Correspondence

Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Robert Christison to Dr. Bowman [John Eddowes Bowman Jnr], correcting a statement regarding the subject of the Nitrate of Iron as a remedy for chronic diarrhoea. Edinburgh, 11 April 1846.Christison begins the letter by referring to a previous communication received from the South of England on the subject of the Nitrate of Iron as a remedy for chronic diarrhoea. He assumes that Dr Graves took his information from some old pupil of his, who,...

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 This collection consists of four letters sent by Sir Robert Christison to William Sharpey, all from Edinburgh, dated 21 April [1837?], 16 December 1857, 25 December [1857?], and 20 October 1863. Edinburgh, 21 April, no year [1837?]: 2 pages, Octavo. Letter recommending the Glasgow-born chemist Thomas Graham to the Chair of Chemistry at the University of London. ...