Thompson, Sir Benjamin, F.R.S., Count Rumford (1753-1814), American-born inventor

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

1797-1798

6 items

Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, February 1931 (acc.56322); Glendining, London, September 1932 (acc.67633); either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69293). No.1 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800), provenance not known; provenance of nos.4 and 6 (acc.67430) not known.

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