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Sources Guide: Local History: Manuscripts relating to London

London, general

Material relating to specific areas:

Central London

West London

North London

East London

South London

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

London, general

Material dealing with the metropolis as a whole, straddling more than one of the geographical areas listed later, or whose place of origin is not exactly known.

Sub-headings: Government; Business Records; Societies, Associations and Institutions; Education; Personal Papers, including historical and analytical material.

Government

Transportation: warrant signed by the King authorising removal of named convicts from gaols including the Old Bailey to the hulks at Portsmouth prior to transportation to Australia. 1823. (MS.7830/14).

Business Records

Anonymous manufacturing apothecary or chemist, London area: production books. 1741-1795. (MSS.5940-5941).
Apothecary's Stock Book, probably from London: inventory of stock, stock ledger and recipes of an unidentified apothecary, perhaps based in London. 1635-1637 and n.d. (MS.7646).
Chemical and pharmaceutical patents granted to London figures. 1840-1841. (MS.5896).
Mrs. Colson, manager of a nursery, and Joseph Colson, corn-chandler, both probably based in London: two bills relating to the Colsons and to the landowner John Van den Bempde. 1700-1714. (MS.7677).
Edward Slee and Co.: records of manufacture and promotion of Dr. Joshua Webster's English Diet Drink, a patent medicine, based at successive locations in the London area (Kennington, Lee, Harlington and Hounslow). 1798-1931. (MSS.7164-7201).

Societies,Associations and Institutions

Askesian Society, forum for scientific discussion, incorporating the British Mineralogical Association from 1806 (members, often London Quakers, including Luke Howard and William Allen): minutes of experiments and demonstrations. 1801-1803, 1806-1808. (MS.6135).
‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ Unpublished manuscript by various hands includes chapters on several London institutions in this field, including the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic, the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals, West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, the Cassel Hospital, Bowden House, the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency and the Tavistock Clinic as well as on the London County Council’s work in Mental Health Services (MS.7913).
Hunterian Society of London: records and manuscript collection. 1748-1985. (MSS.5520-5624). Correspondence concerning manuscript catalogue. 1988-1990. (MS.5778).
London Literary Society: certificate admitting Samuel Carey; signatories include George Birkbeck MD (1776-1841). 1823. (MS.7274/2).
London Society for Self-Supporting Dispensaries: letter by T.D. Hawker, Secretary, relating to the society and to his leaving the Medical Society of London. 1852 (MS.6158).
London Vaccine Institution: letters from Sir Francis Milman, physician-in-ordinary to George III, and John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, accepting Vice-Presidency. 1808. (MS.7337/30 & 64).
Lyceum Medicum Londinense, medical society: minute books. 1792-1805. (WMS/MSL.140).
Medical Society of London: manuscript collection. (WMS/MSL; MSS.6147-6177). Prize essay. 1840. (MS.5463). Microfilmed minutes and correspondence. 1773-1937. (WMS/MF/4).
Medico-Botanical Society of London: correspondence. 1815-1852. (MSS.6824 & 7148).
Military Hospital Society, London, dining club: membership list, minutes and accounts. 1764-1767. (MS.5404).
Pathological Society of London: undated letter from John William Ogle F.R.C.P requesting a paper for the Society. Late 19th century. (MS.7364/16).
St Albans Medical Club, dining society originally meeting at St Albans Tavern, Pall Mall: Treasurer's book. 1789-1820. (MS.6216). Administrative records. 1821-1990. (MSS.6994-7017).
Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge, learned society and dining club formed of physicians and surgeons from London institutions: proceedings and later notes, letters by members, etc. 1790-1882. (MS.5282).
Society of Noviomagians, convivial club composed of members of the Society of Antiquaries of London: proceedings, including original document recording expenditure of Leathersellers' Company, 1607-1608. 1830-1905. (MSS.5305-5307).
Sydenham Medical Club, dining society: Treasurer's books, membership lists, photograph album. 1796-1928. (MSS.6208-6215).

Other societies based in London but national rather than local in their membership are represented: for example, the National Vaccine Establishment, the Odontological Society, the Physiological Society, the various Royal Colleges and the Royal Society of London. For details see catalogues. (One item relating to the physical fabric of the Royal College of Surgeons has been included, under Central London.)

Education

Dionysius Lardner: letters including those relating to chair of natural philosophy at London University. 1827-1829. (MS.5490).
London Postgraduate Course: letters, papers and financial records. 1894-1896. (MS.6241).

Personal Papers, including historical and analytical material

Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945), physician: Barlow practised in London and throughout his papers casenotes etc. from London institutions (primarily the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street), can be found. (WMS/PP/BAR). Items relating to specific parts of London have been indexed separately in the relevant area. Relating to an unidentified location is: Speech at the opening of an unidentified 'holiday school' for London children, c.1904. (WMS/PP/BAR/G/4).
Nicholas Carlisle, antiquary: notes for an unpublished second edition of his Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales (1818), including files in Middlesex, Surrey, Essex and Kent. 1818-1824. (MSS.5373-5374).
Sir Zachary Cope: materials for a history of dispensaries, including details of those in London, and of private medical schools in London. 1957-1965. (MSS.1863-1870).
John Dee, London-based alchemist: translation into French by Albert Poisson of 17th century life of Dee. c.1890. (MS.3938).
John Dixon, Medical Officer of Health, Bermondsey: notes on death rates for London. 1877. (MS.2160). Notes on London's water supply. 1877-1880. (MS.2161).
Lyon Falkener: papers including notes and photographs relating to service at Claybury Asylum, Metropolitan Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Western Fever Hospital. 1861-1948. (MSS.6802-6809).
Alec William James Haggis: research into medical licensing in England including Diocese of London. 1937-1946. (MS.5345).
Hodgkin family, including Thomas Hodgkin MD and Luke Howard: papers generated by interlinked London Quaker families, the Hodgkins resident first in Pentonville and then in Tottenham, the Howards in Plaistow. Letters and autobiographical fragments contain many references to local matters; examples include material on Thomas Hodgkin's time at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, his service to the London Dispensary, and correspondence with Peter Bedford concerning a school at Croydon; or John Hodgkin junior's letters describing travels in South London and the Surrey hinterland in 1823, and his autobiography. Full catalogue available. 1737-1980. (WMS/PP/HO).
Robert Rutson James F.R.C.S. (1881-1959), medical historian: correspondence with other medical historians including material on London medical practitioners. 1934-1938 and n.d. (MS.7493).
John Bishop King, medical practitioner at Penang: diary, including (p.7) description of journey down Thames in 1855 at start of voyage to India. 1855-1866 and n.d. (MS.7630).
Lister family, including Joseph Lister (1st Baron Lister): letters and administrative documents including material with reference to London and particularly to Upton, Essex. See East London section.
Louisa Martindale: diaries and case notes, covering life in London. 1900-1950. (MSS.3479-3487).
Thomas Paget: undertaking to pay the Royal College of Surgeons a fee if he should practise surgery in London. 1818. (MS.7364/55).
James Patterson, teacher of deaf and dumb, Manchester: diary, including record of a visit to London over Christmas/New Year 1858/59, in which he walks about the city, visits the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham and another establishment of that name at Great Portland Street, and witnesses some mesmeric experiments. 1858-1859. (MSS.7352-7353).
John Lewis Petit M.D. (1736-1780): notes of expenses whilst living in London shortly after qualifying as a doctor. 1761-1769. (MS.3855).
Sir William Petty: Another Essay in Politicall Arithmetic concerning the growth of the citty of London...(1683), contemporary transcript. c.1690. (MS.3868).
Recipe book, medical, apparently with a London provenance. Late 17th-18th century. (MS.7822).

