The Many Facets of DR William Hunter (1718–83)

Abbreviations used:.

H: Hunter Papers, Hunterian Library, Glasgow University.

H-B: Hunter-Baillie Papers, Royal College of Surgeons, England.

R.S., L&P: Royal Society, Letters and Papers.

Thomson: Thomson J. , An account of the life, lectures and writings of Dr. William Cullen (Edinburgh, 1832).

Walpole: Correspondence of Horace Walpole , ed. by Lewis W. S. (39 vols, New Haven, 1937–74).

Adams J. , Memoirs of the life and doctrines of the late John Hunter, Esq (London, 1817), 120.

d'Azyr Vicq , “Éloges historiques, William Hunter”, Oeuvres de Vicq d'Azyr (Paris, 1805), i, 352–88.

Hunter W. to Cullen W. , 29 July 1758, in Thomson, i, 548.

Hunter J. Sr , to Hunter W. , 28 July 1741, H-B, i, f. 51.

Hunter W. to his mother, 3 June 1742, H-B, ii, f. 3.

Hunter James to Hunter W. , 24 March 1741, H-B, i, f. 13.

Hunter W. to Hunter James , 17 Sept. 1743, H-B, ii, f. 5; 22 June 1744, H-B, ii, 12a; 23 March 1745, Autograph Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Hunter John to Hunter W. , 11 July 1761–22 Feb. 1763, H-B, ii, ff. 2, 7, 12, 14, 15, 18; H, 493.

H-B, i, f. 91.

W. Hewson's dispute with Hunter W. , Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.

W. Hunter's accounts with Drummond's Bank, now Royal Bank of Scotland, Charing Cross, London, and with the Bank of England.

Walpole H. to Lady Ossory, 3 Dec. 1776, Walpole, xxxii, 334.

Foot J. , The life of John Hunter (London, 1794), 250.

J. Hunter's paper to the Royal Society, 14 Jan. 1780, R.S., L&P, vii, 138.

Monkhouse W. B. , Notes of W. Hunter's Anatomy Lectures c. 1755, Wellcome Institute Ms. 2965.

Hunter W. to Secretary of the Royal Society, 3 Feb. 1780, R.S., L&P, vii, 138.

Hunter J. to Secretary to the Royal Society, 17 Feb. 1780, ibid., 140.

Anonymous student notes of Colin Mackenzie's midwifery lectures, 1770, Wellcome Institute Ms. 3392.

Dorothy Baillie to Hunter W. , 13 June 1761, H-B, vii, f. 9.

Mackenzie J. S. to Mure Baron , 15 Feb. 1763, in Mure W. , Selections from the family papers at Caldwell (Glasgow, 1854), Part 2, vol. i, 171.

Hume David to Strahan William , 13 Nov. 1775, Letters of David Hume , ed. by Greig J. Y. T. (Oxford, 1932), 305; Baillie James to Hunter W. , 15 Nov. 1775, H-B, i, f. 5.

Baillie James to Hunter W. , 15 Nov. 1775, about planting trees at Longcalderwood , ibid., i, f. 5.

Archbishop of Canterbury to Hunter W. , 21 March 1780, confirming award of Warren Exhibition to Baillie Matthew , ibid., i, f. 21.

Matthew Baillie to Hunter W. , 10 April 1779–2 July 1781, from Oxford with Latin exercises, ibid., vii, ff. 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 25.

Dorothy Baillie to Hunter W. , 24 April 1780, ibid., ii, f. 25.

Baillie Dorothy to Baillie Matthew , ibid., ii, f. 20.

W. Hunter to Cullen William , c. 1778, Thomson, 562.

Benjamin Rush to John Morgan, Ms. scrapbook, ii, f. 27, College of Physicians, Philadelphia; Thomas Parke Journal, 22 Oct. 1771, Pemberton Papers, Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Cullen W. to Hunter W. , 9 Oct. 1751, Thomson, 541.

Cullen W. to Hunter W. , 9 Aug. 1751, Thomson/Cullen Papers, Ms. Gen 2255, Glasgow University Library.

Hunter W. to Cullen W. , 3 Aug. 1754, Thomson, 545.

Hunter W. to Cullen W. , 17 May 1757, Thomson, 547.

Hunter W. to the Earl of Bute, 1763, Hunter , Two introductory lectures (London, 1784), 117.

Hunter W. to the Right Hon. George Grenville, 1765, ibid., 129.

Hunter W. to Cullen W. , 29 April 1765, Thomson, 150.

Hunter W. to Cullen W. , 16 Nov. 1756, Thomson, 100.

