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Pettigrew papers from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Series OSB MSS 113
Transcribed by Gabriel Moshenska ([email protected]) and released under a CC-By license. This data is further described in the following data paper:
Moshenska, G. 2012. Selected Correspondence from the papers of Thomas Pettigrew (1791-1865), Surgeon and Antiquary. Journal of Open Archaeology Data 1(2), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/4f913ca0cbb89
Letters are listed by location (box, folder) and are arranged alphabetically by writer. All letters are addressed to Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (hereafter TJP).
For further details see collection catalogue: http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/beinecke:pettis1/PDF
List of letters:
Box 1, folder 10, William Francis Ainsworth to TJP, 17 December 1845
Box 1, folder 12, John Yonge Akerman to TJP, 13 November 1850
Box 1, folder 12, John Yonge Akerman to TJP, 7 March 1857
Box 1, folder 16, Thomas Amyot to TJP, 23 March 18??
Box 1, folder 16, Thomas Amyot to TJP, 20 August 18??
Box 1, folder 16, Thomas Amyot to TJP, n.d.
Box 1, folder 16, Thomas Amyot to TJP, 24 August 18??
Box 1, folder 20, Francis Arundale to TJP, n.d.
Box 1, folder 27, Robert John Eden Auckland to TJP, 20 June 18??
Box 1, folder 28, William Ayrton to TJP, 1 February 1827
Box 1, folder 29, Benjamin Guy Babbington to TJP, 10 June 18??
Box 1, folder 31, W Baird to TJP, 22 May 18??
Box 1, folder 33, Charles Baring, Bishop of Durham to TJP, n.d.
Box 1, folder 37, Thomas Bateman to TJP, 4 July 1850
Box 1, folder 37, Thomas Bateman to TJP, 18 January 1851
Box 1, folder 37, Thomas Bateman to TJP, 29 June 1852
Box 1, folder 39, William Beattie to TJP, 17 June 1829
Box 1, folder 51, Sir William Betham to TJP, 1 June 1826
Box 1, folder 51, Sir William Betham to TJP, 29 July 1846
Box 2, folder 55, William Henry Black to TJP, 28 February 1849
Box 2, folder 62, Joseph Bonomi to TJP, 12 July 1845
Box 2, folder 62, Joseph Bonomi to TJP, 26 February 1857
Box 2, folder 65, Sir William Boyd to TJP, 29 July 18??
Box 2, folder 86, J. Collingwood Bruce to TJP, 3 June 1850
Box 2, folder 86, J. Collingwood Bruce to TJP, 18 September 1850
Box 2, folder 89, Thomas Burgon to TJP, 25 January 1834
Box 2, folder 89, Thomas Burgon to TJP, 8 February 1837
Box 2, folder 92, Gilbert Thomas Burnett to TJP, 8 March 1831
Box 3, folder 104, Patrick Chalmers to TJP, 9 June 1850
Box 3, folder 109, Henry Curtis Cherry to TJP, 23 August 1859
Box 3, folder 114, Henry Christmas to TJP, 14 March 1855
Box 3, folders 119, Prince Cimitile to TJP, n.d.
Box 3, folder 120, William Reid Clancy to TJP, 29 October 1829
Box 3, folder 131, Henry Clutterbuck to TJP, 8 June 1818
Box 4, folder 135, John Payne Collier to TJP, 23 January 1855
Box 4, folder 136, William Bengo Collyer to TJP, 29 September 1819
Box 4, folder 142, Astley Cooper to TJP, 7 May 1819
Box 4, folder 144, James Copeland to TJP, 28 February 1830
Box 4, folder 148, Sir Michael Costa to TJP, n.d.
Box 4, folder 157, Thomas Crofton Croker to TJP, 22 June 1844
Box 4, folder 157, Thomas Crofton Croker to TJP, 11 September 1845
Box 4, folder 158, George Cruikshank to TJP, 12 February 1855
Box 4, folder 175, Duke of Devonshire to TJP, 14 July 1833
Box 5, folder 202, Sir Henry Ellis to TJP, n.d.
Box 5, folder 202, Sir Henry Ellis to TJP, 21 October 1830
Box 5, folder 202, Sir Henry Ellis to TJP, n.d.
Box 5, folder 202, Sir Henry Ellis to TJP, 22 January 1855
Box 5, folder 212, Frederick William Fairholt to TJP, 29 May 1852
Box 5, folder 223, William Stevenson Fitch to TJP, 3 September 1845
Box 5, folder 227, Thomas Forester to TJP, n.d
Box 5, folder 232, Henry Hall Gage to TJP, 15 August 1833
Box 5, folder 241, Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford to TJP, 5 April 1833
Box 6, folder 257, James Burton to TJP, 5 July 1833
Box 6, folder 257, James Burton to TJP, n.d.
Box 6, folder 257, James Burton to TJP, n.d.
Box 6, folder 262, William Richard Hamilton to TJP, 7 February 1837
Box 6, folder 262, William Richard Hamilton to TJP, 29 October 1841
Box 6, folder 263, Thomas Hancock to TJP, 29 April 1842
Box 6, folder 270, John Haslam to TJP, 25 January 1833
Box 6, folder 270, John Haslam to TJP, 5 April 1832
Box 6, folder 273, Caesar Henry Hawkins to TJP, n.d.
Box 6, folder 274, Edward Hawkins to TJP, 20 December 1852
Box 6, folder 275, Francis Hawkins to TJP, 27 August 18??
Box 6, folder 275, Francis Hawkins to TJP, 23 March 1838
Box 7, folder 309, Alfred John Kempe to TJP, 13 April 1846
Box 7 folder 310, Robert Masters Kerrison to TJP, 5 February 1829
Box 7 folder 310, Robert Masters Kerrison to TJP, 8 May 1833
Box 7 folder 310, Robert Masters Kerrison to TJP, 31 August 1836
Box 7, folder 317, Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig to TJP
Box 7, folder 326, William Elford Leach to TJP, 22 November 1817
Box 7, folder 328, Dr John Lee to TJP, 14 June 1833
Box 7, folder 328, Dr John Lee to TJP, 16 November 1833
Box 7, folder 328, Dr John Lee to TJP, 15 April 1834
Box 7, folder 328, Dr John Lee to TJP, 23 April 1838
Box 7, folder 328, Dr John Lee to TJP, 20 May 1836
Box 7, folder 328, Dr John Lee to TJP, 31 August 1837
Box 7, folder 330, Samuel Lee to TJP, n.d.
Box 7, folder 332, Conrad Leemans to TJP, January 1839
Box 7, folder 332, Conrad Leemans to TJP, 26 January 1839
Box 7, folder 332, Conrad Leemans to TJP, 18 September 1838
Box 7, folder 332, Conrad Leemans to TJP, 17 November 1837
Box 7, folder 332, Conrad Leemans to TJP, 22 March 1836
Box 7, folder 333, Robert Lemon to TJP, n.d.
Box 7, folder 342, William Linley to TJP, 2 May 18??
Box 8, folder 374, Joseph Mayer to TJP, 3 October 1849
Box 8, folder 378, Samuel Merriman to TJP, n.d.
Box 8, folder 379, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick to TJP, 15 July 1843
Box 8, folder 379, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick to TJP, 8 October 1843
Box 8, folder 379, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick to TJP, 30 June 1845
Box 8, folder 379, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick to TJP, 21 September 1846
Box 8, folder 379, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick to TJP, 20 May 1847
Box 9, folder 389, William Muller to TJP, 15 September 1829
Box 9, folder 392, George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence, 1st Earl of Munster to TJP, 12 July 18??
Box 9, folder 392, George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence, 1st Earl of Munster to TJP, n.d.
Box 9, folder 393, Thomas Murdoch to TJP, 19 June 1833
Box 9, folder 399, John Newman to TJP, 24 June 1834
Box 9, folder 405, Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland to TJP, 21 March 1842
Box 9, folder 411, Sir Gore Ouseley to TJP, 20 June 1833
Box 9, folder 412, Sir Benjamin Fonseca Outram to TJP, 15 April 18??
Box 9, folder 412, Sir Benjamin Fonseca Outram to TJP, 10 June 1833
Box 9 folder 417, George Patten ARA to TJP, 1 April 1849
Box 9, folder 421, John Penn to TJP, 9 May 1811
Box 9, folder 431, Thomas Phillips to TJP, n.d.
Box 9, folder 442, Beale Poste to TJP, 6 October 1847
Box 9, folder 442, Beale Poste to TJP, 5 February 1848
Box 9, folder 442, Beale Poste to TJP, 19 February 1849
Box 9, folder 442, Beale Poste to TJP, 11 June 1849
Box 9, folder 442, Beale Poste to TJP, 29 July 1850
Box 9, folder 442, Beale Poste to TJP, 4 August 1850
Box 10, folder 454, Miguel del Riego to TJP, 3 April 1826
Box 10, folder 458, David Roberts to TJP, 14 January 1846
Box 10, folder 458, David Roberts to TJP, 27 May 1848
Box 10, folder 496, Charles Roach Smith to TJP, 15 July 1845
Box 10, folder 496, Charles Roach Smith to TJP, 8 April 1844
Box 10, folder 498, William Henry Smyth to TJP, 29 January 1849
Box 11, folder 504, Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th Duke of Somerset to TJP, 27 November 1830
Box 11, folder 510, Ephraim George Squier to TJP, 11 December 1857
Box 11, folder 514, Thomas Streatfield to TJP, 8 September 1844
Box 11, folder 523, Sir Herbert Taylor to TJP, 25 April 1833
Box 11, folder 526, Thomas Taylor to TJP, n.d.
Box 11, folder 528, Honoratus Leigh Thomas to TJP, May 1834
Box 11, folder 529, James Thompson to TJP, 30 November 1850
Box 11, folder 530, William John Thoms to TJP, 27 November 18??
Box 11, folder 537, Robert Torrens to TJP, 4 November 1824
Box 11, folder 537, Robert Torrens to TJP, 31 May 1825
Box 11, folder 542, Martin Farquhar Tupper to TJP, 2 September 1845
Box 12, folder 553, Richard Valpy to Mrs E. Pettigrew, 13 March 1826
Box 12, folder 555, Lewis Vulliamy to TJP, 1 July 18??
Box 12, folder 562, James Wardrop to TJP, n.d.
Box 12, folder 569, Charles Wellbeloved to TJP, 28 February 1845
Box 12, folder 569, Charles Wellbeloved to TJP, 4 August 1852
Box 13, folder 591, John Williams to TJP, 23 October 1851
Box 13, folder 594, Sir Daniel Wilson to TJP, 12 July 1850
Box 13, folder 597, George Woodfall to TJP, 28 April 1830
Box 13, folder 598, J. Word to TJP, 17 November 1836
Box 13, folder 599, Francis Wrangham to TJP. n.d.
Box 13, folder 601, Thomas Wright to TJP, 1 August 1845
Box 13, folder 601, Thomas Wright to TJP, n.d.
Box 13, folder 601, Thomas Wright to TJP, n.d.
Box 13, folder 601, Thomas Wright to TJP, n.d.
Box 13, folder 601, Thomas Wright to TJP, n.d.
Box 13, folder 601, Thomas Wright to TJP, 24 August 18??
Box 13, folder 601, Thomas Wright to TJP, n.d.
Box 13, folder 607, William Youatt to TJP, May 1835
Box 13, folder 609, G Young to TJP, 18 June 1833
Box 1, folder 10
William Francis Ainsworth to TJP
My Dear Sir,
I only received your favour of the 16th late last night, on my return from the Syro-Egyptian, or I would have answered before.
I shall be very happy to meet Mr Wright at the Archaeological meeting this evening, the meeting of which society indeed, I have attended on the last occasion.
Believe me,
My dear sir,
Yours very sincerely,
W. Francis Ainsworth
Wednesday Morn
Dec 17th 1845
Box 1, folder 12
John Yonge Akerman to TJP
My dear sir,
I enclose you the copy of the letter of Nelson of which I spoke. You may rest assured of its authenticity.
Yours faithfully,
J.Y. Akerman
S.A.
13. Nov. 1850
My dear sir,
I send you the required memorandum of the Coins, which I think you will find correct. The Emperors are not in chronological order, but as I have written on one side of the paper, you can chop it up and arrange it easily.
Very truly yours,
J.Y. Akerman
S.A.