Material relating to specific areas

Central London

City of London, City of Westminster. Also included are the inner areas of several adjoining boroughs; clockwise, these are Camden (south of Euston Road), Islington (south of Pentonville Road and City Road), Hackney (south of Old Street), Tower Hamlets (west of Brick Lane and Leman Street), Southwark (north-west of a line drawn from Tower Bridge through Bricklayer's Arms to Elephant & Castle) and Lambeth (north of Lambeth Road).

Sub-headings: Hospitals and Institutions; General Practitioners; Business Records, including commercial utilities; Local Government; Livery Companies; Legal Papers; Education; Personal Papers; Miscellaneous.

Hospitals and Institutions

Benevolent Institution, Strand: card promoting Dr. Andrew Thynne as a candidate for Physician. 1816. (MS.7280/2). Two notes from governors of the Institution appointing proxies to vote on their behalf for Dr. Thynne. 1816. (MS.7734/57).
Bethlehem Hospital: Letter asking that Dr. Keith be appointed physician. 1708. (MS.7227/1). Letter from W. Charles Hood at Bethlehem Royal Hospital to the Royal College of Surgeons of England, describing attendance of students at the Hospital. 1862. (MS.7227/2). Letters by Edward Thomas Monro F.R.C.P. (1790-1856) and Thomas Monro F.R.C.P. (1759-1833), physicians at Bethlem Hospital. 1822-1854 and n.d. (MS.7337/55-63).
Bishop's Court Dispensary: letter by Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth (1790-1868), Lord Chancellor, concerning the Dispensary's anniversary dinner. 1863. (MS.7825/21).
Central London Ophthalmic Hospital: draft announcement to the Times, by the surgeon Henry Haynes Walton F.R.C.S. (1816-1889), concerning enlargement of hospital's medical staff. N.d. (MS.7826/29).
General Dispensary: see Personal Papers, John Coakley Lettsom.
Guy's Hospital: pharmacopœia. 1743. (MS.6164). Pharmacopœia, in recipe collection. 1746. (MS.7152). List of wards and pharmacopœia, in papers of Carr family. Mid 18th century. (MS.5203). Manuscript testimonial for Dr Oliver Barron on his moving to Liverpool, signed by senior figures at Guy's (William Babington, James Curry, John Haighton and John Relph). 1803. (MS.7326/1). Case records, amongst lecture notes etc. 1804-1805. (MSS.1682-1683). Case notes. 1810. (MS.5267). Pharmacopœia, interleaved (Sir William Withey Gull's copy). 1838. (MS.2654). Dental school, anæsthetists' minute book. 1889-1895. (MS.5977). Printed letter to a V.A.D. nurse detailing recent developments at the hospital. 1916. (MS.7891/1). See also Personal Papers, Thomas Frederick Isaacson Blaker.
Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street: casebook kept by Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake including this institution. 1891-1892. (MS.5794). See also Sir Thomas Barlow, General Section.
London Phrenological Institution: letter by Stackpool Edward O'Dell, founder of the Institution. 1880. (MS.7364/12).
London Vaccine Institution: annual report 1809/10. (MS.5120/71). Facts respecting ... the London Vaccine Institution in papers of Charles Murray. c.1807-1808. (MS.5244/133). Diplomas of honorary membership. 1816-1832. (MS.5247; MS.5945/9). Correspondence. 1808, 1817 and nd. (MS.5248).
Medical theatre, 58 Aldersgate Street: certificate. 1830. (MS.7274/3).
Metropolitan Hospital: see General section, Personal Papers: Lyon Falkener.
Middlesex Hospital: letter by Henry Warburton, radical politician, concerning constitution of the hospital. 1829. (MS.7337/105).
New Hospital for Women: case notes by Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake. 1895. (MS.5795).
Public Dispensary, Clare Market: letters from Sir Hugh McAlmont Cairns (1819-1885) (later 1st Earl Cairns and Lord Chancellor) and Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selbourne (1812-1895), Lord Chancellor, concerning the Public Dispensary. 1866-1875. (MS.7825/4 & 17).
Royal College of Surgeons: letter from William Chadwell Mylne, engineer to the New River Company, to the architect George Dance the younger, concerning water supply. 1819. (MS.7358/23).
Royal Free Hospital: letter concerning the Hospital's anniversary festival. 1850. (MS.7326/5). Casebook kept by Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake including this institution. 1891-1892. (MS.5794).
Royal Universal Infirmary for Children, Waterloo Bridge Road: proxy voting slips, signed by various of the Infirmary's governors. 1829. (MS.7656).
