Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins P.R.C.S. (1783-1862), surgeon

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

1826-1862

90 items

Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, December 1922, November 1928, February 1931, July 1931, April 1932, July 1932, December 1932 and February 1933; Charavay, Paris, March 1928 and October 1928/April 1929; Stevens, London, January 1929, February 1931 (possibly February 1932), March 1931, April 1931, August 1931 and November 1931; Desgranges, Paris, July 1930 and October 1935; Hodgson's, London, June 1931; Glendining, London, September 1932, September 1933, November 1933, August 1934, January 1935 and April 1935 ; Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945, presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, October 1992; Judith Grant, Wimbledon, February 2000. nos. 31 and 83-87 presented by Miss Winifred Lee, from the papers of her father Henry Lee F.R.C.S., March 1930; no. 37 presented by Mrs. Earnshaw, February 1938. Provenance details of nos. 4, 11, 44, 57, 60, 65 and no. 68 not recorded. no. 40 carries two accession numbers, (purchased from Stevens, July 1924) and also 24727 (which indicates a likely purchase date of mid-1910), with no indication which should be seen as authoritative. no. 70 was part of a batch of material transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum offices: provenance not known. No accession details of nos. 1-2, 24, 41, 50, 54, 58, 61, 74 recorded. Accessions 52605, 56320, 57468, 63453, 63700, 65133, 65270, 65821, 67375, 67430, 67540, 67552, 67718, 67769, 67810, 67851, 67947, 68130, 68223, 68279, 68297, 68566, 68595, 69099, 69200, 72200, 74318, 74959, 80890, 89117, 91799, 91802, 92291, 349050 and 351453.

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