Volume 3: Miscellaneous essays

Comprised of the following:

MS.3248/1: Some further particulars of Dr. Mayersbach, with his original letters, forming an Appendix and explanation to the preceding volumes, c. 1770-1804. Holograph MS.

MS.3248/2: Original letters and translations (by Lettsom), 1773. Being the correspondence of Dr. Mayersbach and his Brother in law J. Brenner with Doctor Griffenberg. 13 A.l.s. of Mayersbach and 3 of Brenner, 1773. These letters are referred to in the controversial pamphlets in Vol. I, and in the cuttings in Vol. II.

MS.3248/3: * Genuine account of Omiah, a native of Otaheite, 1779. With an engraved portrait of him, from the 'London Magazine' Aug. 1774. This extract is in the 'Appendix to Lettsom's 'Observations on Baron Dimsdale's Remarks' 1779, and is paginated 35-40.

MS.3248/4: Extracted from the 'Gentleman's Magazine', Vol. 40, p. 497, 1770, 1770. Of the causes of attraction and repulsion (7 ll.) including 3 pendrawn figures. Holograph MS.

MS.3248/5: Collection of newspaper cuttings, with some holograph headings, notes and corrections, by Lettsom, 1772-1804. Many are from the Gentleman's Magazine and other periodicals, and deal with the preservation of eggs, hygiene of prisons, inoculation, children's diseases, caterpillars (with an engraved plate), the condition of the poor, negro slavery, a Memoir of William Hawes, M.D. [1736-1808] (from the European Magazine , June 1802: with engraved portrait), on the political conduct of the Quakers, and a 'Memoir of Edward Jenner' from Lettsom's Oration delivered before the Medical Society of London, 8 March, 1804.

1770-1804

1 volume

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).