Joseph Jackson Lister, accounts and ledger

Personal account books and ledger. They include a record of expenses of J J Lister on behalf of his son Joseph Lister, afterwards 1st Baron Lister.

1836-1869

4 volumes

Seven account books and ledgers of J J Lister were purchased by Thomas H Court from whom MSS. 6178-6181 were purchased in 1919 (Museum reg. nos. 16579-16582). The other three volumes, 1810-49, were lent to the Wellcome Museum for the 1927 Lister Centenary Exhibition, but were returned to T H Court in 1945. Cf. Richard K Aspin, "Seeking Lister in the Wellcome Collectons'', Medical History 1997, 41: 86-93.

At Wellcome Collection: MSS.3298-3303, 6182-6200 and 6961-6989 constitute a Lister family collection, centring on J.J. Lister's son Sir Joseph Lister but also including Joseph Jackson Lister material. A diary by Agnes Lister, wife of Sir Joseph, is held as MS.3297. A few members of the Lister family are represented in the correspondence of the Hodgkin and Howard families, held as PP/HO.

From the library of Lord Lister, sold after the latter's death by Henry Sotheran & Co.

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).