- GB 406 PP/JH/1/13
- Stuk
- 1793
Two draft statements, including an undated draft , regarding the dispute between Hunter and the hospital on pupils’ fees. The statement addresses in detail each of the charges made by Hunter, and responds to them over 23 pages. Written in one main hand, with sections crossed out and annotations in another hand.
Draft 12-page statement titled 'To the Committee (at St George’s Hospital) appointed to examine the Laws relative to the Surgeons Pupils, and to consider of the best methods of imptoving their Education. We the undersign’d be leave to make the following Statement’, signed by Gunning, Walker and Keate and dated 27 May 1793. In two hands, with annotations in pencil in a third hand.
Note signed ‘C.H.’ [Charles Hawkins] describing the statement as ‘Reply of Mr John Gunning, William Walker, Thomas Keate, surgeons to St George’s Hospital, to John Hunter’s address to the Governors of the hospital dated February 28, 1793. The corrections are in the hand & writing of Mr Thomas Keate, only just elected surgeon = 11. May 1792. Hunter had been elected on 9. Dec 1768’. Annotated in pencil in another hand ‘Handwriting of Wm Walker’