Miscellany: English, 18th-20th Centuries

[1] 'Peter', Winter Street Sanatorium, Sheffield; letter (includes stamped envelope) to Dr William Paterson, MO, c.1946-1947

[2] S. Fraser: letter (includes small stamped envelope) to Mrs Henchie regarding a child's health, dated 25 Nov 1926

[3] Insurance certificate issued by the Railway Passengers Assurance Company to Charlotte Mary Anne Bickmore, for insurance against accidents and certain diseases, 1903

[4] Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: note in third person accepting an invitation to hear a paper on vaccination, dated 15 April 1902

[5] George Edward Paget: letter, dated 5 July 1871

[6] James Bell Pettigrew, anatomist: (2 sheet) letter to Prof William Sharpey about a paper he was preparing for the Royal Society on the ventricles (and alluding to comments of John Goodsir and Joseph Lister on it), dated 19 Nov 1859

[7] Richard Partridge: letter of invitation to Dr Royal to attend a dinner with medical professors, dated 16 May 1839

[8] Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British Prime Minister between 1830-34: Autograph letter to George Eden, Baron Auckland, President of the Board of Trade, discussing measures to combat cholera which had just broken out in Sutherland, dated 18 Nov 1831

[9] Henry Grey Macnab, physician, educationist and mining entrepreneur: letter re a Polish prince, dated 21 April 1821, written towards the end of his life in Paris.

[10] Lord Lyndhurst: letter, dated 16 August 1845, on the unsuitablilty of a candidate for Deputy Coroner for the County of Somerset.

[11] W. Browne: letter to Rev. R.H. Lancaster with details of Dr Gillies, dated 21 Dec. 1818

[12] M. Colson: letter re Dr Toulmin of Hackney (Totnes postmark) dated 4 Feb. 1801, with extract from Western Flying Post, 20 Dec. 1800 regarding the medical activities of Toulmin at Chard during the last 4.5 years of his life.

[13] James Shilcock, Donington, Lincs.: bill for medicines supplied by Matthew Flinders, 1800 (plus 1779 document identifying Shilcock)