Wells, Sir Thomas Spencer F.R.C.S. (1818-1897), surgeon

Autograph letters and notes, signed by Wells (except no. 11, which is a compliments slip endorsed in the third person; no. 10 comprises only the bottom half of a letter); formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. Correspondents include the historian and traveller William Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879) (no. 8).

1873-1886

11 items

Purchased from: Salkeld, London, August 1928 (acc.48673); Stevens, London, July 1930 (acc.56545); Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc.57468); Glendining, London, December 1931 (acc.67590). Nos.2-3 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800), previous provenance not recorded. Provenance of nos.5 and 7 (acc.67430) not recorded. No accession details recorded for nos.6 and 10.

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