 Grocery bills. 1851.

10 Letter from R. P. Kemp to his brother Charles, acknowledging payment by James and George Paget of their father Samuel Paget's debt. Coltishall, 29 Nov 1862

11 'Cases of neuroma'. Charts of reported cases. N.d.

12 Programme for the opening, by Sir James Paget, of the newly erected Great Yarmouth Hospital. 20 Sept 1888. Printed.

13 Photograph of Sir James Paget, head and shoulders. Copy, n.d. [? 1881]

14 Biographical article on George Edward Paget. N.d. Printed.

15 Sir James Paget, Theology and science. An address....Leeds....December 1880 (London, 1881). 28pp. Printed.

16 Sir James Paget, Address delivered at the presentation of prizes at the Army Medical School at Netlev on the 2nd of February 1885 (London, 1885). 13pp. Printed.

17/1-37 Autobiographical notes, probably written by Paget in connexion with his Memoirs. Included are notes on debts, expenses and legacies received; on income from appointments, practice, writing and investments; on publications, appointments, travels, studies, illnesses, and his hospital apprentices and their careers. N.d

Publication/Creation

1837-1888

Physical description

17 items Partly printed.

Finding aids

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Location of duplicates

Photograph of MS.5701/1 (passport) in Wellcome Images L0067844-L0067845

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