[Astley Cooper [Sir Astley Paston Cooper], distinguished anatomist.] Correspondence with fellow-surgeon Nicholas Birch, comprising two Autograph Letters Signed and six Autograph Notes Signed.

Giving an insight into the nuts and bolts of Georgian medical practice. See Cooper's entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient was the son-in-law of the apothecary William Complin (1729-1808), and lived in Mansell Street from the latter’s death until his own, and was possibly succeeded at the address by his son George, also a surgeon. The material is in good condition, lightly worn, on aged paper. All items 1p, 12mo, and four on bifoliums addressed on second leaf. All six signed ‘Astley Cooper’. ONE: ALS. ‘Tuesday’. ‘My dear Sir / I have for many months made up my mind to be in London only three days in the week viz. Monday Tuesday and Friday - I shall be happy to have the honor of visiting Lord Kingston to day with you but I cannot do so tomorrow - Will 1/2 past one to day be convenient to him & to you’. TWO: ALS. He was ‘obliged to go to Worcester on Friday Evening & my engagement to meet you I unfortunately forgot untill after I had left London’. He suggests another date and time. THREE: AN. ‘Monday Mng’, With two postmarks: 4 October 1824 and ‘T. P / Charing Cross’. Addressed to ‘Mr Birch Esq / Surgeon / Mansel St / Goodmans Fields’. Expressing a willingness to see him ‘any morning this week before one o clock’. FOUR: AN. Two postmarks: 18 October 1824 and ‘T. P / Charing Cross’. ‘At four o clock on Wednesday I will have the pleasure of meeting you in Change Alley’. FIVE: AN. 23 March 1827. Altering the time of a meeting, as ‘Something particular has occurred’. SIX: AN. ‘I shall be happy to see you any morning this week before one o clock’.