English Language Autograph Letters: DI

1. Extract from Thomas Frognall Dibdin's A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour, volume 2, page 343 (published in 1821).

2. Two letters from James Dickson, one to Miss Lenside of Derbyshire, 4 December 1817; and one to Francis Boale of Prior Gate, Derby, 8 April 1818.

3. Note from Robert Dickson to C. Brooke, n.d.

4. Note from Johann Jakob Dillenius to Mr Nourse, London bookseller, 5 August 1737.

5. Note from Horace Dimock to an unnamed recipient, regarding examining Dr Cory's patient, 20 August 1912.

6. Letter from John Disney to Mr Smith, Curator of Prints at the British Museum, 4 November 1823.

7. Letter from Isaac D'Israeli to George Basevi (1794-1845) architect, 2 September 1839.

8. Letter from James Dixon bearing testimony to the fitness of Thomas Stone for his post at the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons, 22 October 1846.

1737-1912

1 File

Purchased from Stevens, London, March 1930 (acc.56583), and March 1931 (acc.56485 and acc.68126); and from Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. Provenance details for other items (acc.49048, acc.67430 and acc.78702) not recorded.

Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847). Biographer.

James Dickson (1738?-1822). Botanist and Fellow of the Linnean Society.

Robert Dickson (1804-1875). Physician. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Johann Jakob Dillenius (1687-1747). Botanist. First professor of botany at Oxford.

Horace Dimock (1880-1913). Physician.

John Disney (1799-1857). Barrister and archaeologist. Fellow of the Royal Society.

Isaac D'Israeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1766-1848). Writer and father of Benjamin Disraeli.

James Dixon (1814-1896). Ophthalmologist. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.