Personal papers, 1839-1941.

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Personal papers, 1839-1941.

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Personal papers, 1839-1941, including items concerning S. Weir Mitchell's estate and royalties statements. Includes papers left on Mitchell's desk at death, will, and appraisals of wines, books, and china. Also includes list of items sold at sheriff's sale in the 1930s and inventory of Mitchell's rare book and autograph collection. Subseries 1.2 contains royalties statements documenting earnings from medical books, novels, and poems. Also includes academic transcript and notes, 1849-1850, on Charles D. Meigs's lectures on obstetrics at Jefferson Medical College; photographic prints of S. Weir Mitchell and John K. Mitchell; records of military service of Mitchell's younger brothers; typescript play, 1894, by Thomas Wharton and Owen Wister based on Mitchell's Francois Villon; and signed, typescript poem, 1892, by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

1.5 boxes and 1 oversize folder (.6 linear ft.)

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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Mitchell, Silas Weir, 1829-1914

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Silas Weir Mitchell was a Philadelphia physician and author. After graduating from medical school, he studied in Europe, joined his father's practice, and ran Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia during the Civil War, becoming the preeminent American neurologist of his generation. In addition to numerous medical papers and texts, he published popular novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Born on 15 Feb. 1829, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of physician John Kear...

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x000028 Born in Pennsylvania, raised in South Carolina, and educated at Harvard, Owen Wister travelled in the Western U.S. as a young man. Although he returned to the East and Harvard law school, he acted upon a friend's suggestion and began writing thrilling Western stories for Harper's. His well-researched stories, particularly The Virginian, he...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869

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