Meryon, Charles Lewis (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope

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Meryon, Charles Lewis (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope

1810-17

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qktcd7re

Correspondence and papers, mainly letters sent by Meryon to his family and friends while travelling in the Middle East in the service of Lady Hester Stanhope. A number of letters contain slits, having been pierced in quarantine and fumigated against plague (see the note by Meryon, MS. 5688, f. 136v.).

3 volumes

eng, Latn

Wellcome Library

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Stanhope, Hester, Lady, 1776-1839

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Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was the eldest child of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope. In August 1803, she moved into the home of her uncle, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, to manage his household and act as his hostess and later secretary. In February 1810, Stanhope left England and travelled to through Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East. Stanhope came into possession of a medieval Italian manuscript copied from the records of a monastery somewhere in S...