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Papers relating to John Hunter

The collection relates to Hunter’s dispute with St George’s Hospital and the division of pupils’ fees among the surgeons, which Hunter perceived as unfair, arguing he brought in more pupils than the other surgeons. The dispute culminated in a meeting in Oct 1793 at the hospital, during which Hunter suffered a heart attack and died.

In addition to the papers relating to the dispute, there are some additional notes, some collected by Charles Hawkins and some by George Edwards. These include copies of two letters from John Hunter’s pupil James Williams to his sister, describing working with Hunter, dissections and the work of the so-called ‘Resurrection Men’, and describing Hunter’s death. These were acquired apparently from a descendant of Williams by Edwards; the location of the original letters is unknown.

Two copy letters from James Williams to Mary Williams regarding Hunter’s death

Two letters from James Williams to his sister Mary in Worcester.

In the first letter, James Williams describes his daily work assisting John Hunter with preparations, and his attendance of Matthew Baillie’s lectures on anatomy and Everard Home’s lectures on surgery and physiology. He describes living with Hunter [at 13 Castle Square, backing onto Hunter’s Leicester Square residence], where his room is right below the ‘dissecting room with half a dozen dead bodies in it’, and how ‘there is a dead carcass just at this moment rumbling up the stairs and the Resurrection Men swearing most terribly’. He describes Hunter as a ‘very good kind of man when you have been used to him tho he has some oddities’. He states that the fee to attend dissections is five guineas, ‘besides buying bodies’, generally shared by two students and costing ‘about a guinea’. He asks for Mary’s watch as he does not have one himself, and it is as safe in London as it is in Worcester, promises to pay George back and asks for his books to be forwarded to him.

The second letter appears to have been written on the day of Hunter’s death. Williams states that Hunter had had ‘for these several years a very irregular spasmodic affection at his heart’. Williams describes having had breakfast with Hunter in the morning, after which Hunter left to see his patients and then to St George’s Hospital, where ‘the surgeons of this charity have been at variance with him … respecting some of the pupils’. Following ‘several words with the surgeons which brought on his complaint’, he died at the hospital. Williams says that Mrs Hunter [Anne Hunter] and their children were out of town. He says that ‘the other two pupils’ are leaving London for a while, and with no lectures he also plans ‘an excursion somewhere or other’.

These letters are transcripts and photocopies by George Edwards in 1968 from letters held by a descendant of James and Mary Williams (Edwards, George. 1968. John Hunter’s last pupil. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 42 (1):68-70).

Patricia Cobb

Items donated by/relating to Patricia Cobb, including:

  • correspondence between Cobb and St George's Chief Nurse Judy Anderson about donating prints of the hospital, Jul 1999
  • 6 prints/engravings (mixture of originals and facsimiles) of the St George's Hospital building at Hyde Park Corner, c.19th-20th century [one is dated 1831]
  • press cuttings about the Lanesborough Hotel, including a photograph of the building and a restaurant review by Jonathan Meades, c.1980s-1992

St George's Nursing Collection

  • 406 NU
  • Coleção
  • c.1830-2015

Collection charting the development of nursing education at St George's and related institutions from the 19th century to the present day.

The collection includes:

  • Student registers, training and examination records, prospectuses and syllabuses
  • Administrative records, including committee minutes, reports, rules and regulations
  • Publications and printed material including books, newsletters and journals
  • Papers, photographs and artefacts from St George’s Nurses’ League
  • Personal papers, memoirs and memorabilia from individual nurses, including papers of matron Dame Muriel Powell (c.1910s-­1970s)
  • Photographs, including student photographs, group photographs and personal photo albums
  • Artefacts and objects, including items of nurses' uniform, badges, medals, and medical instruments
  • ‘Nurses’ Voices’ oral history project: interviews with over 100 former St George’s nurses and midwives (and related documentation), recorded 2003-2008

From in-­job training at the hospital, nursing education was gradually formalised during the latter half of the 19th century. From 1882 onwards, probationer nurses were offered lectures by the medical school and hospital staff; these lectures developed into a more formal syllabus, becoming compulsory for probationers in the 1890s, and the first formal examinations were introduced in 1894. The archive charts the development of nursing education from the late 19th century to the 21st century, including important changes in the demographics of the nursing staff, such as the arrival of the Windrush generation.

The collection encompasses training of nurses at St George’s and related institutions: for instance, nursing training at Victoria Hospital for Children and Grove Hospital were merged with St George’s School of Nursing in the 1950s, leading to the establishment of a branch of the School of Nursing at Tooting, where St George’s Hospital and Medical School (later university) moved in the 1970s from Hyde Park Corner, central London.

