Clift, William: Autograph letter to Philip Syng Physick

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0235
Held at	: Royal College of Surgeons of England   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/ ›
Full title	: Clift, William: Autograph letter to Philip Syng Physick
Date(s)	: 1835
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 letter
Name of creator(s)	: Clift | William | 1775-1849 | museum curator and scientific illustrator

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Clift was born in Cornwall in 1775, and was educated locally. He became an apprentice anatomical assistant to the celebrated surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793) in 1792. He was appointed conservator of the Hunterian Museum after Hunter's death. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823, and was a member of the Society for Animal Chemistry. He died in 1849.

Philip Syng Physick was born in 1768. He was an American physician, who mainly studied in Philadelphia, but was also a pupil of John Hunter whilst in London. He became known as 'The Father of American Surgery.' He died in 1837.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of William Clift, 1835, comprising an autograph letter by William Clift to Philip Syng Physick, 8 May 1835. Relating to cataloguing specimens in the Hunterian Museum.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No photocopying permitted.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Presented to Sir Arthur Porritt (PRCS) by Mrs E Hunter Fell, of Itchen Abbas House, Winchester, Hampshire, through the Surgical Sixty Club, in 1963.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Sir Arthur Porritt through Peter Ingram (FRCS), in 1963.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Sep 2008