Letters from Robert Hunt, with related material. 1857-1879.

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Letters from Robert Hunt, with related material. 1857-1879.

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Comprises 5 autograph letters from Robert Hunt to Jabez Hogg dated 24 November 1857, 1 December 1857, 7 February 1866, 3 April 1873, and 5 September 1879, 1 stamped-addressed envelope to Jabez Hogg, and 1 portrait photograph of Hunt without a caption. The fourth letter above includes printed matter on its second folio, namely, a request for votes and interest solicited on behalf of an orphan, Charles West Roberts, aged eleven years, by many named persons, including Robert Hunt. The bound volume includes a biography of Hunt which is very similar to that contained in the Dictionary of National Biography.

5 letters (8 ff. with 6 ff. conjoined in 3 pairs), 1 envelope, and 1 port. photograph, all held in 1 envelope, manuscript, photograph, and printed material.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899

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Epithet: ophthalmic surgeon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000626.0x0003b8 ...

Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887

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Robert Hunt was an English physicist and author. From the description of Letters, 1842-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465747 From the guide to the Robert Hunt letters, 1842-1879, 1842-1879, (American Philosophical Society) Apprenticed to a surgeon in Paddington, London and studied anatomy with Joshua Brookes (1761-183) F. R. S. 1819. Afterwards with a physician and qas for four years in charage of a dispensary in London. Later with a firm of chemical manufa...