Halford, Sir Henry (1766-1844)

1. Letter to William Clift, 16 February 1829.

2. Letter to Mr. Smith, wax metallic portrait modeller, 9 September 1830.

3. Letter addressed to My Dear Lord, 7 July 1830.

4. Letter to an unnamed female recipient, 12 January 1837.

5. Letter to an unnamed recipient, 7 March 1838.

6. Letter to Messrs B., 27 August 1841.

7. Letter to Arch Deacon, n.d.

8. Letter to Mr. Marshall, 11 July 18-

9. Note to Rev. J. Field, Reading, 23 February 1846.

10. Letter to Sir Thomas, Leicester, n.d.

11. Prescription for Lady Hughes, 8 April 1839.

12. Autograph of Sir Henry Halford on a paper from Goldsmith, with Latin notes, n.d.

13. Letter to Sir Anthony, 27 March 1829.

14. My Dear Doctor, 27 February, 1823

15. Letter to an unknown recipient, 5 March 18-

16. Autograph of Henry Halford, n.d.

1823-1846

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Purchased from Puttick & Simpson, June 1921 (acc.67262), Stevens, London, September 1928, Sotheby's, London, July 1930 (acc.56370), Glendining, London, November 1931 (acc.67582), January 1932 (acc.67619), 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. Provenance details not known for a number of items.

Sir Henry Halford, 1st Baronet, physician in Leicester. Son of Dr. James Vaughan. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, B.A. 1788, M.D. 1791. Physician at Middlesex Hospital 1793-1800. F.R.C.P. 1794. Made a Baronet in 1809. President of the College of Physicians, 1820-1844. Attended George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria.