Papers of Hugh Lyle Stalker, 1812-1977 (inclusive), 1910-1977 (bulk).

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Papers of Hugh Lyle Stalker, 1812-1977 (inclusive), 1910-1977 (bulk).

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Consists of letters addressed to Stalker from colleagues in the medical profession, and also Stalker's collection of autographed letters and photographs of eminent men. The oldest signature in the collection is that of John Radcliffe, which is on a receipt dated 1702; the oldest letter, dated 1760, is that of John Hunter. Others represented by autographs or photographs in the collection are: Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Sigmund Freud, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir William Osler, Ivan P. Pavlov, Rudolf Virchow, C. G. Jung, Harvey Cushing, and Benjamin Rush. Major correspondents of Stalker's include Alexander Taylor Bunts, Richard Clarke Cabot, Oliver Cope, Fuller Albright, Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott, James Morison Faulkner, Theodore Chase Greene, Lewis Marshall Hurxthal, and George Richards Minot. Many of these individuals describe their medical activities and provide autobiographical or historical information in their letters to Stalker.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Stalker, Hugh Lyle, 1893-

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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

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Hunter, John, 1728-1793

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Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902

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