Item KA/IC/M/5 - Letters, 1831, to the Secretary of King’s College London from correspondents with surnames or topics beginning with M

Manuscript letters and printed papers sent to the Secretary of King’s College London including John Richardson Major (1797-1876), Headmaster of King’s College School, regarding the formation of the School and the appointment of Joseph Edwards as his Assistant Master; William Manning (1763-1835), member of the College Council, presenting books to the College; Herbert Mayo (1796-1852), Professor of Anatomy, giving an account of the arrest of a group of men who presented an ‘intentionally destroyed’ body of a boy to the Medical school for dissection (two of the men, John Bishop and Thomas Williams, were later executed for murdering the boy in a notorious case dubbed the ‘Italian Boy’ which led to the Anatomy Act 1832) ; Robert McClure offering to privately tutor students; Henry Moseley (1801-1872), regarding his appointment as Professor of Experiment Philosophy and Chaplain.