Sir John Hall
- Date:
- 1845-1966
- Reference:
- RAMC/524/15
- Part of:
- Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
- Archives and manuscripts
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1/ Photocopy of results of the M.D. examinations (University of Edinburgh), 1845, Hall being one of the successful candidates;
2/ Letters from Hall to his wife, 1846-1854;
3/ Business letters, Oct 1856-Jan 1857;
4/ Three poems transcribed by Hall;
5/ Typed transcripts of memoranda, 1853, by Hall as Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, Bombay Presidency;
6/ Typescript summaries of Hall's diaries, 1854-1856, when he was Principal Medical Officer in the Crimea. (NB: it should be noted that the transcription of Hall's diaries is by no means always accurate.)
7-10/: Articles by General Barnsley:
7/ Typescript of "The duties of a Chief of Medical Staff, 1854-6",
8/ "Biography and the Amateur Historian: Mrs. Woodham-Smith's Florence Nightingale", extracted from Victorian Studies, Dec 1959,
9/ "Teeth and tail in the Crimea", extracted from the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1962,
10/ "Sir John Hall", reprinted from the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol LXVI, 1966. With proof, related correspondence, and copy of a portrait of Hall.
11-12/: Other articles re Crimean War:
11/ "An Edinburgh Surgeon of the Crimean War - Patrick Heron Watson (1832-1907)" by William N. Boog Watson, reprinted from Medical History, Vol. X, No. 2, April 1966. With correspondence.
12/ "The Civil Hospitals in the Crimea (1855-1856)" by John Shepherd, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine.
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Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
For originals of Hall's papers see RAMC/397, RAMC/508 and MS.8520.