Listing for Rolleston papers at the Wellcome Collection available here and here:
MSS.4245-4247, 6119-6127, 7494 & 8184
287 items
Rolleston family 1805-1947
Rolleston, George, 1829-1881.
Rolleston, Humphrey Davy, Sir, 1862-1944.
Rolleston, J.D. (John Davy), 1873-1946.
Description: Personal and professional correspondence, photographs and papers of George Rolleston and his son Sir Humphry Rolleston. There are also miscellaneous Rolleston family papers, as well as 2 papers given by John Davy Rolleston George Rolleston's main areas of research were in comparative anatomy, zoology, archaeology, anthropology - his correspondence was often with contempories who were prominent in the same or related fields (botanists, biologists, natural historians). Humphry Rolleston was a keen photographer, and his albums contain a total of 323 photographs. These include portraits of relatives and friends, as well as contemporaries who were subsequently prominent in medicine and surgery. There are also general photographs taken during his career in medicine which are of interest for medical historians. His correspondence and papers cover both professional and personal matters.
Background: Individuals documented here include:
George Rolleston (1829-1881), Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Oxford University, and his wife Grace.
His eldest son Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston KCB (1862-1944), who was President of the Röntgen Society 1922-23.a younger son was John Davy Rolleston (1873-1946). F.R.S.
His younger son John Davy Rolleston (1873-1946) Physician, who obtained his M.D. at Oxford in 1904. He was appointed Medical Superintendent of the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1926 and was elected F.R.C.P. in 1931.
Acquisition details:
MS.4245 purchased 1951 (acc.95836).
MSS.4246-4547 and 8184 presented by Mrs J.D. Rolleston, July 1950 (acc.95712).
MSS.6119-6127 presented by Mrs C. Byam Shaw, 1983 (acc.341434-341435).
MS.7494 acquired from various sources: Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, July 1931; Glendining, London, August 1932, August 1934 and January 1935; probably a Mr. Wilson, May 1976; Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, October 1992; F.E. Whitehart, June 1993. No.13 presented by H.J. Fuller, April 1929. Provenance details of no.7 not recorded; nos.10-11 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939, source unknown; no details of provenance known for no.14; nos.15 and 16 transferred from Wellcome Institute Library, Modern Medicine collection (found inside a copy of the International Manual of Causes of Death), May 1996 (accs. 67540, 67695, 67833, 67974, 325619, 349050, 349199, 49838).
List of correspondence in the WELLCOME LIBRARY FOR THE HISTORY & UNDERSTANDING OF MEDICINE (WESTERN MS. 6119)
Letters to George Rolleston and his wife Grace. 1860-85 and n.d., 138 items. Presented by Mrs. C. Byam Shaw, together with papers of Sir Humphry Rolleston (MSS. 6120-6127), in 1983 (acc. 341434).
1. Charles Darwin. Down, Bromley, 1 June [1860]
2. Charles Darwin. Down, Bromley, 6 June [1860]. Lacking signature
3. John Lubbock, afterwards 1st Baron Avebury. High Elms, Farnborough, Kent, 11 July 1860
4. Jan van der Hoeven. Leiden, 7 August 1860
5. Charles Darwin. Down, Bromley, 2 March [1861]. Lacking signature
6. Charles Darwin. Down, Bromley, 7 March [1861]
7 / 1-2. John Richardson (1787-1865). Lancrigg, [Grasmere], 17 April 1862. With an engraving of Lancrigg
8. Charles Kingsley. Cambridge, 12 October 1862
9. Albany Hancock. Newcastle on Tyne, 21 April 1863
10. Sir Charles Lyell. Harley St., 5 May 1863
11. George Grote. Saville Row, London, 20 May 1863
12. Charles Kingsley. Eversley Rectory, 9 June 1863
13. Joseph Dalton Hooker. Kew, 20 June 1863
14. Sir Charles Lyell. York, 30 September 1863
15. Sir Charles Lyell. Harley St., 17 October 1863
