Barton, Alfred Bowyer (1825-1905), FRCS

Journals of A.B. Barton, mainly written while a medical officer in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company; also including journals and other material from Barton's service on Captain Thomas Blakiston's Yangtze River expedition (MSS.7589-7594).

1853-1967

10 volumes and 2 files Partly copies.

MSS.5958-5963 purchased at Sotheby's 19 July 1990, lot 317, acc.348373; MSS.7589-7594 purchased at Sotheby's sale, 11 December 1997, lot 37, acc.350792.

Information on Alfred Barton Bowyer and the Yangtze River expedition can be found in 'A Victorian Doctor on the Yangtze: The Journals of Alfred Bowyer Barton (1825-1905), FRCS', Richard Aspin (Friends of the Wellcome Institute Newsletter No.15, Summer 1998).

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) and in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to the Library's published manuscripot catalogues.