English Language Autograph Letters: HAS-HAY

1. Arthur Hill Hassall - letter regarding a subscription to the Stone Testimonial Fund, 17 November 1854; letter to J Luke, 21 December 1854.

2. Sir Charles Hastings - letter to William Birmingham Costello (1800-1867), surgeon and asylum keeper, 20 March 1835; letter to Dr Paxton of 26 September 1855; and letter to Sir John Ratcliff, n.d.

3. Charles Hatchett - letter dated 2 January 1815 to William Clift (1775–1849), British naturalist, an apprentice anatomical assistant to the celebrated surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793); Letter dated 25 April 1816 to Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet FRS (1756-1832), surgeon, regarding frogs spawn and that there is no oil or fat in the albumen of common eggs.

4. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins - letter to unnamed recipient from 11 December 1858, returning two volumes of Owen's lectures; letter to Thomas Stone Librarian, RCS, 6 February 1863.

5. Caesar Henry Hawkins - two undated letters to unknown recipients; letter to Mrs Ponsonby, n.d., and letter to Dr Aldis, Secretary to the St George's Medical and Surgical Society, 3 December 1832.

6. Charles Hawkins - six letters to unknown recipients with various dates from c.1860 to 1884; letter to J Shuter of 9 October 1882; letter to Mr Stone of 13 November 1884.

7. Sir Christopher Hawkins, 1st Baronet - letter dated 25 September 1825 to John Joseph Stockdale (1776/7–1847), publisher and bookseller, re Mr R's memoirs

8. Francis Hawkins - letter to unnamed recipient of 17 May 1833, regarding stamping a book, which he is giving as a second prize to his College pupils.

9. John Hawkins - Letter to unnamed recipient of 26 February 1802, regarding his translation of Mr Köhlers account of his work in Bronze that was discovered in Epirus and conveyed to Petersburg; as Mr Knight still differs in the explanation of the subject of my Bronze - J Hawkins asks Mr Knight to put his thoughts to paper.

10. Pennell Hawkins - letter to unnamed recipient of 16 October 1766, Kew Green, regarding Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) health; mentions Sir John Pringle (1707-1782), military physician.

11. Hawley - note written on a playing card; it is written in third person to Mainwaring, n.d., enquiring whether he will be home today (on business relating to Mr Chester).

12. Adrian Hardy Haworth - letter to Mr Sheppard, curator of the Liverpool Botanic Garden, 5 August 1820, regarding Mesembryanthemum.

13. David Hay - letter to William Norris, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, 15 April 1825, Edinburgh.

14. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden - two letters with a letterhead of the Office of U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Washington, letter to unnamed recipient of 29 July 1876, and letter to Professor J Rupert of 20 May 1877.

15. George Henry Haydon - two letters to George Cruckshank dated 9 April 1873 and 16 May 1873; letter to Dr Diamond of 19 July 1877.

16. John Haygarth - letter signed to Messrs Cadell and Davies asking them to send copies of his pamphlet, the controversial tract On the Imagination as a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of the Body, to a number of reviews as listed by Hygarth, 6 January 1800; letter to Dr Thackerary of 16 May 1823, in which he asks for accurate statement of facts of the late typhus contagion imported from Ireland into Chester, convinced that fever wards must be adopted in all infirmaries

17. John Haviland - signed letter written in the third person to Mr Babington regarding lectures on the practice of Physick, Cambridge, 17 October 1821; and letter signed to Mr Stanley stating that he is unable to accept an invitation to dine at the Royal College of Surgeons, Cambridge, 16 January 1849.

18. Arthur Hay - Letter, signed Tweeddale, 23 November 1878.

1766-1884

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Purchased from Mrs. Barrett, London, March 1930 (acc.91327); Sotheby's, London, February 1931 (acc.56320); Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.56483); Stevens, London, September 1932 (acc.89090); Glendining, London, September 1933 (acc.67769); Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469); Transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800); Purchased from Mrs Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; John Wilson, Oxford, April 1992 (acc.348912). Accession details not known for number 5 (acc.92291); Provenance details not recorded for numbers 9 (acc.67430) and 15 (acc.89396).

Arthur Hill Hassall (1817-1894), a British physician, chemist and microscopist who is primarily known for his work in public health and food safety. In 1846 he published The Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body in Health and Disease, the first English textbook on the subject. He took important part in the microscopical investigation of the water supply of London during the cholera epidemic of 1854.

Sir Charles Hastings (1794-1866), a medical surgeon and a founder of the British Medical Association; a notable philanthropist. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1850 for his pioneering work and social conscience. He published many scientific papers and newspaper articles. His first book A Treatise on Inflammation of the Mucous Membrane of the Lungs published in 1820 confirmed him as an authority on chest diseases. George Woodyatt Hastings (1825-1917), a liberal politician and a member of the House of Commons, was his son.

Charles Hatchett (1765–1847), chemist, organist, self-taught in chemistry and mineralogy; in 1808 he was a founder member and president of the Animal Chemistry Club, a special-interest group within the Royal Society.

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), English sculptor and natural history artist, lecturer on zoology and related topics; famous for creating the life-size models of extinct dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park, south London.

Caesar Henry Hawkins (1798-1884), surgeon; his success in complex surgical cases gave him a great reputation. He was the first surgeon who succeeded in the operation of ovariotomy in 1846 when anaesthetics were unknown. In 1862 he was appointed sergeant-surgeon to Queen Victoria. He was elected a trustee of the Hunterian Museum in 1871, and was a fellow of the Royal Society

Charles Hawkins (1812-1892), general surgeon, one of the original 300 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Sir Christopher Hawkins, 1st Baronet (1758-1829), a Cornish landowner, mine-owner, Tory Member of Parliament, and patron of steam power, in 1812 he commissioned the world's first steam threshing machine, powered by a "semi-portable" barn engine, it has been preserved by the Science Museum in London. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Francis Hawkins (1794-1877), physician; he was elected the first Professor of medicine at King's College, London, in 1831. He was physician to the royal households of William IV and Queen Victoria. The eminent surgeon Sir Caesar Hawkins (1798-1884) was his grandfather.

John Hawkins (1761–1841), traveller and geologist; a founder member of the Horticultural Society in 1804 and a honorary member of the Geological Society of London.

Pennell Hawkins (1716-1791), surgeon, sergeant-surgeon to George III and brother of the more famous Sir Caesar Hawkins (1711–1786).

Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768-1833), botanist and entomologist; Observations on the Genus Mesembryanthemum is one of his most imortant works in which he distinguished over 200 species, 1794-5.

David Hay (fl 1825), Scottish medic.

Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden (1829-1887), American geologist, physician and paleontologist; famous for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century.

George Henry Haydon (1822-1891), writer and artist.

John Haygarth (1740-1827), physician ; his work included smallpox prevention, and fever treatment by isolation in clean and ventilated wards. In 1784 he published Inquiry how to Prevent the Small Pox which was translated into German and French. In recognition of his work Haygarth was elected to the Royal Society in 1781.

John Haviland (1785-1851), professor of medicine at Cambridge. FRCP 1818.

Arthur Hay (1824-1878), ninth Marquis of Tweeddale, ornithologist, FRS.