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Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932, 1784-1932

Title: Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932 1784-1932

These letters were assembled by Lady Paget as a collection of autographs. Most are addressed to Paget, and their subjects include medicine, science, and family.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 Linear feet, 196 items

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Letters from Sir Erasmus Wilson, with related material, 1863-1884

Title: Letters from Sir Erasmus Wilson, with related material 1863-1884

ArchivalResource: 6 letters (11 ff. with 10 ff. conjoined in 5 pairs), 1 envelope, 1 printed card, 2 portrait photographs, and 4 press-cuttings, all held in 1 envelope, manuscript, photographs, and printed material.

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Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884. Letters, 1847, to Leigh Hunt.

Title: Letters, 1847, to Leigh Hunt.

2 ALS. Pertains to the exchange of copies of a book by Wilson. Wilson asks for Hunt's marked copy and offers a fresh copy.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Scientists Collection, 1563-1973

Title: Scientists Collection 1563-1973

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.

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Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884. Letters from Sir Erasmus Wilson, with related material.

Title: Letters from Sir Erasmus Wilson, with related material. 1863-1884.

Comprises 6 autograph letters, including 5 from Erasmus Wilson to Jabez Hogg dated 3 August 1863-7 April 1879 and 1 from A. Morton to Jabez Hogg undated, but probably late 1881 (all with transcripts), 1 stamped-addressed envelope to Jabez Hogg postmarked 12 December 1881, 1 printed card dated 7 December 1881 sent by Sir Erasmus and Lady Wilson thanking friends for their congratulations to him, probably upon the occasion of his knighthood, 1 large portrait photograph of Erasmus Wilson, 1 photograph of Cleopatra's Needle standing on the Thames Embankment accompanied by 2 press-cuttings concerning Wilson's financing of the obelisk's transportation to London by sea in 1881, another cutting concerning him extracted from 'The Illustrated London News' for 26 November 1881 and including a printed portrait, and an obituary on him extracted from the press in 1884.

ArchivalResource: 6 letters (11 ff. with 10 ff. conjoined in 5 pairs), 1 envelope, 1 printed card, 2 port. photographs, and 4 press-cuttings, all held in 1 envelope, manuscript, photographs, and printed material.

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