7. Mar. 1857.
Box 1, folder 16
Thomas Amyot (proposed TJP as FSA)
Athenaeum, Sunday
23rd March
My dear Pettigrew,
On coming here, I have found your kind Note with its printed inclosure. I thank you for both, but I should have been glad to have found you here in person. I cannot call on you today, but I am desirous to assure you that I fully agree with our friend Mr Henry Ellis, that he & I ought not to mix ourselves up with either of the belligerent parties. I am constitutionally a man of peace, and if I could assist in restoring that blessing, I would carry an olive branch to each of the Rival Camps, if I did not fear I should be drummed out of both. I have great respect for Lord Albert Conyngham, and for many of your colleagues, as I also have for many of the staff on the other side. I certainly shall not join them, but I am desirous that my name should be withdrawn from your committee, highly respectable, as it is, in its composition. I sincerely hope that archaeological ??? will not interfere with the comforts of our antiquarian club, where I trust the word "archaeology" will not be even whispered. "Oh no, we never mention it!", shall at least be my motto there.
With the kindest regard,
I remain always,
My dear Pettigrew,
Yours most sincerely,
Thomas Amyot
T.J. Pettigrew Esq.
Atheneum, Tuesday
20 August
My dear Pettigrew,
"Yes", if it must be so. But I really think you should not stick my name in so prominent a position. I shall not be able to prepare a Reading, nor probably be able to be in Canterbury more than one day, or two days at most. Since there are others, Mr James for instance, who would better fill up the printer's blank with literary & historical name. My [...] at Somerset House alone gives one anything like a pretence for accepting the elevation you propose. I presume my learned colleague will prepare a paper on the Battle of Bosworth. I cannot so further back than the Battle of Antiquaries, when the Besiegers were led on by Sir Harry Nicolas, while I endeavoured to defend the Citadel with our Household Trophy.
Yours ever sincerely,
Thomas Amyot.
James Street,
Monday ???
My dear Pettigrew,
According to Caley's request, I send you the copy which I received by the two penny post of the Manifesto of the beaten Herschelites. I am surprised you have not received a presentation copy from the author. The tone is so temperate, & the whole publication so harmless, that I do not think any answer from you is at all called for. Pray let me have it again at your leisure, that I may keep with the other controversial effusions occasioned by the Royal nomination.
Yours ever sincerely,
Thomas Amyot
I have just given an In-patients' letter to your protegee.
Athenauem
Tuesday 24th Augt
My dear Pettigrew,
Write me down an Egyptian. If I can catch another, you shall book him too. I hope when you set about filling your list, you will find "corn in Egypt". Jon was much pleased with your lecture, but Harry was kept away by an engagement which I was not aware of.
Yours ever,
Thomas Amyot
Box 1, folder 20
Francis Arundale to TJP
Dear sir,
Should you be able to attend a lecture I am about to deliver on "The Arts and Literature of Ancient Egypt" I should feel honored by your presence next Friday at the Royal Institution.
I remain ...
Yours...
F. Arundale
T. Pettigrew Esq.
Box 1, folder 27
Robert John Eden Auckland to TJP
2 Grosvenor Crescent
June 20
Sir,
If my name will be of the slightest service as Patron of the Archaeological Society during its congress in Somersetshire, I shall be glad that it should be used. Unfortunately I have never been able to afford time to archaeological pursuits, & have not the slightest acquaintance with them.
I remain sir,
Yours faithfully,
Auckland Bath & Wells
T.J. Pettigrew Esq.
F.R.S.
Box 1, folder 28
William Ayrton to TJP
James Street
Feby. 1, 1827.
My dear sir,
I do with all my heart congratulate you on the result of this evenings' ballot at the Royal Society, in which I felt exceedingly interested, not only on your own personal account, but as the cause of truth and justice against calumny and malice. Your answers to your vulgar-minded assailants are most convincing, and, to my knowledge, [...] they acquired no corroborative proofs, but had they stood in need of any commentary, an election under circumstances so trying, must have removed every pre-existing doubt. Your triumph is, in every way, most complete! -
[...]
W. Ayrton.
T. Petttigrew Esq.
Box 1, folder 29
Benjamin Guy Babbington to TJP
16 Aldermanbury
June 10th
Dear Sir,
Your History of Mummies will I have no doubt be a very interesting and instructive work, and I shall be most happy to support its publication by subscribing my name for a copy.
Believe me dear sir,
Very truly yours,
BG Babington
Box 1, folder 31
W Baird to TJP
May 22
Dear Sir
I shall have great pleasure in becoming a subscriber to your History of Mummies.
I am, dear sir,
Yours truly
W Baird
Box 1, folder 33
Charles Baring, Bishop of Durham to TJP
Dear Sir,
Will you come & dine here on Saturday next the 30th instant at ? past seven o'clock - my nephew Charles Murray, just arrived from Aegypt, dines here and I wish you to make his acquaintance - I need not say that I shall be happy to see you ...
Box 1, folder 37
Thomas Bateman to TJP
4th July 1850
Dear Sir,
I must own that I was rather suspicious with regard to the Egyptian antiquity myself when I had compared the cartouches with three in a plate of the tablet of Abydos and some other authorities which I possess, but when I examined the object itself I could see not the slightest indications of [...] excepting that the figure of Horus was evidently added. It is instead a most wonderful imitation it [...] I should have bought it without hesitation had I seen it for sale, though generally very cautious in examining antiquities previous to purchase.
What to send you to read at the congress I really do not know. Barrow opening of late has been [...] for instance fifteen [...] openings with only one find which was a set of jet beads similar to those engraved in my book [...]
Mulgrave 18th Jany
1851
My dear sir
If I am spared till the next congress it will be a source of pleasure to me to contribute to its success in any way in my power consequently it will be very gratifying to me to exhibit my Celtic & other antiquities to the members of the association if they thought it worth while to make the excursion from Derby, of course you shall have Programmes sufficiently early to make [...] preparation at the time -
There are several objects of interest in this neighbourhood which might be visited in a day in needful, for instance [...] church, Bakewell Church [...]
Mulgrave 29th June 1852
My dear sir,
I have no acquaintance with the Nottinghamshire tumuli excepting in as far as has been previously communicated to the journal - I am therefore at a loss to know how to write the paper that you wish for the Newark Congress - but if you can suggest anything else of which I have some knowledge it will give me pleasure to [...]
