Catalogue description Correspondence formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters...
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Reference: | MS. 7406 |
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Description: |
Correspondence formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. 1-26: 26 autograph letters by Pettigrew, signed or in the third person; correspondents including the independent minister Thomas Raffles (1788-1863) (no.6), Admiral Sir William Henry Dillon (1779-1857) (no.9) and Edmund Belfour (fl.1838) of the Royal College of Surgeons (no.10); 1 item (no.24) having attached a newspaper cutting relating to Pettigrew's work with mummies and other corpses. 1822-1857 and n.d. 27: 1 autograph letter, signed, by Mary Pettigrew. N.d. |
Date: | 1822-1857 and n.d |
Held by: | Wellcome Collection, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 27 items |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700); Stevens, London, January 1929 (acc.89269), March 1931 (acc.56474) and November 1931 (acc.68279); Puttick and Simpson, May 1930 (acc.62824); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; Winifred A. Myers, London, October 1996 (acc.350355). Transferred from store, February 1934 (67433), and from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800) and date unknown (acc.69200), original sources unknown; provenance details not recorded (acc.67430). No accession details noted for nos.15, 17-20 and 25. |
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