Letters

Photographs of a 1798 letter from George Washington to his dentist concerning his false teeth; plus covering letter (typescript, carbon) sending the photograph, plus a transcript and a cutting about the letter from the New York Evening World, to Henry Wellcome in London.

1922

4 items

Received by transfer from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939

Letter held, when photographed, at the old South Meeting House, Boston; photograph and cutting obtained by Burroughs Wellcome & Co., 1922. Material transferred to Library from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800). Formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

Described in: typescript finding aids, supplementary to the published catalogues and written by Richard Aspin, Christopher Hilton, Keith Moore and Richard Palmer.