Saint Bartholomew's Hospital: receipts for rents of tenements in Smithfield. 1659-1665. (MS.5257). Pharmacopœia. 1743. (MS.6164). Typescript extracts from Court minutes of 1747 and 1821, made by Sir D'Arcy Power. c.1900. (MS.627). Letter by George North, numismatist and antiquary, to Dr. Anthony Askew (1722-1774), Physician of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, referring to Rahere, founder of St. Bartholomew's. 1756. (MS.7368/5). Clinical notes probably by a House Physician, including patients with gun-shot wounds inflicted during the Gordon Riots. 1777-1781. (MS.4337). Letter sending patient for examination. 1817. (MS.5258). Lease of premises in Smithfield to James Arnold, surgical instrument manufacturer. 1845. (MS.5272). Letter by Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton arguing for research laboratory at St Bartholomew's. 1900. (MS.5970). Photographs of nurses in Humphry Rolleston's album. 1879-1888. (MS.6122/83,84,141). Clinical records by E.C.C. Bramwell of four cases in Casualty Ward. 1887. (MS.1342). See also General section, Personal Papers: Lyon Falkener. Testimonials, certificates etc. - see indices.
Saint George's Hospital: 2 receipts recording payments towards the support of the hospital, 1760-1844. (MS.7903/3-4). Printed and illustrated ticket entering Thomas Mitchell as a student at St. George's Hospital, London, signed by various medical figures including the anatomist John Hunter (1728-1793). 1786. (MS.7847/15). Letters from Henry Vandyke Carter while medical student here. 1848-1853. (MS.5810). Journals by Henry Vandyke Carter while medical student and Demonstrator in Anatomy. 1848-1852, 1857-1858. (MSS.5816, 5818). Casebook for which Heywood Smith was awarded the prize for Clinical Surgery. 1863. (MS.4635). See also Personal Papers, Charles Hunter. Testimonials, certificates etc. - see indices.
Saint John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin: case notes by James Startin. 1877-1880. (MS.6026). See also Personal Papers, Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake.
Saint Mary's Hospital: notes on three medical cases taken by Arthur Cyril Ransome. 1892. (MS.5983).
Saint Thomas's Hospital: clinical notes and Catalogus Medicamentorum. c.1730. (MS.4382). Pharmacopœia. 1743. (MS.6164). Pharmacopœia, in recipe collection. 1746. (MS.5752). Pharmacopœia, in collection of notes etc. by John Parkinson of Wandsworth. c.1747. (MS.6148). Account book of Thomas Baker, Surgeon from 1739, naming apprentices, dressers and students. 1732-1770. (MS.5781). Papers on ownership of anatomical collection. 1825-1829. (MS.7804). Catalogue of specimens in Physiological Laboratory, by Theodore Dyke Acland. c.1880. (MS.839). Case notes by Theodore Dyke Acland including cases at St Thomas's Hospital. 1893-1914. (MS.845). See also Personal Papers, John Coakley Lettsom.
Savoy Hospital: grant of annual sum by Master and Chaplains to Robert Allott for medical advice. 1608. (MS.6232). Lease of Master's Lodgings. 1685. (MS.6006).
Scottish Hospital: financial and administrative papers. 1799-1843. (MS.6825).
Surrey Dispensatory: letter by Philip Henry Stanhope F.R.S., 4th Earl Stanhope (1781-1855), mentioning work with new materia medica of Dr. Whiting at the Surrey Dispensatory. 1828. (MS.7825/23).
Surrey Institution: letter from Johann Kaspar Spurzheim arranging a course of lectures on phrenology. 1815. (MS.7636/1).
Swedish Institution for the Cure of Diseases by Manual Treatment: prescriptions by Jonas Henrik Kellgren. 1875. (MS.5408).
Victoria Institute, Strand: letter by J. Petrie about the affairs of the Institute. 1871. (MS.7358/57).
Western Dispensary: invitation to dine with the dispensary's governing body, addressed to Viscount Melville as a vice-president. 1811. (MS.7903/7).
Westminster Dispensary: notes of lectures by John Epps, homeopathic physician. 1835. (MS.6007).

Charing Cross Hospital, Finsbury Dispensary, Guy's Hospital, King's College Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital, St George's Hospital Medical School, University College Hospital, Westminster Hospital: certificates, lecture notes, testimonials etc. For details see indices to manuscript catalogues.

General Practitioners

Hodgkin family: papers of Thomas Hodgkin, who practised in Central London, include case notes. See General section.
Edward Jenner (1749-1823), physician: notebook recording patients whilst resident at Hertford St., Mayfair. 1803. (MS.3021).
Peter Mere Latham: casebooks, patients including Michael Faraday and Archbishop William Howley. 1839-1844. (MSS.3176-3177).
Dr. William Collins Luffman (fl.1909), Blackfriars Road: record of fees received. 1909-1934. (MS.3345).
Buxton Shillitoe: visiting lists, notes on patients, fees received and accounts. 1851-1883. (MSS.4528-4563).
Sir Thomas Watson, Cavendish Square: notes on cases. 1853-1856. (MS.4978).
Various reports by London doctors concerning applicants for life assurance. 1819-1836. (MS.5658).

