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Residency certificate issued by poor law overseers in Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire. 1 item

‘St Thomas’s Hospital Apothecary’s pupils 28 Nov 1753-23 Oct 1759; Pupils 2 Jan 1760-7 Nov 1768; Pupils of St Thomas and Mr Guy’s Hospitals 10 Nov 1768-20 Feb 1801’. Volume consisting of five notebooks bound together, including: Register of Apothecary's Pupils, 28 Nov 1753-23 Oct 1759, recording name of pupil, length of apprenticeship and under whom served, date admitted, date entered, and payment made; Cash book recording payments of pupils, 1 Dec 1759-7 Nov 1768, containing date entered, name, duration of pupilage, and amount paid; and three consecutive notebooks containing the Register of Pupils of St Thomas Hospital and Guy’s Hospital (on alternate pages), 10 Nov 1768-20 Feb 1801, recording date entered, name, and amount paid.

LMA Ref: H1/ST/MS/G4/2

Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Pupils and Dressers, 1755-1823, ranged in alphabetical order': manuscript volume containing a register of pupils and dressers at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, including name and date of entry, and from 1810, the length of time served. Arranged in alphabetical order, chronological in sequence for each letter of the alphabet.Pasted in the back of the volume is a receipt for payment for engraving the physicians certificate plate and printing proofs and 100 certificate, £37, 6 shillings, 1817, and a black copy of the admission certificate, 1817.

Manuscript copies of a narrative entitled 'An account of what happened to Mr Chase at Lisbon in the earthquake written by himself, in a letter to his mother, the 31st of December, 1755'. Subsequently printed in Blackwood's magazine vol. 88 (1860). 2 copies in exercise book format

Mounted watercoloured engraving of Guy's Hospital by B Cole, [1755].

Material relating to Charles Wheatstone including reprint of an engraving of Wheatstone published in Nature, 27 April 1876, with negatives; newspaper cutting from Gloucester Journal, 24 October 1925, reporting the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Wheatstone in St Michael's Church, Eastgate Street, Gloucester. Also including copies of The Daily Advertiser, 8 August 1757 describing recent naval engagements, and The Morning Chronicle, 15 January 1811, highlighting the sale of a presentation to a rectory in Norwich.

Experimental notes, working papers, correspondence and lecture summaries compiled by Charles Wheatstone, 1836-1875, and photographs collected by him in that period. Notably including papers relating to the development and testing of the telegraph, [1836-1960]; descriptions of experiments and test results concerning the measurement of electromotive forces and electrical potential, [1840-1875]; experimental observations on the nature of magnetism, electricity and thermodynamics, including electromagnet design, batteries and dynamos, [1834-1855]; working papers relating to optics including experiments into refraction, colouration of compounds and polarisation, [1850-1875]; drafts of lectures on sound and musical instruments prepared by Wheatstone, [1832-1837]; material relating to the management of the Wheatstone collection of scientific instruments and library, 1890-1992; biographical material relating to the life of Wheatstone, the invention of the telegraph and Wheatstone's musical instrument manufacturing business, with unrelated newspapers, 1757-1975; stereoscopic photographs and glass negatives taken by Roger Fenton, Samuel Buckle, Jules Duboscq and others, featuring landscapes, still lifes, panoramic scenes of cities including Paris and Moscow and the interior and exterior of the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, Sydenham, 1851, and especially the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1855, [1850-1901]; artefacts from Department of Physics, King's College London, including demonstration equipment, telegraph apparatus, a nail fiddle and other prototype musical instruments, [1834-1875]; exhibition of scientific and musical instruments, [1834-1875].

Manuscript folio volume by Francis Harrison, formerly a pupil of Christ's Hospital, entitled, 'The elements of navigation', comprising mathematical tables with problems, including trigonometry, estimation of distances, oblique sailing, reckoning of longitude, compass variation, astronomical observations. With tables, colour charts and illustrations of sailing vessels. 1 volume

Papers relating to the observation of comets including sketch of the progress of a comet by P. Collinson, 1757; Pamphlet entitled, A philosophical and familiar essay on comets. .. and the present comet. .. and reflections on the probability of the dissolution of this world by a comet (London, 1811), by David Rivers, with annotations on the subject extracted from Gentleman's magazine and other journals, 1812; extracts on a paper by William Herschel, astronomer, entitled 'Observations of a comet with remarks on the construction of its different parts', that appeared in Monthly review, April, 1814. 1 file

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Papers, 1841-1967, including: correspondence and papers relating to Furnivall's family, his inheritance and the family home, Great Fosters House, Egham, Surrey, 1865-1926; papers relating to Furnivall's university education, including notes of Professor Thomas Graham's lectures on chemistry and Professor Henry Malden's lectures on the Greek language, University College London, 1841-1842; personal accounts, invoices and receipts, 1863-1908; correspondence to and from friends and acquaintances, 1865-1910, including William Woodham Webb, Walter Brindley Slater, George Edward Cockayne, Thomas Arnold and Beatrice Harraden; Teena Rochfort-Smith. A Memoir , publication paying tribute to Furnivall's mistress, 1883; photographic images of Furnivall, 1876-[1910]; papers relating to the study of philology and the Philological Society, 1858-1909, notably letters and publications concerning the New English Dictionary , 1859-1909; journals, correspondence, lecture notes and printed material relating to the Working Men's College, education and social reform, 1842-1912; papers relating to the Early English Text Society, 1865-1910, notably letters from Walter William Skeat concerning the editing and publication of William Langland's Piers Plowman , 1866; correspondence, proofs, notes relating to the Chaucer Society, 1866-1900; papers relating to the Ballad Society, 1867-1875, principally correspondence and proofs concerning the publication of Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript , 1867-1868; correspondence and notes regarding the formation of the proposed Lydgate and Occleve Society, 1872; correspondence, publications and proofs relating to the New Shakspere Society, 1873-1886; articles and printed circulars relating to an acrimonious dispute with Algernon Swinburne, 1876-1881; notes of lectures on Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature given by Furnivall, John Llewellyn Davies, John Wesley Hales, George MacDonald and William Spalding, 1874-1876; papers relating to the Browning Society, 1881-1967, notably Woodburytype image of Robert Browning, 1881; Browning Society proceedings, entertainment programmes and papers, 1884-1892; two letters from Robert Browning, 1874-1888; letters from Alma Forman [Alma Murray] concerning the Browning Society's theatre productions, 1885-1888; correspondence relating to a lawsuit brought by Leonard Outram, 1886-1888; prospectus, reports, letters and newspaper cuttings relating to Shelley and the Shelley Society, 1886-1892; publications relating to Thomas James Wise's Ashley Library, 1887-1895; correspondence relating to fundraising for the Maurice Rowing Club, 1886-1887; correspondence and newspaper cuttings relating to the debate over the superiority of sculls over oars, 1886; letters, memoranda and bills of sales relating to the purchase and repair of boats and sculls, 1886-1889; photographic postcards of the Hammersmith Girls Sculling Club [later the Furnivall Sculling Club], 1907; leaflets, prospectuses and letters relating to other societies, 1870-1910; obituaries and memorials to Furnivall, 1910-1949; miscellaneous material including Genuine and Curious Memoirs of the Famous Captain Thurot by John Francis Durand. (London: J Burd & J Williams, 1760) and Pigot & Co's New Map of the Environs of London Extending 14 Miles round St Paul's in Every Direction , 1832.

Genuine and Curious Memoirs of the Famous Captain Thurot by John Francis Durand. (London: J Burd & J Williams, 1760). Note: top of pages uncut.

Manuscript volume containing notes on Robert Whytt's clinical lectures, delivered at Edinburgh University, [1760], taken by an unidentified student. Also includes some 'Directions given by the Physician General at the Havannah to the surgeons of the Army relating to the management of the sick'. (1 volume)

Large mounted printed map titled 'A plan of streets roads between Black Fryers Bridge, London Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Lambeth, Newington Butts and St Margaret's Hill as they now are…' and includes picture of the new Black Fryers Bridge (designed by Mr Mylne) [1760-1770].

Copies of international treaties used in Menas research, including French relating to Morocco, 1761-1778, and international maritime legislation in the Mediterranean, 1974-1985.

Guy's Hospital entry of physicians and surgeons, pupils and dressers, 1827-1837': manuscript volume containing list of medical pupils at Guy's Hospital, Sep 1827-Jun 1837, including date entered, name, pupil number, length of course, date for completing course, where previously educated, and amount paid; list of surgical pupils at Guy's Hospital, Sep 1827-Jun 1837, including date entered, name, pupil number, length of course, date for completing course, name of surgeon to whom apprenticed, and amount paid; list of dressers at Guy's Hospital, Oct 1827-Apr 1837, includes date of entry, name, initials of surgeon, length of course, date of course completion, and amount paid; list of apprentices, 1762, 1784, 1791-1837, including date of entry, name, age, length of apprenticeship, date of completion, name of surgeon to whom apprenticed, and amount paid.

Pedigree tracing descent of the kings of England from mythical origins at Troy down to the reign of George III. Latin and English. Last entry dated 1762. 1 roll. FRAGILE

Manuscript notes containing commonplaces from, among others, the writings of Charles I and Charles II, copies of receipts and accounts, passage entitled 'From a young gentleman to a lady of superior fortune'; comments on the importance of an education in virtue, signed by John Carter. 1 file