Item KA/IC/H/4 - Letters, 1831, to the Secretary of King’s College London from correspondents with surnames or topics beginning with H

Manuscript and typescript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including W D Haggard presenting a ‘mummy cat’ to the College; Thomas Grainger Hall ([1802]-1881), Professor of Mathematics, complaining that his lecture timetable was imposed on him by College Council; Mr Harcourt advertising his self-acting apparatus for the administering ‘Lavenients’; Bissett Hawkins (1796-1894), Professor of Materia Medica, presenting books to the College Library; James Horsburgh (1762-1836), hydrographer and chart maker, donating nautical books to the College Library; J H Howlett, Secretary of Kensington Grammar School, requesting the school be brought into union with the College (‘Schools in Union’ were district and other grammar schools which the College awarded an annual scholarship and other privileges); William Howley (1766-1848), Archbishop of Canterbury, confirming his attendance at the opening of the College and accepting the Chair of College Council; Joseph Hunt offering to supplying coconut oil and candles to the College; Hurst, Chance & Co, offering the Library of Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), historian, to the College; W D Haggard requesting that the proposed Greenwich Proprietary School be brought into union with the College, including a prospectus of the School. Also includes letters regarding the purchase of the anatomical museum of Dr Robert Hooper (1773-1835), physician and medical writer.