Somerville, Mary (1780-1872), scientific writer

9 autograph letters by Somerville, signed; correspondents include Lady Charlotte Murchison (née Hugonin) (d.1869), wife of the geographer Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) (no. 2), the Italian agronomist Marchese Cosimo Ridolfi (1794-1864) attempting to mobilise opposition to vivisection carried out by the physiologist Moritz Schiff (1823-1896) (no. 4), the diplomat Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880) (no. 8), and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe (Elizabeth Charlotte Canning, née Alexander) (no. 3). Chiefly material held formerly in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1845-1872

1 file

Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, April 1927 (acc.45572) and April 1933 (acc.67466); Stevens, London, July 1931 (acc.68209); either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69291); Judith Grant, London, November 1993 (acc.349374); Pickering & Chatto, London, January 2001 (acc.889). No.5 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800), original accession details not known.

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