Hunter W. to Cullen W. , 29 Dec. 1771, Thomson, 615.

Cullen W. to Hunter W. , 5 Feb. 1776, Thomson, 557.

Cullen W. to Hunter W. , 17 Sept. 1776, H-B, i, f. 25.

Cullen W. to Hunter W. , 21 Aug. 1775, Thomson, 564.

Cullen W. to Hunter W. , n.d., Thomson, 562.

Cullen W. to Hunter W. , 21 Aug. 1775, Thomson, 564.

Smollett Tobias to Hunter W. , 15 Oct. 1750, H, 127.2.

Smollett Tobias to Hunter W. , c. 1752, H-B, i, f. 89.

Smollett Tobias to Hunter W. , 2 Oct. 1762, H-B, i, f. 40.

An account of a particular kind of rupture, by Percivall Pott, reviewed in Critical review , iii (1757), 284–5.

Medical observations and inquiries by a Society of Physicians in London, reviewed in Monthly review , xvi (1757), 541–58.

Medical observations and inquiries by a Society of Physicians in London, reviewed in Critical review , iv (1757), 35–46.

Hunter W. to Smollett Tobias , 23 Aug. 1767, Waller Library, Uppsala.

De venis lymphaticis volvulosis… by Monro Alexander , reviewed in Critical review , iv (1757), 223.

[ Primus Alexander Monro ], “To the authors of the Critical review”, Critical review, iv (1757), 432–6.

Hunter W. to Smollett Tobias , 18 Nov. 1757, Pennsylvania Historical Society, B. Rush Mss., 28, f. 49.

Smollett Tobias to Hunter W. , 6 Feb. 1764, H-B, i, f. 92.

Smollett Tobias to Hunter W. , 9 Jan. 1771, Scots magazine , lxvii (1805), 331–2.

Fielding John Sir to Hunter W. , 4 Dec. 1778, H-B, i, f. 30.

Ramsay Allan to Hunter W. , 17 May 1759, Denistoun J. , Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange Knt and of Andrew Lumisden his brother-in-law (London, 1855), ii, 300.

Burney Charles Dr to Hunter W. , 3 Feb. 1779, H-B, i, f. 16.

Burney Charles Dr to Hunter W. , 18 Feb. 1779, R.S., L&P, vii, 91.

Beauclerk Lady Diana to Hunter W. , n.d., H-B, i, f. 12.

Reynolds Joshua Sir to Hunter W. , [17 March 1770], British Artists Box, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Heberden William M.D., F.R.S., to Hunter W. , 3 Nov. 1770, H-B, i, f. 44.

Bryant Jacob to Hunter W. , 3 Oct. 1780 and 9 Sept. 1781, H, 240 and 238.

Chamier Mr to Hunter W. , 29 June 1773, H, 297.

Johnson Samuel Dr to Hunter W. , 29 Dec. 1774, H-B, i, f. 53.

Ramsay Allan to Hunter W. , 1 June 1778, H-B, i, f. 73; 2 June 1778, The letters of Samuel Johnson , ed. by Radford B. (Oxford, 1992), iii, 117–18.

The letters of Samuel Johnson , ed. by Hill G. Birkbeck (Oxford, 1892), ii, 437.

Walpole Horace to Hunter W. , 7 Oct. 1773, H-B, i, f. 103; c. 1780, letter tipped into Hénault C. J. F. , Cordelie vestale tragedie (Strawberry Hill, 1768), Hunterian Library, Glasgow University.

Simmons S. Foart , Life and writings of Dr. William Hunter (London, 1783), 24.

Marquis of Rockingham to Hunter W. , 18 Feb. 1768, H-B, i, f. 107.

Marquis of Rockingham to Hunter W. , 6 Dec. 1770, H, 265.

Joseph Priestley to Hunter W. , 19 March 1775, H-B, i, f. 71.

Jan Ingenhousz to Hunter W. , 18 April, 8 July 1772, 8 Jan. 1773, H, 193; 17 April 1782, H, 334; 3 July 1782, H, 340.

Prof. Robert Simpson to Hunter W. , 9 July 1761, H-B, i, f. 86; Prof. John Millar to W. Hunter, 22 Feb. 1762, H-B, i, f, 59; W. Hunter to Prof. Thomas Reid, 26 March 1778, H-B, vii, f. 17a; W. Hunter to Prof. Hamilton Thomas , Edinburgh philosophical transactions, iv (1798), 37.

Prof. John Anderson to Hunter W. , n.d., H-B, vii, f. 10.

W. Hunter to Cullen W. , 13 Dec. 1755, Thomson, 89.

Boney A. D. , The lost gardens of Glasgow University (London, 1988), 185.

Robert Foulis to Hunter W. , 5 Sept. 1761, H-B, i, f. 35; 11 Dec. 1771, Murray D. , “Some letters of Robert Foulis”, Scottish historical review, April 1917, 253–5.

Hunter W. to Cullen W. , 1 Oct. 1754, Thomson, 660.

Fox R. H. , Dr. John Fothergill and his friends (London, 1919), 146.

Robertson William , Principal, Edinburgh University to Hunter W. , 30 Oct. 1767, H-B, i, f. 79.

Luscombe Samuel to Hunter W. , 5 May 1769, Hunter W. , Medical commentaries, 2nd edn, Supplement (London, 1764), 14–15.

Moffat J. to Hunter W. , 14 Nov. 1763, ibid., 21.

Black Joseph to Hunter W. , 1 July 1760, Hunter W. , Medical commentaries (London, 1762).

[ Monro A. ], Critical review, iv (1757), 432–6.

Hewson W. , “An account of the lymphatic system in amphibious animals” and “An account of the lymphatic system in fish”, Philosophical transactions, lix (1769), 198–203, 204–15.

Benjamin Franklin to Hunter W. , 30 Oct. 1772, H-B, i, f. 36.

Hewson W. , “Complaint against Hunter” (see ref. 10).

Stevenson L. G. , “William Hewson, the Hunters and Benjamin Franklin”, Journal of the history of medicine, viii (1953), 324–8.

Ibid.

Rowley W. , A letter to Dr. William Hunter … on the dangerous tendency of medical vanity (London, 1774).

Da Costa E. M. to Hunter W. , 10 Jan. 1771, Spencer Percival Papers, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, packet L. William Hunter to E. M. Da Costa, 10 Jan. 1771, Stone Papers, Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Hewson W. to Morgan J. , 24 Feb. 1764, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.

Schwellenberg Madam , Mistress of the Queen's Robes, to Hunter W. , 5 Nov. 1769, H-B, i, f. 82.

Madam Schwellenberg to Hunter W. , 11 Sept. 1769, H-B, i, f. 83.

Madam Schwellenberg to Hunter W. , n.d., H-B, i, f. 82.

Hunter W. to Cullen W. , 7 Dec. 1774, Thomson, 556.

Pitt William to Hunter W. , n.d., H-B, i, f. 69.

Chatham Lady to Hunter W. , 8 May [1762], H-B, i, f. 70.

Earl of Suffolk to Hunter W. , 18 Feb. 1767, H-B, i, f. 46.

Earl of Sandwich to Hunter W. , 21 Aug. 1774, H-B, i, f. 61.

Walpole Robert to Hunter W. , 4 Nov. 1762, H-B, i, f. 104.

Mackenzie J. S. to Mure Baron , 15 Feb. 1763, Mure , op. cit. (ref. 20), 171.

Smollett Tobias to Hunter W. , 11 July 1763, H-B, i, f. 100.

Hume David to Straham William , 13 Nov. 1775 (see ref. 21), 305.

Trail James , Bishop of Down and Connor, to Hunter W. , 14 Nov. [1765], H-B, i, f. 100.

Fothergill John Dr to Hunter W. , 11 May 1768, H-B, i, f. 33.

Hertford Lady to Walpole Horace , 16 Dec. 1765, Walpole, xxxix, 37, 49.

Wedderburn Alexander to Hunter W. , n.d., H-B, i, f. 108.

Leechman Principal to Hunter W. , 20 June 1778, H-B, i, f. 55.

Barclay Robert to Hunter W. , 20 March 1782, Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.

Hunter W. to Camper Petrus , n.d., Bibliotheca Medica Neerlandica, Library of Amsterdam University.

Camper Petrus to Hunter W. , 24 March 1773, H, 127a.

Camper Petrus to Hunter W. , 8 Nov. 1774, H-B, i, f. 42.

von Haller Albrecht to Hunter W. , 21 Sept. 1764, H-B, i, f. 42.

Hunter W. to von Haller Albrecht , 28 July 1765, Berger Bibliothek, Bern Mss. His. Helv., xxiv, 100.

von Haller Albrecht to Hunter W. , 4 Sept. 1765, Waller Library, Uppsala University.

Hunter W. to von Haller Albrecht , 23 Jan. 1775, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Handschriften Abteilung, Berlin.

De Luc J. A. to Hunter W. on behalf of the Haller family, 9 May 1779, Ms. Gen. 1587, f. 17, Glasgow University Library.

