Letters between William Cuming, M.D., and Richard Gough, esq., chiefly relating to Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire: with others on miscellaneous subjects

Title

Letters between William Cuming, M.D., and Richard Gough, esq., chiefly relating to Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire: with others on miscellaneous subjects

Shelfmark

MS. Top. gen. c. 8

Summary

'Letters between William Cuming, M.D., and Richard Gough, esq., chiefly relating to Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire: with others on miscellaneous subjects.' There are about 197 letters from Cuming to Gough, 1770-87 (fol. 6, etc.), about 112 drafts of letters from Gough to Cuming, 1770-87 (fol. 8, etc.). There are also about thirty-two letters from Cuming to John Nichols (1773-5; fols. 10, 52, etc.), Emmanuel Mendes Da Costa (1776-83; fol. 383, etc.), and others, with ten replies (some copies) from Nichols, and sixteen, all unsigned, from Da Costa. There are formal documents about Hutchins's Dorset at fols. 20, 362.

Date

written in A.D. 1770-1790, by W. Cuming, R. Gough, etc.

Language

English

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

634 Leaves

Custodial history

Lot 1104 in the Gough Nichols sale, 1874. Fols. 624-31 (four letters from Gough to J. C. Walter, 1788-90) were purchased in April, 1885.

Gough Nichols coll. vol. no. 16 (from 1874 to about 1884).