Sir John Hall

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.

At Wellcome Collection:

For originals of Hall's papers see RAMC/397, RAMC/508 and MS.8520.