16. John Richardson (1787-1865). Lancrigg, Grasmere, 28 October 1864
17. Unidentified. 20 May 1865
18. W. Peters [? Wilhelm Karl Hartwig Peters (1815-1883)]. Berlin, 8 June 1865
19. David Livingstone. Botanic Garden, Oxford, 19 June 1865
20 / 1-2 Prof. Ed. Grube [? Adolph Eduard Grube]. Breslau, 2 December 1865
21. Francis Jeune, Bishop of Peterborough. Palace, Peterborough, 17 August 1866
22. Jan van der Hoeven. Leiden, 13 July 1866
23. Hermann Schlegel. Leiden, 21 December 1866
24. Sherard Osborn. 11 Gloucester Terrace, [London], 15 December 1867
25. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1817-1880). Cowley House, Oxford, 17 January 1868. Lacking signature
26. Henry Baker Tristram. Greatham Vicarage, Stockton on Tees, 27 January 1868. Incomplete
27. William Ewart Gladstone. 11 Carlton House Terrace, 26 March 1868
28. William Sharpey. Royal Society, 9 July 1868
29. Max von Pettenkofer. Munich, 5 April 1869
30. Asa Gray. Charlton House, Kew, 6 October 1869
31. Henry Dashwood. Kirtlington Park, Oxford, 21 August 1869
32. Asa Gray to Mrs. Rolleston. Charlton House, Kew, 22 October 1869
33. Mary Arnold to Mrs. Rolleston. 17 January 1870
34. Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger. Bonn, 23 August 1870
35. Pieter van Beneden. Louvain, 25 August 1870
36. C. Claus [? Adolph Carl Ludwig Claus]. Marburg, 26 August 1870
37. Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel. Jena, 27 August 1870
38. Carl Gegenbaur. Jena, 28 August 1870
39. Pieter van Beneden. Louvain, 4 September 1870
40. Alexander Ecker. Freiburg, 11 September 1870
41. Max Johann Sigismund Schultze. Bonn, 13 September 1870
42. Robert Dudley Baxter. 6 Victoria St., London, 13 October 1870
43. Friedrich Max Müller. 18 Febuary 1872
44. John Phillips (1800-1874) to Mrs. Rolleston. Oxford, 21 Febuary 1872
45. John Phillips. 15 April 1872
46. Henry Parry Liddon. 3 Amen Court, London, 17 April 1872
47. Anton Dohrn. Palazzo Torlonia, Naples, 9 May 1872
48. Goldwin Smith. Berkeley House, Reading, 13 June 1872
49. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1817-1880). Cowley House, Oxford, 26 June 1872
50. James Allanson Picton. St. Thomas' Square, Hackney, 24 September 1872
51. Helen Menien(?) to Mrs. Rolleston. Newcastle on Tyne, 6 January 1873
52. Alfred Russell Wallace. The Dell, Grays, Essex, 14 February 1873
53. John Phillips. 27 November 1873
54. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1817-1880). Brockham Warren, Reigate, 1 December 1873
55. John Phillips. 8 December 1873
56. Edwin Palmer, Archdeacon of Oxford. Oxford, 23 January 1874
57. Herbert Spencer. 38 Queen's Gardens, Bayswater, 13 March 1874
58. Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) to Mrs. Rolleston, 4 September 1874
59. Sir James Paget. The Hague, 27 September 1874
60. Joseph Dalton Hooker. Down, Kent, 20 November 1874
61. Thomas Henry Huxley. South Kensington, 18 Febuary 1875
62. John Lubbock, afterwards 1st Baron Avebury. 15 Lombard St., London, 10 March 1875
63. Thomas Dixon. 15 Sunderland St., Sunderland, 7 April 1875
64. Henry George Liddell. Christ Church, Oxford, 10 June 1875
65. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. 4 Upper Berkeley St., London, 2 July 1875
66. ‘E.A.F.'. Postcard, 24 August 1875. Postmark Wells
67. 'F.M.M.'. Postcard. Postmark Oxford, 24 August 1875
68. Charles Darwin. Bassett, Southampton, 2 September [1875]
69. James Edwards Sewell. New College, Oxford, 25 November 1875
70. Edmund Alexander Parkes. Bitterne, Southampton, 1 December 1875
71. Edmund Alexander Parkes. Bitterne, Southampton, 5 December 1875
72. John William Burgon, Dean of Chichester. 14 March 1876
73. Henry George Liddell. Christ Church, Oxford, 11 April 1876
74. St. George Jackson Mivart. Burlington House, London, 7 June 1876
75. Goldwin Smith. The Grange, Toronto, 31 August 1876
76. William Samuel Symonds. Pendock Rectory, 11 October 1876
77. 'E.A.F.' Postcard 13 October 1876. Postmark Oxford.
