Dr. Edward Jenner M.D., F.R.S., &c., &c. (discoverer of vaccination) : the collection formed by Frederick Mockler of portraits, diplomas, freedoms, grants, presentations, addresses, visiting books, correspondence, pamphlets, printed works, manuscripts, original drawings, &c., &c., with other relics and memorials.

  • Mockler, Frederick.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dr. Edward Jenner M.D., F.R.S., &c., &c. (discoverer of vaccination) : the collection formed by Frederick Mockler of portraits, diplomas, freedoms, grants, presentations, addresses, visiting books, correspondence, pamphlets, printed works, manuscripts, original drawings, &c., &c., with other relics and memorials. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    No. 204 Copy of a letter to the Rev. Thos. Pruen, Rectory, Dursley (evidently written by the rev. gentleman to Dr. Baron), for permission to examine documents relative to Dr. Jenner, and informing him that it was the express desire of the deceased Dr. Jenner that his Biography should be written by Dr. Baron—signed by R. Kingscote and other members of the Jenner family. At the foot of this, and pasted on the same sheet, are some quaint pen-and-ink sketches of male and female heads. 205P1ECES RELATIVE TO THE LOSS OF HIS BROTHER STEPHEN, who was shipwwrecked in the transport Catherine, off Portland, November 18th, 1795, and the inscription on the tombstone of the Rev. Henry Jenner, of Rock- hampton. 206 To Lady Elgin. Dear Madam. I cend [sic] you something that will amuse you. Charlotte. June 5th, 1804. This is on a half sheet of note paper, bordered with an embossed pattern, and edged with blue. It is accompanied with the following memorandum : Her late Majesty, Queen Caroline, when Princess of Wales, justly prided herself on the beautiful and luxuriant tresses of her lovely daughter. The Prince of Wales, to mortify the Princess, ordered the hair to be cut off, which imperious mandate was immediately obeyed. Princess Charlotte made no complaint, but enclosed a lock of her hair in the above note to Lady Elgin, leaving to her ladyship to make her comments upon the transaction. With this again is a printed memoir of H.R.H. Princess Charlotte, illustrated by an engraved portrait—W. Day, after Sir Thos. Lawrence. 207 Letter from Thos. Christie, Medical Superintendent General, Colombo, 10th February, 1809, to the editor of the Ceylon Government Gazette, showing statistically the immense benefit conferred by the introduction of vaccination into the island in 1802. 208 The receipted Bill sent by Rundell, Bridge, and Rundell, jewellers and goldsmiths, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, to the Right Honourable the Countess of Berkeley, December 26th, 1803, for the service of silver plate presented by the County of Gloucester to Dr. Jenner. It amounts to ^538 gs. gd. Pasted on the foot of this are some quaint male and female heads in pen and ink. At back is a printed certificate of Dedimus Potestatem, directed to Frederick Augustus Earl of Berkeley et. al., re William Davies.