English Language Autograph Letters: HOP-HOW

1. Autograph of James Hope, n.d.

2. Note from Sir James Hope to an un-named recipient, 11 July 1860.

3. Letter from Colonel William Hope to Brigadier General Reilly, director of artillery and stores, regarding the manufacture of the "Hope Gun", 2 August 1884.

4. Letter from Manley Hopkins to an unknown recipient, responding to a request for his autograph, 3 July 1867.

5. Letter from David Heinrich to Leopold Trattinnick (1764-1849), Austrian botanist and mycologist, 23 March 1827. (German)

6. Letter from Sir Thomas Jeeves Horder to Fuller regarding a patient, 20 April 1925; and postcard to H. Gordon, F.R.S asking him to accept a copy of his book, 10 August 1937.

7. Bill for repairs, sent to Jonathan Carter Hornblower, 2 September 1777.

8. Letter from Leonard Horner to Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), engineer, n.d.; to J. J. Bowerbank, 23 January 1846; and note to an un-named recipient regarding his son in law Sir Charles Lyell, 25 June 1863.

9. Letter from James Horsburgh to the Chart Office, offering to show a model referred to previously, n.d.

10. Letter from John Callcott Horsley to E. Homan, 13 October 1880.

11. Two letters from Alex Eddy Hosack to Dr J. Z. Amussat (1796-1856), one providing an introduction for Dr Nowell of South Carolina, who is visiting Paris, 28 April 1847; and one declining an invitation, n.d. One letter to an un-named recipient (possibly York), providing an introduction for Dr E. C. Witherall, professor of anatomy at an Ohio school of medicine, who is visiting Paris, 24 August 1850.

12. Letter from David Hosack to J. Bostock, President of Liverpool botanical gardens, 31 October 1807.

13. Letter from Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss to Captain MacNeil, 29 January 1885.

14. Letter from John Houston to William Clift, Royal College of Surgeons, providing an introduction for Mr Hamilton, 14 May 1829.

15. Letter from T. Mark Hovell to Mr Stone regarding a patient, 27 February 1893.

16. Biographical notes concerning Richard Baron Howard, n.d.

17. Unsigned letter from Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe to an un-named recipient, describing the progress of a bout if influenza that had afflicted the fleet the fleet the preceeding Summer, 13 December 1782.

18. Letter from John Howship to Dr J. Z. Amussat (1796-1856), providing an introduction for Charles Poole, 12 July 1824. Also letter written by Poole to Amussat, 4 June 1825.

19. Letter from John Hoppus to an unnamed recipient (presumably the Committee or Council of London University) complaining about a note he has seen displayed publicly, in which one of the medical Professors invites students to a Sunday evening party. Hoppus feels that this could prove injurious the University.

1777-1937

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Purchased from Sotheby's, London, December 1919 (acc.67287); Stevens, London, January 1929 (acc.89269), July 1930 (acc.56545); Charavay, Paris, March 1928 (acc.67375); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65892); Glendining, London, December 1934 (acc.67935); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection, and JLM Gulley, London, January 2016 (acc.2258). Presented by H.J. Fuller, April 1929 (acc.49838). Transferred from W.H.M.M. offices, c.1936, previous provenance unknown (acc.91486). Transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800). Provenance of acc.65485, acc.67430, acc.78981, and acc.349380 not recorded.

James Hope (1801-1841). Physcian and Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians.

Sir James Hope (1808-1881). Admiral of the fleet.

Colonel William Hope, V.C. (1834-1909). Army officer and inventor of the "Hope Gun".

Manley Hopkins (1818–1897). Marine insurance adjuster and consul-general in London for Hawaii. Father of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

David Heinrich Hoppe (1760-1846). Physician and botanist.

Sir Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder (1871-1955). Physician to Edward VII, George VI, and Elizabeth II.

Jonathan Carter Hornblower (1753-1815). Engineer.

Leonard Horner (1785-1864). Geologist and educationalist.

James Horsburgh (1762-1836). Hydrographer.

John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903). Painter.

Alex Eddy Hosack (1805-1871). American physician.

David Hosack (1769-1835). American physician and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss (1826-1885). Engineer. Inventor of the Hotchkiss gun.

John Houston (1802-1845). Anatomist.

T. Mark Hovell (1853-1925). Laryngologist and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Richard Baron Howard (1807-1848). Manchester physician.

Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726–1799). Admiral of the fleet.

John Howship (1781-1841). Pathologist.

John Hoppus (1789-1875). FRS.