![JENNER (EDWARD) Autograph letter signed, upbraiding an over-anxious mother, [c.1800-1815]](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2011-10/10/8433856-94-1.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "JENNER (EDWARD) Autograph letter signed, upbraiding an over-anxious mother, [c.1800-1815] Sold for £2,500 inc. premium")
22 Nov 2011
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs, including the Property of the late Michael Silverman
Back to auction 18992
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs, including the Property of the late Michael Silverman
Back to auction 18992
JENNER (EDWARD)
Autograph letter signed ("EJenner"), to "My dear Madam", upbraiding an over-anxious mother: "I must reprove you – Your little Boy is undoubtedly somewhat indispos'd; but it appears to me that he is at present more under the influence of artificial than natural sickness. I shall call upon you today, & you will then know whether this opinion be well or ill founded – in the meantime put aside your Antimony and give him for his dinner some good Apple Dumplings with Cream & Sugar, or any thing of the like kind", 2 pages, paper watermarked '180...', short split at fold, remains of guard at foot, outer margin a little irregular, but overall in good condition, 8vo, Chauntry Cottage (Berkeley, Gloucestershire), "Tuesday noon" [c.1800-1815]
Sold for
£2,500
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 'SOME GOOD APPLE DUMPLINGS WITH CREAM & SUGAR': the pioneer of smallpox vaccination tenders some sound medical advice. Antimony, by contrast, was used as a purgative.
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