Hunt, Robert (1807-1887)
- Robert Hunt
- Date:
- 1846-1863
- Reference:
- MS.8470
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Letters by Hunt in chronological order (no.9 is undated and incomplete). Correspondents include W. Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879), traveller and writer (nos.2 and 7), S.C. Hall (1800-1889), science writer (nos.3 and 6), James Dafforne (d.1880), writer on art (no.4), and Charles Brooke (1804-1879), surgeon and inventor (no.9)..
Publication/Creation
1846-1863
Physical description
1 file (9 items)
Contributors
Acquisition note
Various sources: purchased from Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469), Glendining, London, January 1935 (acc.67974) and Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; provenance details not recorded (acc.67430).
Biographical note
Robert Hunt (1807-1887) was born in Plymouth Dock (Devonport). He was apprenticed to a surgeon but left after 18 months as a result of poor treatment; however, he continued to train as an apothecary and became manager of a London dispensary through the influence of the Quaker philanthropists Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) and William Allen (1770–1843). In 1831 he set up in business in Plymouth; from 1837 he was again in Devonport. He was heavily involved in the early development of photography, corresponding with Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), and also in education for working people. For further information see his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Where to find it
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