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RCSI/IP/Knott
John Freeman Knott Papers
September 2014 archivist@rcsi.ie
http://heritage.rcsi.ie/calmview/default.aspx
Contents
Overview of Collection
Sections
Catalogue
Pamphlet collection RCSI/IP/Knott/01
'Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells' Knott/01/01
'Lady Florence Dixie Vindicated' Knott/01/02
'Die Syphilisbacillen' Knott/01/03
'The Fever of Over-Exertion' Knott/01/04
'Note on the "fatigue fever" of M. Peter' Knott/01/05
'Robert Elsmere' Knott/01/06
'The Climacteric Period' Knott/01/07
'Normal Ovariotomy, Circumcision, Knott/01/08
Clitoridectomy and Infibulation:
A study in compatative ethnology'.
'Co-operation with the Quacks. Approved of Knott/01/09
and sanctioned by the President and Council
of the Royal College of Surgeons'
'Hey's Internal Derangement of the knee-joint' Knott/01/10
'Hieronimo fracastorio and the origin of syphilis' Knott/01/11
'Some remarks on the epiphyses of the long Knott/01/12
bones, and their bearings on the operation
of resection'
'Sir Thomas Browne Knight: Doctor of Physick' Knott/01/13
'Subjective Ozena' Knott/01/14
'Jan Baptista Van Helmont' Knott/01/15
'On Dupuytren's Contraction of the Palmar Fascia' Knott/01/16
'Colles's Fracture' Knott/01/17
'The St Louis Medical Review' Knott/01/18
'Christian Science' Knott/01/19
'Aconite' Knott/01/20
"Normal" Ovariotomy "Female" Circumcision, Knott/01/21
Clitoridectomy, and Infibulation'
'Bernard Connor' Knott/01/22
'Digitalis' Knott/01/23
'The Dublin Journal of Medical Science' Knott/01/24
'The Westminister Review' Knott/01/25
'Dies Caniculares' Knott/01/26
'The Origin of Syphilis and the invention Knott/01/27
of its name'
‘Iron’ Knott/01/28
'The Mistletoe' Knott/01/29
'Spontaneous Combustion' Knott/01/30
'The Claims of Charles Darwin on the Knott/01/31
Homage of Scientific Posterity'
'Heat: "Sensible", "Latent" and Pathological' Knott/01/32
'Bee-Sting Treatment of Rheumatism' Knott/01/33
'Leprosy' Knott/01/34
'Sir Walter Raleigh's "Royal Cordial" Knott/01/35
'The Value of the Periodic Holiday' Knott/01/36
'Balsams' Knott/01/37
'Michael Servetus and the discovery of the Knott/01/38
circulation of the blood'
'The presentation of the medical sciences Knott/01/39
in the new edition of the encyclopedia britannica'
'The Last Illness of Lord Byron' Knott/01/40
'Die Internationale Hygiene Ausstellung Knott/01/41
Dresden 1911'
'The fatal illness and death of Napoleon the Great' Knott/01/42
'The Cinquantenary of the experimental Knott/01/43
Demonstration at the Academie de Medecine'
'A case for acute diabetes' Knott/01/44
'The Physitions Holiday' Knott/01/45
'Art III - Sir Patrick Duns Library' Knott/01/46
'The Plague of Athens' Knott/01/47
‘Old Venetian "Bleeding Glass"’ Knott/01/48
‘Holiday Repair versus Climacteric Decay.’ Knott/01/49
‘A contribution to a Medical Anthology’ Knott/01/50
‘Some recollections of a centro-continential Knott/01/51
Holiday.’
‘Medical One A Manning.’ Knott/01/52
‘Andrew Borde, of Physyche, Doctor.’ Knott/01/53
Original drafts of pamphlet articles Knott/01/54
'The Claims of Francis Bacon on the Homage Knott/01/55
of Posterity'
'Normal Ovariotomy, "Female" Circumcision, Knott/01/56
Clitoridectomy and Infibulation'
'Curiosities of Ancient Japanese Medicine' Knott/01/57
'Curiosities of Ancient Japanese Medicine' Knott/01/58
'Curiosities of Ancient Japanese Medicine' Knott/01/59
'The Gulf Stream Myth and Seaside Resorts' Knott/01/60
'The Origin of the Custom of Salutation after Knott/01/61
Sneezing'
Medical and Historical reviews RCSI/IP/Knott/02
Correspondence RCSI/IP/Knott/03
Correspondence to first wife Elizabeth Knott/03/01
(nee Bessie)
Correspondence to John Knott from his Knott/03/02
first wife Elizabeth (nee Bessie)
Correspondence from M. Shera Knott/03/03
Correspondence from Susan and Ruby Knott/03/04
Correspondence to and from his son Bill Knott/03/05
Collection of correspondence from Johns' uncle Knott/03/06
Correspondence to the RCSI Knott/03/07
Collection of undated correspondence Knott/03/08
Correspondence from Francise S Clarke Knott/03/09
Correspondence relating to Pat Murray Knott/03/10
Correspondence from the 1870's Knott/03/11
Correspondence from the 1880's Knott/03/12
Correspondence from the 1890's Knott/03/13
Correspondence from the 1900s Knott/03/14
Letter from the offices of "Who's Who" Knott/03/15
An Annual Biographical Dictionary
Correspondence from the offices of the Knott/03/16
Dietetic and Hygiene Gazette
Letter from the offices of the New York Knott/03/17
Medical Journal
Letter to or from John Freeman Knott Knott/03/18
Letter from K Blokhuis, the Gasworks, Knott/03/19
Middelharnis Holland
Copy of message written to John Freeman Knott Knott/03/20
Copy of message from Mr. Osler Knott/03/21
Copy of message from Professor Clifford Allbutt Knott/03/22
Copy of message written to John Freeman Knott Knott/03/23
Correspondence to and from Elenor Knott Knott/03/24
Certificates RCSI/IP/Knott/04
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland certificates Knott/04/01
Trinity College Dublin certificates Knott/04/02
King & Queen's College of Physicians certificates Knott/04/03
Pathological Society of Ireland certificate Knott/04/04
Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Knott/04/05
Masons of Ireland certificate
Master Masons certificate Knott/04/06
Royal Arch Lodge, Roscommon certificate Knott/04/07
Knights Templar certificate Knott/04/08
Miscellaneous RCSI/IP/Knott/05
Collection of Postcards and Invites Knott/05/01
Collection of Receipts Knott/05/02
Registry of Death, Marriage including Knott/05/03
the Obituary of John Freeman Knott.
‘School Amalgamation’ Knott/05/04
Exam Papers Knott/05/05
Testimonials of John Freeman Knott Knott/05/06
Elenor Knott photograph Knott/05/07
Small volume of news cuttings Knott/05/08
Land Agreement Knott/05/09
List of books Knott/05/10
Newspaper cutting from British Medical Journal Knott/05/11
Extract from pamphlet entitled
"Jewish Encyclopedia" Knott/05/12
Extract from pamphlet entitled "Robert Recorde" Knott/05/13
Newspaper cutting entitled "A Distinguished Knott/05/14
Roscommon Man"
Handwritten card Knott/05/15
Collection of articles and newspaper cuttings Knott/05/16
by John Freeman Knott
Envelope Knott/05/17
Envelope Knott/05/18
'Article on the treatment of spinal paralysis' Knott/05/19
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Knott/05/20
'Notice of Motion' regarding council meetings
Description of the medical condition of Napoleon Knott/05/21
Partial poem describing the doctors and Knott/05/22
surgeons of the RCSI
Newspaper cutting Knott/05/23
Copy of note to Rev Dean Banks of Boyle? Knott/05/24
Envelope Knott/05/25
Document from the Infirmary House, Longford. Knott/05/26
Poem about Ce Sopham S Atthill? Knott/05/27
Copy of newspaper article relating to an Knott/05/28
investigation by John Freeman Knott
Copy of the Medical Register of 1879 Knott/05/29
Collection of articles about Thomas Heazle Parke Knott/05/30
Document allowing William Knott (Sr) Knott/05/31
act as collector of Public Cess
Document appointing William Knott as Bailiff Knott/05/32
Article from the Catholic Bulletin. Knott/05/33
Poem relating to Irish Nationalism Knott/05/34
Warrant to Distrain Knott/05/35
Envelope Knott/05/36
Address of Dr Wilde. Knott/05/37
Letter from the executor of the Knott/05/38
Right Hon. Robert Edward, Earl of Kingston.
Collection of names which may relate to Knott/05/39
individuals who owe rent
Newspaper cutting Knott/05/40
Envelope Knott/05/41
Envelope Knott/05/42
Article about Franz Joseph Gall Knott/05/43
Rent book Knott/05/44
Large volume of newspaper and journal articles. Knott/05/45
Newspaper cutting Knott/05/46
'List of Contributions to Medical Literature by Knott/05/47
John Freeman Knott'
RCSI/IP/Knott Collection
John Freeman Knott Papers
4 large archival boxes, 3 small archival
boxes, 2 folders, 1 large volume, 1 small
volume
This collection comprises of medical
certificates, pamphlets, medical and historical
reviews, newspaper cuttings and
correspondence, which are related to the life and
medical career of John Freeman Knott .
By appointment with RCSI Heritage Collections
1853 - 1921
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01 Section
John Freeman Knott: Pamphlet Collection
74 pamphlets, 103 folios
The collection comprises of medical and
historical pamphlets written by or given to John
Freeman Knott. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/01/01 to RSCI/IP/Knott/01/61.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage Collections
1880-1950
RCSI/IP/Knott/02 Section
John Freeman Knott: Medical and Historical
Reviews
25 volumes
Collection of medical and historical reviews
from various journals including the Freemans
Journal, Medical Press and Circular, American
Medican, Dublin Medical Journal and the
Dublin Journal of Medical Science. Also
included are additional correspondents from
various individuals. Such subjects include the
hyssops, the dilatations and diverticula, the
esophague, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis
and the Plague of London (1592 - 1594).
Numbers run from RSCI/IP/Knott/02/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/02/25
By appointment with RCSI Heritage Collections
1891 - 1911
RCSI/IP/Knott/03 Section
John Freeman Knott: Correspondence
757 folios, 10 envelopes
Manuscript correspondence of John Freeman
Knott to and from family, friends and the
RCSI. The following issues are discussed
family matters, medical advice, tenants,
1870-1950
financial matters and Knotts' work with the
RCSI and other hospitals around Dublin. Also
included are correspondence relating to his
daughter Elenor dating from the late 1940's.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
RCSI/IP/Knott/04 Section
John Freeman Knott: Certificates
15 Certificates
Certificates awarded, presented and belonging
to John Freeman Knott from a variety of
institutes and individuals. Majority of the
certificates are on vellum. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/04/01 to RSCI/IP/Knott/04/15.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1842 - 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/05 Section
John Freeman Knott: Miscellaneous
155 folios, 25 cards, 4 booklets, 7
envelopes, 3 volumes, 1 photo
Miscellaneous material related to John
Freeman Knott, his family and friends.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1850 - 1975
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/06 Section
John Freeman Knott: Testimonials
3 booklets
Three typescript booklets of testimonials
written by various surgeons for John Freeman
Knott. NUmbers run RCSI/IP/Knott/06/01 to
RCSI/IP/Knott/06/03.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1850 - 1975
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01 Section
John Freeman Knott: Pamphlet Collection
74 pamphlets, 103 folios
The collection comprises of medical and
historical pamphlets written by or given to
John Freeman Knott. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/01/01 to RSCI/IP/Knott/01/61.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1880-1950
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/01 Item
'Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells'
1 pamphlet
'Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells
(FRCS). Member of the council of the Royal
College of Surgeons: Surgeon to the Queens
household on Ovariotomy'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1880
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/02 Item
'Lady Florence Dixie Vindicated'
1 pamphlet
'In 1882, Lady Florence Dixie came to Ireland
on a mission of benevolence and during a
period of six months devoted herself to the
task of investigating the application of relief
for poor Irish families'. Printed by Sealy,
Bryers and Walker, 94, 95 and 96 Middle
Abbey Street.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1883
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/03 Item
Die Syphilisbacillen
1 pamphlet
Die Syphilisbacillen von Dr Sigm. Lustgarten
(Pamphlet written in German).
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1885
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/04 Item
'The Fever of Over-Exertion'
1 pamphlet
'The Fever of Over-Exertion. A sporadic, non-
contagious disease arising from exposure to
the sun, fatigue, surfeit, inebriety, &c. A
comparatatively trivial complaint, although it
may be sometime fatal'. Read in the Medical
Section. Pages 78 – 99.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
18 November 1887
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/05 Item
'Note on the ''fatigue fever'' of M. Peter'
1 pamphlet
'Note on the ''fatigue fever'' on M. Perter.
Being a supplement of the authors paper on
''The fever of over exertion''. Reprinted from
the transcriptions of the Royal Academy of
Medicine in Ireland. Printed for the author by
John Faleoner, 53 Upper Sackville Street.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1889
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/06 Item
'Robert Elsmere'
1 pamphlet
'Robert Elsmere as a symptom - the education
commission and the school rate'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
May 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/07 Item
'The Climacteric Period'
1 pamphlet
'The Climacteric Period. The Idea of the
existence of definite periods in the course of
the life of the human being. A doctrine which
can be traced back to the teachings of
Pythagoras and his disciples'. This doctrine
was a mixture of science and superstition.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
July 1890
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/08 Item
'Normal Ovariotomy, Circumcision,
Clitoridectomy and Infibulation: A study in
compatative ethnology'.
2 pamphlets
'An account of the fact that the female form
has from time immemorial, been sujected to a
greater variety of artificial means for its
modification than that of the male. Charles
Darwin would describe it as the desire to
outshine in the eyes of men and promote
natures great design and secure the survival of
the fittest'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
9 July 1890
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/09 Item
'Co-operation with the Quacks. Approved of
and sanctioned by the President and Council
of the Royal College of Surgeons'
1 pamphlet
Almost every Medical School and College in
Great Britain and Ireland is anxious to guard
the interests of the medical profession and to
prevent unqualified persons practising
medicine and surgery it is to be regretted that
the President and Council of the Royal College
of Surgeons should pass a resolution which
sanctions Licentiates of the college publicly
co-operating with Quacks. Included are
correspondents to the College relating to
individual dissapproval.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1892
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/10 Item
'Hey's Internal Derangement of the knee-
joint'
1 pamphlet
Relating to the distinguished surgeon William
Hey of Leeds who published a volume of
''Practical Observations in Surgery'' which
includes a paper on ''Internal Derangement of
the Knee-joint”.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1904
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/11 Item
'Hieronimo fracastorio and the origin of
syphilis'
1 pamphlet
Refers to the origins of the word syphilis and
the spread of this new disease syphilis across
Europe.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
November 1904
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/12 Item
'Some remarks on the epiphyses of the long
bones, and their bearings on the operation of
resection'
1 pamphlet
'The importance of a thorough knowledge of
the position, growth and (final effacement by
completion of) ossification, of the various
epiphyses of the growing human Skeleton'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
19 August 1905
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/13 Item
'Sir Thomas Browne Knight: Doctor of
Physick'
1 pamphlet
'Anti-Cromwellian Loyalist; Witch Finder;
Amateur Exponent of Christian Coctrine;
Conservative Opponent of Scientific
Innovation; and Iconoclastic Critic of the
Errors of the ''Learned Vulgar,'' with their
''Authorities'.'
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
11 October 1905
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/14 Item
'Subjective Ozena'
1 pamphlet
'A condition in which an offensive odor is due
to local ulceration productive of a foul
discharge and its possible treatment'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
16 December 1905
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/15 Item
'Jan Baptista Van Helmont'
1 pamphlet
'Governor in Morede, most learned, famous,
and acute Phylosopher. Pioneer of Modern
Chemistry and inventer of the Chemical
Balance'. The manuscript note on the cover
reads 'Nellie with love from Papa'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
August 1905
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/16 Item
'On Dupuytren's Contraction of the Palmar
Fascia'
1 pamphlet
A condition which presents features of very
special interest to the anatomist and the
pathologist, as well as to the practising
surgeon.The characteristic features of
''Dupuytren's Contraction'' is the production of
a permanent curvature of the palm and in some
cases the fingers.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1905
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/17 Item
'Colles's Fracture'
2 pamphlets
'Colles's Fracture: Extremely distinctive lesion
which many believe to be the most frequent in
occurrence of all fractures'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1905
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/18 Item
'The St Louis Medical Review'
1 pamphlet
'A weekly journal of Medicine and Surgery.
Original article, lycanthropy' by John Knott.
