Miscellaneous: English, 19th-20th centuries

Mostly material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1815-1954

83 items

Purchased from: Knight, Frank and Rutley, London, August 1905 (acc.83251); Charavay, Paris, March 1928 (acc.67375); Sotheby's, London, February 1930 (acc.52479); Puttick and Simpson, May 1930 (acc.62824); Stevens, London, July 1930 (acc.56545), December 1930 (acc.68107), March 1931 (acc.56474, 56483 and 68133) and July 1931 (acc.68209); Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc.67540), February 1932 (acc.76088); Hodgson's, London, November 1931 (acc.80413); Glendining, London, September 1932 (acc.67630, 67632 and 67716), September 1933 (acc.67769), August 1934 (acc.67897 and 67912), January 1935 (acc.67974) and May 1935 (acc.68609 and 68611); Miss Garrod Thomas (part of a collection of letters sent to Dr. Garrod Thomas), January 1932 (acc.58513); Sotheby's, London, April 1932 (acc.65134), November 1933 (acc.67472); Desgranges, Paris, October 1935 (acc.69099); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69291); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; a Dr. Moore, January 1967 (acc.313820); John Wilson, Eynsham, December 1990 (acc.348402); Winifred A. Myers, London, June 1992 (acc.348957) and October 1992 (acc.349021); J.L.M. Gulley, London, July 1993 (acc.349226), January 1996 (acc.350150) and January 1998 (acc.350795). Transferred from Wellcome Institute Library, Modern Medicine collection (found inside a book), August 1995 (acc.349974) and June 1996 (acc.350280). No.23 presented by Mme. Jaffé, Nice, March 1938 (acc.56999); nos.80-81 presented by Keith Moore, February 1998 (acc.350827). No.1 and presumably no.40 transferred from internal Wellcome papers, no accession number. Provenance details of nos.19, 21, 24, 36, 50, 67-68, 70 not recorded (acc.67430); similarly nos.11-12 (acc.92056); no.45 transferred from Wellcome store February 1935, previous provenance not noted (acc.67450); no accession details of nos.7, 10, 33, 51, 56 noted.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts