List of Newspaper Items Concerning Dr. Mayersbach 1776/7

Publication Date	Newspaper	MS.3247	Author	Description	Text
6/7/76	Gazetteer			Advertisement for “An Essay on the Inspection of the Urine”	Transcript
9/8/76	Gazetteer			Advertisement for “Free Thoughts on Quacks and their Medicines”	Transcript
19/8/76	Gazetteer			Advertisement for “Observations Preparatory to the Use of Dr. Myersbach’s Medicines”	Transcript
22/8/76	Gazetteer		London Spy	Letter defending Mayersbach This refers to an earlier letter to the Gazetteer which I do not have. Maybe this is MS.3247/1 which may have been published at the beginning of June 1776.	Transcript
?	Gazetteer	1	Lettsom?	H.F. a young gentleman 9/6
29/8/76	Gazetteer	2	A.B. (A.Bell)	Letter telling story about the gelding's urine	Transcript
6/9/76	Gazetteer	4	London Spy	Letter replying to A.B.’s letter of 29/7/76 and claiming that Mayersbach had been offered by the author of the pamphlet “two five hundred pound Bank notes to be admitted into partnership with him”	Transcript
7/9/76	Gazetteer	3	L. (Lettsom)	Letter adding to A.B.’s letter of 29/7/76	Transcript
18/9/76	Gazetteer	5	Lettsom	Letter replying to London Spy’s letter of 6/8/76. Lettsom admits he is the author of Observations.	Transcript
18/9/76	Gazetteer	6	Johan Toennius	A copy of a letter sent to Lettsom.	Transcript
24/9/76	Gazetteer	7	London Spy	Letter replying to Lettsom’s letter of 18/9/76.	Transcript
26/9/76	Gazetteer	8	J. C. LETTSOM	Letter I	Transcript
26/9/76	Gazetteer	9	Hausmann	Extract of a Letter from Dr. Myersbach’s Apothecary Start of second paragraph - manuscript note - appear to be bits missing.	Transcript
26/9/76	Gazetteer	9	J. C. LETTSOM	Case I.	Transcript
26/9/76	Gazetteer		A.B.	Letter complaining he has been sent to Coventry.	Transcript
26/9/76	Gazetteer		Editor of the Gazetteer	Declining to publish further letters from London Spy “till we have the pleasure of knowing the author”	Transcript
27/9/76	Gazetteer	9	PROBE	Letter criticising Haussmann	Transcript
28/9/76	Gazetteer	9	Lettsom	Response to London Spy and Cases II - V	Transcript
~28/9/76	Public Ledger	10	Mayersbach
~1/10/76	Morning Chronicle	11	Galen	Poem
~26/9/76	Gazetteer	12	Lettsom	Cases 6-8
~3/10/76	Gazetteer	13	John Robinson
4/10/76	Morning Chronicle	15	Jalap	Letter comparing, unfavourably, Lettsom's “Observations ...” to an “Essay on the Inspection of the Urine ...”	Transcript
5/10/76	Morning Chronicle	16	An Enemy to Impostors	Stories about Angelo and Lord Baltimore	Transcript
7/10/76	Morning Chronicle	14 (XIV)	Eliz. Smart	Manuscript note: “A real name. She is since married”	Transcript
~3/10/76	Gazetteer	14 (XIIII)	Joseph Barber
~7/10/76	Gazetteer	17	Eliz. Smart
~7/10/76	Gazetteer	18	Lettsom E.H	Cases 9-11
~7/10/76	Public Ledger	19	Lettsom E.H.	Manuscript note: “E.H. is E.Hall”
~8/10/76	Gazetteer	20	Cassius	Manuscript note: “Dr. Lettsom”
~8/10/76	Public Ledger	21	Haussmann
9/10/76	Morning Chronicle	22	Hippocrates	Manuscript note on Lettsom's copy: “J.Phillips”	Transcript
~7/10/76	Public Ledger	23	Haussmann
~3/10/76	Whitehall Evening ?	24	Sally Sly?
12/10/76	Morning Chronicle	25	Cassius	Manuscript note: “Dr. Lettsom”	Transcript
~10/10/76	Gazetteer	26	Lettsom	Cases 12-20
~12/10/76	?	27	Mayersbach	Notice of oaths taken at Guildhall 12/10/76 by Alexander Mayersbach and John Anthony Koch
14/10/76	Morning Chronicle			Advertisement for “An Answer to Dr. Lettsom’s pamphlet,....”	Transcript
15/10/76	Morning Chronicle	28	Anonymous	Dialogue between Galen and Hippocrates	Transcript
~17/10/76	Gazetteer	29	John Willen
~15/10/76	Gazetteer	30	Amicus
~11/10/76	?	31	J.Kirke	Manuscript note - “Lately I happened to procure the prescriptions for both J. Kirke’s children, in Mayersbach’s own handwriting as under; the first as an absorbent powder, the second, birth drops, which performed such miracles.” The prescription is undecipherable.
~14/10/76	Gazetteer + others?	32	Cassius	Manuscript note: “Dr. Lettsom” “In the conclusion of October, 1773, Mr Mayersbach lived in a room at a shoemaker’s in Rupert-street, Goodman’s field, where his wife was attacked with a fever, and died, under the attendance of Mr. Taennius, of Mansell-street, and left a son named Alexander.”
~11/10/76	Gazetteer + other	33	Chris Bock	Manuscript note: “Since accepted the post of Surgeon's mate”
~19/10/76	Public Ledger + other	34	Philalethes	Manuscript note: “Dr. Ry??”
~19/10/76	Public Ledger	35	A lover of truth
~21/10/76	?	36	Twig	Poem
~21/10/76	Gazetteer	37	Lettsom	Cases 48-50
~21/10/76	?	38	John Willan
~17/10/76	Gazetteer	39	Sally Sly
~23/10/76	Gazetteer	40	A distressed undertaker
~22/10/76	Gazetteer	41	Lettsom
~23/10/76	Gazetteer	42	Impartial Spectator
~25/10/76	Gazetteer + other	43	?	Anecdote of the famous Culpeper
~25/10/76	Gazetteer	44	A.Mayersbach	Hatton-Street
~25/10/76	Gazetteer	45	A Physician	Manuscript note: “Dr. Fothergill”
~19/10/76	Gazetteer	46	INSPECTOR	Dr Hulme
~17/10/76	Gazetteer	47	?	To Mr Angelo
~27/10/76	Gazetteer	48	Lettsom
30/10/76	Morning Chronicle			Advertisement for “The New Method of Curing Diseases, ....”	Transcript
~30/10/76	Gazetteer	49	J.S.
~29/10/76	Gazetteer	50	John Willan
~25/10/76	Gazetteer	51	W.F.
~26/10/76	Gazetteer	52	?	Manuscript note: “Dr. Hawes”
~7/11/76	Gazetteer	53	?	Manuscript note: “Dr. Hawes”
~4/11/76	Morning Post	54	W.K.	Manuscript note: “Dr. Kerrick”
~14/11/76	Gazetteer	55	?	Manuscript note: “Dr. Hawes”
~19/11/76	Gazetteer	56	?
~28/10/76	Gazetteer	57	CASSIUS	Manuscript note: “Dr. Lettsom“ Letters 3,7,9,8
?	Gazetteer	58	?	Mr. Burnett of Chigwell
~25/11/76	Gazetteer	59	CASSIUS	Manuscript note: “Dr. Lettsom“ Letters 12,3,10,11 “To many he hath declared himself to have been a physician to a branch of the Royal family of Prussia, though he was never higher than a valet de chambre at Berlin, or a clerk in the Post-Office at Altenburgh in Saxony.” [There is nowhere called Altenburgh in modern Germany - the ending burgh is not used in German. I guess that it should be Altenburg, although it might be Altenberg - to English speakers they sound very similar. There is nowhere with either name in the areas around Erlangen and Schweinfurt. The largest town with the name Altenburg is in present-day Thuringia and lies south of Leipzig. At one time it was the capital of Sachsen-Altenburg, but it is a long way from Erlangen, Schweinfurt etc which lie on the river Main - see Wikipedia - in German!]
~20/11/76	Gazetteer	60	?	Case 53 Manuscript note: “Dr. ??”
~12/12/76	Gazetteer	61	Eliz Swinburn
~13/12/76	Gazetteer?	62	Sally Sly
~14/12/76	Gazetteer	63	CASSIUS	Manuscript note: “Dr. Lettsom”
~19/12/76	Morning Post	64	PHILO AQUARIUS	Manuscript note: “Perrin, author of a French Grammar and enlarged edition of Boyer‘s French Dictionary and other pieces”
~19/12/76	Gazetteer	65	London Spy
~16/12/76	Gazetteer	66	London Spy
~25/12/76	Gazetteer	67	MORIOMASTIX	Manuscript note: “Monsr. Pascal”
~21/12/76	Gazetteer	68	CASSIUS	Refers to quack bill printed in Gazetteer at beginning of 1774 “5th instant”
~26/12/76	Gazetteer	69	ELIZ. W.
~24/12/76	Gazetteer	70	Sally Sly	“Mr. Angelo being questioned by many gentlemen, .... , respecting this charge; replied it is false and scandalous; for I do not know Dr. Mayersbach, nor have ever seen him in my life.”
~16/12/76	Gazetteer	71	Lettsom?
~3/1/77	Gazetteer	72	?	Manuscript note: “Dr. Fothergill”
~4/1/77	Gazetteer	73	C.R.	Cases 54-56
~17/1/77	New Morning Post	74	Anti-Quack	Manuscript note: “Perrin”
~6/1/77	Gazetteer	75	Sally Sly
~6/1/77	Gazetteer	76	A Stand by
~23/1/77	Gazetteer	77	The German Spy	Manuscript note: “Dr. Lettsom” Quotes letter from Jo. Brenner, Schweinfurth 17 November 1773 to Dr. G [Dr. Griffenburg?]: “My brother in law Von Mayersbach, as well as Mr. Wittman, ... reward you for the kindness you have shewn to my brother in law, and his children (Polycarpe and Alexander)” Quotes receipt signed Theodore von Mayersbach and says: “This is the same identical person, who by the name of Alexander Mayersbach made the affidavit, respecting the internal exhibition of the poison of lead called saccharum saturni, vide Gazetteer Oct. 14, 1776” [saccharum saturni or sugar of lead is lead acetate, Pb(CH₃CO)₂^.3H₂O]
?	?	78	Lettsom
~11/?/77	Morning Post?	79	?	Poem - The Water Doctor
?	Manuscript Letter	80	Veritas	“... you are equally mistaken with respect to obtaining a Diploma for three shillings and sixpence and the admitting a Mastiff Dog to a Doctors Degree ...” Mentions other quacks. “With respect to John Ullrich Haussmann, he never was Dr. Myersbach’s Apothecary, but only Journey man to Mr. Koch the apothecary.” This is accompanied by 6 printed bills advertising various quacks.
~30/9/76	Manuscript Letter	81	A Friend to Truth	Letter about “Captain Everet of HMS Bedford now fitting out at Woolwich ... He died but a very little time ago at his Son in Laws House / Mr. Lane / at Hatcham, near New Cross Turnpike, Kent ...”
~7/10/76	Manuscript Letter	82	?	Letter claiming the story about Mayersbach and Angelo is basically true.
~12/9/76	Manuscript Letter	83	Johan Toennius	The letter from Johan Toennius about Mayersbach that was printed in the newspapers.
?	Manuscript Letter	84	Dr Valangin?	About Mr.Swinburne

Notes

Gazetteer: Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser.
London: Printed for Charles Say in Newgate - Street. - also at Mr. Owen's at Homer's Head, near Temple - Bar; and the following Coffee House, viz. Sam's at the Custom-House; Grisby's, behind the Royal Exchange; the Rainvow, in Corn-ill.
Morning Chronicle: Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser.
London: Printed by W. Woodfall, no. 2, Dorset-Street, Salisbury-Square. May 1772-1788.
Whitehall Evening: Whitehall Evening Post.
London: Sold by C. Davies, at No. 100 Fleet-Street, four doors from the Obelisk.
Morning Post: Morning Post; or, Cheap Daily Advertiser
H. Bate, et al. London: Printed by P. Stuart, Blake Court, Catherine Street. (Printers vary).
MS.3247: Welcome Library MS.3247
A bound volume of newspaper cuttings from various journals relating to Mayersbach, by Lettsom and others. With handwritten notes and comments by Lettsom, 7 original prescriptions by Mayersbach, 6 printed advertisements by other contemporary quacks, etc.