Sir John Hall

Date:
1845-1966
Reference:
RAMC/524/15
Part of:
Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

1/ Photocopy of results of the M.D. examinations (University of Edinburgh), 1845, Hall being one of the successful candidates;

2/ Letters from Hall to his wife, 1846-1854;

3/ Business letters, Oct 1856-Jan 1857;

4/ Three poems transcribed by Hall;

5/ Typed transcripts of memoranda, 1853, by Hall as Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, Bombay Presidency;

6/ Typescript summaries of Hall's diaries, 1854-1856, when he was Principal Medical Officer in the Crimea. (NB: it should be noted that the transcription of Hall's diaries is by no means always accurate.)

7-10/: Articles by General Barnsley:

7/ Typescript of "The duties of a Chief of Medical Staff, 1854-6",

8/ "Biography and the Amateur Historian: Mrs. Woodham-Smith's Florence Nightingale", extracted from Victorian Studies, Dec 1959,

9/ "Teeth and tail in the Crimea", extracted from the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1962,

10/ "Sir John Hall", reprinted from the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol LXVI, 1966. With proof, related correspondence, and copy of a portrait of Hall.

11-12/: Other articles re Crimean War:

11/ "An Edinburgh Surgeon of the Crimean War - Patrick Heron Watson (1832-1907)" by William N. Boog Watson, reprinted from Medical History, Vol. X, No. 2, April 1966. With correspondence.

12/ "The Civil Hospitals in the Crimea (1855-1856)" by John Shepherd, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Publication/Creation

1845-1966

Physical description

3 files

Related material

At Wellcome Collection:

For originals of Hall's papers see RAMC/397, RAMC/508 and MS.8520.

Copyright note

No information available on copyright: the position will presumably vary from item to item, with copyright in official documents resting with the RAMC or other government department and that in personal memoirs remaining with the creator, his/her heirs or assigns.

Where to find it

Location of original

The original material is held at The Museum of Military Medicine.

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