Vol: LIII No.14. Read before the St. Louis
Medical History Club.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
29 March 1906
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/19 Item
'Christian Science'
1 pamphlet
'Christian Science in both law and medicine'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
31 August 1906
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/20 Item
'Aconite'
1 pamphlet
'Aconite: Its place in History, in Mythology, in
Criminology; in Botany, in Therapeutics, and
in Toxicology'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
March - May 1907
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/21 Item
''Normal'' Ovariotomy ''Female''
Circumcision, Clitoridectomy, and
Infibulation'
2 pamphlets
An account of the fact that the female form has
from time immemorial, been sujected to a
greater variety of artificial means for its
modification than that of the male. Charles
Darwin would describe it as the desire to
outshine in the eyes of men and promote
natures great design and secure the survival of
the fittest.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
7 September 1907
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/22 Item
'Bernard Connor'
1 pamphlet
Forgotten Irish medical exile and scientific
pioneer of the 17th century (1666 - 1698).
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1907
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/23 Item
'Digitalis'
1 pamphlet
'Digitalis: A powerful therapeutic agent
derived from the vegegable kingdom'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1907
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/24 Item
'The Dublin Journal of Medical Science'
1 pamphlet
Original communications, reviews, abstracts
and reports in medicine, surgery and collateral
sciences.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
February 1907
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/25 Item
'The Westminister Review'
1 pamphlet
Collection of articles by various authors in
which John Freeman Knott is included with
his article on Christian Science.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
February 1907
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/26 Item
'Dies Caniculares'
1 pamphlet
'Dog Days: The Physitians Vacation'. The sun
being necessary to life - to existence,
reproduction and growth.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
July - August 1908
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/27 Item
'The Origin of Syphilis and the invention of
its name'
1 pamphlet
The perennial interest with the subject of
venereal disease and its obscure origin.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
31 October 1908
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/28 Item
'Iron'
1 pamphlet
'Its place in Mythology, in Demonology, in
Astrology, in Medical and Surgical
Therapeusis'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
November 1908
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/29 Item
'The Mistletoe'
2 pamphlets
'A monster in Botany, a symbol of Seminal
Survival and Reproductive Vitality'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
19 December 1908
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/30 Item
'Spontaneous Combustion'
2 pamphlets, 1 folio
'The popular recognition of spontaneous
combustion of the human body as one of the
calculable assets of scientific pathology'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
April 1909
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/31 Item
'The Claims of Charles Darwin on the
Homage of Scientific Posterity'
2 pamphlets
Doctrine and discipline of England's most
famous hero of natural history.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
October 1909
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/32 Item
'Heat: Sensible, Latent and Pathological'
2 pamphlets
Discussion on the laws and phenomena of heat
and inflammatory conditions.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
13 April 1910
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/33 Item
'Bee-Sting Treatment of Rheumatism'
2 pamphlets
The efficacy of the bee-sting, both as a
weapon and as a curative agent.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
28 September 1910
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/34 Item
'Leprosy'
2 pamphlets
A glance at some of the more significant
historic features of its etiology and
therapeusis.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
February 1911
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/35 Item
'Sir Walter Raleigh's ''Royal Cordial''
2 pamphlets
With some side-lights on the clinical medicine
and therapeutics of his generation, and
incidental glances at its political and social
morality.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
April 1911
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/36 Item
'The Value of the Periodic Holiday'
1 pamphlet
The importance of a holiday to every human
being.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
August 1911
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/37 Item
'Balsams'
1 pamphlet
Description of the balsam oil also known as
balsamo.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
August 1911
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/38 Item
'Michael Servetus and the discovery of the
circulation of the blood'
2 pamphlets
Michael Servetus, the rightful claimant to the
credit of the discovery of the circulation of the
blood.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
9 September 1911
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/39 Item
'The presentation of the medical sciences in
the new edition of the encyclopedia
britannica'
2 pamphlets
Description of the encyclopedia and its vast
content.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
October 1911
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/40 Item
'The Last Illness of Lord Byron'
1 pamphlet
'The Last Illness of Lord Byron: A study in the
borderland of genius and madness, of cosmical
inspiration and pathological psychology'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
January 1912
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/41 Item
'Die Internationale Hygiene Ausstellung
Dresden 1911'
1 pamphlet
'Impressions of a visit to Die Internationale
Hygiene Ausstellung Dresden 1911'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
March 1912
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/42 Item
'The fatal illness and death of Napoleon the
Great'
1 pamphlet
Discussing the illness and death of Napoleon
the Great.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
c 1913
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/43 Item
'The Cinquantenary of the experimental
Demonstration at the Academie de Medecine'
2 pamphlets
'The Cinquantenary of the experimental
Demonstration at the Academie de Medecine
by A. Villemin of the specific and contagious
virulence of Tuberculosis'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
March 1916
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/44 Item
'A case for acute diabetes'
1 pamphlet
'A case for acute diabetes - with comments
especially in regard to audosis'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
3 June 1916
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/45 Item
'The Physitions Holiday'
1 pamphlet
Description of canicular vacations and Irish
health resorts.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
October 1917
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/46 Item
'Art III - Sir Patrick Duns Library'
1 pamphlet
Description of the foundation and history of
Sir Patrick Duns Library.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
February 1920
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/47 Item
'The Plague of Athens'
1 pamphlet
'The Peloponnesian War - Diseases of War'.
The manuscript note on front reads ‘With the
authors compliments’.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
January 1950
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/48 Item
Old Venetian "Bleeding Glass"
1 pamphlet
Old Venetian "Bleeding Glass". Note on a
specimen of the old Venetian 'Bleeding Glass'
read in the Medical Section of the Royal
Academy of Medicine in Ireland.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
17 May 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/49 Item
‘Holiday Repair versus Climacteric Decay’
1 pamphlet
Holiday Repair versus Climacteric Decay.
Describing the share individuals get during the
holiday season.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
3 October 1903
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/50 Item
‘A contribution to a Medical Anthology’
1 pamphlet
A contribution to a Medical Anthology.
Definition of anthology as a collection of
poems relating to medical men and medical
subjects.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/51 Item
‘Some recollections of a centro-continential
holiday.’
1 pamphlet
Some recollections of a centro-continential
holiday. Describing the need to go to places
which cannot now be visited.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
March 1917
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/52 Item
‘Medical One A Manning.’
1 pamphlet
Medical One A Manning. Music as a
therapeutic agent.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/53 Item
‘Andrew Borde, of Physyche, Doctor.’
1 pamphlet
Andrew Borde, of Physyche, Doctor. The life
of Andrew Borde.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
June 1950
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/54 Subsection
Original drafts of pamphlet articles
67 folios
Original manuscript and typescript drafts of
pamphlet articles.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1913 - 1918
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/54/01 Item
'Monstrous and Multiplex Births'
2 folios
Paper written by John Freeman Knott
entitled "Monstrous and Multiplex Births".
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/54/02 Item
'The Medical Knowledge of Shakespere'
2 folios
Paper written by John Freeman Knott
entitled "The Medical Knowledge of
Shakspere".
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/54/03 Item
'The Claims of Franz Joseph Gallon the
Homage of Scientific Posterity'
36 folios
Paper written by John Freeman Knott
entitled "The Claims of Franz Joseph Gallon
the Homage of Scientific Posterity".
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/54/04 Item
'Some reflections suggested by an
inspection of the death mask of Dean
Swift'
20 folios
Paper written by John Freeman Knott
entitled "Some reflections suggested by an
inspection of the death mask of Dean Swift".
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/54/05 Item
'Napoleon Bonaparte'
1 folio
Description of the life of Napoleon
Bonaparte.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/54/06 Item
'Austria'
2 folios
Description of the use of papaverin in the
differential diagnosis of sterious and spasm
of the pylorus.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
October 1918
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/54/07 Item
'Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear
and rage'
2 folios
An account of the recent researches into the
function of emotional excitement.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1913
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/54/08
Item
'Periscope'
2 folios
"Periscope - The torpedo as a therapeutic
agent".
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/55 Item
'The Claims of Francis Bacon on the Homage
of Posterity'
25 folios
'The Claims of Francis Bacon on the Homage of
Posterity' with manuscript annotations.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/56 Item
‘Normal Ovariotomy, "Female" Circumcision,
Clitoridectomy and Infibulation'
2 pamphlets
'Normal Ovariotomy, "Female" Circumcision,
Clitoridectomy and Infibulation with variorum
notes on teh practice of these operations and
their distinction in space and time'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
7 September 1907
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/57 Item
‘Curiosities of Ancient Japanese Medicine'
3 folios
'Curiosities of Ancient Japanese Medicine
Moxa: the almost unique therapeutic weapon of
the Japanese surgeon of the past generation, one
of the two surgical remedies of the former
Japan' from the St. Louis Medical Review.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
29 July 1905
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/58 Item
'Curiosities of Ancient Japanese Medicine'
2 pamphlets
'Curiosities of Ancient Japanese Medicine
Senki: the endemic colic of Japan' from the St.
