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Letters relating to the Wrangham medal, making reference to the design (5 Feb. 1849) and production of the medals (21 Jan., 6 Feb. and 8 Oct. 1850).

36 fragments, eight of them carrying notes as to which volumes they had been removed from. The group include two English fragments of the versified life of St Catherine (items 1-2), a 13th century fragment from the end of the Joseph story of the Poème Anglo-Normand sur l'Ancien Testament, removed from shelfmark K.3.77 (item 3), two fragments from the Avignon Selichot (items 7-8), two fragments from a medical text in Latin (items 9-10), a fragment on civil and canon law (item 17), and a fragment removed from Dr Hooke's papers carrying the header "Regulae Cromocritica de [Urina?]" inscribed by W. Derham as "Turkish writings & other Rhapsodical Receipts" (item 23).

One letter is dated 29 Aug. 1858, the other is undated.

Opening of the letter is preceded by a poem of 7 verses by Robert Leslie Ellis dated 12 Jan. 1848.

One letter dated 24 Feb. 1849.

4 leaves of a diary.

Letters dated 15 Feb. 1848 - 23 Jan. 1856.

From note on verso: 'Mrs Affleck's settlement, etc. Important as a memorandum.'

One letter is dated 12 Oct. 1848, the other is dated 29 Mar. [18--].