78 / 1-2. William Morris. Circular letter, lithographed, and signed receipt, as treasurer to a national conference on the Eastern Question. 26 Queen Square, London, 24 November and 4 December 1876
79. Friedrich Max Müller. Dresden, 24 December 1876
80. Charles George Gordon. 7 Cecil St., Strand, London, 12 January 1877
81. William Lloyd Garrison. Edensor Hotel, 12 June 1877
82. Charles Spence Bate. 8 Mulgrave Place, Plymouth, 19 November 1877
83. Charles Spence Bate. 8 Mulgrave Place, Plymouth, 23 November 1877
84. William Greenwell. 2 May 1878
85. William Ewart Gladstone. Postcard, 11 May 1878. Postmark Hawarden
86. William Lloyd Garrison. Boston, 1 July 1878
87. Sir James Paget. 1 Harewood Place, London, 13 July 1878
88. Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, afterwards 1st Baron Stanmore. 48 Upper Grosvenor Street, London, 3 June 1879
89. Heinrich Schliemann. London, 14 September 1879
90. John Simon. 40 Kensington Square, London, 16 December 1879
91. Sir Wilfrid Lawson. 1 Grosvenor Crescent, London, 21 June 1880
92. Unidentified. Cercle Artistique et Littéraire, 7 Rue Volney, Paris, 16 October 1880
93. Joseph Dalton Hooker. Kew, 18 October 1880
94. Sven Lovén. Stockholm, 22 October 1880
95. Joseph Prestwich. 34 Broad Street, Oxford, 20 November 1880
96. Allen Thomson to Mrs. Rolleston. 66 Palace Gardens Terrace, London, 27 April 1881
97. Henry Wentworth Acland to Mrs. Rolleston. Oxford, 2 Febuary [?] 1882
98. Frances Power Cobbe to Mrs. Rolleston. 3 Hereford Square, London, 3 April 1882
99. Edward Burnett Tylor to Mrs. Rolleston. Wellington, Somerset, 8 August 1882
100. Francis Darwin to Mrs. Rolleston. Down, Beckenham, Kent, 30 September 1882
101. Henry Parry Liddon to Mrs. Rolleston. 3 Amen Court, London, 20 March 1883
102. Henry Parry Liddon to Mrs. Rolleston. 3 Amen Court, 10 May 1883
103. James Stuart to Mrs. Rolleston. Cambridge, 24 January 1885
104. William Baly. Royal College of Physicians, London, 23 June, no year
105. William Bright. Christ Church, Oxford, 27 April, no year
106. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1817-1880). Cowley House, Oxford, 9 March, no year
107. Frances Power Cobbe. N.d.
108. John William Dawson. Oxford, n.d.
109. Neal Dow [?]. The Hill, Edgbaston, Birmingham, n.d.
110. James Anthony Froude. 5 Onslow Gardens, London, 14 October, no year
111. Sir Henry Holland. Visiting card with a note on the verso. 72 Lower Brook St., London, n.d.
112. Benjamin Jowett. N.d.
113. Benjamin Jowett. Balliol College, 28 February, no year
114. George Henry Lewes. The Priory, 21 North Bank, Regent's Park, London. 8 August, no year
115. Henry Parry Liddon to Mrs. Rolleston. Christ Church, 29 October, no year
116. John Lubbock, afterwards 1st Baron Avebury. House of Commons Library, 15 April, no year
117. Louisa P. MacDonald. Bordighera, n.d.
118. Friedrich Max Müller. Parks End, Oxford, 8 February, no year
119. Friedrich Max Müller. Parks End, Oxford, 24 September, no year
120. Friedrich Max Müller. 64 High Street, Oxford, 7 December, no year
121. Charles Neate. Aug. 9, no year
122. Charles Neate. Oriel College, Oxford, October 13, no year
123. Edwin Palmer, Archdeacon of Oxford. N.d.
124. Mark Pattison. Lincoln College, Oxford, 1 March, no year
125. John Phillips. 8 March, no year
126. Prof. Dr. Rhousopoulos, of Athens. Visiting card with Greek inscription. N.d.
127. John Richardson (1787-1865). N.d.
128. H.C. Robinson [? Henry Crabb Robinson]. N.d.
129. Unidentified. N.d.
130. John Ruskin. Brantwood, Coniston, Lancs., n.d.
131. Postcard initialled 'H.S.' London, 7 March ?1876.
132. Goldwin Smith. Parks End, Oxford, 19 January, no year
133. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. Christ Church, n.d.
134. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. Christ Church, n.d.
135. John Tyndall. 15 March, no year
136. Note exchanged between George Rolleston and Alfred Russell Wallace. N.d.
137/1-5. Wrappers of letters to George Rolleston, 1866-79 and n.d. The letters have not been found.
138. Letter from George Rolleston to Miss Watson, possibly a copy, or not sent. N.d.
