Meryon, Charles Lewis (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope

Correspondence and papers, mainly letters sent by Meryon to his family and friends while travelling in the Middle East in the service of Lady Hester Stanhope. A number of letters contain slits, having been pierced in quarantine and fumigated against plague (see the note by Meryon, MS. 5688, f. 136v.).

1810-17

3 volumes

Purchased at Stevens' 7 Sept. 1928, lot 241.

Database description transcribed from Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

These papers were bound for Meryon in three volumes, and used for his Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, 3 volumes (London, 1846). He re-examined them in 1861, deleting some passages and copying others into his six-volume (presumably interleaved) copy of the Travels. The papers themselves were crudely disbound at that time or subsequently. They came into the possession of Frank Hamel, and many were quoted in his Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (London, 1913).