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Letters

Five miscellaneous letters written by Florence Nightingale over several decades, apparently collected as memorabilia and with no obvious connection to St George's:

  • letter describing her experiences with the Deaconesses of Kaiserwerth, Germany [written double-sided on thin paper, so difficult to read], c.1850
  • letter relaying a message from Lady Canning that 'no more nurses are required at present in the East', 19 Jul 1855 [enclosed in card frame]
  • letter to Dr C. B. N. Dunn, requesting that he intervene with the overseer of a mill so that a girl who works there might be relieved of 'stooping work', and complaining about an uncooperative servant, 3 Nov 1880
  • letter to 'Messrs Mitchell' complaining about the quality of white bread ['it has often been not baked enough: quite pale-faced the crust'], 21 Oct 1885
  • Christmas greeting to a Miss Dr Macdonald, 26 Dec 1893
  • two envelopes addressed to Nightingale, one bearing the seal of the Crown Princess of Germany, c. 19th century [mounted on board]

Medical School Council Minutes and Papers

Minutes of meetings of the Medical School Council. Papers relate to staffing, salaries, funding, committees, costs, curriculum, prizes, examinations, new buildings and facilities, and various other matters.

In 1907 the Medical School Council merged with the Medical School Committee. There was further reorganisation of the medical school administration in 1945 which led to the vision of the Medical School Committtee into a new School Council and an Academic Board. The new School Council met for the first time in October 1946.

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Educational records and employment correspondence

Documents relating to Joan Nash's education and employment, including:

  • school reports (Nonsuch County School for Girls, Surrey), 1938-1942
  • certificates from St George's Hospital, General Nursing Council, Central Midwives Board, West Middlesex and Chiswick Hospitals, and University of London, 1950-1960
  • correspondence with St George's Hospital (including Muriel Powell and Eileen Rees), South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, Department of Health, World Health Organization and others, 1951-1986
  • University of London exam paper and pass list for the sister-tutor's diploma, 1960
  • CVs, job application forms/descriptions and accompanying notes, 1960s-1970s
  • copy of St George's Hospital 'General Rules for Student Nurse', nd
  • cover letter (card) from Peter Newman Brooks, 9 Jan 2006

Grove Hospital

File labelled 'Fever and Tropical Fevers' containing the following:

  • correspondence between Grove Hospital sister tutor Margaret Thomas and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (enclosing syllabus of lectures), Jun 1957
  • correspondence from the General Nursing Council, 1952-1957
  • transcripts and correspondence from former trainees, 1949-1953
  • receipts for books and stationery, 1940s-1950s
  • envelope labelled 'Fever Papers' containing GNC exam papers for fever nurses, 1955-1959
  • quarterly ward report forms and blank record of training form, 1940-1952
  • test paper from trainee nurse Grace Bradford, c.1940s

Mary Frayling

Items donated by/relating to Mary Frayling (née Leaning), including:

  • postcard from assistant matron Grace Hickie, Dec 1945
  • Christmas cards (including from St George's Nurses' League), c.1960s-1980s
  • three St George's Day evensong service programmes, 1974-1980
  • Country Life article on 'Future of St George's Hospital' by Marcus Binney, 11 Nov 1976
  • correspondence from J. A. Leeves (Nurses' League treasurer) and Olive Walden Jones, 1979-1980
  • invitation and programmes for St George's 250th anniversary thanksgiving service, 1983
  • press cuttings about redevelopment of St George's Hyde Park Corner site as hotel, 1980s-1990s
  • photocopied extract from 'Home from Sea' by Joy Packer, nd
  • identification badge worn at reunion, nd

Dorothy Jack

Items relating to Dorothy Jack, donated by her niece Gillian Wilson, including:

  • cover letter to Carol McCubbin from Wilson, explaining that Jack 'worked from 1946 on the Maternity Ward at Hyde Park Corner, I think as a kind of lay assistant, and kept mementoes of her grateful patients', 27 Jul 2005
  • cards and letters of thanks sent to Jack from patients/parents, c.1940s-1950s
  • press cuttings about St George's staff (including the nurses' team winning a tennis cup) or the hospital's maternity ward (including stories of notable births), c.1940s-1950s
  • 'Just Between Us Preemies' – booklet of cartoons drawn by American nurse Yvonne Shannon, promoting the Isolette infant incubator, c.1950s
  • programme for funeral of superintendent midwife Margaret Stiles, 1960

Correspondence

Correspondence received by June Hutton (née Shires), including Christmas and good luck/congratulation cards/telegrams from friends and family (one of which contains a sprig of dried heather), receipts, and letters from (amongst others) matron Muriel Powell. Also includes a 2006 cover letter addressed to Carol McCubbin from Brenda White (who donated items on Hutton's behalf).

