Reminiscences of Edmund Knox Sherrill : oral history, 1983.

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Reminiscences of Edmund Knox Sherrill : oral history, 1983.

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Sherrill family background; life at Boxford, influences on education and career choices; account of his father, Henry Knox Sherrill: influence of mother, impact of deaths of mother and brother, relations with church colleagues, power and administrative style, visit to Europe during World War II, interest in Massachusetts General Hospital and Yale University.

Transcript: 84 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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