McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Sketchbook and related items
Series
Textual records.
Series consists of two sketchbooks (1840s?) with caricatures of John Goodsir, Alexander Munro, Robert Knox and William Robertson kept by E. D. Worthington while a medical student, as well as related items.
By going through the correspondence between Francis and Worthington, it was discovered that originally there had been three sketchbooks and three scrapbooks in the collection. Today only two sketchbooks remain. In dealing with the scrapbooks, W. W. Francis either detached or cut the leaves so that he could separate items dealing with the prominent members of the family. Thus, it is difficult to determine how much of the original material remains. It was possible, through the different sizes of scrapbook pages to identify at least two separate books.