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Contains 28 Collections and/or Records:
Series 4. Correspondence, 1851-1928
Series — Container: 8
Identifier: Series 4
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1851-1928
Subseries 4.1. Letterbook [disbound], 1858
Sub-Series — Container: 8
Identifier: Series 4_1
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1858
Subseries 4.2. Correspondence with physicians, 1851-1928
Sub-Series — Container: 8
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1851-1928
Subseries 4.3. Correspondence with literary figures, 1858-1913
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series 4_3
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1858-1913
Letters and resolutions from individuals and societies on the death of John Kearsley Mitchell; includes items signed by Robley Dunglison (1798-1869) and Samuel Henry Dickson (1798- 1872), 1858
File — Container: 8, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: Series 4_1
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1858
Billings, John Shaw (1838-1913), letters sent. Discusses his professorship at University of Pennsylvania and work at the Library of the Surgeon General's Office and the New York Public Library, 1890-1903
File — Container: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1890-1903
Brunton, Sir Thomas Lauder (1844-1916), letter received [copy only]. Includes Brunton's obituary of SWM and a letter from his daughter, Alice H. Henry, explaining the provenance of the Mitchell letter, 1911, circa 1914, 1928
File — Container: 8, Folder: 2
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1911, circa 1914, 1928
Cushing, Harvey (1869-1939), correspondence [copies, with one original], 1907,1910, undated
File — Container: 8, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1907,1910, undated
Flexner, Simon (1863-1946), letters received [copies only], 1903-1928, undated
File — Container: 8, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1903-1928, undated
Garrison, Fielding Hudson (1870-1935), letters received [copies only]. Anecdotes about Mitchell's relationship with John Shaw Billings, including how they met and how Mitchell led an unsuccessful campaign to get Billings appointed as surgeon general, 1912-1913
File — Container: 8, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1912-1913
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