Handwritten apprentice indenture between Walter Careless Freer, son of Edward Freer of Digbeth, Birmingham, and Robert Ernest, House Surgeon of the Sheffield General Infirmary.

Printed certificate stating ‘that Mr. W.C. Freer hath diligently attended to the practice of Physic and Surgery at this [Sheffield General] Infirmary for Five Years last past’. Signed by Corden Thompson, G.C. Holland, Charles F. Favell, Wilson Overend, Henry Jackson, Henry Thomas, Robert Ernest. Includes engraving of Sheffield General Infirmary.

Handwritten certificate stating ‘the term of apprenticeship … expired this 6th day of May 1840’ and that ‘Mr. Walter Careless Freer hath faithfully and diligently attended to his professional duties in all respects during his apprenticeship to me for five years last past’. Signed by Robert Ernest. Includes engraving of Sheffield General Infirmary.

Certificate recording Freer’s attendance at ‘one course of my lectures on surgery’. Signed by William Lawrence of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.

Certificate from the Board of the National Vaccine Establishment, London, appointing Freer as vaccinator

Certificate stating that Freer had completed the course on Obstetrics at the Dublin Lying-in-Hospital. Signed by C. Johnson, R. Johns, S.L. Hardy, J.G. Strickland. Includes engraving of Dublin Lying-in-Hospital. On vellum with a wafer seal in a tin box attached by a red silk ribbon.

Handwritten letter certifying Freer’s attendance at lectures on Materia Medica at the Sheffield Medical Institution during the session 1837-8. Signed by George Turton.

Handwritten letter certifying Freer’s attendance at lectures on Chemistry at the Sheffield Medical Institution during the session 1837-8. Signed by Charles F. Favell.

Handwritten letter certifying Freer’s attendance at lectures on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women & Children at the Sheffield Medical Institution during the session 1838-9. Signed by George Turton.

Handwritten letter certifying Freer’s attendance at Anatomical demonstrations during the sessions 1838-9 and 1839-40. Signed by Edward Thompson and Edward Martin.

Handwritten letter from Robert Ernest of Sheffield General Infirmary to Edward Freer, Walter Freer’s father, discharging Walter from his apprenticeship.

Handwritten letter certifying Freer’s attendance at lectures on the principle and practice of physic during the sessions of 1838-9 and 1839-40. Signed by Corden Thompson.

Handwritten letter certifying Freer’s attendance at lectures on Physiology during the sessions 1838 and 1839. Signed by G.C. Holland.

Handwritten letter certifying Freer’s attendance at lectures on Surgery during the sessions 1839 and 1840. Signed by Henry Thomas.

Handwritten letter certifying Freer’s attendance at lectures on the principles and practice of physic during the sessions of 1838-9 and 1839-40. Signed by Corden Thompson, Senior Physician to the Sheffield General Infirmary.

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by Charles F. Favell, Physician to the Sheffield General Infirmary and Public Dispensary, Lecturer in Chemistry at the Medical Institute.

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by Henry Jackson, surgeon at the Sheffield General Infirmary.

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by Henry Thomas, Surgeon of the Sheffield General Infirmary.

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by G. Calvert Holland.

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer to the Governors of the Hereford Hospital. Signed by Thomas Haslehurst, Surgeon to the Bridgenorth Infirmary.