Letters, 1838-1889 : Massachusetts.

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Letters, 1838-1889 : Massachusetts.

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[1] 1838 Nov. 21, Boston, to Dr. Elisha Bartlett [2 p.]. [2] 1839 Sept. 26, Hanover, to Dr. Elisha Bartlett [3 p.]. [3] 1844 Dec. 28, Boston, to Usher Parsons, M.D., Providence, R.I. : Inquiring about cadaver which did not arrive at railroad depot as expected. [4] 1850 Sept. 3, Pittsfield, Mass., to Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, Boston, Mass. : Stating that he has just dispatched a poem [Astraea] by express, and that he wants to see every proof and revision. [5] 1858 Jan. 11, Boston, to Reuben A. Guild : Replying to inquiry about his poem, "Poetry, a metical essay". [6] 1861 March 15, Boston, to Lucius B. Wells : Regrets he will be unable to deliver Annual Poem before societies of Union College. [7] 1868 Sept. 30, Boston, to S.C. Hunt, Somerville, Mass. : On yawning. [8] 1881 Oct. 10, Beverly Farms, Mass., to "Dear Sir". [9] 1883 Dec. 28, Boston, to "My dear Sir" [3 p.] : Regrets he cannot write on Brownell. [10] 1885 Jan. 29, Beverly Farms, Mass., to Sir Morell Mackenzie [4 p.] : Thanking Sir Morell for his letter and a copy of the "Fortnightly" which contained an article on specialization in medicine. [11] Signature [ACS.], 1887 March 24, Boston : On verso "Sent for this March 22, 1887. Rec'd it March 26." [12] 1889 Feb. 11, Boston, to Miss Orr [2 p.] : Includes last verse of "The Chambered Nautilus" in Holmes' hand. [13] [n.y.] Sept. 10, Beverly Farms, to Miss Levi [2 p.]. [14] [n.y.] Jan. 12, Boston, to Dr. Shaw : His friend, Mr. Harris of Oxford, wishes to see hospital.

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Ticknor, Reed & Fields

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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...

Guild, Reuben Aldridge, 1822-1899

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Wells, Lucius B.,

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Parsons, Usher, 1788-1868

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U. S. naval surgeon. From the description of Papers, 1819-1840. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35231275 Physician; Professor of Surgery and Anatomy at Brown University, 1823-1828. From the description of Papers, 1819-1873. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 86167634 ...

Mackenzie, Morell, 1837-1892

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Physician to the Emperor Frederick III. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1888 Dec. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270605398 English laryngologist. From the description of Papers, 1874-1891, [London]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35161442 ...

Bartlett, Elisha,

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Hunt, Samuel B., 1797-1867

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