[Collection of miscellaneous brief manuscripts and letters; Philadelphia, Bar Harbor, etc., 1878-1911.

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Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914. [Collection of miscellaneous brief manuscripts and letters; Philadelphia, Bar Harbor, etc., 1878-1911.

[Collection of miscellaneous brief manuscripts and letters; Philadelphia, Bar Harbor, etc., 1878-1911.

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Contents. Envelope 1. "Cat fear": questionnaire, Dec. 1902, seeking reports of acute fear of cats; responses to the questionnaire, dated Dec. 11, 1902 to Nov. 25, 1903. 73 pieces. With this, photocopy of SWM's query in British med. jour. 119:180, 1903, on the same subject. Results of this study published under title, "Of ailurophobia and the power to be conscious of the cat as near, when unseen and unheard," in American medicine, 9:851-853, 1905. Env. 2. Corrected holograph draft of SWM's speech to the College of Physicians of Phila., Apr. 14, 1886, upon the gift of a loving-cup by "two gentlewomen, " [i.e. Mrs. Conover and Mary Cadwalader Mitchell (Mrs. S.W.). 10 leaves. Packard, F.R., "The College from 1887 to 1925" in Trans. & Studies, CPP, 4th ser. v. 4, suppl., p. 93, 1937. Also: Transactions, CPP, Centennial vol., 1887, p. 171. See also speech of Horace Howard Furness, Sr., to which this seems to reply. Env. 3. Speech to "the President [of CPP, i.e., James Tyson] and his guests," at the first dinner in the new building, 1909 (?), "rescued from the garbage and presented to the library by Joseph Casey, janitor ... Dec. 10, 1920 (?)" Typewritten with ms. alterations. Env. 4. "The physicians, " poem, 1899. Publ. in Trans. of the Congr. of Amer. Phys. and Surg., v. 5, 1900. Not in SWM's Collected poems. 237 lines; 31 [i.e. 34] p. Env. 5. "A doctor's century"; corrected draft of a poem read at the Centennial dinner of this College, Jan. 4, 1887, and publ. in SWM's Collected poems, 1914. Also publ. as corrected, in Trans. CPP 1887, p. [381]-382, Centennial vol. 5 leaves. Env. 6. Five letters, between July 25, 1910 and Jan. 13, 1911, to Robert Abbe, New York, concerning Abbe's gift to the College of Benj. Rush's watch; typewritten, signed; apparently presented by Abbe. Includes one photograph of Mrs. Howell (Gwendolyn Whistler Howell). Env. 7. Manuscript index to the Gilbert Collection (which was presented to the College by SWM); 8 leaves, in another hand, dated June 1888. Env. 8. Letters to Charles Perry Fisher. Librarian of the College; lists of books wanted for the Library, etc. 7 pieces, 1908-1911. Env. 9. Letters, etc., on College and other business, including especially a letter dated Jan. 2, 1878, witness W.S.W. Ruschenberger, bequeathing to the College SWM's copies of the original portraits of Harvey and John Hunter; in an envelope marked by Ruschenberger not to be opened till SWM's death. 6 pieces. Env. 10. Personal notes; brief, miscellaneous. 16 pieces. Env. 11. Printed clipping on William Harvey, with SWM's signature on the bottom. No date-line. Env. 12. Prescriptions; miscellaneous medical lists, undated. 5 pieces. Env. 13. Verses written to SWM by J. Levering Jones, 1912, with his letter of transmittal (1915) to Wm. J. Taylor, and Taylor's letter of transmittal to C.P. Fisher. Env. 14. Letter, New Haven, 11 May 1906, Russell H. Chittenden to SWM, recounting an experiment with a gentleman claiming an unusual sense of smell.

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