Letters, mostly autograph and signed but a few in the third person or dictated

Correspondents include the geologists Joseph Carne (1782-1858) (no. 4), William Parish (1759-1837), Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge University (no. 5) and John William Salter (1820-1869) (no. 23; also mentioned in no. 37); the historian Sir Henry Bunbury M.P. (1778-1860) (nos. 7, 8, 10, 19); the anatomist Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) (no. 11); the diplomat Francis Napier, 10th Baron Napier (1819-1898) (no. 15); George Peacock (1791-1858), mathematician and Dean of Ely (no. 17); the civil engineer Charles Manby (1804-1884) (nos. 26, 46); the Institution of Civil Engineers (no. 28); the entomologist Henry Denny (1803-1871) (no. 33).

1821-1873

48 items

At Wellcome Collection: Further Charles Manby correspondence can be found at: MS.7237, MS.7471/66-67, MS.7472, MS.7478, MS.7546/1-15, MS.7606/39-42, MS.7685/1-9 and MS.7844/1-96.

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