Louis Medical Review.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
14 October 1905
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/59 Item
'Curiosities of Ancient Japanese Medicine'
2 folios
'Curiosities of Ancient Japanese Medicine Tea:
its origin, characteristics and uses' from the St.
Louis Medical Review.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
25 November 1905
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/60 Item
‘'The Gulf Stream Myth and Seaside Resorts'
1 folio
'The Gulf Stream Myth and Seaside Resorts'
from the Medical Press.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
25 January 1905
RCSI/IP/Knott/01/61 Item
'The Origin of the Custom of Salutation after
Sneezing'
2 folios
'The Origin of the Custom of Salutation after
Sneezing' from the St. Louis Medical Review.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
27 October 1906
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/02 Section
John Freeman Knott: Medical and Historical
Reviews
25 volumes
Collection of medical and historical reviews
from various journals including the Freemans
Journal, Medical Press and Circular, American
Medican, Dublin Medical Journal and the
Dublin Journal of Medical Science. Also
included are additional correspondents from
various individuals. Such subjects include the
hyssops, the dilatations and diverticula, the
esophague, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis
and the Plague of London (1592 - 1594).
Numbers run from RSCI/IP/Knott/02/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/02/25
By appointment with RCSI Heritage Collections
1891 - 1911
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03 Section
John Freeman Knott: Correspondence
816 folio
Manuscript correspondence of John Freeman
Knott to and from family, friends and the
RCSI. The following issues are discussed
family matters, medical advice, tenants,
financial matters and Knotts' work with the
RCSI and other hospitals around Dublin. Also
included are correspondence relating to his
daughter Elenor dating from the late 1940's.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1870-1950
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/01 SubSection
Correspondence to first wife Elizabeth (nee
Bessie)
118 folios
Extensive collection of personal letters
between his first wife Elizbeth (nee Bessie).
The letters contain a period of seperation when
John was away in Dublin working towards his
medical degree in Dublin while working in
some of Dublins top hospitals including the
Richmond and Combe, while Elizbeth stayed
and worked on the farm based in Kingsland,
Co Roscommon. Short transcriptions of many
of the letters are included however many of the
letters are incomplete. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/01/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/01/40.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1874 - 1877
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/02 SubSection
Correspondence to John Knott from his first
wife Elizabeth (nee Bessie)
160 folios
Extensive collection of personal letters to John
Knott from his first wife Elizabeth (nee
Bessie). The letters contain a period of
seperation when John was away in Dublin
working towards his medical degree in Dublin,
while Elizbeth stayed and worked on the farm
based in Kingsland, Co Roscommon. Some
correspondance are incomplete. Numbers run
from RSCI/IP/Knott/03/02/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/02/28.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1874 - 1876
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/03 SubSection
Correspondence from M. Shera
26 folios
Correspondence from John's mother in law, M
Shera. The correspondance relate to life back
in Boyle, Rosscommon while John was away
in Dublin working towards his medical degree.
Numbers run from RSCI/IP/Knott/03/03/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/03/12.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1874 - 1876
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/04 SubSection
Correspondence from Susan and Ruby
4 folios
Correspondence from Susan and Ruby. Susan
congratulates John on winning his medal and
hopes it wont be the last he achives. Ruby
mentioned its been a long time since they last
spoke and wishes they could walk through the
Botanic gardens together and when will he
next be home. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/04/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/04/02.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
c 1876
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/05 SubSection
Correspondence to and from his son Bill
4 folios
Collection of correspondence to and from his
son Bill including such isssues as Bill's time in
Newscastle with the department of the medical
officer of health and public analyst while in his
fathers correspondance he tells bill of the work
he is doing for the Rector in the churchyard as
he lives alone in the churchyard. Numbers run
from RSCI/IP/Knott/03/05/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/05/02.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
circa 1900
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/06 SubSection
Collection of correspondence from John’s
uncle
4 folios
Correspondence from his uncle Joseph
Lougheed? The major theme of these
correspondance are the news from home in
Boyle. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/06/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/06/03.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1975 - 1976
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/07 SubSection
Correspondence with the RCSI
6 folios, 1 envelope
Correspondence with the RCSI. Numbers run
from RSCI/IP/Knott/03/07/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/07/03.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
23 July 1872 - 8
January 1891
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/07/01 Item
Note to finance committee
2 folios, 1 envelope
Note to finance department of the RCSI
relating to the pay each doctor will
receive for every session they teach in a
year. The note is signed by Dr. Alex
Frazer and accompanied by an envelope
dated July 23th 1872. The name AH
Jacob, Secretary of Council, Royal
College of Surgeons is written on
envelope.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
23 July 1872
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/07/02 Item
Letter to President and Council of the
RCSI
2 folios
Disputing the use of a room by a junior
demonstrator for his private classes which
is precluding its use by other teachers. It
is asked that the room be granted to the
demonstrator of anatomy and fitted up for
that use.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
18 November 1890
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/07/03 Item
Letter to the President and Council of
the RCSI
2 folios
Further correspondence relating to the
demonstrators room discussed in the letter
of November 18th 1890. The grievence is
still in existence and it is asked that the
council take more action on the matter.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
7 February 1891
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/08 SubSection
Collection of undated correspondence
201 folios
Extensive collection of undated correspondence
which relate to both John, his wife Elizabeth and
acquaintances. Included also is a collection
which relate to the period of seperation when
John was away in Dublin studying for his
medical degree. Numbers run from
ND
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/08/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/08/85.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage Collections
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/09 SubSection
Correspondence from Francise S Clarke
6 folios
Manuscript correspondence from Francise S
Clarke to John Freeman Knott from the
Rectory, Boyle and the Provincial Grand
Lodge, North Connaught. Issues discussed
include pamphlets, a visit to his father in
boyle, and later his fathers death. Numbers run
from RSCI/IP/Knott/03/09/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/09/03.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1885 - 1888
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/10 SubSection
Correspondence relating to Pat Murray
15 folios
Manuscript correspondence relating to Pat
Murray, trusted friend of John Freeman Knott.
Issues disscussed include health, payment of
rent and tranfer of lands. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/10/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/10/11.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1889 - 1888
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11 SubSection
Correspondence from the 1870's
46 folios, 1 envelope
Collection of individual correspondence from
the 1870's relating to John Freeman Knott.
Numbers run from RSCI/IP/Knott/03/11/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/11/23.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1872 - 1877
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/01 Item
Letter from C. M. Dermott?
3 folio
Correspondance from C. M. Dermott?
Issues discussed include a meeting of
proprietors of land in the district of
Loughgara and Mantna drainage.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
27 July 1870
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/02 Item
Letter to William Knott
2 folios, 1 envelope
Letter to William Knott from Illegible
individual. Short letter requesting William
Knott be available for a meeting in Boyle
on Saturday at 11 o'clock.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
8 September 1870
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/03 Item
Letter from S Lacorence?
2 folios
Letter to William Knott from S Lacorence.
Issues duscussed include payment of rent
from tenents.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
21 October 1870
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/04 Item
Letter from S Lacorence?
1 folio
Letter to William Knott from S Lacorence.
Issues duscussed include non payment of
rent from tenents and the possibility of
legal action if payment is not received.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
12 December 1870
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/05 Item
Letter from C.J. Button?
3 folios
Letter from C.J. Button to William Knott.
Issues discussed include a dispute over
land and turf.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
10 August 1871
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/06 Item
Letter from CM?
