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

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

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.