Charles Sedgwick Minot papers, 1868-1914.

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Charles Sedgwick Minot papers, 1868-1914.

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Papers of comparative anatomist, Harvard professor, and Boston, Mass. native Charles Sedgwick Minot, 1868-1914, contains mainly correspondence with his mother, father, grandfather, sister, and brothers relating to family matters, studying biology abroad in Germany and France, and daily activities. Also included is a diary, 1883-84, kept while at Woodbourne, the family vacation estate in West Roxbury, Mass., during the final months of his sister, Alice's life.

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