Diaries
Subject
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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Wilson diary
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/064
Scope and Contents
Volume documenting Joseph Wilson’s voyage on U.S.S. Vandalia from Portsmouth, N.H., to Marquesas
with abstract of log of entire voyage, 18571859;
includes manuscript on naval hygiene, 1860; and
fragmentary diary of voyage on U.S.S. Powhatan from Philadelphia to Mobile, Ala., 18601861.
Diary from
Vandalia (pp. 195)
describes Wilson’s arrival in Portsmouth, N.H., on 2 Nov. 1857, embarkation on 1
Dec., then voyage south to Rio de Janeiro, through Straits of Magellan, north to Lima and Panama,...
Dates:
1857 - 1861
Lester Lovett Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 435
Overview
Lester Lovett Powell was born in 1875 in either Saco or Biddeford, Maine. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. Powell served in the U.S. military as a physician in France during World War I. He died in 1938.His military service:
Drafted into Federal Serv: as 1st Lt MC from NG; Capt Nov. 15/18. Org: 1st Me HFA; 101 Inf to Dec. 25/17; 101 MG Bn; Unasgd to disch. Eng: Aisne-Marne; St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. Wounded in action: Oct. 28/18....
Dates:
1918; undated
Lucius Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/318
Scope and Contents
The collection contains seventy-nine letters and postal cards received, 1883-1893, nine diaries, 1890-1899, two
account books, 1886-1891, one recipe book, [n.d.], and miscellaneous items, [n.d.], documenting the personal
life and patent medicine business of Lucius F. Wood in West Townsend, Mass. and the surrounding area. The
series of letter and postal cards received, 1883-1893, is divided into two subseries: personal and business. Both
subseries are arranged chronologically. An alphabetical...
Dates:
1883 - 1891
Peirce family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/308
Scope and Contents
The collection contains medical education and personal papers,
1824-1895, of three physicians of the Peirce family of Maine.
Series 1 includes volumes of notes, 1824-1825, taken by James
H. Peirce on Nathan Smith's lectures on surgery and the theory
and practice of physic at the Medical School of Maine. One
volume of notes on the anatomy and physiology lectures of John
D. Wells is included. The series also includes Peirce's rough
notes for an essay, probably his medical...
Dates:
1824 - 1895
Records of the Elm Hill Private School and Home for the Education of Feeble-Minded Youth
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6/013
Overview
Elm Hill Private School and Home for the Education of Feeble-Minded Youth was founded in 1848 in Barre, Massachusetts, by physician Hervey Backus Wilbur (1820-1883). Wilbur left Elm Hill in 1851 to establish a similar but state-sponsored school in New York. His assistant, George Brown (1823-1892), took over the institution. The records of Elm Hill span the years 1842-1951. The records consist of Administrative records, Correspondence, Financial records, Medical records, Teaching records, and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920; 1842 - 1951
Silas Weir Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/241-03
Scope and Contents note
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:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1850-1928; Bulk, 1850-1928 1788-1949
Sophia Perry diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/325
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four diaries, 1858-1901 (Bulk 1858-1865 & 1888), kept by Sophia E. Perry, a resident of Gorham, Me. Items found interleaved in the diaries were removed and placed in folders. The diaries document Ms. Perry’s personal life. Ms. Perry kept the first through third diaries while living in Gorham. These diaries describe the weather and local events of the day. Occasionally, larger events are recorded, the most noteworthy being the assassination of U.S. President...
Dates:
1858 - 1901
Travel diary and other writings [anonymous]
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/178
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains the holograph diary of the physician
from his 1910-1911 voyage to Arabia, India, and Africa, as well
as the itinerary from his 1929 voyage to Sweden and Poland,
and a few poems.The 1910-1911 diary contains the physician's account of his experiences
and sights on his journey from Philadelphia, across the Atlantic
and Mediterranean to Egypt, around Arabia and through the Persian
Gulf to India, around the coast of Africa, and back across the...
Dates:
1910 - 1911
William H. Bartoll diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/200
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1864 Jan. 1-June 27, of William H. Bartoll, describing his experiences as surgeon’s steward aboard the "Nahant", a Union ironclad monitor, stationed at Charleston Bay during the Civil War. Includes recipes and cash accounts as steward. Bartoll describes the general conditions and daily life aboard an ironclad with references to his medical work, including dispensing drugs and tending wounded; descriptions of military skirmishes; and impressions of the progress of the war. Diary also...
Dates:
1864
William W. Keen papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/076-01-06
Scope and Contents
The William W. Keen papers are comprised of six separate collections, including correspondence, photographs, diaries, and newsclippings. Much of the correspondence deals with eithr family matters or the controversy vivisection. For more detail on the materials contained the Keen papers, please see the "Scope and Content" note for each series.
Dates:
1855 - 1932
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