Combe, George, 1788-1858 (Phrenologist)
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to an unidentified recipient, 1 January 1849
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0060/4
Scope and Contents
This is an autograph letter signed sent by Scottish lawyer and Phrenological Society spokesman George Combe, dated 10 May 1851, Edinburgh. Unidentified recipient ("My dear Sir"). The letter is discussing subscriptions to the society, and German theology. It partly reads: "I duly received your letter of the 24th April and regret that I am able only to muster two subscribers in addition to myself. This is the very focus of Evangelical faith, & your views are in favour with few; but I hope...
Dates:
1 January 1849
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to Dr Robert Carruthers, Inverness Courier editor, 27 February 1851
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/12
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to Inverness Courier editor Dr Robert Carruthers, regarding the attribution of an Edinburgh Review article on "The Ethics of Phrenology" to "Mr. A. Smith, Banff", when the author might in fact be Sir William Hamilton: "In your notice of the late Mr. A. Smith, Banff, you mention that he wrote "The Ethics of Phrenology" an article in the Edinburgh Review. As...
Dates:
27 February 1851
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to his agents, 19 June 1840
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/9
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to his agents, requesting remittance of the previous years account, and for a parcel to be sent to Professor Benjamin Silliman of New Haven. Westminster Bridge, 19 June 1840.Begins: "Gentlemen! | As I am on my way to Edinburgh, from the United States, I shall be obliged by your informing me, here, whether you have remitted or otherways paid the balance due to me on last years account, due on 4th. June,...
Dates:
19 June 1840
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to Joseph C. Neal, 11 March 1839
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/8
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to Joseph C. Neal, Marshall House [i.e. Marshall House Hotel Philadelphia], 11 March 1839. In the letter, Combe tells Neal he is "obliged & gratified" by his notice of "Roget's re-publication". In 1838, Peter Mark Roget (who was hostile to phrenology) published Treatises on physiology and phrenology : from the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which was...
Dates:
11 March 1839
Letters to J. L. Levison from Combe and others
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1243
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 20 non-chronologically numbered items, letters and fragments, as follows:
1 - Letter to Levison written from Grafton Place, London. 3 July 1827
2 - Fragment, Mr. Fletcher, Bookseller, Southampton, 15 February 1821 [postmark]
3 - Folded paper or envelope with black edge and black wax seal, addressed to Levison, from Sir G. S. Mackenzie,...
Dates:
1821-1848
Records of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-227
Scope and Contents
The records of the Phrenological Society include, within boxes: cash book; catalogues of skull casts and other; papers of the Society; six notebooks including lecture titles, names of members and visitors who inspected the casts, and a "memoir on the phrenology of Hindostan" read to the Society in 1823. The records also include a letter-book covering the period 1820-1840, minute-books for 1820-1870, and scrap-books of newspaper cuttings and printed items. Some material is stamped: Henderson...
Dates:
1820-1870
System of phrenology
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1150
Scope and Contents
The item that forms the collection is a manuscript version of the susbtantial part of the 4th edition of Combe'sA system of phrenology,which was printed in Edinburgh in 1836. It consists of 634 numbered pages written in ink, unbound.
This is a most desirable addition as Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library have the records of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh (Gen.608).
Dates:
1836