Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1803-1918

66 items

Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, December 1922 (acc.16308), February 1930 (acc.52479), May 1930 (acc.52792), July 1931 (acc.57468), February 1932 (acc.76088) and December 1932 (acc.67553); Stevens, London, January 1929 (acc.74959), July 1930 (acc.56545), September 1930 (acc.56575), December 1930 (acc.68113), March 1931 (acc.68133), July 1931 (acc.68196) and August 1931 (acc.68232 and 68233); Mrs. Barrett, London, March 1930 (acc.91327); Puttick and Simpson, May 1930 (acc.62824); Hodgson's, London, June 1931 (acc.80890); Glendining, London, July 1932 (acc.67688), September 1932 (acc.67632 and 67716) and January 1935 (acc.67950); Charavay, Paris, September 1934 (acc. 67126); Hinterberger (or possibly Heck), Vienna, August 1935 (acc.69047); either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69293); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. Provenance details not recorded (acc.67430). Nos.11, 46, 62 and 64 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939, previous provenance unknown (acc.91800); no.52 part of a batch of material transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum offices at an unknown date, provenance not known (acc.69200). No acquisition details noted for no.2, although it is likely also to have formed part of the Thomas Madden Stone collection. Acquisition details for nos.30, 37, 50-51, 56-57 and 61 not known.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts