Nos. 1-71

File — Box: 2, Folder: 3-5

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Letterbooks of John H. Brinton as chairman of Committee on Mütter Museum of College of Physicians of Philadelphia with related material concerning museum and Mütter Trust and Lectureship, 1858-1939. Bulk composed of two numerically-arranged letterbooks, 1895-1904 and 1905-1907, containing letters received, drafts and copies of outgoing letters, and annual and financial reports. Correspondence concerns acquisition and preservation of pathological specimens, surgical instruments, and portraits; construction of cases and lighting for museum; insurance; and arrangements for Thomas Dent Mütter Lectureship in surgical pathology. Major correspondents are: Oscar H. Allis, Harvey Cushing, Charles H. Frazier, Aloysius O. J. Kelly, Louis A. La Garde, William James Mayo, George H. Monks, John B. Roberts, and William Henry Welch. Collection includes Brinton’s scrapbook on lectureship and legal and financial papers concerning income and use of Mütter Trust. Also includes 1887 catalogue of portrait collection; list of citations to articles describing or utilizing Mütter Museum specimens; and letterbook of curator, Guy Hinsdale, concerning purchase, use, and restoration of specimens and payment authorizations for curatorial bills.