English Language Autograph Letters: HED-HOO

1. Sven Anders Hedin - photograph of Marta Sundström from 1913; Letter to Lady Markham, 6 November 1898; Letter to Sir Henry Wellcome, 27 September 1913; Letter to Sir Henry Wellcome from Alma Isabel Sofia Hedin (1876-1958) a Swedish memoir writer and local politician, sister of Sven Anders Hedin, 26 September 1913.

2. John Hellins - Letter to unknown recipient, 16 October 1804.

3. Hector Helsham - Letter to James Shuter (1846-1883) a surgeon, re the institution of a Stone Testimonial Fund, 7 August 1882.

4. John Hembrough - Letter to Thomas M Stone (1807-1877) a surgeon, 17 June 1862.

5. George Ernest Herman - Letter to James Shuter (1846-1883) a surgeon, re contribution toward the Testemonial Fund to T M Stone of the College of Surgeons.

6. William Parker Hoare - Letter to James Shuter (1846-1883) a surgeon, re T M Stone Testemonial Fund, 14 December 1882.

7. Edward Hobson - Letter including a press cutting to Miss Hannah King re British mosses, 1822.

8. L L Hodge - Manuscript account with Drs Nicolson and Son, Antigue, 10 August 1857.

9. William Ballantyne Hodgson - letter to C E Macqueen, 8 December 1860.

10. Thomas Hodson - Autograph.

11. Thomas Callan Hodson - Typed letter to Thomas Seccombe (1866-1923), a critic and biographer, re a book in which one passage refers to Sir Henry "Harry" Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927), a British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator.

12. Charles Hogg - letter to James Wakley, Editor of the Lancet 1862, 29 July 1862.

13. Reverend George Holden - Letter to Mr Burrell, 10 July 1821; Testemonial in favour of Mr S Hunter, Clerk at the Chapel of Maghull.

14. Luther Holden - Letter to Dr Stowers re animal and vegetable pathology going hand in hand or as Hunter would say 'embracing one another', 10 November 1880.

15. Thomas Holloway - Autograph.

16. Timothy Holmes - Two letters and a note to James Shuter (1846-1883) a general surgeon, enclosing contribution to the Stone Testemonial Fund, c.1882.

17. Carsten Holthouse - 2 Testemonials from S Parke and R N Ralfe for the vacant Office of Surgeon to the Bishop's Court Dispensary, 15 February and 7 March 1842; Testemonial in favour of Mr Stone, Librarian at the Royal College of Surgeons, 22 October 1846; Letter to James Shuter declining to join the Committee which is presenting a testemonial for Mr Stone, 10 August 1882; Letter to J W Stone, 30 September 1884; and letter to Brooke, 9 July ?.

18. Francis Home - Letter from D Middleton re Home to the Court of Examiners asking permission for Mr Home to dispense with his examination for the Grand Diploma owing to his age and financial state, 1 May 1781.

19. Robert Hooper - Letter to an unnamed Doctor, 20 October 1826; Letter to Mr Corfield prescribing treatment with prescription enclosed, 15 January 1817; Letter to John Harding, a surgeon in Kentish Town, n.d.

Purchased from Stevens, London, August 1930 (acc.63313); Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc.57468); Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.56482 and 56483); Sotheby's, London, February 1931 (acc.56320); Glendining, London, January 1932 (acc.67614); Transferred from W.H.M.M. office, December 1934, previous provenance unknown (acc. 69345); Purchased from Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; no accession details recorded for nos. 11 and 14.

1. Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952), a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer; He led through Central Asia a series of expeditions that resulted in important archaeological and geographical findings. In 1905 Hedin became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was an honorary member of numerous Swedish and foreign scientific societies and institutions. He received several honorary doctorates from various universities including Oxford (1909) and Cambridge (1909).

2. John Hellins (c.1749-1827), mathematician and astronomer, school teacher and clergyman; He was educated at Cambridge University; Hellins published several papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society between 1780 and 1811; He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1796 and two years later won the Society's Copley medal for his work in physical astronomy. He founded the village school in Potterspury.

3. Hector Helsham (1825-1910), a surgeon; He studied at the London Hospital and in Paris; He was Surgeon to the Brixton, Streatham Hill, and Herne Hill Dispensary and to the 19th Surrey Rifle Volunteers and Medical Referee to Assurance Companies.

