Extracts from the familiar letters of the late Elizabeth Hodgkin, wife of John Hodgkin junior of Tottenham. Interspersed with a few memoranda. Collected and arranged by her husband (London, privately printed)

Thomas Hodgkin MD (1798-1866) suspected that the physician Dr Edward May unwittingly caused Elizabeth Hodgkin's death from puerperal fever by introducing infection to her from another patient. For Hodgkin's letter to Dr Achille Foville on the subject see:

PP/HO/D/A2416, f92v Letter from Thomas Hodgkin to Achille Foville, 7day 2 month 1836 [i.e.7 Feb 1836] (in French)

PP/HO/D/A2457, p.28 (item 33) Calendar of the letter (in English) by Thomas Hodgkin's nephew, also Thomas Hodgkin.

For manuscript versions of this publication see file PP/HO/E/B16-17.