1 folio
Letter to William Knott from CM? Issue
mentioned include warrrents possibly for
land.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
6 April 1872
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/07 Item
Letter from illegible hand
1 folio
Letter from illegible hand to John Freeman
Knott. Issues include the mention of a
medical condition that has not improved
and strongly recommends that he seeks a
second opinion.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
3 June 1872
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/08 Item
Letter from illegible hand
2 folios
Letter from illegible hand to William
Knott. Issues discussed include non
payment of rent and the possibility of
payment being enforced.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
29 March 1873
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/09 Item
Letter from the National Bank in Boyle
1 folio
Letter from the National Bank in Boyle to
William Knott. Issue mentioned include
payment to the bank and requesting he
visits the bank.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
8 September 1873
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/10 Item
Letter from Francis Fahy
3 folios
Letter from Francis Fahy to John Freeman
Knott. Issue mentioned is the health of his
father William Knott.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
8 September 1873
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/11 Item
Letter from Francis Fahy
3 folios
Letter from Francis Fahy to John Freeman
Knott. Issue again mentioned is the health
of his father William knott and its
improvement with him now being able to
see with both eyes.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
10 September 1873
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/12 Item
Letter from Francis Fahy
2 folios
Letter from Francis Fahy to John Freeman
Knott. Issue again mentioned is the health
of his father William knott and its
improvement.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
13 September 1873
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/13 Item
Letter from Francis Fahy
3 folios
Letter from Francis Fahy to John Freeman
Knott. Issue again mentioned is the health
of his father William knott and its
improvement with the possibility of him
being able to go home in a few days.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
14 September 1873
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/14 Item
Letter from S Lacorence?
2 folios
Letter from S Lacorence to John Freeman
Knott. Issue mention is the removal of all
savings from the bank.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
23 March 1874
Catalogue No. Description Date
SI/IP/Knott/03/11/15 Item
Letter from Henry W Clarke?
1 folio
Letter from Henry W Clarke? Issues
include information on the entrance exams
including the subjects for Trinity College
Dublin. Also mentioned are the fees that
must be paid to registrar at least three days
before these exams.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
4 September 1874
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/16 Item
Letter from Sam Manghton?
2 folio
Letter from Sam Manghton? Issues
disscussed include the graduates of Arts in
Oxford, Cambridge and the Royal College
of Surgeons, exams and the regulations of
the school of physic.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
29 September 1874
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/17 Item
Note from illegible hand
2 folios
Note from illegible hand which reads "I am
sorry to say I can see nothing".
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
6 November 1875
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/18 Item
Letter from illegible hand
3 folios
Letter from illegible hand to John Freeman
Knott. Issue regarding rent is discussed.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
4 January 1876
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/19 Item
Letter from S. Finch
2 folios
Letter from S. Finch to John Freeman
Knott. Issue mentioned is an invitation to
dinner.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
15 April 1876
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/20 Item
Letter from John S Hobble?
2 folios
Letter from John S Hobble to John
Freeman Knott. Issues mentioned include
Visiting John in Dublin, Exams and a visit
to Boyle.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
19 May 1876
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/21 Item
Letter to Mr Longheed
1 folio
Letter to Mr Longheed. Issues include the
mention of John Freeman Knott helping
Mr Longheed in his medical studies.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
7 April 1877
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/22 Item
Letter from Henry Castles
2 folios
Letter from Henry Castles from Belfast.
Issues disscussed include the lectures and
examinations he would have to attend and
pass to be accepted into the Royal College
of Surgeons and Trinity College if he
wanted to be a Doctor or Surgeon.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1874
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/11/23 Item
Letter from St Thomas's Parish
1 folio
Letter from the conjugation of St Thomas's
Parish. Issues include the mention of a
meeting to get up a public testimonial to
their distinguished and trustworthy country
man Mr Knott.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1877
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12 SubSection
Correspondence from the 1880's
41 folios, 1 envelope
Collection of individual correspondence from
the 1880's relating to John Freeman Knott.
Numbers run from RSCI/IP/Knott/03/12/01
to RSCI/IP/Knott/03/12/21.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1885 - 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/01 Item
Letter from Mrs Culleton?
2 folios
Letter from Mrs Culleton to John Freeman
Knott. Issue mentioned include information
on the Knott family crest and also the coat
of arms for the Knott family.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
2 June 1881
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/02 Item
Letter from Edward Mapother
1 folio
Letter from illegible hand. Issues
mentioned include the editing by John of
the third edition of the Manual of Physio
and the payment of one shilling and
sixpence for every copy sold.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1881
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/03 Item
Letter from Richard Allen
3 folios
Letter from Richard Allen. Issues
mentioned include the description of a new
disease which has appeared in tropical
countries and causes excruciating pain.
Attached to letter is newspaper article
relating to this disease.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
2 February 1883
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/04 Item
Letter from Richmond Allen
2 folios
Letter from Richmond R Allen.
Correspondance from a frend in South
Africa regarding life and work there.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
3 February 1883
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/05 Item
Letter from Dublin Castle to John
Freeman Knott
2 folios
Letter from Dublin Castle to John Freeman
Knott. Letter to acknowledge the receipt of
his letter, offering himself as a candidate
for the Professorship of Anatomy and
Physiology in the Queens College of
Belfast.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
19 October 1883
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/06 Item
Letter from W.M. Wright
2 folios
Letter from W.M. Wright to John Freeman
Knott. Issues discussed include pamphlets.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
28 September 1884
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/07 Item
Letter from W White
4 folios
Letter from W White to John Freeman
Knott. Issue discussed is the kindness John
has shown the writer regarding his work.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
27 December 1884
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/08 Item
Letter from James A Whelan
1 folio
Letter from James A Whelan from the
Medical Students Club Limited of 91
Harcourt Street, Dublin. Issues mentioned
are the receipt of payment and the thanking
for the letter and cheque from the council.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
26 January 1885
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/09 Item
Letter from Stafford?
3 folios
Letter from Stafford? to John Freeman
Knott. Isssue mentioned that the writer is
glad John is comfortable in Dublin and
hopes he'll make the best of it.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
17 September 1885
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/10 Item
Letter from illegible individual
1 folio, 1 envelope
Letter from illegible individual. Subject
mentioned include health and visiting. Post
dated envelope included addressed to John
Freeman Knott, 34 York Street.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
14 June 1887
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/11 Item
Letter from Matthew O'Connor?
1 folio
Letter from Matthew O'Connor? to John
Freeman Knott. Issue mentioned is New
Years.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
31 December 1887
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/12 Item
Letter from illegible hand
2 folios
Letter from illegible hand. Issues include
this individuals health and the publishing
of medical cases.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
18 January 1888
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/13 Item
Letter from John Brennan?
1 folio
Letter to John Freeman Knott from John
Brennan? Issues discussed include the
placing of individuals by the name of
Charles and Murray of the Rolls of the
College and Mr Knotts health.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
17 April 1888
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/14 Item
Letter from Michael Cregg
2 folios
Letter from Michael Cregg. Issues include
health and a promise made by John to help
Michael stay in the Royal Society of
Chemistry so he can one day make him
proud for his help.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
13 June 1888
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/15 Item
Letter to unnamed cousin
1 folio
Letter to unnamed cousin of John Freeman
Knott from Derrybeg. Issues include land
rights and possession. The names Henry
Moor and Pat Murray are mentioned in the
correspondance.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
19 August 1888
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/16 Item
Letter from Randon?
4 folios
Letter from Randon? to John Freeman
Knott. Issues discussed are this individuals
sickness and the treatment being
prescribed.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
6 January 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/17 Item
Letter from R Duncan
2 folios
Letter from R Duncan of 20 Beechwood
Avenue Ranelagh. Issues mentioned
include pamphlets and the opportunity to
hold lectures on the Brain for an unnamed
medical society.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
24 November 1889
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/18 Item
Letter from Thornley Stoker
2 folios
Letter from Thornley Stoker of 16 Harcourt
Street, Dublin. Issues mentioned are
medical panphlets and a condition that
causes paralysis in the arms and legs.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
9 December 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/19 Item
Letter from Edmund Rundle?
1 folio
Letter from Edmund Rundle? issues
mentioned include Edmund thanking John
for his help through the fellowship and that
he is suffering with a bad cold.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
19 December 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/20 Item
Letter from T O' Connell
2 folios
Letter from T O' Connell. Issues mentioned
include the New Year, their friend Gloster
who had earlier attended Johns class.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
31 December 1889
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/12/21 Item
Letter from George Dun Malley?
2 folios
Letter from George Dun Malley? Issues
mentioned include a letter from a Mr
Patrick Jordan regarding a medical
condition he suffers from and requires help
from John in his treatment.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
31 December 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13 SubSection
Correspondence from the 1890's
26 folios, 2 envelopes
Collection of individual correspondence
from the 1890's relating to John Freeman
Knott. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/13/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/13/14.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1890 - 1897
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/01 Item
Letter from A. Maurcons?
1 folioa
Letter from A Maurcons? from
Copenhagen to John Freeman Knott.
Correspondance relating to the work of this
individual and also John Freeman Knott.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
31 July 1882
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/02 Item
Letter from Cecil B. Karmsworth
2 folios
Letter from Cecil B. Karmsworth of 38
Trinity College, Dublin. Issues discussed
include a pamphlet on Tinea Sycosis, the
possible effects and the treatment.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
19 April 1890
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/03 Item
Letter from A.N. Sucol
2 folios
Correspondence from A.N. Sucol,
Secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons
to Fr Buchi , Optician. Issues discussed is
the ordering of the pamphlet 'The Phantom
of the Brain' and also the ordering of an
apparatus from an optician. The letter is
accompanied by a letter from F. Buchi,
optician.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1 May 1890
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/04 Item
Letter from John Freeman Knott
2 folios
Letter from John Freeman Knott. Issues
mentioned include a testimonial for Dr
Henry William Devlin and his professional
knowledge.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
5 November 1890
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/05 Item
Letter from J Balcomber?
2 folios
Letter from J Balcomber of Clontarf? Issue
discussed is a loan to John Freeman Knott.
Written copy of the letter included.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
27 October 1891
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/06 Item
Letter to John Freeman Knott
2 folios, 1 envelope
Letter to John Freeman Knott sent by
illegible individual. Issues disscussed
include not being able to read previous
letters, a medical referral, the arrival of a
Mr Callem and the weather.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
22 June 1893
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/07 Item
Letter to John Freeman Knott
2 folios
Letter to John Freeman Knott sent by
illegible individual. Issues disscussed
include again not being able to read
previous letters.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
23 June 1893
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/08 Item
Letter to John Freeman Knott
1 folio, 1 envelope
Letter to John Freeman Knott. Issues
disscussed include student affairs and that
an illegible individual is unwell and will be
for some time. Envelope included
addressed to John Freeman Knott.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1 July 1893
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/09 Item
Letter from one of his children
1 folio
Letter from one of his children. Issues
discussed include a visit to the park and
renovations to the house.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
3 July 1893
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/10 Item
Letter from John Murray
2 folios
Letter from John Murray of Kingsland.
Issues discussed is the death of John
Murrays father and the health of all the
neighbours in Kingsland.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1893
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/11 Item
Letter to Dr Wood
2 folios
Letter to Dr Wood. Issues include meeting
with John and exam papers.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
November 1894
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/12 Item
Letter from Patrick Murray
2 folios
Letter from Patrick Murray of Kingsland.
Issues discussed include asking about the
possibility of work in Dublin and also the
possibility of emigration to America.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
26 March 1895
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/13 Item
Letter from Patience A Greening?
3folios
Letter from Patience A Greening? Issues
discussed include health, a visit to the
doctors surgery and precriptions.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
4 November 1897
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/13/14 Item
Letter from L Cherie Robinson?
2 folios
Letter from L Cherie Robinson? Issues
discussed include health, travel and the
weather.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
7 May 1897
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14 SubSection
Correspondence from the 1900's
18 folios, 2 envelopes
Collection of individual correspondence
from the 1900's relating to John Freeman
Knott. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/14/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/14/15.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1901 - 1910
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/01 Item
Letter from W Thorn Martin?
1 folio
Letter from W Thorn Martin? to John
Freeman Knott. Issues discussed include
the valuable information John has sent him
which was dispatched to the University by
same post.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
17 February 1901
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/02 Item
Copy of note from an unknown individual
1 folio
Copy of note from unknown individual.
Issues discussed include pamphlets and a
book written by the late Dr John Moyes.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
5 April 1903
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/03 Item
Copy of letter from H Warrington
1 folio
Copy of letter from H Warrington to John
Freeman Knott. Topics discussed include
asking John to send his some of his strong
medication as he has being feeling off
colour and also thanking him for all his
attention in the past.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
3 August 1904
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/04 Item
Letter from Mr Osler
1 folio, 1 envelope
Letter from Mr Osler relating to a disease
called angina pectoris and its rarity in
Ireland although it is very common in the
USA.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
29 October 1904
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/05 Item
Copy of letter from G.M.G
1 folio
Copy of letter from G.M.G complimenting
John Freeman Knott on his excellent
editorial however he complains about his
pale ink and writting.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
22 May 1905
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/06 Item
Letter from W. Smyly
1 folio
Letter from W. Smyly thanking him for his
letter and his help in the grinds room of the
RCS.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
4 July 1905
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/07 Item
Copy of letter from Fred Hanna
1 folio
Copy of letter from Fred Hanna to John
Freeman Knott. Correspondance relating to
topics for the recent issue of the Medical
Press and Circular.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
10 August 1905
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/08 Item
Copy of letter from H. W. Mason
1 folio
Copy of letter from H. W. Mason, RCSI
Secretary, to John Freeman Knott.
Informing John that at a recent meeting of
the Apothecaries, Hall, he was appointed
an examiner in Biology.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
16 September 1907
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/09 Item
Letter from Walter G Smith
2 folios
Letter from Walter G Smith, 25 Merrion
Square. Issues discussed include medical
journals and medical science.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
24 October 1907
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/10 Item
Letter from The Springfield Republican
2 folios, 1 envelope
Letter from The Springfield Republician.
Issues disscussed include the publication of
a paper written by John Freeman Knott in
the issue of September 4th and also the
prices for regular and yearly subscriptions.
Stamped and post dated envelope included
addressed to John Freeman Knott, 34 York
Street.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
27 December 1910
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/11 Item
Letter from Hodgson & Co
1 folio
Letter from Hodgson & Co to John
Freeman Knott. Topics discussed include
the selling of books and the amount he
must hold in reserve for later purchases.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
30 November 1912
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/12 Item
Letter from Bailliere, Tindall & Cox
Publishers
2 folios
Letter from Bailliere, Tindall & Cox
Publishers to John Freeman Knott. Topics
discussed include the translation of
Doyen's "Operative Surgery" and the
amount he will receive for the work.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
10 July 1913
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/13 Item
Letter from Bailliere, Tindall & Cox
Publishers
1 folio
Letter from Bailliere, Tindall & Cox
Publishers to John Freeman Knott. Topics
discussed include the translation of
Doyen's "Operative Surgery" and the
amount he will receive for the work.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
17 November 1913
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/14 Item
Letter from W. Smyly
1 folio
Letter from W. Smyly apologising for his
letter being posted without a stamp.
.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/14/15 Item
Letter from illegible hand
1 folio
Letter from illegible hand on Trinity
College Dublin notepaper to John Freeman
Knott. Issue mentioned three unknown
papers the writer has been sent by John.
.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1918
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/15 Item
Letter from the offices of "Who's Who":
An Annual Biographical Dictionary
1 folio
Letter from the offices of "Who's Who" : a
companion to Who's Who, containing the
biographies of those who died during the
period. Included is a biography of John
Freeman Knott with corrections written in
red pen. Enclosed in cardboard frame for
protection.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
c 1920
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/16 Item
Correspondence from the offices of the
Dietetic and Hygiene Gasette
2 folios, 2 envelopes
Correspondence from the offices of the
Dietetic and Hygiene Gasette asking John
Knott to write a piece for their gasette as it
would give him wide publication. Numbers
run from RSCI/IP/Knott/03/16/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/16/02.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1907 - 1910
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/17 Item
Letter from the New York Medical Journal
1 folio, 1 envelope
Letter from the offices of the New York
Medical Journal. Issue disscussed is the
publication of John Freeman Knotts article
entitled Dies Caniculares in the New York
Medical Journal.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
12 October 1907
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/18 Item
Letter to or from John Freeman Knott
2 folios
Letter believed to be to or from John
Freeman Knott. Issues discussed include
travel and weather. A picture is drawn at
the end of the correspondence depicting a
man reading beside tea and toast.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
12 August 1910
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/19 Item
Letter from K Blokhuis, the Gasworks,
Middelharnis Holland
2 folios
Letter from K Blokhuis. Regarding a
puzzling article written by John Freeman
Knott in the journal "Nature". Inclided is a
coupon which can be exchanged for a
postage stamp.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
23 January 1917
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/20 Item
Copy of message written to John Freeman
Knott
1 folio
Copy of message written to John Freeman
Knott from WD, the regius professor of
Medicine. Message reads: "Sorry to have
missed you only here for a few hours".
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/21 Item
Copy of message from Mr. Osler
1 folio
Copy of message written to John Freeman
Knott from a Mr Osler, Oxford. Issue
discussed is the pamphlet written about
Bernard Connor.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/22 Item
Copy of message from Professor Clifford
Allbutt
1 folio
Copy of message written to John Freeman
Knott from Professor Clifford Allbutt,
Cambridge. Issue duscussed is the reading
of an article or pamphlet.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/23 Item
Copy of message written to John Freeman
Knott
1 folio
Copy of message written to John Freeman
Knott from Francis R Cummins? Issues
discussed unknown.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/24 SubSection
Correspondence to and from Elenor Knott
71 folios
Collection of correspondence to and from
Elenor Knott (daughter of John Freeman
Knott).
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1945 - 1952
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/24/01 Item
Collection of correspondance to Elenor
Knott from Professor J.F.D. Shrewsbury
61 folios
Collection of correspondance to Elenor
Knott from Professor J.F.D. Shrewsbury,
director of laboratory at the University of
Birmingham. Issues discussed include the
condition of the country after the war, food
rationing and history of both Ireland and
Britain. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/24/01/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/03/24/01/28.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1945 - 1952
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/24/02 Item
Letter from Mr Mac Donagh
4 folios
Letter to Elenor Knott from a Mr Mac
Donagh. Issues relaing to the history of the
Knott family are discussed.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
17 April 1942
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/24/03 Item
Letter from Elenor Knott to Mr Mac
Donagh
2 folios
Letter from Elenor Knott to Mr Mac
Donagh thanking him for his letter of the
17th April regarding the information he
sent relating to the Knott family.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
26 April 1942
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/24/04 Item
Letter from Francise Devine
1 folio
Letter from Francise Devine to Elenor
Knott. Correspondance relating to a deed
from America from a solicitors by the
name of Horan & Devine.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
11 June 1947
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/24/05 Item
Letter from Risteárd Ó Foghludha
2 folios
Letter from Risteárd Ó Foghludha to
Elenor Knott. Issues discussed include
information regarding a Dr Bernard
Connor, private physician to a former King
of Poland.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
18 July 1950
RCSI/IP/Knott/03/24/06 Item
Letter from Padraig Va Duinnin?
1 folio
Letter from Padraig Va Duinnin? of the
Royal Irish Academy to Elenor Knott.
Correspondance relating to an article
written in the Irish School Monthly in
which Elenor Knott is mentioned.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/04 Section
John Freeman Knott: Certificates
15 certificates
Certificates awarded, presented and belonging
to John Freeman Knott from a variety of
institutes and individuals. Majority of the
certificates are on vellum. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/04/01 to RSCI/IP/Knott/04/15.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1842 - 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/01 SubSection
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
certificates
2 certificates
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
certificates awarded and presented to John
Freeman Knott.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1877 - 1880
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/01/01 Item
RCSI Licentiate of College
1 certificate
John Freeman Knott having certified by the
college and being found duly qualified to
practice the art and science of surgery he is
therefore admitted as a Licentiate of the
College. Certificate is signed by the
President, Vice President and Members of
the Council.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
28 April 1877
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/01/02 Item
RCSI Fellowship of College
1 certificate
RCSI Certificate of Fellowship awarded to
John Freeman Knott on 4th November
1880. Certificate is signed by the President,
Vice President and Members of the
Council.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
4 November 1880
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/02 SubSection
Trinity College Dublin certificates
6 certificates
Trinity College Dublin certificates awarded
and presented to John Freeman Knott.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1887 - 1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/02/01 Item
TCD Bachelor in Arts
1 certificate
TCD Bachelor of Arts awarded to John
Freeman Knott on the 8th June 1887.
Certificate is signed by the President and
Vice President of the College
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1887
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/02/02 Item
TCD Bachelor of Medicine
1 certificate
TCD Bachelor of Medicine awarded to
John Freeman Knott on the 1st July 1887.
Certificate is signed by the President and
Vice President of the College
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1887
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/02/03 Item
TCD Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery
1 certificate
TCD Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery
awarded to John Freeman Knott on the
28th February 1888. Certificate is signed
by the President and Vice President of the
College.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1888
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/02/04 Item
TCD Bachelor in Surgery
1 certificate
TCD Bachelor in Surgery awarded to John
Freeman Knott on the 1st March 1888.
Certificate is signed by the President and
Vice President of the College.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1888
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/02/05 Item
TCD Masters in Arts
1 certificate
TCD Masters of Arts awarded to John
Freeman Knott on the 31st December
1889. Certificate is signed by the President
and Vice President of the College.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/02/06 Item
TCD Doctorate in Medicine
1 certificate
TCD Doctorate in Medicine awarded to
John Freeman Knott on the 31st December
1889. Certificate is signed by the President
and Vice President of the College
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/03 SubSection
King & Queen's College of Physicians
certificates
2 certificates
King & Queen's College of Physicians
certificates awarded and presented to John
Freeman Knott.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1877
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/03/01 Item
Licence to practice in the Faculty of
Physic
1 certificate
Licence to practice in the Faculty of Physic
and certify that he is a Physician and
Licentiate in Medicine of said college.
Awarded to John Freeman Knott on the
13th June 1877. Certificate signed by the
President and Fellows of the college.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1877
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/03/02 Item
Licence in Midwifery
1 certificate
Licence in Midwifery awarded to John
Freeman Knott on the 14th June 1877.
Certificate signed by the President and
Council of the college.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1877
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/04 Item
Pathological Society of Ireland certificate
1 certificate
Awarded to John Freeman Knott for
diligently attending the meetings of the
Pathological Society of Dublin during the
session commencing in November 1876, and
ending in April 1877. Certificate is signed by
the President Thomas Hayden, Honorary
Secretary William Stokes and Secretary
Edward H Bennett.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1877
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/05 Item
Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons of Ireland certificate
1 certificate
Admittance of John Freeman Knott into the
Lodge of St. John as a Mason on the 19th
January 1889. Certificate is signed by the
General Secretary and Deputy General
Secretary.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1889
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/06 Item
Master Masons certificate
1 certificate
Master Masons certificate awarded to
William Knott (Sr) on the 7th July 1842.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1842
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/07 Item
Royal Arch Lodge, Roscommon certificate
1 certificate
Royal Arch Lodge Freemasons certificate
awarded to William Knott (Sr) on the 12
October 1842.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1842
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/04/08 Item
Knights Templars certificate
1 certificate
Knights Templars certificate awarded to
William Knott (Sr) on the 24th February
1842.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1842
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05 Section
John Freeman Knott: Miscellaneous
155 folios, 25 cards, 4 booklets, 7
envelopes, 3 volumes, 1 photo
Miscellaneous material related to John
Freeman Knott, his family and friends
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1850 - 1975
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/01 SubSection
Collection of Postcards and Invites
22 cards
Collection of postcards and invites sent to
John Freeman Knott from various individuals
and institutions including Herr Fr Buchi, his
son Bill, american medicine, british medical
association, international medical congress,
national association for the promotion of
social science and the university biological
association. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/05/01/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/05/01/22.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1806 - 1910
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/02
SubSection
Collection of receipts
45 receipts
Collection of receipts relating to the Royal
College of Surgeons, purchases, IOU's and
rent books from holdings in Kingsland,
Tunroe and Derrybeg. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/05/02/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/05/02/45.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1850 - 1939
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/03 SubSection
Registry of Death, Marriage and the
Obituary of John Freeman Knott.
4 certificates, 3 receipts
Included is the marriage certificate for John
Freeman Knott and Mary Elizabeth Shera
who married on November 28th 1876, Death
Certificate of Mary Elizabeth who died
March 1879 of Dysentery, Licence of
Marriage of John Freeman Knott and his
second wife Philippa Anne Belcombe on the
22nd July 1881 and finally the death
certificate and Obituary of John Freeman
Knott who died 2nd January 1921.
(Certificates are copies of the originals.) Also
included are the receipts for the coffin and
burial plot for Mary Elizabeth Knott.
Numbers run from RSCI/IP/Knott/05/03/01
to RSCI/IP/Knott/05/03/07.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1876 - 1921
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/04 SubSection
School Amalgamation
1 booklet, 3 folios
Included is a booklet explaining the
amalgamation scheme of the school of the
college with the Carmichael College and
Lidwich School. The combined name will
now be the schools of surgery of the royal
college of surgeons and under the control of
the president and council of the royal college
of surgeons. There is also a letter in relation
to John Freeman Knott. The letter states, as a
college Anatomist the pay he will receive
yearly in return for his services to the college
after the amalgamation. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/05/04/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/05/04/03.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1888 - 1892
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/05 SubSection
Exam Papers
3 folios
Preliminary examinations of the Royal
College of Surgeons. Exams include Euclid's
Elements by Dr Tweedy, Algebra by Dr.
