Letters to George Newman from Henry Drummond (1851-1897)

Date:
1885-1900
Reference:
MS.6202
Part of:
Newman, Sir George (1870-1948), pioneer of public and child health care
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Letters to George Newman from Henry Drummond (1851-1897). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Letters from Henry Drummond (1851-1897), theological writer and evangelist, to correspondents including George Newman. With letters to Newman from various writers concerning a memoir of Drummond, some by the biographer George Adam Smith (1965-1942).

12 items 1895-1900.

The detailed listing of the letters is as follows:

1. Henry Drummond, 3 Carlton Gardens, Kelwinside, Glasgow, 6 January 1885, to ? ['Dear Sir'], 1p. Ms.

2. Henry Drummond, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow, 16 June [?] 1892 to [George] Newman, 2p. Ms.

3. Henry Drummond, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow, 10 August 1892, to Mr. [George] Newman, 2p. Ms.

4. Henry Drummond, ? Aberdeen, 16 October 1892, to [George] Newman, 2p. Ms.

5/1-2 Henry Drummond, 52 Queen Street, Edinburgh, 26 March 1895, to Dr. [George] Newman, 4p. Ms

6. George Adam Smith, 22 Gardener [?] Terrace, Glasgow, 15 ? [no month, n.y., but probably 1897-8] to [George] Newman] 3p. Ms.

7. George Adam Smith, Oxford, 6 June 1898, to Mr. [George] Newman, 3p. Ms.

8. William Smith Greenfield, 7 Heriot Row, 23 October 1895, to Dr. [George] Newman, 1p Ms.

9. A.H. Freeland Barbour, Earl's Court, Tunbridge Wells, n.d. [1895], to [George] Newman, 3p.Ms.

10. Margaret Barbour, 4 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 22 April 1897, to Dr.[George] Newman, 3p. Ms.

11. Charlotte Barbour, Bonskeid, Pitlochry, 22 March 1900, to Mr [George] Newman, 3p. Ms.

12. George Gordon, Lord Hobb [later 2nd Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair], The Scores, St Andrews, 19 March, n..p1897-8], to Dr. [George] Newman, 4p. Ms.

Publication/Creation

1885-1900

Physical description

12 items

Biographical note

Newman's own recollections of Drummond were published in his series of essays Quaker Profiles (London, 1946).

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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