Letter from Richard Gore to Richard Butcher Manuscript letter from Richard Gore to Richard Butcher thanking Butcher for sending a copy of his paper on cleft lip, and informing Butcher of his own approach to undertaking such operations. Gore then discusses another paper of Butchers 'in which fatal bleeding was the consequence of a wound at the inner and upper part of the thigh. Gore discusses the best position to cut the femoral artery during surgery. 8 March 1856