Madden, Richard Robert (1798-1886)

MS.3398 comprises material on mesmerism and clairvoyance. WMS/Amer.138 comprises a draft poem that later formed part of his publication of the poems of Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854).

1838-c.1860

5 bundles and 1 file

MS.3398 purchased 1929 (acc.75831). WMS/Amer.138 purchased 1930 (acc.73139).

Richard Robert Madden was a surgeon, writer and magistrate. He studied medicine in Paris, Naples, and London and practised for a short time in Mayfair, London. In 1833 he went to Jamaica as a magistrate of the Slavery Commission; he was superintendent of liberated Africans and judge arbitrator in the mixed court of commission at Havana 1836-1840, and was then engaged in similar work in West Africa. He was elected F.R.C.S. in 1855 (see the Dictionary of National Biography).

Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, ‘Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library’ (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973); and Robin Price, ‘An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine’ (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).