Hart, Ernest Abraham (1835-1898) medical journalist

Letters to Ernest Hart from various correspondents, including Sir John Burdon-Sanderson (30), W M W Haffkine (24-25), T H Huxley (5, 9), Joseph Lister (8, 31), Sir Richard Owen (10), Sir James Paget (17, 20, 27), Sir Henry Roscoe (18, 22), Sir William Stokes (2), Sir Henry Thompson (13), Rudolf Virchow (4) and Sir Thomas Spencer Wells (12, 15).

1871-1896

31 items

Mainly purchased from Mrs Hart, 1914 (Museum reg. 10, items A.1-28). A few items were acquired separately, Puttick & Simpson's 17 May 1930, lot 543.

Additional to MSS. 2119 (Dickson, sent to Hart in 1879), and 5423.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).