Business Records, including commercial utilities

William Allen (1770-1843), pharmacist, Plough Court: letter to Allen's pharmacy from the Brighton pharmacist John Glaisyer, placing an order. 1809. (MS.7825/7). Other correspondence to or from Allen, not relating to London issues, is found at MSS.7397, 7400/73 and 7780/1.
James Arnold, surgical instrument manufacturer: miscellaneous papers including lease of premises at West Smithfield. 1837-1877. (MS.5272).
Claudius Ash & Sons, manufacturers of mineral teeth: bill and note to customer. 1843. (MS.7290/2).
William Bacon, chemist, Oxford Street: price list, to be found inside the letterbook of Gilbert Laurie & Co., druggists, Edinburgh. c.1785. (MS.3181).
Bartlett & Goodall, dispensing chemists, Crawford St., Bryanston Square: prescription books. 1937-1961. (MSS.1080-1084).
William Buchanan, apothecary: indenture taking George Buchanan as apprentice. 1815. (MS.5146).
T. Burden & Co., dispensing chemists, Store Street: prescription books. 1863-1911. (MSS.6217-6219).
Samuel Byles, surgeon, apothecary and man-midwife, Spitalfields: indenture taking T.N. Brushfield as apprentice. 1843. (MS.5146).
Robert Carter, Haymarket: account for medicines purchased. 1733-1753. (MS.5268).
Thomas Acraman Coate, dispensing chemist, The Strand: recipe book. 1863 (MS.6954).
Corbyn & Co., chemists: records. 1726-1910. (MSS.5435-5460).
John Roalfe Cox, vet, Mayfair & Streatham: bill. 1869. (MS.7562/35).
Thomas Day, Son & Hewitt, wholesale chemists based in Paddington and Wantage, Berks.: bills. 1868-1926. (MS.7564/7, 11, 14, 18 & 23).
The Dog Sanatorium Ltd., City: bill. 1911. (MS.7562/99).
P. & J. Dollond, opticians: account for instruments purchased. 1761-1781. (MS.5268).
John Fairbank and Marcus Davis, dentists: ledger, including royalty and other eminent patients. 1883. (MS.5464).
George Fincham, apothecary, Spring Gardens: indenture taking Horatio Goodday as apprentice. 1822. (MS.7277/1).
General Apothecaries Co. Ltd.: records. 1855-1951. (MSS.5492-5506).
Joseph and Thomas Keens, chemists, Holborn: account for medicines supplied to James Leigh Esq. 1762. (MS.7526/3).
Ironmongers: photocopied account book of Staffordshire midwife includes list of London ironmongers. 1806. (MS.8965).
B.W. Lara & Co., agents for the sale of medical practices and partnerships: letterbook. 1881. (MS.3170).
Hugh Marchant, waterworks proprietor: petitions to the Commissioners of Sewers for Westminster. 1694-1695. (MS.5659).
Benjamin Martin, optician: account for instruments purchased. 1761-1781. (MS.5268).
William Martindale, pharmaceutical chemist, New Cavendish Street: prescription books. 1885-1890. (MSS.5984-5985).
W. Mavor & Son, vets, New Bond St.: bill. 1846. (MS.7562/12). Articles of agreement binding George South as an apprentice to William Mavor. 1833. (MS.7569/1).
Alexander Moon, vet, Grosvenor Square: certificate of having carried out a veterinary examination upon a horse. 1876. (MS.7565/2).
Thomas Morson & Son Ltd., pharmaceutical manufacturers, based in Bloomsbury before relocation to North London in late nineteenth century: business records, papers relating to the Morson family and photographs. 1818-1970. (SA/MOR).
Francis Newbery, chemist, St Paul's Churchyard: price list, to be found inside the letterbook of Gilbert Laurie & Co., druggists, Edinburgh. c.1785. (MS.3181).
W. Parsons, vet, S. Kensington: bill. 1887. (MS.7563/24).
Potter & Hailey, herbalists, Farringdon Market: list of articles sold. Early 19th century. (MS.7226/2).
Reynolds Gout Specific Co., London: recipe and legal documents. 1868-1894. (MS.5987).
Mr. Ringsted, coachmaker, Long Acre: letter from Dr. George Talbot concerning delivery of a coach. 1776. (MS.7674/8).
Savory & Moore, chemists: letters relating to the supply of surgical lint for the war in the Crimea. 1854-1855. (MS.7874).
William A. South, vet, Westminster: bill. 1908. (MS.7562/96).
Peter Squire (later Squire & Co.), chemists, Oxford Street: trade and personal account books. 1832-1885, with gaps. (MSS.4687-4690, 4692).
Peter Taylor, chemist, Marylebone: prescription books. 1914-1937. (MSS.4760-4761).
Un-named chemist, probably based in Islington: prescription books. 1845-1888. (MSS.3975-3993).
Un-named chemist, probably based in the West End: prescription book. 1847-1848. (MS.7692).
James Webster, Leadenhall St: account for medicines purchased. 1753-1773. (MS.5268).
Whiffen & Sons Ltd., pharmaceutical manufacturers, and predecessor companies (Primatt & Maud; Biggar, Atkinson & Dell; George Atkinson & Co.): records. 1749-1971. (MSS.5878-5894).
George Williams, vet, Pimlico: bill. 1891. (MS.7562/59).
Sir Robert Wigram M.P. (1744-1830), shipowner, merchant and former East India Company surgeon: paper arguing for lower duties on medicinal plants imported from the East to Great Britain, ascribed by an endorsement to "Mr. Wigram, merchant" writing to "Mr. Richardson, East India House". N.d. (probably early 19th century; before Wigram was knighted in 1815). (MS.7226/1). Wigram is also mentioned in the anonymous merchant's account book held as MS.832.
Miscellaneous accounts for medicines and treatment. 1699-1825. (MS.5269).

Local Government

Corporation of London: summons from the Lord Mayor, signed by various Corporation functionaries, concerning claim by John Gidley and William Oades, surgeons, to be exempt from inquest service by virtue of being freemen of the Barber-Surgeons' Company. 1692. (MS.7382/1). Grants of freedom of City of London to John Lister, 1760 (MS.6961/2); Edward Jenner, 1803 (MS.5231); William John Charles Richards, chemist, Blackfriars, 1857 (MS.6955). Certificate of William Comins' attending and treating prisoners in the Poultry Compter. 1793. (MS.7335/1).

Livery Companies

Barber-Surgeons' Company: receipt from sale of land in East Smithfield. 1717. (MS.5181). Copy of original 1435 charter. 1858. (MS.1054). Miscellaneous documents, some original and some copies, collected by Sir D'Arcy Power. 1635-1914. (MSS.627-628).
Leathersellers' Company: record of expenditure. 1607-1608. (MS.5306).

Legal Papers

Alwich Close, St Giles in the Fields: copies of deeds relating to acquisition (1634) and sale (1635) by Sir Kenelm Digby. c.1675. (MS.2124).
Blackfriars: deeds relating to properties including tenement in Ireland Yard owned by family of William Shakespeare. 1633-1668. (MS.5957).
Lincoln's Inn: admission bond of Charles Beke and correspondence on outstanding dues. 1824-1836. (MS.6833).
St. Botolph-without-Aldersgate: assignment of rectory, tithes, rents etc. by Thomas Moundeforde, President of the College of Physicians of London. 1619. (MS.6040).

