The Correspondence of Dr William Hunter
Edited by C Helen Brock
With a foreword by William Brock
The Pickering Masters
978 1 85196 904 3: 234x156mm: £225.00/$395.00
The final work by the late historian C Helen Brock, this definitive new edition makes the correspondence of Dr William Hunter (1718-83) available for the first time.
Born in Scotland, William Hunter pursued an extensive medical education in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and Paris. He settled in London where he made his name as an anatomist and obstetrician before being elected to the Royal Society in 1767. He was a knowledgeable collector. He bequeathed his anatomical and pathological preparations, natural history specimens, antiquities, paintings, and extensive library to the University of Glasgow where they now form the Hunterian Museum. Hunter’s admiration for Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical drawings in the Royal Collection sparked the eighteenth-century fashion for collecting his works on paper.
Hunter’s prominent position in London’s scientific and artistic circles, his extensive medical and connoisseurial contacts in Scotland and Europe, and his network of students, make his correspondence a unique record of the Enlightenment. This edition presents all of his known correspondence, drawing upon archives around the world. The letters are presented chronologically and interspersed with new editorial material to create a fascinating narrative about this important era of medical and scientific discovery.
This edition will be essential for scholars researching the History of Medicine and Science, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the History of Collecting.
- These letters are collated, transcribed and published for the first time
- Includes letters to and from key eighteenth-century figures including: Joseph Banks, Benjamin Franklin, David Garrick, Edward Gibbon, David Hume, John Hunter, Samuel Johnson, William Pitt, Joseph Priestley, John Pringle, Joshua Reynolds, William Smellie, Queen Charlotte and George III
- New editorial material includes a general introduction, footnotes, a biographical register and a consolidated index
Sample pages
Contents
Selected Correspondents
Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillon; Duchess of Ancaster; James Anderson; John Anderson; Joseph Andrews; Ester Arbuthnot; Baroness Argyll Hamilton; Thomas Armiger; Dr George Armstrong; Thomas Astle; James Baillie; Matthew Baillie; Sir George Baker; Sir Joseph Banks; William Barrett; James Barry; Abbé Jean-Jacques Bath; Lord Beauchamp; Lady Diana Beauclerk; John Belchier; George Bell; John Bell; James Bent; Jean Bernard; Joseph Black; Sir Charles Blagden; Gilbert Blane; John Boddington; French Bogle; William Bowen; The Reverend Dr Richard Browne; Alexander Bruce; James Bruce; Jacob Bryant; James Burchall; Charles Burney; Luce Cadagan; Thomas Cadell; Petrus Camper; Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury; Charles Castelli; Antony Chamier; John Channing; Queen Charlotte; Francois Chopart; Dr George Cleghorn; John Clephane; William Cockell; Charles Combe; Marquis de Condorcet; William Cooper; Thomas Coutts; Countess of Coventry; Dr F L F Crell; Lord Robert Cullen; William Cullen; William Cuming; Emanuel Mendes Da Costa; David Davies; The Reverend Arthur Dawes; Jean André De Luc; Francesco Giuseppe De Viry; Samuel De Wilde; Gauthiervan Doeveren; Hugh Downman; Daniel Draper; Robert Drummond; Louis Dutens; Joseph Eckel; Sir John Eliot; David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan; Nicholai Detlef Falck; Sir John Fielding; Malcolm Fleming; Sir Norman Fletcher; John Fothergill; Robert Foulis; Benjamin Franklin; David Garrick; George III; George Sackville Germain; Edward Gibbon; Louis Giraldi; Oliver Goldsmith; James Graham; George Grenville; Albrecht von Haller; Thomas Hamilton; Sir William Hamilton; Caesar Hawkins; David Hume; John Hunter; John Ingenhousz; Archibald Ingham; Isaac Jamineau; John Jeans; Samuel Jebb; Thomas Jenkins; Dr Samuel Johnson; Benjamin Kennicott; Robert Lambert; Nicholas Claude Le Cat; James Lee; William Leechman; Charlotte Lennox; Charles Lindegren; William Loftie; Abraham Ludlow; Andrew Lumisden; Catherine Macaulay; John McGouan; Michele Vincerizo Giaciuto Malacarne; Matthew Maty; John Millar; Jeremiah Milles; Peter Molini; Alexander Monro; John Montague, Earl of Sandwich; John Moore; John Morgan; Sir Robert Keith Murray; Francis Milner Newton; Edward O’Reilly; Lord Pelham; Thomas Pennant; Thomas Percy; William Petty; Robert Edge Pine; William Pitcairn; William Pitt; Joseph Priestley; Sir John Pringle; Allan Ramsay; Robert Ramsay; Thomas Reid; Sir Joshua Reynolds; William Robertson; Richard Rolt; William Rowley; Patrick Russell; Robert Saltenstall; Dr Richard Huck Saunders; Julia Elizabeth Schwellingberg; William Shippen; Robert Simson; James Skene; William Smellie; John Smith; Tobias Smollett; Thomas Snelling; Daniel Charles Solander; Jean Charles Spener; John Henry Stametz; Andrew Stuart; John Stuart, Earl of Bute; John Symons; Jaques-René Tenon; Henry Thomson; William Thompson; Charles Townsley; James Trail; Count Viry; D’Azyr Vicq; Martin Wall; Horace Walpole; Johann Gottlieb Walter; Richard Warren; Wentworth Watson; Alexander Wedderburn, Baron Loughborough; Charles White; John White; Joseph White; Sir Edward Wilmot; David Wilson; Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, as well as members of William Hunter’s family, his patients and his students
Archives
Académie des Sciences; American Philosophical Society Library; Amsterdam University; Bank of England Archives; Berger Bibliothek; Bibliothèque Nationale; Bodleian Library; Stedelijk Archief Breda; British Library; Edinburgh University Library; Fitzwilliam Museum; Hunterian Library; Glasgow University Library; Harvard University; Huntington Library; Hyde Collection, New Jersey; India Office Library; Linneau Society; National Library of Scotland; Pennsylvania Historical Society Library; Royal Academy of Arts; Royal Bank of Scotland Archives; Royal College of Physicians; Royal College of Surgeons of England; Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons; Royal Irish Academy; Royal Society; Sandwich Papers, Dorset; Scottish Society of Antiquities Archives, Staatsbiblithek Berlin; Staats und Universitats Bibliotheck Hamburg; Staffordshire County Record Office; University of Texas at Austin; Uppsala University; Wellcome Institute Library; Yale University