Box 1, folder 39
William Beattie to TJP
Rose Villa Hampstead
June 17th 1829
My Dear Sir,
I extremely regret that circumstances have occurred to detain me at home this eve, & to deprive me of the pleasure & advantage I had anticipated at your Conversazione - this note will probably be handed to you by Mr Hannay, a gentleman whom I had last year the pleasure of presenting to you, & who was to have accompanied me this eveng. - I have advised him to present himself [...] well assured that you will not consider it a liberty - I need hardly add that Mr Hannay is a gentleman of family, an Oxonian, & a man who has travelled much.
With great esteem I remain,
My dear sir,
Your obliged faithful
William Beattie
T. Pettigrew Esq.
&c &c &c
Box 1, folder 51
Sir William Betham to TJP
46 Pall Mall
1 June 1826
My Dear Sir,
I have this instant received the Armenian Testament, I promised to shew it to a friend or I would send it you this day.
Yours faithfully
Betham
T. Pettigrew Esq.
Dublin 29 July 1846
My Dear Pettigrew
I have had a severe and unremitting diarrhea upon me ever since I returned, which commenced at Paris and remained until yesterday, which has greatly reduced me and rendered me very weak, and I much fear will prevent my being at Gloucester on Monday as I most anxiously wished to be. My Medicus says I ought not to attempt it, but if I get [...] I shall not be influenced much by that, as I think I can judge of my own capabilities better than any one, and if I feel myself equal to the undertaking you will see me as sure as the Angel of Darkness looks over Lincoln. What this saying means is a good subject for an Archaeological Paper - does it infer that he takes no notice of that famous city? That he overlooks it? That he oversees with particular care? That he hovers over it? That he does not look into it? Many other questions of the same order and category may be propounded, which able antiquaries may discuss if not puzzle themselves and the world with. For my part I think his majesty looks into most large cities and smiles with ineffable delight on what he sees in them. There can be no doubt but he was delighted at Gloucester when the glorious Protestant martyrs were burned there and will probably be present next week to say something in favour of medieval or primeval antiquities. He is now at York but the Rail Roads will transport him with delight in a very short period of time if he require such assistance. No doubt he prevented Mr Way from attending at York and was devilish glad to accomplish so great an object. The ominous absence of the Secretary of the Institute suggests the idea of a new split, is he contriving a new society? What will he call it? I do not know? Can you say? This is a letter of queries but the worst for me is query if I shall not be prevented from attending? I hope not. Ever truly yours,
W. Betham
Sir Thomas Deane is here and says he cannot be at Gloucester either. What a vagabond.
Box 2, folder 55
William Henry Black to TJP
Mill Yard
Goodman's Fields
28/2/49
My dear sir,
My visitor Mrs Slater informs me that a mummy is to be opened tomorrow evening at the Royal Institn, & she is desirous of being present, with some of her family, on that occasion. I have engagements elsewhere, as you may easily suppose from the struggle in which we are engaged in this Parish. Can you oblige me by forwarding a ticket or tickets to Mrs S. whose address is enclosed?
Box 2, folder 62
Joseph Bonomi to TJP
July 12 45
12 Cork St
My dear sir
I am sorry that the society to which I belong should be opposed to yours. My old friend Wm Birch asked me to become honorary memory of the society to which he belonged not knowing or enquiring further I consented.
Much obliged to you for the information respecting the Lytho-drawing
I remain
My dear sir
Very obediently yours
Joseph Bonomi
The Chronological Institute of London
22 Hart Street Bloomsbury
26 February 1857
Sir,
You are requested to attend a special meeting of the council on Thursday next the 5th of March at 4.30 to receive and announce the titles of papers to be read at the Equinoctial meeting.
Sir
Your obedient servant
Joseph Bonomi Secy.
Box 2, folder 65
Sir William Boyd to TJP
My Dear Sir,
I have had the honour of receiving your polite note, with a copy of your valuable work; for which I beg that you will accept my best acknowledgements. Your optimism regarding the respective merits of M. Champollion and Dr. Young shall meet with every attention. As you have already greatly overpaid the value of my work even when completed, by the present of your beautiful book, I shall consider it a favour if you will permit me to put your name into my list of subscribers, with that of your friend Mr. Hudson Gurney. I do not pretend to be disinterested in this, as I am aware that the respect with which your name is regarded as that of a profound and classical scholar, is likely to be of much advantage to my work.
I am with reselect and esteem
Yours truly
W. Boyd
18 Old Cavendish St
July 29th
T.J. Pettigrew Esq. &c &c.
Box 2, folder 86
J. Collingwood Bruce to TJP
Newcastle upon Tyne June 3rd 1850
My dear sir,
As the Congress is not held until my season of lecture expires I had made up my mind to deny myself the pleasure of being amongst you. Your letter enquiring whether I am to be there has however induced me to relax in some measure my resolutions. If you think I can be of use to you I could make arrangements for being a single day or so at the meeting. My book on the Roman Wall is at present absorbing all my attention, but having before I turned to this subject investigated with some care the structure of the Norman Castle in England I could without much difficulty be prepared with a popular lecture on that subject. On these occasions it is desirable to provide light matter for the uninitiated as well as deep disquisitions for the learned. I should chiefly keep in view those who had not thought much when antiquities with the view of showing them its importance and interest as the handmaid of history. You will perhaps let me know if this proposal meets your approbation.
I am dear sir
Yours faithfully
John Collingwood Bruce
T.J. Pettigrew Esq
London
Newcastle upon Tyne
Sepr. 18th 1850
My dear sir,
I have been from home examining two of the secondary stations of the Wall which are least accessible and which I had not visited before. My Manchester paper was very hastily written (owing to the pressure of my engagements) and of course never intended for publication. It was meant as a sort of popular address for such an audience as we had at Chester last year. Such as it is it is at your service if it be of any use. May I particularly request that the paper or the proofs may be read over by some one who will rectify any errors which in my haste I may have made. I have got the cuts from my printer now but I am sorry to say that having lent some of those you wish for to the editor of the Cambrian Arch. Journal the parcel was lost on its way back to me. Those which I have I will send by to nights mail.
I hope to get my book on the Wall out before Christmas, it was cost me a great deal of labour. I am obliged to you for carrying the amount of my Congress ticket to my account subscription.
