Paget, Sir James (1814-1899), surgeon

  • Sir James Paget, 1814-1899, surgeon
Date:
1830-1909
Reference:
MSS.5701-5706 & 7377
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Correspondence and papers of Sir James Paget and miscellaneous papers of his son, Stephen Paget.

Publication/Creation

1830-1909

Physical description

7 files Partly printed.

Acquisition note

MSS.5701-5706 presented by Humphrey Paget, 1951 (acc. 327138).

Material in MS.7377 acquired through various channels:

1. Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, April 1928 (acc.48104); E. Williams, Hove, January 1929 (acc.67367); Sotheby's, London, February 1930 (acc.52479), July 1931 (acc.57468 and 67540), December 1931 (acc.75873), February 1932 (acc.76088), April 1932 (acc.65133), July 1932 (acc.65270), December 1932 (acc.67552), July 1933 (acc.66163) and November 1933 (acc.67469); Mrs. Barrett, London, March 1930 (acc.91327); Puttick and Simpson, May 1930 (acc.62824); Stevens, London, July 1931 (acc.68194), August 1931 (acc.68226 and 68259) and September 1932 (acc.89090); Glendining, London, December 1931 (acc.67596), January 1932 (acc.67614 and 67619), September 1932 (acc.67655), September 1933 (acc.67769) and January 1935 (acc.67971); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65895); E.Hall, Gravesend, circa January 1965 (acc.311503). Probably purchased from Hodgson's, London, c.July 1910 (acc.24962-24966).

2. Presented by H.J. Fuller, April 1929 (acc.49838), Mme. Jaffé, Nice, March 1938 (acc.56999) and Mr. G. Romanes, December 1977 (acc.328237).

3. Transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800). Provenance not known (acc.67430 and 89396).

4. Accession details of nos.1, 8, 26, 36, 53 and 66 not recorded.

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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Accession number

  • Various - see Acquistion note.