Letterbook
- Date:
- February 1865-February 1866
- Reference:
- MS.5683
- Part of:
- Hodgkin, Thomas (1798-1866)
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Letterbook, containing drafts of letters from Hodgkin to various correspondents. Included are letters to Sir Henry James on hygiene and the water supply in Jerusalem; to Ebenezer Pye Smith, Sir Frederic Rogers (later Baron Blachford) and others on the protection of Australian aborigines; to J J Roberts, formerly President of Liberia, on the death of Lord Palmerston and the latter's policy towards Liberia; to Henry Moule and William Torrens McCullagh Torrens on sanitation and housing conditions among the poor in England; and to Lord Granville, with a memorandum on the Brown Trust (subsequently the Brown Animal Sanatory Institution).
Publication/Creation
February 1865-February 1866
Physical description
1 volume: 65 ff. (57-62 blank). 178 x 115 mm.
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores