William Hay's Stone
A small flat oval calculus taken after death from the bladder of William Hay, Esq. Specimen A184 © Wellcome Library, London.
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Samuel Pepys's Diary
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, compiled in shorthand from 1660-69. Bibliotheca Pepysiana, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Photo by Curator.
Uric Acid Calculi
Specimen 53.55 of William Hunter's collection, never completed, of pathological human calculi. (c) The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, 2014.
A Casket, with images of Becket's Martyrdom
A casket, once in the possession of English antiquarian William Stukeley, designed to hold fragments of the body of Thomas Becket. Image (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, 2015.
An Ampulla of Becket's Blood
A twelfth-century ampulla from Canterbury, containing diluted traces of blood. It is inscribed on the reverse "OPTIM EGROR MEDIC FIT TOMA BONOR" (Thomas is the best doctor for the worthy sick). R.6485 (c) Trustees of the British Museum.
The Mysterious Mother
Horace Walpole's personal copy of his own scarce play. A note on the flyleaf reads "This copy is to be kept in the Beauclerc-closet to explain Lady Di Beauclerc's Drawings. HW." Courtesy the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
A Mother's Secret
Lady Diana Beauclerk's ink-wash drawing on laid paper of Act V, Scene VI in The Mysterious Mother. Courtesy the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University (2015).
Samuel Pepys, by Hayls
Samuel Pepys, oil on canvas, by John Hayls (1666). Pepys writes "I sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost break my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture for him to work by" (17 March, 1666). Now at the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 211). Photo by author.
Walpole at Home
Johann Heinrich Muntz's portrait of Horace Walpole in the library of Strawberry Hill. Image courtesy Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.