I am my dear sir
Yours faithfully
John Collingwood Bruce
T.J. Pettigrew Esq.
London
Box 2, folder 89
Thomas Burgon to TJP
Dear sir,
I am very sorry I was from home when you favoured me with a call, and as I am always in the city all day, it is only in the morn or eve that I could hope to have the pleasure of seeing you except by appointment.
If you will have the goodness to inform me at what hour of the day it would be most convenient for you to see me I shall have much pleasure in bringing you the leaden seals found in the mummy which I think you expressed a wish to notice in your work & we could then fix a day for my showing you anything else which I possess which might interest you.
I am dear sir
Yours very truly
Tho Burgon
11 Brunswick Square
Saturday eve
25 Jan 1834
My dear sir
I must have appeared to you totally unworthy of your kindness & condescension, in having deferred for so many days, the acknowledgment of the favour conferred upon my by the ticket for your intended interesting lectures, but the fact is, that at the period of the receipt of your kind note, I was very unwell with the prevailing influenza, & on subsequent days my family all fell ill, one after the other, (including the servants) so that I have been nearly overwhelmed with anxiety as well as urgent business. I beg very particularly to apologise for my unintended neglect and need not add, how much pleasure I shall fell in being able to attend your Course on the new & interesting subjects you have chosen, & shall not fail to continue my recommendation to all my antiquarian friends.
Believe me
My dear sir,
Yours very sincerely,
Th Burgon
11 Brunswick Square
8th Feb 1837
Box 2, folder 92
Gilbert Thomas Burnett to TJP
Mr Burnett presents his compts to Mr Pettigrew & with thanks for the card [...] he shall have much pleasure in being present at Mr P's conversazione. Mr B would be much flattered should Mr P be inclined to waste an hour at the lectures St Georges Hospital, or be present at the M.B.S.
85 Norton St
8th March 1831
Box 3, folder 104
Patrick Chalmers to TJP
2 King Street, St James' Sq
9 June 1850
Dear Sir,
It is stated in some newspapers that Ld. Londesboro is to open his house to a select party of antiquaries tomorrow morng. I have not the honour of his lordships acquaintance and hardly know if I am right in asking if you can procure me a card of admission. Should you have the very least hesitation, pray consider this note as not written.
Yrs very faithfully,
Patrick Chalmers
T.J. Pettigrew Esq
Box 3, folder 109
Henry Curtis Cherry to TJP
Burghfield Rectory
W. Reading
23 August 1859
Sir,
You have been misinformed, in regard to my having made any collections for a local history of Berks. Some years ago, I undertook for my amusement and also with a view to publication, provided I was reimbursed all the necessary expenses, the genealogies of the County families founded on the visitations. I found it was hopeless to imagine that I should be otherwise than very much out of pocket by giving my labour to the Public, and so, I have abandoned the pursuit. A heavy domestic affliction has, for some time past, so thoroughly unnerved and dispririted me, that, beyond my ministerial duties, and providing for a very large family I have neither the time not the inclination for other matters. I remain, sir,
Your obedt. Servant
Hy. Curtis Cherry.
T.J. Pettigrew Esq.
Box 3, folder 114
Henry Christmas to TJP
30 Manor Street, Clapham
March 14. 1855
My dear sir,
I have greatly grieved to find that your note had not been forwarded to me from the Royal Society of Literature, I fear you have thought me very negligent.
I hasten to send you a ticket for the ladies which you can fill up as you please as to numbers.
I remain
My dear sir
Yours very faithfully
Henry Christmas
Box 3, folders 119
Prince Cimitile to TJP
Saturday 16
My dear Pettigrew,
I have an opportunity to send to Mr Accilles a parcel with the Pus for the inoculation of the cow pox - if you have got it or if you can get it Mr. Accilles and myself will feel very much obliged to you - the person will leave England on Monday evening so it is necessary to have the parcel ready for Monday morning at the latest.
believe me yours truly
Cimitile
Box 3, folder 120
William Reid Clancy to TJP
29. Oct. 1829
My dear sir,
[...]
I am unwilling to trespass upon your valuable time & thus write you this rambling note. I wish I could see you at any hour in Bishopwearmouth that I might submit to your inspection my splendid and valuable apparatus for experimenting on healthy & diseased human blood.
Ever yours
Most faithfully
W. Reid Clanny
Box 3, folder 131
Henry Clutterbuck to TJP
My dear sir,
I got your Note on Saturday too late to enable me to reply to it immediately, and my going out of town yesterday at an early hour precluded my seeing you.
The late proceedings at the society are indeed disgraceful. The perfect confidence that every one who knows you must have in your honour & integrity, would make them repel with disdain such contemptible charges. My connexion with the society being founded entirely & solely on the opinion I had gained of it through yourself, I should consider myself guilty of great injustice towards you did I not join heartily the numerous body of your friends in withdrawing myself a society that was not forward to discountenance such conduct, by every means in their power
I am with great regard
Yours most truly
H Clutterbuck
New Bridge Street
June 8 1818
T.J. Pettigrew Esq.
Box 4, folder 135
John Payne Collier to TJP
Riverside
Maidenhead
23 Jan 1855
My dear sir,
Your daughter should not want a copy of "the Pain & Sorrow of Evil Marriage" if I had one to give her - not however that she might take warning by it.
The fact is that, some months ago, I could easily have complied with your wish, but I sold all my needless books at Sotheby's, and now my only copy of "the Pain" is the one I have had bound up with my incomplete set of the Percy Publn. I have not one of the any of the later issues, since I ceased to be a member of the society. I remain,
My dear sir,
Yours very faithfully,
J. Payne Collier.
T.J. Pettigrew Esq.
Box 4, folder 136
William Bengo Collyer to TJP
56 East Street, Brighton, Sept 29 1819.
My dear Pettigrew,
It was with the most unfeigned sorrow that I learned from your letter of Saturday the afflicting loss which you have sustained. It is one to which no consolation can be tendered in words of condolence; and such alleviations as can be derived from human sympathy, and the sincere participation of friendship, you are already assured you possess, so far as I am concerned; and into all those feelings Mrs. Collyer enters, with deep & lively interest, both as it respects yourself and Mrs. Pettigrew[...]
