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 of recommendation for Freer. Signed by James D. Basire, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland.

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by Robert Adams, Professor of Surgery, Richmond Hospital.

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by Robert Johns, Lying-in Hospital, Dublin

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by J. MacDonnell, one of the Surgeons to the Richmond, Whitworth & Hardwicke Hospitals, Dublin.

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by Samuel L. Hardy, Dublin Obstetrical Faculty…

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by Charles Johnson, Midwifery, Dublin.

Handwritten letter of recommendation for Freer. Signed by Richard Carmichael, Consulting Surgeon, Richmond Hospital.