Correspondence

Correspondence by and to Lettsom, plus some ephemeral items linked to him. Comprised of the following:

>MS.8684/1-8: Letters by Lettsom, c.1772-1811. Letters by Lettsom, including some in the third person:

1. To Mr. Da Costa regarding proof papers, in the third person, c.1772.

2. To Mr. Banks regarding Royal Society election, in the third person, 1778.

3. To an unidentified recipient, regarding a misdirected package for Dr. Cuming, 1784.

4. To the Rev. Henry Louch, thanking him for a donation to the Howardian Fund, 1786.

5. Note to unidentified recipient asking him to be put down as a subscriber to the " Dying Sayings ", 1789.

6. Note to the Rev. Pridden, 1797.

7. To Mr. Nichols ("Dear Deputy!"), regarding Howard's statue, 1799.

8. To James Sowerby (1757-1822), naturalist, declining periodical publication, with Sowerby's answer endorsed upon the fold, 1811.

MS.8684/9-10: Letters to Lettsom, 1787-1812. Letters to Lettsom:

9. From his son John Miers Lettsom, "Johannes Minimus", regarding an appointment by "two Johns" (the other possibly J. Nicoll) to visit and "smoak a pipe with you" and mentioning Mr. Aubert and Mr. Wollaston, 1787.

9A. From Dr. Jonathan Stokes, Kidderminster, 1789, discussing agriculture and in particular the mangel-wurzel.

10. From Dr. Valentine Mott, New York, mentioning death of Dr. Miller and his editorship of the Medical Repository , describing an epidemic in New York of a "very malignant and fatal...peripneumony" and relating his appointment as Professor of Surgery at Columbia University, 1812.

MS.8684/11-14: Ephemeral items related to Lettsom, 1785-1815. Ephemeral items related to Lettsom:

11. Prescription for Mr. Phillips initialled by Lettsom, 1815.

12. Receipt, signed by Lettsom and W. Davis, for donation to the Society for the Recovery of Persons apparently Drowned, by Mr. Phillips, 1785.

13. Title page of Hints designed to promte Beneficence Temperance & Medical Science, vol.3 , by Lettsom, 1801.

14. Lettsom's name, printed and probably cut from a title page (there is a manuscript number added, apparently noting which of a numbered edition this represents). N.d.

c.1772-1815

1 file (14 items)

Purchased from Sotheby's, London, April 1930 (acc.52715) and July 1930 (acc.56370); Stevens, London, July 1930 (acc.56545) and March 1931 (acc.56474); Glendining, London, January 1932 (acc.67615), February 1932 (acc.67677) and August 1934 (acc.67855 and 67910); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; and J.L.M. Gulley, London, November 1994 (acc.349728), January 1996 (acc.350150) and September 2015 (acc.2222). Transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800). No accession details recorded for no.11.