Box 4, folder 142
Astley Cooper to TJP
My dear sir,
Being obliged to give the lecture in the evening you have had the kindness to invite me I am sorry it will not be in my power to have the honor of dining with you and with your illustrious and intelligent guest.
I am
Yours very truly
Astley Cooper
New St May 7th 1819.
Box 4, folder 144
James Copeland to TJP
My dear Pettigrew,
You will receive with this as particular an introduction to Annesley as I can give you. As I should like to have a few minutes conversation with your son, in order to make him a little acquainted with Annesley's character, I wish you could either bring him here, or I will call upon you, for that purpose, when it may suit you. If he likes he may be of some use to the young officer, as he has very great influence with those in power there and enjoys the finest medical reputation, especially as a successful practitioner in India.
If my letter to Annesley should be in any way the means of serving your son, I assure you that it will give me the most sincere gratification.
Believe me, dear Pettigrew,
Yours more sincerely,
James Copeland,
[...]
28th Feby. 1830.
Box 4, folder 148
Sir Michael Costa to TJP
I hope you will excuse me my dear Pettigrew if I do not come to dinner because I am very much engaged to finish my Opera, but I shall be happy to spend the evening with you - my brother accepts with great pleasure your kind invitation. Pray remember me to Mrs. Pettigrew & believe me in haste
Yours very truly
M Costa
Thursday evening
Box 4, folder 157
Thomas Crofton Croker to TJP
Rosamund's Bower
Fulham
22nd June 1844
My dear Sir,
I copy Mr Smith's letter which coupled with a leading article in the time-serving Times, you will at once perceive neither in tone nor temper is likely to advance the interests of the British Archaeological Society. I have written to Mr Way my sentiments upon this matter, fully - especially, as I think I proposed Mr Sidney Herbert and Captain Brandreth as members of the association. Pray let us discuss this Humphrey barrow question fully on Wednesday, and then we shall establish a barometer by which the new society can be understood. Forgive this pun, it is not mine, but Hook's and does not refer to Greenwich Park but to Sir John Barrow and the Quarterly Review.
Very truly yours,
T. Crofton Croker
British Archaeological Association
Rosamund's Bower
Fulham
11th September 1845
My dear sir,
I have written to Hincks urging him to forward his paper without loss of time and stating that we should be happy to illustrate it &c.
I have also written to the Revd. Mr Phelps as follows, dating it from York [...]
"I have submitted your communication to me to the Central Committee of the B.A.A. They regret that you should have made so erroneous a statement as that therein contained, and desire me to acquaint you they have ordered your name to be removed from the list of members." [...]
Today I have letters from Sir Thomas Deane, and from Sir William Chatterton desiring their names to be added to the list of subscribers for the Winchester Vol. which I will thank you to do.
Chatterton says - "One word to acknowledge the receipt of the Circular from the "Real, original Archaeological Association" N.B. no connection with any other house. As I suppose this comes from your worship I announce to you that I am quite ready to take a copy provided you do not insist upon my reading the 600 pages!"
Very faithfully yours,
T. Crofton Croker
Box 4, folder 158
George Cruikshank to TJP
48 Mornington Place
Feb 12th 1855
My dear Pettigrew
I am happy to say that Mrs Cruikshank is very much better already but she still have that nervous jerking - or sudden movement of the limbs - or in fact the whole of the body, you once prescribed some sort of drops as a remedy for this affliction: should she take this again? If so, be so good as to send a prescription by the bearer.
Yours
G Cruikshank
Box 4, folder 175
Duke of Devonshire to TJP
The Duke of Devonshire presents his compliments to Mr Pettigrew and will be happy to subscribe for a copy of the History of Mummies.
July 14 1833
Box 5, folder 202
Sir Henry Ellis to TJP
My Dear Sir,
I have sincere pleasure in acquainting you that I have drawn up a Certificate for you at our Society which goes, by the same messenger who brings this, to Amyot for his signature. I will afterwards obtain Combe's and Markland's, and you shall be suspens. per coll. on Thursday evening.
Believe me,
Most faithfully yours,
Henry Ellis
Bruce Grove
Tottenham
21 Oct. 1830
My Dear Pettigrew,
Your note takes me, after what I forwarded to you, quite by surprise: because from the letter I received I had formed a notion that Mr. Gilbert did not intend to resign the Presidency voluntarily: and you say "he has sent me his resignation in favor of the Duke of Sussex and H.R.H. has accepted of the nomination"
I dine with Bland tomorrow at six, and will call on you in Saville Row at Four or a little earlier.
I am ruralising for Vacation here in the midst of sloppy ways - not here voluntarily - but, like thousands more, have a house which I wish to let, and feel it might be kept aired at least a little till I find a tenant for it.
I conclude Mr Gilbert will not be desirous of going back to the Treasurership. But of this and all other matters when we meet tomorrow.
My kindest regards to Mrs. and Miss Pettigrew
Ever truly yours,
Henry Ellis
T.J. Pettigrew
My Dear Pettigrew,
I thank you for your kind reminder: and will obey it. But I have forgotten whether the Mummy is to be performed on at Saville Row or Charing Cross. A verbal answer will do, if you are at home.
Kindest regards to all around you,
Ever yours,
Henry Ellis
T.J. Pettigrew Esq.
&c &c &c
British Museum
22 January 1855
My dear Pettigrew,
I had intended calling to leave my card in Onslow Crescent first, in thanks for the copy of your 'Letter to the Members of the British Archaeological Association', and next as a call of friendship; but my occupations are so continuous, and so unforeseen in many instances where they come upon me, that I have not found time. So I thank you at once for the 'letter', and I cannot but unhesitatingly express, if it be only in compassion to the society, my sincere regret that a new and an unnecessary break-out should occur, at once distracting both the peace and the efficiency of the archaeological association.
Every truly yours,
Henry Ellis
Box 5, folder 212
Frederick William Fairholt to TJP
11 Montpelier Square
May 29/52
Sir
I cannot resist the desire I feel to write at once & thank you for the lucid and able manner in which you explained the fallacies of Mr Bruce last night at the Antiquaries; and for the manly attempt you made to save the Society's respectability, and prevent an act of mad suicide. I am so sure that you took the strictly proper view of the question, that I feel bound to thank you for the trouble and exertion you voluntarily underwent and I am sure the Society is much indebted to you in thus doing your best to save that position, which they have now forever lost.
