Autograph letters by Roget, signed
- Date:
- 1824-1848
- Reference:
- MS.7543/1-14
- Part of:
- Roget, Peter Mark, F.R.S. F.R.C.P. (1779-1869), physician and polymath, editor of the <i>Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases</i>
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Recipients include the science writer Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859) (nos.3-10, nos.3-4 bearing an endorsement by Lardner), the chemist John George Children (1777-1852) (no.11, describing travelling to Edinburgh for a meeting of the British Association), "Dr. Willis", presumably Robert Willis (1799-1878) (no.13), and the author and critic Clement Mansfield Ingleby (1823-1886) (no.14), No.3 has attached to it a letter to Roget from one W. Pearson.
Publication/Creation
1824-1848
Physical description
14 items
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts