Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Material held formerly in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1801-1964

97 items

Purchased from: Stevens, London, October 1925 (acc.85523), March 1930 (acc.56583), July 1930 (acc.56545), September 1930 (acc.56557 and 56576), March 1931 (acc.56474, 56477, 56483 and 68126), April 1931 (acc.68568), July 1931 (acc.68194 and 68209), August 1931 (acc.68225) and October 1931 (acc.68266); R.V. Westcott, May 1927 (acc.45498); E. Williams, Hove, January 1929 (acc.67367); Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700) and October 1931 (acc.64700); Sotheby's, London, November 1928 (acc.74324), July 1931 (acc.57468), November 1931 (acc.75332), November 1933 (acc.67474) and May 1934 (acc.62777); Glendining, London, December 1931 (acc.67597), December 1934 (acc.67935) and August 1935 (possibly an error for 1934) (acc.67880); Miss Garrod Thomas (part of a collection of letters sent to Dr. Garrod Thomas), January 1932 (acc.58513); Desgranges, Paris, October 1935 (acc.69099); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; E.Hall, Gravesend, circa January 1965 (acc.311503); Winifred A. Myers, London, October 1992 (acc.349021). No.22 presented by Mrs. Fothergill, September 1927 (acc.67370); nos.50-51 presented by the author, William Smith Syme, Glasgow, date not noted (acc.89213). Provenance details of nos.35-37, 46-48, 63, 66, 80-82, 85 and 96 not recorded (acc.67430 and 92291); nos.41 and 44 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800), previous provenance not recorded; no accession details noted for nos.20, 29, 78 and 97.

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