4. John Hembrough (1807-1876), a surgeon; He was Medical Officer to the Waltham District of the Caistor Union and to the Tetney District of the Louth Union.

5. George Ernest Herman (1849-1914), an obstetric and gynaecological surgeon.

6. William Parker Hoare (1807-1888), a surgeon; He studied at St George's Hospital; Hoare was Union Medical Officer at Faversham, Kent; Surgeon to the Workhouse and to the 2nd Company of the Kent Volunteer Artillery; He was surgeon to the 1st Brigade, Kent Artillery Volunteers and Certifying Factory Surgeon.

7. Edward Hobson (1782–1830), a botanist, naturalist and weaver; Hobson was on of the founders and the first president of the Banksian Society for the study of natural history.

8. L L Hodge

9. William Ballantyne Hodgson (1815–1880), a Scottish educational reformer and political economist; Hodgson was one of the founders of the Edinburgh Ethical Society for the Practical Application of Phrenology in 1832, which later became the Edinburgh Philosophical Association; He lectured on literature, education, and phrenology; He was member of several educational associations; in 1875 he became president of the Educational Institute of Scotland.; Hodgson was a Liberal in politics, he believed in equality of men and women and education for all classes.

10. Thomas Hodson (1819-1873), a surgeon; He studied at Richmond Hospital, Dublin, and was Carmichael Prizeman in Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery, 1840-1841. He practised at Deva Villa, Clifton Row East, St John's Wood, London.

11. Thomas Callan Hodson (1871–1953), he was a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of St Catharine's College; he wrote on Indian anthropology and invented the term sociolinguistics.

12. Charles Hogg (1812-1897), a surgeon; Hogg was educated at Manchester and University College Hospitals; He practised in London and was a member of the Court of Common Council; Hogg was Medical Officer to Merchant Taylors' School, to the Great Western Bristol and Exeter Railways' Provident Society, and Surgeon to the Scottish Hospital.

13. Reverend George Holden (1783-1865), a theological writer; He graduated at the Glasgow University and in 1811 became curate of the village of Maghull near Liverpool.

14. Luther Holden (1815-1905), a surgeon; He studied medicine at the St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, then Berlin and Paris; he was fluent in French and Italian; At the Royal College of Surgeons Holden was a Member of the Council from 1868-1884; an Examiner in Anatomy and Physiology, 1875-1876; a Member of the Court of Examiners, 1873-1883; and a Member of the Dental Board of Examiners, 1879-1882. He served as Vice-President for the years 1877 and 1878, was President in 1879 and Hunterian Orator in 1881; Holden was one of the last members of the school of surgeons who based their practice on anatomy, and for that reason he is remembered by his Osteology and Surgical Landmarks.

15. Thomas Holloway (1800-1883), a patent medicine vendor and philanthropist; He founded, as a gift to the nation, the Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water, Surrey, and the Royal Holloway College in Englefield Green, Surrey.

16. Timothy Holmes (1825-1907), a general surgeon; He student at St George's Hospital and then served as House Surgeon and Surgical Registrar at the same hospital; Holmes was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology at the Royal College of Surgeons; He was a member of various boards and committees including the Court of Examiners and the Conjoint Board of Examiners in Anatomy and Physiology; He joined the Pathological Society of London in 1854 and was original member of the Clinical Society.

17. Carsten Holthouse (1810 - 1901), an anatomist, general surgeon and ophthalmologist; He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and later after qualified assisted in the Out-patient Department of St Bartholomew's; in 1843 he was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at the Aldersgate School of Medicine; He was appointed Surgeon to Westminster Hospital in 1857; Holthouse served during the Crimean Waron at the Civil Hospital at Smyrna.

18. Francis Home (1719-1813), a physician, born in Edinburgh; He studied at the faculty of the University of Edinburgh and became a surgeon before graduation serving with the 6th Inniskilling regiment of dragoons in Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession; During the campaign Home prevented fevers by giving the order that the soldiers should not drink water unless it had been boiled; he graduated in 1750.

19. Robert Hooper (1773-1835), a physician and a medical writer; He graduated at the Pembroke College, Oxford; Hooper lectured on the practice of medicine and was a productive writer; the revised editions of his books remained in print to the end of the century.