Russell, James Burn (1837-1904)

1. Letters received by J.B. Russell. Correspondents include Russell's lifelong friend James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, A H Bruce, 6th Baron Balfour of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland, Sir William Gairdner, Robert Laws (on the supply of vaccine lymph to the Livingstonia mission to Central Africa, 1875), the physiologist John Scott Haldane (1860-1936) and William Thomson, afterwards Lord Kelvin, 1857-1904.

2. Letters to David Russell, son of J.B. Russell, mainly relating to his father, 1904-1915.

1857-1915

103 items

Glendining's 5-6 Sept. 1932, lot 7. Three letters from Joseph Lister were acquired separately, Glendining's 19-20 Sept. 1932, lot 16.

Russell was Medical Officer of Health for Glasgow from 1872 and medical member of the Local Government Board for Scotland from 1898.

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).