Woodhouse and Arithmetic by Dr. Nugent.
All exams are dated January 1875. Numbers
run from RSCI/IP/Knott/05/05/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/05/05/03.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1875
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/06 SubSection
Testimonials of John Freeman Knott
5 booklets/72 folios
Collection of testimonials of John Freeman
Knott from various doctors in Ireland and
abroad. Numbers run from
RSCI/IP/Knott/05/06/01 to
RSCI/IP/Knott/05/06/49.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1892 - 1893
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/07 Item
Elenor Knott photograph
1 photograph
Photograph believed to be that of Elenor
Knott, daughter of John Freeman Knott.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
c 1970
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/08 Item
Small volume of news cuttings
1 volume
Small volume of news cuttings compiled by
John Freeman Knott. (Fragile condition).
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1886 - 1887
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/09 Item
Land Agreement
1 folio
Land Agreement between William Knott
(Sr) and James Cunningham. Item damaged
and inside frame.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
c 1857
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/10 Item
List of books
1 folio
List of books for sale on Thursday, October
24th 1912.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
24 October 1912
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/11 Item
Newspaper cutting from British Medical
Journal
1 folio
Newspaper cutting from the British Medical
Journal about John Freeman Knott and his
views on circumcision.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
25 August 1906
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/12 Item
Extract from pamphlet entitled "Jewish
Encyclopedia"
1 folio
Extract from pamphlet entitled "Jewish
Encyclopedia" Issues discussed include
medical history and anatomy.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
5 November 1904
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/13 Item
Extract from pamphlet entitled ''Robert
Recorde''
1 folio
Extract from pamphlet entitled ''Robert
Recorde'' A reference to the unique record
of a great Welsh man of science.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
7 December 1916
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/14 Item
Newspaper cutting entitled ''A
Distinguished Roscommon Man''
1 folio
Newspaper cutting entitled ''A
Distinguished Roscommon Man'' A
reference to the work by Dr Knott, a man
well known throughout Europe as one of
the most profound investigators of all
difficult points relating to medical science.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/15 Item
Handwritten card
1 folio
Handwritten card admitting John Freeman
Knott for duty on Monday and Wednesday.
Signed by W Weir? and William Thornley
Stoker.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
8 April 1876
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/16 Item
Collection of articles and newpaper
cuttings by John Freeman Knott
4 folios
Collection of articles and newspaper
cuttings describing topics such as science,
anaesthesia and poisons.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
c 1904
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RCSI/IP/Knott/05/17 Item
Envelope
1 envelope
Empty envelope postdated 22nd February
1891.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
22 February 1891
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/18 Item
Envelope
1 envelope
Empty envelope postdated 4th February
1891.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
4 February 1891
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/19 Item
‘Article on the treatment of spinal
paralysis’
3 folios
Article on the treatment of spinal paralysis.
Included with envelope with the words
'Translated for M. P. and C'
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/20 Item
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
'Notice of Motion' regarding council
meetings
2 cards
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
'Notice of Motion' regarding council
meetings. Notes to John Freeman Knott on
the reverse.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
c 1880
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/21 Item
Description of the medical condition of
Napoleon
1 folio
Diary entry describing the medical
condition of Napoleon. Believed to be
written by his own doctor.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/22 Item
Partial poem discribing the doctors and
surgeons of the RCSI
2 folios
Partial poem discribing the Doctors and
Surgeons of the RCSI who strive to cure
every disease known to man.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
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RCSI/IP/Knott/05/23 Item
Newspaper cutting
1 folio
Newspaper cutting from John Freeman
Knott on the subject of Eugenics.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
21 August 1913
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/24 Item
Copy of note to Rev Dean Banks of Boyle?
1 folio, 1 envelope
Copy of a note to Rev Dean Banks of
Boyle on how he felt sad about hearing
news and he enclosed a copy of the article.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
April 1904
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/25 Item
Envelope
1 envelope
Copy of empty envelope addressed to John
Freeman Knott postdated 5th July 1905.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
5 July 1905
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RCSI/IP/Knott/05/26 Item
Document from the Infirmary House,
Longford
1 folio
Document from the Infirmary House,
Longford relating to the report of
unprofessional conduct to the President of
the College and Council of the Royal
College of Surgeons.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
4 January 1892
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/27 Item
Poem about Ce Sopham S Atthill.?
4 folios
Poem about Ce Sopham S Atthill.? Better
known as Tilly - Lt in His Majesties Gallant
Sphinx's.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/28 Item
Copy of newspaper article relating to an
investigation by John Freeman Knott
1 folio
Copy of newspaper article relating to an
investigation by John Freeman Knott.
Investigation relates to the tale of the
Countess of Desmond living to the age of
110 while others maintain there are older
individuals living elsewhere.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
21 December 1910
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RCSI/IP/Knott/05/29 Item
Copy of the Medical Register of 1879
1 folio
Copy of the Medical Register of 1879.
Information given include: address, date of
registration and qualifications.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1879
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/30 Item
Collection of articles from various
newspapers and journals
26 folio
Collection of articles from various
newspapers and journals publications
include: The Times, Freemans Journal and
the British Medical Journal.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
1891
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/31 Item
Document allowing William Knott (Sr) act
as collector of Public Cess
1 folio
Document allowing William Knott (Sr) act
as collector of Public Cess in the County of
Roscommon, Barony of Boyle.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
10 May 1870
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/32 Item
Document appointing William Knott as
Bailiff
1 folio
Document appointing William Knott (Sr) of
Derrybeg as bailiff in the County of Sligo.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
10 February 1834
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/33 Item
Article from the Catholic Bulletin
2 folios
Article from the Catholic Bulletin relating
to the life and work of Elenor Knott
(Daughter of John Freeman Knott).
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/34 Item
Poem relating to Irish Nationalism
2 folios
Poem relating to Irish Nationalism.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
ND
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RCSI/IP/Knott/05/35 Item
Warrant to Distrain
2 folios
Warrant to Distrain. The nomination of
William Knott as Bailiff.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
29 September 1862
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/36 Item
Envelope
1 envelope
Empty envelope addressed to Miss Knott
post dated February 2nd
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
c 1900
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/37 Item
Address of Dr Wilde
1 folio
Address of Dr Wilde. 1 Merrion Sq. North,
Dublin.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
ND
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RCSI/IP/Knott/05/38 Item
Letter from the executor of the Right Hon.
Robert Edward, Earl of Kingston
1 folio
Letter from the executor of the Right Hon.
Robert Edward, Earl of Kingston. The issue
discussed is to request a half years rent
from the tenants and any arrears due.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
26 September 1871
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/39 Item
Collection of names which may relate to
individuals who owe rent
1 folio
Collection of names and places are
mentioned which could relate to individuals
who owe rent.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/40 Item
Newspaper cutting
1 folio
Newspaper cutting re. a collection of
pamphlets and publications.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
ND
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/41 Item
Envelope
1 envelope
Empty envelope addressed to a Mr Thomly
Rhine?
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/42 Item
Envelope
1 envelope
Empty envelope addressed to Dr Eleanor
Knott, 2 Sallymount Terrace, Dublin. (The
Knotts of Sligo).
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/43 Item
Article about Franz Joseph Gall
15 folios
Article related to a physician by the name
of Franz Joseph Gall. Pioneer in the Terra
Incognita of the central nervous system.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
30 November 1906
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/44 Item
Rent book
1 small volume
Kingsland Estate Rent Book. (Fragile
Condition).
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
ND
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/45 Item
Large volume of newspaper and journal
articles
1 large volume
Large volume of newspaper and journal
articles. Index compiled by John Freeman
Knott with inscriptions by his daughter
Eleanor Knott.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
c 1921
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/46 Item
Newspaper cuttings
3 folios
Newspaper cuttings about John Freeman
Knott's article on Francis Bacon and
Shakespeare. Cuttings are from the
Freeman's Journal, Irish Independent and
Medical Press.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
1902
Catalogue No. Description Date
RCSI/IP/Knott/05/47 Item
'List of Contributions to Medical
Literature by John Freeman Knott'
1 folio
'List of Contributions to Medical Literature
by John Freeman Knott'.
By appointment with RCSI Heritage
Collections.
ND
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