I feel so strongly on this point that I cannot trust myself to say all that I feel on Mr Bruce's pamphlet, it is utterly illogical and inconclusive. I could attach little value to a simple question, which requires 47 octavo pages to expound, it looks too much like special pleading, while his preface repudiates any claims "morally or justly" [...]
Box 5, folder 223
William Stevenson Fitch to TJP
Ipswich September 3rd 1845
My dear sir
I received a note this morning from our mutual friend Sir William Betham, requesting me to send to you a copy of the letter from Sir Benjamin Tichborne to to King James the 1st, acknowledging the receipt of the warrant to stay the execution of the Lords Cobham and Grey, and Sir Griffin Markham, which was read by him at St John's room, at our late Winchester Congress.
I assure you it will give me much pleasure to aid the good cause, in any way in my power, but I fear in this instance it will not be [...] because it was printed with copious notes in one of the volumes of the Archaeologia, after it was exhibited before the Antiquarian Society in December 1824, by Mr. Amyot, to whom it was sent by a relative, the late Mr Bennett of Norwich, and I am sure that our virulent opponents would be glad to catch hold of any thing to attack us - and they would do so in this instance and accuse us of printing in our journal, what had been given to the public more than twenty years ago - and thank God we were not in the situation of the Parker party who are about to meet [...]
Box 5, folder 227
Thomas Forester to TJP
Ordericus.
Dear sir
Having ??? in my preface (vol I. IV) to what I consider the merit of Ordericus from the English point of view, and justice having been done to them, generally, in Guizot's 'Introduction'(V. IV. pp. XII X.L.) and De Lisle's Notice, there is little to add. This letter is, of itself, a valuable addition to the literary history of the Middle Ages.
The want of arrangement in Ordericus lessens its value as an historical work, but I have endeavoured to compensate for this by the analytical in the chronological & general index.
I have observed in a note (vol IV, p 141) that Ordericus is very happy in his description of natural occurences, as well as in his personal anecdotes, and his give a great [...] of reality to his work. See also the story, vol II, p 321 &c. Perhaps he is most happy in describing [...]
Box 5, folder 232
Henry Hall Gage to TJP
Lord Gage will be happy to subscribe for a large paper copy of Mr Pettigrew's intended work upon the subject of Mummies.
Firle 15th Aug 1833
NB Ld G requests that his consent may be kept as in several instances it has been insisted that he had subscribed to works which he never heard of. He therefore gives notice that he engages to take none that he may not remember, unless his consent can be produced.
Box 5, folder 241
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford to TJP
London 5 April 1833
My Dear Sir,
I had hoped to have thanked you in person today for all your kindness, a severe cold prevented my doing so. I should have had much pleasure in witnessing the curious exhibition at Charing Cross Hospital tomorrow; but as it must be my last day in town & having many ... to execute I have only to express how much I regret that I cannot avail myself of your kind & tempting offer.
Believe me
Yours ever faithfully
Gosford
T.J. Pettigrew Esq
&c &c &c
Box 6 folder 257
James Burton to TJP
St Leonard on sea
July 5 1833
Dear Sir
Please do insert my name as a subscriber to your History of Mummys
Yours very truly
James Burton
T.J. Pettigrew Esq.
&c &c &C
My dear Sir,
Our protege of the White River is, I understand, again confined to his bed. In the absence of Mr Hoskins, & of our friend Wilkinson, I am requested to ask you to have the kindness to pay him a visit.
Yours very truly,
James Burton
49 Jermyn St
Saturday eve
My dear sir,
I sincerely thank you for your account of the mummy of Petansutishane, which I have received from our friend Wilkinson, & which I sought to have acknowledged the or three days since.
Yrs truly obliged,
James Burton
49 Jermyn St
Monday
Box 6 folder 262
William Richard Hamilton to TJP
Chelsea
Feb 7 /37
My dear sir,
I beg return you my best thanks for your kindness in sending me an admission ticket for your lecture on Egyptian Antiquities, which I hope - at least some of them, I be able to attend.
[...]
WR Hamilton
12 Bolton Row
Oct 29/41
Dear Sir,
I shall be most happy to become a subscriber to your Encyclopaedia Aegyptiana, and am glad to hear that a book which may be so useful is in such good hands.
Yours truly,
WR Hamilton
Box 6 folder 263
Thomas Hancock to TJP
Lisburn
29th of 4th mo 1842
Dear Pettigrew
My relative Dr. Henry Richardson having just completed his professional education as surgeon & physician, and intending to take London on his tour to Paris, I take the liberty to introduce him to thy kind notice, as a young man of excellent character & qualifications. Knowing as I do thy extensive influence & acquaintance, may I venture to solicit thy kind interest & recommendation on his behalf in case he should with to see, in London or elsewhere, any particular object connected with the profession? He will be interested in seeing thy collection of Egyptian relics.
I am sorry that my health has not been good of late, of which he will inform thee. I shall be truly glad to hear of thy prosperity and also of the welfare of thy family.
My kind regard to thy wife & believe me
Thy sincere friend
Thos. Hancock
Box 6, folder 270
John Haslam to TJP
My dear Pettigrew,
I fully intended to avail myself of your kind invitation to view your Egyptian anatomist, whose fame has already reached me, and whose zeal to retrieve the ancient celebrity of the alexandrian school in that hot and occasionally pestilent climate intitles him to the highest commendation: but I am afraid of encountering the night air of this inclement season, and am actually labouring under a severe cold.
Yours most truly,
John Haslam
Hart Street
25 Jan 1833
My dear Pettigrew
Do not suppose me to have neglected your invitation to the Conversazione the truth is I have been unwell, and advised not to venture out in the evening. At your next meeting I fully intend to pay my respects.
Yours most truly
John Haslam
5 April 1832
2 Hart Street
Bloomsbury
Box 6, folder 273
Caesar Henry Hawkins to TJP
My dear Sir,
I ought to apologise for not having sooner answered your note, allow me however to say that I shall be very happy to have my name among the subscribers to your forthcoming work, as I have no doubt from the specimen we have already had at Charing Cross, that you will make the subject very interesting.
Believe me,
Very truly yours,
Caesar Hawkins
Half Moon Street
Monday morn.