Education

Billingsgate Ward Schools: account book (blank leaves later used as a notebook by an entomologist). 1853-1858 (later notes 1886-1914). (MS.2296).
Royal College of Surgeons of England: letters from Henry Vandyke Carter while student of anatomy here. 1853-1858. (MS.5810).
Royal Polytechnic Institution: see Personal Papers, Edmund H. Wilkie.

Personal Papers

Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake: case books including cases at St John's Hospital. 1890-1891. (MS.908).
Anonymous collection of recipes, including method for preserving leeches devised by John Scott of Oxford Street. c.1800. (MS.5854).
Anonymous commonplace book, including statistics for traffic over London Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge for one day in July 1811. 1811-1830. (MS.6111).
Anonymous travel journal compiled by the ship's surgeon of the William Miles, an East India Company vessel, including account of shooting old London Bridge on the way to join his ship, and some descriptions of life in London after the ship's return from India (visit to theatre, gossip about the royal family, etc.). 1819-1821. (MS.7114)
Thomas Frederick Isaacson Blaker: casebook including cases treated at Guy's Hospital and midwifery cases recorded as an extern for an unnamed London charity. 1873-1874. (MS.6293).
George Budd, Professor of Medicine, King's College, London: family papers. c.1831-1894 and nd. (MS.5153).
William? Cooper: diary whilst Student Assistant Physician or Surgeon at Westminster Hospital. 1786. (MS.1856).
Hawley Harvey Crippen, murderer: letter promoting products of the Aural Remedies Co., written between Crippen's murder of his wife and his fleeing the country. 1910. (WMS/ALS: Crippen).
Thomas Dutton (fl.1790), London sugar cooper: letter to a family friend, giving details of the will of Nicholas Nixon (d.1790), a merchant of Mincing Lane, London, whose beneficiaries include Bethlem, St. Luke's, Christ's and St. Bartholomew's Hospitals, the Asylum for Female Orphans at St George's Fields, and the Tower Ward Charity School. 1790. (MS.7544/1)
Rhoda Fairfax [née Hussey] (d.1686) of London: recipe book. 17th century. (MS.160).
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), chemist and physicist: correspondence etc. Including photograph of house where Faraday lived when an apprentice. 1818-1865 and n.d. (MS.7844).
Ambrose Godfrey, chemist and assistant to Robert Boyle, Covent Garden: book of chemical notes. Early 18th century. (MS.2533).
Fréderic Guyaz, Swiss valet: pocket book including recipes, and notes by Guyaz's executor, Moses Huguenin, a Haymarket perfumer. 1756-1819. (MS.2657).
Dr. William Aurelius Harland (1822-1858): letters written while studying in London, including decription of the Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street. 1842. (MS.7682/5-8). Letter to his sister describing a visit to London and in particular to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. 1857. (MS.7682/67).
Charles Hunter: lecture certificate, Westminster Hospital, and notice of election as Governor of St George's Hospital. 1863. (MS.6892).
Thomas Keating, chemist and druggist, St Paul's Churchyard: family papers consisting of probate of will and assignment of cough lozenge recipe. 1855-1877. (MS.5895).
John Christopher Knight: papers concerning his medical education in London. 1795-1817. (MS.5945).
Robert Lee F.R.C.P. F.R.S. (1793-1877): diary and autobiographical fragments covering residence in London. 1838-1873. (MSS.3218-3219).
Robert James Lee F.R.C.P. (1841-1924): diaries and autobiographical fragments covering residence in London, latterly as Physician to Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. 1857-1922. (MSS.3221-3226).
John Coakley Lettsom: fragment of autobiography including life as medical student at St Thomas's Hospital. 1766-1767. (MS.3245). Medical memoirs of the General Dispensary. c.1800. (MS.3249).
Peter Karl Lewin (b. 1935): memoir, 'A Chameleon of Sorts: Autobiographical Vignettes', includes accounts of his life in London as a medical student at St Mary’s and post-qualification. (MS.8369).
Dr. Thomas Lewis (d.1746), Hatton Garden: commonplace book. Late 17th - early 18th centuries. (WMS/MSL.36).
Robert Liston: family papers including material relating to work as surgeon at University College Hospital. 1832-1901. (MSS.6084-6104).
George Marsh, Director of Greenwich Hospital: scrapbook kept by Marsh, with newspaper cuttings including an account of a balloon ascent from St. George's Fields (p.81) and letters on the Gordon Riots (pp.23 and 47). c.1769-c.1798. (MS.7628). Loose newspaper cuttings including an announcement of a concert at Hanover Square in 1791 at which Haydn will play the harpsichord. 1791. (MS.7629/11).
John Moore, London merchant, later Lord Mayor: letter describing spread of plague in London. 1665. (MS.7382/3).
Sir Norman Moore: Rede Lecture, "St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war." 1914-1915. (MS.3625).
John Moulton, Vicar of St Bartholomew the Less: commonplace book including accounts of personal finances. c.1620. (MS.571).
Florence Nightingale: letters to Louisa Gordon, Matron of St Thomas's Hospital. 1890-1902. (MS.5476).
William Oldham, hatter, Bridge Street, Southwark: manuscript commonplace book, containing moral and mystical speculations and reportage, as well as business accounts. 1828-c.1839 (plus insert from 1903). (MS.7299).
Giles Oldsworth, apothecary, St Giles in the Fields: probate copy of will and act of probate. 1709. (MS.5982).
Henry Owen, physician and divine: receipt of fee for preaching Fairchild's Vegetable Lecture at St. Leonard, Shoreditch. 1767. (MS.7368/7).
John Percy, metallurgist: letter describing the boilers of the Houses of Parliament. 1865. (MS.7400/80).
Physician, London: supposed copy account of plague epidemic by an anonymous physician, possibly the Great Plague of 1665. Possibly a forgery. c.1920. (MS.1719/2).
David Boswell Reid, inventor and chemist: letter concerning the ventilation of the Houses of Parliament (Reid's principles regarding ventilation were used in the construction of the Parliament buildings). 1839. (MS.7471/1).
Richard Relhan, botanist and classicist: letter to Messrs. Lackington and Allen at the Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, seeking to purchase an elephant's tusk. 1807. (MS.7471/8).
Albert Richard Smith M.R.C.S. (1816-1860), author, lecturer and traveller: correspondence includes note with the letterhead "Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc", the long-running entertainment that Smith presented at the Egyptian Hall. 1852. (MS.7655/51).
Dr. Septimus Sunderland: letter concerning a correction to his Old London's spas, baths, and wells (1915), about the water supply to the old St. Thomas's Hospital. 1924. (MS.7337/104).
William Dancer Thane MRCS: papers including indenture as apothecary's apprentice, certificates and admission tickets from Charing Cross Hospital and autobiography. 1857-1870. (MSS.5199-5200).
John Turton, Royal physician, Adelphi: probate of will. 1806. (MS.5156).
David Urquhart, diplomat: correspondence, notes and cuttings, including details of Jermyn Street Turkish Bath, which Urquhart helped establish, and similar institutions (e.g. financial account of the Bath in Golden Square, 1860-1861). 1821-1892. (MSS.6236-6237).
Edmund H. Wilkie, lantern-slide lecturer: papers chiefly relating to history of lantern-slide lectures at the Royal Polytechnic Institution. 1879-1896. (MS.5699).

