English Language Autograph Letters: GA

1. Ten letters from John Gay to Thomas Madden Stone, 1853-1848. One letter from Gay to Jabez Hogg, 8 July 1872. Note to James Shuter from Gay, 31 July 1882.

2. Letter from Samuel Gauntlett to an unnamed recipient, Portsea, 1 August 1808.

3. Two letters from John Peter Gassiot to Charles Brooke, surgeon and inventor, January 1864, and 10 May 1864. Letter from Gassiot to Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868), 15 may 1864.

4. Letter from Walter Holbrook Gaskell to Miss Sloan, 7 August 1907. Letter from Gaskell to "Sir Claude" congratulating him on his knighthood and speculating that giving honours to doctors may be a way of bribing the profession to accept the Insurance Bill, 20 June 1911.

5. Letter from Charles Bodenham Garrett to an unnamed recipient, 16 June 1869.

6. Letter from Richard Garnett to an unnamed recipient, regarding classification of books at the British Museum, 11 July 1877.

7. Letter from William Garlick to James Shuter regarding the Stone Testimonial, 21 September 1882.

8. Letter from George Gardner to William Gourlie Jnr, 14 october 1841. Letter from Gardner to an unnamed recipient, 10 December 1841.

9. Letter from Frederick James Gant to Thomas Madden Stone, 6 March 1875, along with a letter from Gant to James Shuter regarding the Stone Testimonial, 4 August 1882.

10. Letter from Joseph Sampson Gamgee to Thomas Madden Stone, Librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons, 3 September 1857. Plus letter from Gamgee's grandchild wishing him a happy birthday, 9 February.

11. Autograph of John George Gamble.

12. Note from Sir Edward Jonh Gambier to an unnamed recipient, 6 November 1855. Found with the papers of Dionysius Lardner.

13. Letter from Sir Douglas Strutt Galton to Madam Charles Bunsen, 3 June 1869.

14. Letter from Charles Pinel Gallie to Dr Clement Scott, regarding the illness of Henry Garrick, 28 July 1896. Also letter from Mrs Jeanie Garrick to Mrs Clement Scott, mentioning Dr Gallie and saying that her husband's condition is a little more satisfactory, 11 July 1896.

15. Three letters from Sir William Tennant Gairdner to Dr. Fothergill, 15 May 1885, 1 November 1886, and 3 November 1886.

16. Letter from Meredith Gairdner to Professor William Jackson Hooker (1795-1865) Glasgow botanist, 4 July 1832.

17. Letter from John Gadbury to the Hon. Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, Shropshire concerning the King's Evil, 25 January 1680.

18. Letter from Henry Dison Gabell to the Reverend J. Prowett, 7 May 1880.

19. Two letters in English to Armand E. J. Gautier, from A. B. Griffiths, congratulating him on his election as an Honorary member of the Society of Biological Chemistry, 11 February 1899; and from Frederick Bramwell informing Gautier that he has been elected an Honorary member of the Royal Institution, 27 May 1899. Two letters in French from Gautier to the editor of Le Figaro, 5 August 1893; and to Monsieur Lacroix, n.d. Note in French to Gautier from William Ramsey, 7 February 1908. Invitations for Armand E. J. Gautier to attend a banquet to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Institution, 5 June 1899, and a reception the following day.

1680-1911

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Purchased from Stevens, London, September 1930 (acc.56360), March 1931 (acc.68130), and August 1931 (acc.68256); Desgranges, Paris, May 1931 (acc.64702), and May 1932 (acc.65641); Sotheby's, London, November 1931 (acc.75332); Glendining, London, August 1934 (acc.67901), and January 1935 (acc.67950); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; E.Hall, Gravesend, circa January 1965 (acc.311503); and John Wilson, Eynsham, November 1995 (acc.350095). Presented by Mrs. Fothergill, September 1927 (acc.67370). Transferred to the Library from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1964 as part of the French Collection of books and manuscripts, whose earlier provenance is not recorded (acc.311223). Provenance details of some items (e.g. acc.67430) not recorded.

John Gay (1813-1885). Surgeon. Fellow of the Royal Society.

Samuel Gauntlett (fl. 1808).

John Peter Gassiot (1797-1877). Scientific writer. Fellow of the Royal Society.

Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847-1914). Physiologist. Fellow of the Royal Society.

Charles Bodenham Garrett (d.1879). Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries.

Richard Garnett (1835-1906). Keeper of printed books at the British Museum.

William Garlick (1816-1893). Surgeon. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries.

George Gardner (1812-1849). Botanist. Fellow of the Linnean Society.

Frederick James Gant (1825-1905). Surgeon. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Joseph Sampson Gamgee (1828-1886). Surgeon.

John George Gamble (fl. 1887).

Sir Edward John Gambier (1794-1879). Barrister. Chief Justice of Madras.

Sir Douglas Strutt Galton (1822-1899). President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Charles Pinel Gallie (fl. 1896).

Sir William Tennant Gairdner (1824-1907). Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Meredith Gairdner (d.1837).

John Gadbury (1627-1704). Astrologer.

Henry Dison Gabell (1764-1831). Headmaster of Winchester school.

Armand E. J. Gautier (1837-1920). Chemist and biologist.