Julie Hull

Items donated by/relating to Julie Hull (née Julia Kemp), including:

  • information sheets about St George's School of Nursing, c.1950s
  • class photograph annotated on reverse with names of students and their subsequent employment, c.1950s
  • St George's Hospital booklet of regulations for 'Medicines, Poisons and Dangerous Drugs' (with additional page of 'Duties of the Staff Nurses' inserted), 1951-1953
  • four letters from Muriel Powell, 1952-1957
  • General Nursing Council state examination papers and instructions to candidates, 1955-1957
  • programme for St George's Hospital Dramatic Society Christmas pantomime 'In Witch We Swerve', Dec 1955
  • St George's Hospital General Nursing course completion certificate, Dec 1956
  • envelope containing GNC certificate of registration and St George's certificate of one year service as staff nurse, 1957-1958
  • Royal College of Nursing certificate of admission to membership, Aug 1957
  • Central Midwives Board certificate of training in the administration of inhalational analgesics, Jul 1958
  • programme for Middlesex Hospital 57th annual variety concert, Oct 1958
  • letters from Hull to Dr [Elizabeth] Scott (about Muriel Powell) and the Honorary Secretary of St George's Nurses' League, 1998-1999

Minutes

Includes:

  • St George's Hospital Nurses' League Minute Book, 1951-1985
  • letter from Honorary Secretary Ann M. Hewson (Dec 1985) about the closure of the League, enclosing typed minutes for the 1985 Autumn meeting (with related correspondence, 1985-1986)

Peggy Dean

Two letters to Peggy Dean (née Dunstan) from Muriel Powell (May-Sep 1952) with accompanying envelope and index card recording the donation to the archive (in 1999)

Royal Richmond and related hospitals

Correspondence, separated with alphabetical dividers, relating to requests for references/transcripts from nurses who trained at the Royal Hospital, Richmond or occasionally other hospitals in the Kingston Group (Surbiton and Kingston). Copies of transcripts and original training records are sometimes enclosed.

St James' and related hospitals

Set of alphabetical files containing correspondence relating to requests for references/transcripts – often for the purpose of registration in North America – from nurses who trained at St James' Hospital or others that were incorporated into the South West London Hospitals Group School of Nursing (subsequently the St George's District School of Nursing), including the South London, Bolingbroke, and St Benedict's. Copies of transcripts and original training records are sometimes enclosed.

Elaine Frew

Items donated by/relating to Elaine Frew (née Bursnell), including:

  • envelopes containing St George's offer letter with accompanying correspondence (signed by Muriel Powell) and details of entry, 1959-1960
  • Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1961-1963
  • St George's School of Nursing Library membership card, c. 1961
  • programme for Evensong and Dedication of Altar Frontal at Hyde Park Corner, 12 Jun 1961
  • preliminary state examination card, 1962
  • St George's Hospital cloth badge, c.1960s
  • letter to Frew from Heather Bond of St George's Nurses' League, 14 May 1999

Janet Brown

Items donated by/relating to Janet J. V. Brown, including:

  • Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1961-1963
  • envelope containing congratulatory letter to Brown from K. M. Carver, Travelling Secretary of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 4 Jul 1960
  • correspondence from St George's Hospital (Muriel Powell) and the General Nursing Council, 1960-1962
  • GNC examination card, 1962

'In memoriam' file

Items retained by Nash in an 'In memoriam' file, including:

  • service programmes for funerals (of Philip Constable, Beatrice Dodwell, Brenda Mee, Muriel Powell, and Eileen Skellern) and commemorative events (St George's Day; Florence Nightingale Commemoration Day), 1978-1986
  • correspondence from Muriel Powell, Joan Clague and Phyllis Friend, 1966-1980
  • press cuttings of obituaries (of Powell and Dame Catherine Hall [the latter not originally in this folder, but stored loose]), book reviews, news items (about Margaret Scott Wright), etc., c.1976-1996
  • programme for 'Opening of St George's Hospital and Medical School by Her Majesty The Queen', 6 Nov 1980

Nurses' League Newsletter

Issues of St George's Nurses' League Newsletter for 1971, 1973 and 1976 (unnumbered series); 1996 (no 9); and 1998-2004 (nos 14-18, 20-23, 26). Also includes cover letters to library staff from Honorary Secretary Heather Bond (2000-2004), some of which enclose additional event information.

Royal Masonic Hospital

Correspondence between teaching staff in the schools of nursing at the Royal Masonic Hospital (Ravenscourt Park) and St George's Hospital relating to study programmes for Royal Masonic students on secondment to St George's for paediatric training. The letters are accompanied with copies of proposed study day programmes and timetables.

Lady Livingstone/Muriel Powell funds

Papers relating to charitable funds operated by St George's Nurses' League (and continued with the League's funds after its cessation), including:

  • correspondence about Lady Livingstone Fund, Jun 1982
  • proposals for a Dame Muriel Powell Award Fund and related correspondence, 1984-1987
  • meeting minutes (including discussion of the 'winding up' of the League and related notes, 1983-1986
  • St George's Nurses' League income and expenditure account statements, 1983
  • correspondence about applications for the Powell Award and the future of the fund (enclosing account statements), 1992-1994
  • copy of interview with Muriel Powell and memo announcing her memorial service, 1976-1979
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