Memoir of James Nield

Memoir of James Nield Esq. LL.D. A copy of the autobiography ending in 1806. Written by Dr. T. J. Pettigrew. Written on the rectos only. This MS. is endorsed by Pettigrew: 'Memoir of Nield to precede his Letters'.

c.1815

16 ff folio. 311/2 x 20 cm. London; Unbound.

Purchased 1905

For James Neild, philanthropist and prison-reformer, see the Dictionary of National Biography There seems to be a slight discrepancy as regards the spelling of this name. He is called 'Nield' in this MS., and in Pettigrew's printed 'Memoirs of Lettsom': the D.N.B., however, enters him as 'Neild', though it has a reference from 'Nield'. From the Pettigrew Collection.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).