Letters by Pettigrew

Correspondence formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. 1-26: 26 autograph letters by Pettigrew, signed or in the third person; correspondents including the independent minister Thomas Raffles (1788-1863) (no.6), Admiral Sir William Henry Dillon (1779-1857) (no.9) and Edmund Belfour (fl.1838) of the Royal College of Surgeons (no.10); 1 item (no.24) having attached a newspaper cutting relating to Pettigrew's work with mummies and other corpses. 1822-1857 and n.d. 27: 1 autograph letter, signed, by Mary Pettigrew. N.d.

1822-1857

27 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700); Stevens, London, January 1929 (acc.89269), March 1931 (acc.56474) and November 1931 (acc.68279); Puttick and Simpson, May 1930 (acc.62824); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; Winifred A. Myers, London, October 1996 (acc.350355). Transferred from store, February 1934 (acc.67433), and from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800) and date unknown (acc.69200), original sources unknown; provenance details not recorded (acc.67430). No accession details noted for nos.15, 17-20 and 25.

Described in: typescript finding aids, supplementary to the published catalogues and written by Richard Aspin, Christopher Hilton, Keith Moore and Richard Palmer.