Botanists, chiefly 19th century English

Correspondence and some cut-out signatures formerly held in a subject file in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1755-1911

64 items

Purchased from Hodgson's, November 1905 (acc.92289); from R.V. Westcott, May 1927 (acc.45498); Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700); from Mrs. Barrett, London, March 1930 (acc.91327); from Stevens, London, July 1930 (acc.56557), March 1931 (acc.56474, 56483 and 68124), July 1931 (acc.68209), August 1931 (acc.68232) and September 1933 (acc.68336); from Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc.57468), November 1931 (acc.75331), and November 1933 (acc.67469); from Glendining, London, January 1935 (acc.67946); from Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; and transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800).. Accession details of a few items not recorded.

Described in typescript supplements to the Library's published manuscript catalogues.