Miscellaneous

Archibald Cameron, Jacobite physician: papers concerning his imprisonment in the Tower of London. 1755. (MS.6893).
H. Carter, Southwark doctor: letters between central government and local physicians concerning cholera, including Carter. 1832. (MS.6793).
London Zoo: list of animal livers sent to Sir James Cantlie for analysis. 1897-1902. (MS.1723/5).
"The Mock Doctor's Speech to the Credulous Mob in Covent Garden": anonymous satire. 18th century. (MS.5326).
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer: admission ticket to Stanley's wedding in Westminster Abbey. 1890. (MS.7635/30).
Thomas Williams, John Bishop and James May, murderers: miscellaneous papers relating to murder of persons in Smithfield area and sale of corpses for dissection. 1831. (MS.7058).
Westminster Abbey: undated note listing physicians buried or commemorated in Westminster Abbey, by the Dean (apparently Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean 1864-1881). (MS.7225).

West London

Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames.

Sub-headings: Hospitals and Institutions; Business Records; Legal Papers; Personal Papers.

Hospitals and Institutions

Asylum run by William and Charles Finch, Kensington: transcripts from case of Richard Paternoster, claiming wrongful detention. 1840. (MSS.5274-5275).
Brompton Hospital: case notes by Theodore Dyke Acland including cases at Brompton Hospital. 1893-1914. (MS.845).
Chelsea Hospital: document authorising payments by the Hospital, signatures including Sir Christopher Wren. 1698. (MS.7903/1). Miscellaneous papers. 1722-1849. (MS.5314).
Hanwell Residential Schools (formerly Poor Law Schools of the Southwark Union): miscellaneous material among the papers of Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow (1887-1975). 1904-1951. (WMS/PP/BAR/Z/22-25). See also Southwark Boys' Aid Association under South London.
Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton: invitation to dinner at opening of new hospital. 1847. (MS.7280/3).
Jews' Orphan Asylum: diary of Albert Kisch, Medical Officer. 1872-1877. (MS.3116).
Manor House Asylum, Chiswick (later Chiswick House Asylum): casebook and letters. 1870-1925 and nd. (MSS.5725-5726 & 6222-6227).
Western Fever Hospital: see General section, Personal Papers: Lyon Falkener.

Business Records

Thomas Grimshaw, chemist and druggist, Wormwood Scrubs prison: recipe book. 1897. (MS.7144).
Thomas Henry Holberton, apothecary, Hampton Court: account book. 1829-1833. (MS.2862).
The Homovet Company, Bedfont, manufacturers of embrocation for human and animal use: letter (incomplete) from Nat Gould, head of the company, setting out its state, with letterhead giving testimionials and a picture of the product. 1913. (MS.7568/4).
Thomas Roots, apothecary, Kingston-on-Thames: account books. 1749-1756. (MSS.4254-4255). Post book containing copies of bill sent out for supply of medicines and services such as bleeding. 1750-1753. (MS.6033).

Legal Papers

Brentford, Chancery suit over land: petition to Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. 1640. (MS.7072).

Personal Papers

Rev. George Charles Black: papers include institution as rector of Cranford, Middlesex. 1750. (MS.5226).
Joseph Thomas Clover: letters including printed material on the International Exhibition, South Kensington, 1862. 1862-1875. (MS.6942).
Rev. George Charles Green, son-in-law to Edward Jenner: sermons (some apparently given as a naval chaplain), including posthumous transcriptions. 1745-1796. Account of sale of his belongings at Norwood Green, Middlesex, after his death. 1775. (MSS.1180-1215).
Sir Hans Sloane: letter by Henry Newman describing Sloane's retirement at Chelsea. 1742. (MS.7633/10).
Mr/Miss Woodward (fl.c.1680), apparently based in London but of Irish extraction: commonplace book, recording inter alia injuries sustained falling off Teddington Bridge. c.1680. (MS.5093).

North London

Barnet, Brent, Camden (north of Euston Road), Enfield, Haringey, Islington (north of Pentonville Road and City Road).

Sub-headings: Hospitals and Institutions; General Practitioners; Business Records; Societies and Associations; Personal Papers.

Hospitals and Institutions

Girls' Orphan Home, Lower Tottenham: letter from a Sister at the home to "My dear Mary Anne", apparently an inmate of the home now in hospital. Late 19th century. (MS.7294/1).
Harrow Weald College: letters from Edward Monro (1815-1866) and Henry Monro (1817-1891) to Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson (1823-1913), on difficulties at the college and their effect on their father Edward Thomas Monro F.R.C.P. (1790-1856), consultant physician to Bethlem Hospital. 1853-1855. (MS.7337/52-54).
Highbury Quadrant Hostel: correspondence and notes about the matronship, in the papers of Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945), physician. 1925. (WMS/PP/BAR/F/3).
Kilburn Dispensary: case notes taken at the dispensary by George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1923), specialist in mental deficiency. 1863-1864. (MS.4566).
London Temperance Hospital, Hampstead Road: casualty room card attesting to treatment. 1916. (MS.7280/5).
Northcourt Hospital for Sick Children, Hampstead: testimonial to William Henry Ash recording his service as a member of the committee of management and as a fund-raiser. c.1925. (MS.7903/2).

