Lawrence, Thomas (1711-1783)

Account of travels in Germany, Austria and Italy from Oct. 1777 to Sept. 1778. Author's holograph MS: the beginning and end are wanting. There is an inscription on a slip pasted on to the first leaf: 'My Uncle's notes in his travels, medical chiefly, especially upon mineral waters, but miscellaneous'. Another slip pasted below this (by the bookseller?) states that this MS. 'is in the autograph of the famous Dr. Lawrence'. There appear to be considerable gaps in the text, which mainly deals with medical subjects.

1777-8

1 volume 51 ll. 4to. 231/2 × 171/2 cm. Unbound, in slip case. This MS. seems to have been cut out of a bound volume, with loss of text at the inner margins: many of the leaves are only half or quarter sheets.

Purchased 1925.

Dr. Lawrence is chiefly remembered as the friend of Dr. Johnson, who was one of his patients. [see the Dictionary of National Biography]

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).