Morgan John , on behalf of the Anatomy Class, to Hunter W. , 18 March 1761, H, 43.

Young J. , “William Hunter”, Record of the ninth jubilee of the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, 1901), 97–119.

Carlyle A. , Anecdotes and characters of the times, ed. by Kinsley J. (London, 1973), 175.

Gibbon Edward to Hunter W. , [Jan. 1777], H-B, i, f. 40.

Walpole, xxix, 86, note 8.

Four letters from Lynn J. to Hunter W. , 1754, H, 72; Hey W. to Hunter W. , 19 May 1767, H, 74; answers from Loftie W. to queries from Hunter W. , H, 77.

Anonymous pupil to Hunter W. , n.d., Spencer Percival Papers, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, packet J 58.

Bell G. to Hunter W. , 17 June 1773, H, 114.

Welton G. to Hunter W. , 6 Sept. 1774, H, 5.

Hagnet to Hunter W. , 1771, H, 85.

Bent J. , “An account of a woman enjoying the use of her right arm after the head of the os humerus was cut away”, Philosophical transactions, lxiv (1774), 353–9.

Crell L. F. L. , “Experimenta quaedam novum acidum animale spectantia”, Philosophical transactions, lxx (1780), 109–27.

Bruce J. , “Some observations upon Myrrh made in Abyssinia in the year 1771”, Philosophical transactions, lxv (1776), 408–17.

Bruce James to Hunter W. , Feb. 1775, H-B, i, f. 15.

Macbride D. , Experimental essays on medical and philosophical subjects (London, 1764).

Draper D. to Hunter W. , 26 Jan. 1767, H, 125.

Marshall A. , Catalogue of the anatomical preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Museum of Anatomy, Glasgow University (Glasgow, 1970).

Hunter W. , “Observations on the bones, commonly thought to be elephant bones”, Philosophical transactions, lxviii (1768), 34–45.

Hunter W. to Pennant Thomas , 19 Feb. 1770, H, 149.

Hunter W. , “An account of the Nyl-ghau, an Indian animal”, Philosophical transactions, lxi (1771), 170–81.

Walpole Horace to Hunter W. , 7 Oct. 1773, H-B, i, f. 103.

Rolfe W. D. I. , “William Hunter (1718–1783) on Irish ‘elk’ and Stubbs's Moose”, Archives of natural history, xi (1983), 263–90.

Hunter , Two introductory lectures (ref. 33).

Ramsay R. to Hunter W. , 19 Nov. 1761, H, 47.

Hunter W. to Russell Patrick , Farmer Ms. 561, Glasgow University Library.

Hunter W. to Hume David , 15 Aug. 1764, H, 117.

Comte de Viry to Hunter W. , 15 Sept. 1769, H, 20a; material from Madrid, H, 120 b and c.

Material sent to David Hume in reply to W. Hunter's inquiry, H, 119.

Draft of W. Hunter's paper to the Royal Society, 14 Dec. 1775, H, 121.

Correspondence over the purchase of William Dawe's coin collection, H, 249–52.

Correspondence over the purchase of Peralta coin collection, 1772–1773, H, 267–95.

Hamilton William Sir to Hunter W. , 31 March 1772, tipped into DL. 1.29, Hunterian Library.

Hamilton William Sir to Hunter W. , 23 June – 23 Aug. 1781, H, 323–9.

Correspondence between Hunter W. Ingenhousz Jan , 1772–82, H, 193, 334–46.

Wood W. , Philadelphia to Hunter W. , 29 Feb. 1778, H, 181.

Wilkinson J. Dr to Hunter W. , 17 Aug. 1779, British Library, Add. Mss. 6127, f. 238.

Hunter W. to Wilkinson J. Dr , 16 March 1780, Hunterian Society, Mss. 5608, f. 25, Wellcome Institute.

Bryant Jacob to Hunter W. , 9 Sept. and 3 Oct. 1780, H, 238, 240.

Robertson William , Principal of Edinburgh University, to Hunter W. , 30 Oct. 1767, H-B, i, f. 79.

Young J. Aitken P. H. , Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, 1930), Ms. 315, W. Hunter's list of books borrowed.

Hunter W. to Astle Thomas , 8 Sept. 1780, lending him a Ms. that is not now in the Hunterian Library. Hunterian Society Ms. 5608, f. 26, Wellcome Institute.

Bedford J. to Hunter W. , 29 Sept. 1782, H, 195.

Baillie Joanna in Croker J. W. , n.d., Edinburgh University Manuscript Collection.