Miscellany: English, 18th century

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. Comprises:

MS.7754/1: Thomson, Andrew (fl.1789), young man apparently living in Scotland. 1 autograph letter, signed, to his friend Thomas Webster in Dublin (1789).

MS.7754/2: Thoresby, Ralph, F.R.S. (1658-1725), antiquary and topographer. 1 autograph letter, signed (1702).

MS.7754/3: Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806), Lord Chancellor. Manuscript petition addressed to Thurlow, concerning the management of the property of Henry Penry of Carmarthenshire, a lunatic; with Thurlow's annotation and signature (1779).

MS.7754/4: Trotter, Thomas (1760-1832), naval physician. 1 autograph letter, signed, to the booksellers Cadell & Davies (1796).

MS.7754/5: Trye, Charles Brandon (1757-1811), surgeon, Gloucester. 1 autograph letter, signed, to a patient (18th century).

MS.7754/6: Tucker, Abraham (1705-1774), philosopher and agronomist. Unsigned manuscript sheet from Tucker's The light of nature pursued, published in 1768 under the pseudonym Edward Search (c.1768).

MS.7754/7: Uvedale, Robert (1642-1722), schoolmaster and botanist. 1 autograph letter, signed (1716).

MS.7754/8: Vaughan, Dr. (fl.1776). Manuscript account of the post-mortem findings on Mr. Thomas Gossip, who died of a disorder of the lungs (1776).

1702-1796

1 file

Purchased from: Halliday, Leicester, February 1930 (acc.52472); Stevens, London, March 1930 (acc.56583) and August 1931 (acc.68224); Sotheby's, London, December 1931 (acc.75871) and April 1932 (acc.65133); Glendining, London, September 1933 (acc.67769); and A.R. Heath, Bristol, August 1998 (acc.350980). Provenance details of no.2 not recorded (acc.67430).

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