Box 6, folder 274
Edward Hawkins to TJP
Mr Hawkins presents his Compl. to Mr Pettigrew, and sends him a copy of the Charter and Statutes of the Soc. of antiquaries, and requests him to insert in the margin any remarks, alterations or additions which he thinks may tend to the improvement of the Society, and to return it to him for the consideration of the Committee.
B.M.
20 Dec. 1852
Box 6, folder 275
Francis Hawkins to TJP
My dear sir,
I can shew you an autograph of Harvey, (which I suppose you can take off with tracing paper) and shall be happy to go to the College for that purpose. Perhaps you can meet me there on Thursday (the day after tomorrow) at 5 P.M.
The bust of Galen is said to be an antique and was presented to the college by Lord Ashburton
I am,
Dear sir,
Yours faithfully
Francis Hawkins
Curzon St
August 27.
My dear sir,
I am afraid that the question which you have sent me may be easily answered for the College of Physicians & almost the whole of its library were consumed by the Fire of London, 1666, only 112 volumes having been saved from the flames.
Yours faithfully
James Hawkins
Curzon St
March 23. 1838
Box 7, folder 309
Alfred John Kempe to TJP
3 Stamford Villas
Fulham
April 13th 1846
Dear Sir,
If I should not be from home to morrow I shall be happy to accept your friendly invitation for Sunday Evg next at 8 o'clock but if the weather should prove fair I shall be in absent in the country during the first [...] of the present week which will prevent me from the pleasure of meeting you.
The approaching election at the Society of Antiquaries on St George's day is necessarily a matter of great interest to all who are concerned for the due administration of the Society's affairs. Of the [...] List of the Officers and new Council I can be suffered to know nothing for it had not yet been issued to the Members.
I only hope when it does appear to find that the public assurances given by Sir Henry Ellis that the council is selected from the working Members of the Society will be verified; that we shall not find certain names repeated over and over again in [...] or alternate [...] from some secret influence of selection to the injury and exclusion of others who have by their personal exertions promoted the intents and objects of the society
[...]
Box 7 folder 310
Robert Masters Kerrison to TJP
New Burlington Street
Feb 5 1829
Many thanks, my dear sir, for your invitations of the 11th instant and 4th [...] to the Scientific Assemblage and the inspection of those interesting objects which your cultivated mind has prompted you to collect, & to display on those occasions.
I remain
Very truly yours
R.M. Kerrison
New Burlington Street
May 8th 1833
Dear Sir,
I have received your note with the prospectus for a History of Mummies -
The subject is one of interest & will, in your hands, become valuable to men of philosophical turn of mind, as well as to the mere practitioners of medicine - I will thank you to put down my name for a copy of the work, not on large paper.
& I remain
Dear Sir,
Very truly yours
R.M. Kerrison
New Burlington Street
August 31 1836
My dear sir,
I have read the printed address to the Governors of the Charing Cross Hospital which you sent to me yesterday, and cannot postpone the expression of my regret that you should have sustained so unkind a requital after many years of useful professional labour, during which time the present institution has been fostered to its completion and greatly aided by your activity and zeal.
It would be improper in me to offer an opinion, without learning what your adversaries have to advance (as arguments) but you seen to have made out so strong a case and to have stated such facts concerning improper management of the affairs of the institution and such gross partiality in the selection of persons to advocate particular [...] that, unless the Governors, as a body, take the management with their own hands and act as an independent body, upon just & broad principles the Hospital must soon fall & all its prospective usefulness become lost to the public.
Box 7 folder 317
Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig to TJP
British Museum
Monday
My dear Pettigrew
You must have been surprised not to see me yesterday, after having so eagerly accepted your invitation to be present at the opening of the mummy. The cause of my not being there was as unpleasant to me as was the effect. Confounded Museum & Somerset House business had so burdened me as to make me mistake the hour, for when I had got through it, on again looking at your card I was shocked to find myself about an hour after my time. I hope I shall be more fortunate the next time. Yours ever sincerely
Chas Konig
Box 7, folder 326
William Elford Leach to TJP
Br Museum 22nd Nov 1817
Dr Leach returns his most grateful thanks to Mr Pettigrew for the skin of the bear, which the bearer will take off, if he may be allowed to do so, without injuring the carcase for anatomical purposes.
Dr Leach will be very happy to show to Mr Pettigrew a very curious new bear from India and likewise some curious [...] in the anatomy of mollusques if Mr Pettigrew can call at the Museum [...]
Box 7, folder 328
Dr John Lee to TJP
My dear Sir
I had the pleasure of writing to you a few days ago to mention that the mummy is now at your disposal and may be opened at any time convenient to you, and it shall be sent to any place according to your directions.
I hope I may be able to come again on the 19th.
I remain
My dear sir
Your faithful humble servant
John Lee
Doctors Commons
June 14. 1833
Mr Burgon will be glad to shew you the seals which he took from a Grecian mummy.
My dear Sir
I have the pleasure of sending to you the No. 19 of the Encyclopedia Metropolitana and a copy of Mr Yates memoir on the Pyramids, the latter of which I request you to accept - and I send for your inspection nos. 1-9 or all the number of Monsieur Baillaud's work on Les arts et metiers d'Egypte &c &c which I possess - my copy of the Pantheon Egyptienne is not at home at present.
I remain
My dear sir
Your faithful humble servant
John Lee
Doctors Commons
November 16. 1833
My dear sir
On my return to London on Friday evening I received your note and the interesting work which you have had the kindness to present to me, and its value is enhanced in my esteem, by the manner in which is has been presented to me. You have however I think appreciated my services too highly; and I am gratified, if such as they have been, they have been of any use to you.
I have not hitherto had leisure to read the whole of the work, but I value highly that which I have examined, and every page contains abundant proof of your labor and [...] and taste in the selection of the materials - also a great part of the matter is entirely new, and your own, and I consider it a most valuable addition to the stores of Egyptian literature.
I remain
My dear sir
With must respect
Your faithful humble servant
John Lee
College
Doctors Commons
15 April 1834
My dear Sir
Mr Fox a medical gentleman of Godmanchester has heard and read of your mummy, and would be most gratified, to be permitted to see it before his departure home; he will be at the Antiquarian Society today, and I have taken the liberty of introducing him to you, by this note, in case you should be there, and if you can favor him with a sight of it, and also of your wax preparation, I should be much obliged to you.