Hunter, William (1718-1783) and Hunter, John, (1728-1793): miscellaneous correspondence

Comrpises of autograph letters by or to William and John Hunter and members of their circles:

MS.7887/1-2: William Babington (1756-1833), physician and mineralogist: 2 autograph letters, signed, to William Phillips (no. 1) and N. Birch, surgeon (no. 2), dated 1809-1824.

MS.7887/3: Matthew Baillie (1761-1823), anatomist: autograph letter, signed, to the physician and surgeon John Thomson (1765-1846). Baillie describes the family connections between William Hunter (1718-1783) and William Cullen (1710-1790), presumably replying to a request from thomson concerning the latter's work on his biography of Hunter (An account of the life, lectures and writings of William Cullen, Edinburgh: Blackwood; London: Cadell, 1832), dated 1815.

MS.7887/4: Lady Maria Callcott née Dundas (1785-1842), traveller, author, wife of the artist Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844): autograph letter, signed, to John Hunter's former secretary William Clift (1775-1849), medical artist, asking for information about substances used in ancient Egypt for painting, dated 1835.

MS.7887/5: Anne Hunter née Home (1742-1821), musician and poet, wife of John Hunter (1728-1793): autograph letter, signed, to John Hunter's former secretary William Clift (1775-1849), medical artist, mentioning Anne Hunter's schoolfriend Mrs. Gilbert at whose suggestion Clift had been employed, dated c.1800.

MS.7887/6: John Hunter (1728-1793), anatomist: autograph letter, signed, to his former pupil Charles Brandon Trye (1757-1811), surgeon, thanking Trye for his scathing review of Hunter's Observations upon the new opinions of John Hunter, in his late treatise on the venereal disease (London: T. Beckett, 1786-1787) by Hunter's enemy the surgeon Jesse Foot (1744-1826), dated c.1787.

MS.7887/7: Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), author and medical practitioner: autograph letter, signed, to William Hunter (1718-1783), discussing his forthcoming travels in Europe, asking for a letter of introduction to someone in Paris and for information on how he may meet with the anatomist Petrus Camper (1722-1789), dated 1749.

1749-1835

7 items

All items deposited by the Hunterian Society at various dates and acquired by them from various sources and at various dates: purchased from Winifred Myers and deposited in December 1990, deposited March 1993 (original source not noted), purchased from Jerermy Norman & Co., San Francisco, and deposited December 1996, purchased at Sotheby's New York, 15 December 1998, lot 143, and deposited December 1998, purchased from Pickering and Chatto and deposited February 2001.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts