Richard H. Hoffmann papers, 1927-1963.

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Richard H. Hoffmann papers, 1927-1963.

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Professional and personal papers of Richard H. Hoffmann include a scrapbook with clippings, letters, programs, invitations, and magazine articles about his books, medical opinions, and testimony in legal cases in New York State such as the Creighton-Applegate murder, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Miriam Brandt divorce case, and the Eleanor Morgan Slaterlee will case. Hoffmann also testified in cases where medical opinions were sought about hyper insulinism, sex offenses, and detection of criminals by facial characteristics. Manuscript material includes a typescript copy of "The Passions," a history of a patient, and notebooks with miscellaneous quotes and ideas. Also family photographs of his first wife, Janet Beecher, and son, Richard Wyndham Hoffmann, and several sketches by different artists.

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Richard H. Hoffmann (Cornell University M.D. 1908) was a psychiatrist, neurologist and criminologist. Born in Vienna, he received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, and also studied in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna, eventually specializing in nervous and mental diseases. He was associated with the Neurological Institute and Post Graduate Hospital on Randall's Island; wrote several books including THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH, 1929, THE GIRL IN POISON COTTAGE, 1953, and CONQUEST OF TENSION...

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