Lot 297 , Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister, (1827-1912) [British surgeon, medical scientist, the ‘’father’’ of antiseptic surgery], an a/l, dated 23rd February 1902, 1p, 12mo, black-framed mourning letterhead [respecting the death

° Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister, (1827-1912) [British surgeon, medical scientist, the ‘’father’’ of antiseptic surgery], an a/l, dated 23rd February 1902, 1p, 12mo, black-framed mourning letterhead [respecting the death of Queen Victoria], from 12, Park Crescent, Portland Place, to a Mr Bradford, [Lister’s biographer, J.R. Bradford?] - ‘’I should be glad to see you for a minute or two sometime tomorrow, but not unless quite convenient. Very truly yours, Lister’’, together with an unrelated envelope written by Princess Alice of Hesse, to an unknown recipient, addressed to St Katharine’s, Regent Park, the reverse bearing the Princess’s wax seal (2)
£60-100

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