Hunter, Richard Alfred, 1923-1981 (British psychiatrist)

Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to educationist W. E. Hickson, praising his book 'History of Sunday' and discussing his 'broken down' health. Edinburgh, 7 May 1857.Addressed to "W E. Hickson Esq". Combe thanks him for his "kind remembrance", and for "sending me your "History of Sunday"; It is a most valuable, & from its small compass & cheapness, a most serviceable, contribution to the great cause of human emancipation...

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Autograph Letter Signed ('H Holland') from Sir Henry Holland, physician to William IV and Victoria, to Dr George Gregory, pressing the claims of William Pulteney Alison to succeed Dr James Gregory as Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh. Mount street, 10 April 1821.

Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Robert Christison to Robert Herbert Story (future Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, then student at the University of Edinburgh), 9 January 1854. The subject of the letter is the novelist and Whig MP Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873): Christison writes that if he is not "prevented by professional occupations, which are apt to be rather pressing at this season", it will give him great pleasure "to attend on the occasion of the...

Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed from William B. Carpenter to Professor William Alison of Edinburgh University, addressing amongst other things an accusation of plagiarism laid against him by fellow-student John Hughes Bennett. Bristol, 8 November 1837.Carpenter begins by apologising to Alison for asking his opinion "on a subject on which I am anxious to obtain the best information I can from those most qualified to judge". The question Carpenter asks is: "Do you think that there is any...

Scope and Contents Two autograph letters signed from Sir Thomas Smith Clouston to "Dear Pierce" regarding a donation to an unfortunate woman, and his family holiday on Orkney. Pierce had worked under Clouston at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, before taking up his post at the York Retreat asylum in 1892.1. Dated 6 June 1910. Clouston is enclosing a cheque for three guineas 'for [Maher's?] Fund'. He refers to a matter which is 'not a problem on which we will all agree', and a matter about which he...