General Practitioners

Robert Craik, Islington: day book. 1833. (MS.5277).
Drs. George, Harold and Mary Pereira, Colney Hatch Lane: letter of advice to patient, on diet, regimen and the need to obtain a job "on the Railway" less prone to poor air quality than his present one. 1931. (MS.7294/3).
A.W. Scott (fl.1926), dietician and "health scientist", Willesden: 2 typescript letters (1 incomplete) setting out the regimen to be followed by a patient. 1926. (MS.7545/80-81).

Business Records

George Daniel, chemist, Islington: prescription book and note book. 1864-1883. (MSS.2033-2034).
Thomas Morson & Son Ltd., pharmaceutical manufacturers, based successively in Hornsey, Homerton and Enfield: business records, papers relating to the Morson family and photographs. 1818-1970. (SA/MOR).
William Pritchard, vet, Camden Town: certificates of having carried out veterinary examinations upon various horses. 1876. (MS.7565/1, 3 & 4).
Joseph Thorley Limited, animal feed merchants: bill, with letterhead showing mills at Kings Cross and Wandsworth. 1918. (MS.7564/22).
Un-named chemist, probably based in Islington: prescription books. 1845-1888. (MSS.3975-3993).

Societies and Associations

North London Medical and Chirurgical Society: address delivered by John Davy Rolleston on "The Question of Vaccination against Small-pox". 1930. (MS.4247).

Personal Papers

Anonymous patient, Colney Hatch Asylum: two booklets ("Home" and "Stories about Pussy") composed, written and ornamented by an inmate. 1908. (MS.2997).
William Job Collins, campaigner against smallpox vaccination: scrapbook kept by Collins, with numerous cuttings relating to a controversy over alleged pollution of the Regent's Canal by London Zoo. c.1863-c.1878. (MS.7626).
Thomas Guy, founder of Guy's Hospital: financial records including sale of tenement in Islington. 1691-1725. (MS.5989).
Hodgkin family: papers generated by interlinked London Quaker families; the Hodgkins resident first in Pentonville and then in Tottenham. Letters and autobiographical fragments contain many references to local matters. See General section.
Sayer Walker M.D. (1748-1826), physician and accoucheur, previously dissenting minister at Enfield: letter, plus printed biographical cutting. 1813. (MS.7826/20).
Lucy Warren, daughter of Vicar of Edmonton: account by parents of her illness and death. 1823. (MS.5362).

East London

Barking & Dagenham, Hackney (north of Old Street), Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets (east of Brick Lane and Leman Street), Waltham Forest.

Sub-headings: Hospitals and Institutions; Business Records; Local Government; Personal Papers.

Hospitals and Institutions

Claybury Asylum: see General section, Personal Papers: Lyon Falkener.
Great Eastern Dispensary, Stratford: account book. 1887-1889. (MS.4868).
Greenwich Hospital: good conduct certificates. 1817. (MS.5315).
Poplar Hospital: list of marine pensioner inmates formerly serving with the East India Company. 1843-1860. (MS.2271).
Royal London Hospital: letter asking that leeches be put on the abdomen of a patient. 1897. (MS.7294/2).

Business Records

Howard, Jewell & Co., chemists, Stratford, founded by the Quaker chemist and meteorologist Luke Howard F.R.S. (1772-1864): letters sent to the firm from individuals in several parts of England, ordering chemicals; several orders specify the means of carriage to be used, some substances travelling by canal and some by coach or wagon. 1809-1843. (MSS.7654, 7736 & 7780/11).

Local Government

Compulsory Vaccination Act 1853: certificate of vaccination of Annie Wheeler of Shacklewell, Hackney. 1862. (MS.7274/7).

Personal Papers

Hugh Charles Herbert Candy, consulting analyst to London Hospital: notes and correspondence on poisonings, chiefly concerning a suicide in Barking and including police statement by attending G.P., post-mortem report and coroner's letters. 1930-1931. (MS.6890).
Hector Gavin: testimonials advanced as candidate for surgeon to the workhouse, Bethnal Green. 1843. (MS.5155).
William Gelder, dispensing and visiting assistant to R. Lucie Reed, surgeon, Whitechapel Road: letters. 1832. (MS.5871).
Hodgkin family: papers generated by interlinked London Quaker families including the Howards resident in Plaistow. Letters and autobiographical fragments contain many references to local matters. See General section.
Lister family, including Joseph Lister (1st Baron Lister): letters and administrative documents including material with reference to London and particularly to Upton, Essex, where the family was long resident. Full catalogue available. 1737-1967. (MSS.6961-6989).
Norris Purslow, Wapping clothier: astrological diary. c.1690-1737. (MS.4021).
Walter Pickett Turner M.D. (d.1934), Leytonstone: notes for lectures, including on Epping Forest and Leytonstone. c.1905. (MSS.4882 & 4884).
Albert Wilson, medical superintendent of Essex County Asylum, Walthamstow: miscellaneous papers. 1874-1912 and nd. (MSS.5011-5026 & 5356-5361).

South London

Bromley, Bexley, Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth (south of Lambeth Road), Lewisham, Merton, Southwark (south and east of a line through Elephant & Castle, Bricklayer's Arms and Tower Bridge), Sutton, Wandsworth. Also includes one entry from Caterham.

Sub-headings: Hospitals and Institutions; Business Records; Central Government; Local Government; Societies and Associations; Personal Papers.

