In 1858, he became surgeon extraordinary to the Queen. Paget became a baronet in 1871. He was president of the International Medical Congress in 1881 and also president of the Clinical Society, the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and the Pathological Society of London. This is a small collection of holograph letters of English surgeon, Sir James Paget, to a variety of correspondents, 1846-1894. The letters were probably preserved for their autograph value.
Most items are responses to invitations or acknowledgements of reprints.
Several items are addressed to John B. Roberts. The bulk of this collection of Sir James Paget letters was donated to the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by E. B. Krumbhaar in 1938. The letters were housed in the Autograph Collection and integrated with other Paget material, including letters donated by A. P. Brubaker in 1918 and Astley P. C. Ashhurst in 1925. The holograph recipe was donated by Richard H. Harte in 1913. The letters were removed from the Autograph Collection, processed, and catalogued in 1991.