Letters and miscellaneous papers
- Fothergill, John Milner, 1841-1888.
- Date:
- 1884-1893
- Reference:
- MS.8510
- Part of:
- Fothergill, John Milner (1841-1888)
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
1-2: Letters by John Milner Fothergill
3: 1 passage called ''To Define a Bottle'' by John Fothergill.
4: envelope addressed to Fothergill with a Birmingham postmark
5: letter from J.M. Shorthouse to the editor of the British Medical Journal, regarding ''The Foibles of the Fothergills'' dated December 28th 1879
6-17: correspondence (letters and telegrams) of Fothergill's widow Rubie Milner-Fothergill subsequent to her husband's death. Correspondents include Henry Wellcome (no.17), his associate May French Sheldon (nos.6-15) and the University of Edinburgh, the latter thanking her for endowing a medal in her husband's name (no.16).
18: Wellcome Museum typescript itemising material received as accession 69296.
Publication/Creation
1884-1893
Physical description
1 file (17 items)
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Acquisition note
Purchased from Hodgson's, London, March 1916 (acc.38715), Sotheby's, London, February 1933 (acc.65813), presented by Mrs. Fothergill, September 1927 (acc.67370); retrospectively accessioned in November 1933 (acc.69296) and January 1951 (acc.95813) after transfer from Wellcome Museum offices and stores, previous provenance not noted, although the former seems likely to have been a donation by Forthergill's family.
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