Hospitals and Institutions

Belgrave Hospital for Children, Clapham Road: letter from a royal functionary, explaining that Queen Adelaide is unable to become a patron of the Royal Belgrave Lying-In Hospital. 1833. (MS.7326/2). Letter thanking Clinton Thomas Dent for service as Surgeon. 1904. (MS.7288/2).
Camberwell House Asylum: casebooks. 1847-c.1887. (MSS.6220-6221). Letter to Dr. Frederick Palmer from Edward Paley of the Asylum. 1849. (MS.7364/60). Letter by F.M. Deighton describing asylum. 1950. (WMS/ALS: Deighton).
Camberwell Workhouse: anonymous notebook containing, inter alia, details of midwifery cases at Camberwell Workhouse. 1854. (MS.6027).
Charlton House: letter from Sir F.W. Dyson, Astronomer Royal, concerning closure of the hospital at Charlton House, presumably a temporary war establishment. 1919. (MS.7285/2).
Greenwich Hospital: letter from an Admiralty official mentioning the hospital. 1837. (MS.7326/3). Scrapbook kept by George Marsh, Director of Greenwich Hospital, including statement of the revenue and expense of Greenwich Hospital in 1769 (p.17). c.1769-c.1798. (MS.7628).
Magdalen Hospital, Streatham: testimonials advanced in favour of Thomas Sunderland Harrison as Physician. 1843. (MS.6887).
Metropolitan District Asylum, Caterham: diaries of James Adam, Medical Superintendent. 1872-1879. (MSS.5510-5516).

Putney Hospital: materials relating to Campaign Against Closure 1979-2004 MS.8173
Royal Belgrave Lying-In Hospital: see Belgrave Hospital for Children.
Sisters of Mercy Convent, Bermondsey: copies of material on Florence Nightingale's relations with the convent. 1856-1965. (MS.9103).

Business Records

John Roalfe Cox, vet, Mayfair & Streatham: bill. 1869. (MS.7562/35).
HP Horsenail Company, Wandsworth Road: bill. 1879. (MS.7563/16).
Thomas Brigstocke Humphreys (fl.1859), chemist, originally from North Wales but apparently based later in Blackheath: recipe and account book, used to accommodate newspaper cuttings and ephemera. 1859-1907 and n.d. (MSS.7702-7703).
John Rennie F.R.S. (1761-1821), civil engineer: letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons, concerning a dam and weir at Kidbrook. 1802. (MS.7478/1).
Spratt's Patent Limited, animal feed merchants: bills, with letterhead showing their Bermondsey factory and detailed product descriptions on rear. 1887-1892. (MS.7564/12 & 15).
Joseph Thorley Limited, animal feed merchants: bill, with letterhead showing mills at Kings Cross and Wandsworth. 1918. (MS.7564/22).

Central Government

HM Victualling Yard, Deptford: lists, receipts and issues of stores compiled by James Marr Brydone, surgeon to the Yard. 1833-1834. (MS.6960).

Local Government

Camberwell Board of Health: minutes of parochial committee set up to prepare measures against cholera. 1831-1832. (MS.7104).

Societies and Associations

Quinn Square Social Centre Society, Southwark: minutes and correspondence, among the papers of Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow (1887-1975). c.1935-1969. (WMS/PP/BAR/Z/26-32).
Southwark Boys' Aid Association: records among the papers of Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow (1887-1975): letters. 1932-1936. (WMS/PP/BAR/Z/8/112-138). Casebook, reports and miscellaneous papers. 1914-1936 and n.d. (WMS/PP/BAR/Z/18-21). Hanwell Residential Schools (for whose pupils the Association was set up): see West London.

Personal Papers

Hugh Cuolahan M.D. (1818-1884), Medical Officer of Health, Bermondsey: memoir of his early life by his daughter, plus notes on the family. c.1890-c.1910. (MS.4719).
John Dixon, Medical Officer of Health, Bermondsey: apprenticeship papers, certificates, etc. 1848-1861. (MS.5191). Diaries, with notes of patients seen. 1864, 1875. (MSS.5950 & 6794). List of factories in Bermondsey. 1883. (MS.2162).
S. Forsyth, Walworth practitioner: annotated and revised copy of his Mother's Medical Pocket Book. c.1833. (MS.5942).
Dr. William Aurelius Harland (1822-1858): letters written while studying in London, including description of the Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street. 1842. (MS.7682/5-8). Letter to his sister describing a visit to London and in particular to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. 1857. (MS.7682/67).
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, sculptor: letters to Henry Lee including descriptions of works on dinosaur sculptures, Crystal Palace Park. 1868-1879. (MS.5383).
Hodgkin family: papers including correspondence concerning a school at Croydon (see WMS/PP/HO/D/D52 for a paper on sick children at the school, and correspondence with Peter Bedford as indicated in the catalogue index) and describing travels in South London and the Surrey hinterland in 1823. See General section.
Frederick Everard Hunt: personal papers include: indenture of apprenticeship to Stockwell apothecary Loraine Weaver. 1856. (MS.7129/1). Letter from James Palfrey on Hunt's move to Sydenham. (MS.7129/7).
Alfred King M.D. (fl.1813-1875), general practitioner based for part of his career in Balham: certificates. 1840-1875. (MS.7519).
John Parkinson, medical student or practitioner of Wandsworth: medical recipes and notes. c.1747. (MS.6148).
James Patterson: visit to Crystal Palace, Christmas/New Year 1858/59: see General section.
John Percy, metallurgist: letter describing the Dulwich Picture Gallery and its exposure to fire danger. 1860. (MS.7400/78).
Sir Lyon Playfair, chemist: fragment apparently taken from the minutes of the trustees of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, commissioning a report on the Gallery's state. 1858. (MS.7431/33).
Dr. Prior Purvis: letter to the architect George Godwin F.R.S. concerning lectures on brick and stone to be given by Godwin to the Greenwich Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 1844. (MS.7433/50).
Dr. Henry Richardson, Clapham: correspondence. 1899-1923. (MS.7359).
Thomas Hookham Silvester, founder of Clapham General Dispensary: notebook containing diary, notes and memoranda on financial and family affairs, and case notes. 1844-1876. (MS.5869).
Charles Spurgeon, preacher: letter describing healthy climate of Upper Norwood. 1888. (MS.7566/176).
Temple family (including 1st and 2nd Viscount Palmerston), East Sheen: book of medical recipes and notes of consultations. 1723-1862. (MS.4764).
John Thomson (fl.1783-1795), surgeon, attached to Deptford Naval Yard and Kent Dispensary: manuscript on pregnancy. Late 18th century. (MS.4779).