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Letters and notebooks of Dr. Henry Lonsdale, of Rosehill, Carlisle
Fonds — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: CLX-A-1582
Identifier: Coll-1820
Content Description
This collection contains two sets of material:1. Letters to Dr. Lonsdale, of Rosehill, Carlisle, and addressed variously to: Cumberland Infirmary; Marine Crescent, Waterloo, Liverpool; Playhouse Yard, Thomas Street, Scarbro'; and, Teviot Row, Edinburgh. The letters show that he was assembling information with a view to overseeing a biography of his mentor, John Reid. The collection of letters contains material which would have formed the core of such a work which never came to...
Dates:
1830s-1868
Notes of lectures given by Alexander Monro (secundus), taken down by unknown person(s)
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1325
Scope and Contents
This volume of notes is based on Monro's surgical lectures at Edinburgh Medical School, 1774-1775. The manuscript lectures are sub-headed Lectures 1-13 and are in two distinct hands - the first two lectures in one, and the rest in another. The paper is watermarked with a crown and the initials GR, undated, but this L.V.Gerrevink paper commonly used throughout much of the 18th century. Both hands are clear and legible, with just a few corrections, and occasional additions written on the verso of...
Dates:
1774-1775