Correspondence between Pulteney and Dr William Cuming

Date:: 1779-1785

Reference:: MS.7441/8-10

Part of:: Pulteney, Richard (1730-1801), physician and botanist

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Pulteney, Richard (1730-1801), physician and botanistMS.7441
- Correspondence between Pulteney and Dr William CumingMS.7441/8-10

About this work

Description

The letters comprise:

MS.7441/8: letter from Dr Cuming covering various matters including Pulteney's deteriorating eye-sight, 27 Feb 1779

MS.7441/8a: letter from Pulteney to Cuming covering various matters including the Influenza and Gustavus Katterfelto, the death of Daniel Solander, botanist, William Pryce's book Mineralogia Cornubienses, and various published papers he has recently read, 7 Jun 1872 (inlcudes a full transcript and background information with the original letter)

MS.7441/9: letter from Pulteney to Cuming covering various matters including specimens of shells he has recently received, 14 Jul 1782

MS.7441/10: letter from Dr Cuming covering various matters including a patient he has treated with digitalis, 31 Oct 1785

Publication/Creation

1779-1785

Physical description

4 items

Acquisition note

Items 8, 9 and 10 were received as accession 1712; Item 8a was received as accession 1873.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.