Fragment of an autobiography

Fragment of an autobiography, covering part of his life as a medical student at St. Thomas's Hospital, London. Author's holograph MS. A passage on the first leaf of this fragment, beginning 'I devoted my time incessantly to the Hospital ...', is quoted on p. 44, 45 of 'Lettsom, his life, times [etc.]', by J. J. Abraham, 1933. Produced in London.

1766-1767

1 volume 6 ll. (last bl.). 4to. 201/2 x 16 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1906.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Library of Thomas Joseph Pettigrew [1791-1869].