| Description Of Item | Correspondence and articles relating to Sir James Mounsey, physician at the court of Russia and John Wilson's research on Sir James Wylie. Includes 'Some correspondence of Dr James Mounsey Physician to the Empress Elizabeth of Russia' by Graham C G Thomas, 1985; correspondence with John Appleby, author of the Dictionary of National Biography entry on Mounsey; and a draft of Wilson's entry in the DNB on James Wylie. Wilson had previously written an article 'Three Scots in the Service of the Czars' for The Practitioner, 1973 which included Mounsey. |