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ALS. Request for student tickets to the college lectures.

ALS relating to financial matters, in particular the sale of a house in order to pay off a number of debts.

ALS. Writes of the publication of the Dictionary of Medicine, of which Quain was the editor.

TLS. Writes regarding the acquisition of the Harriet Lane Johnston Collection for the National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution.

Richard Stephen Creed was vice-chancellor of New College, Oxford, England. Collection documents the controversy that followed publication of Dr. Seymour J. G. Spencer's article, "Homosexuality among Oxford Undergraduates," in the Journal of Mental Science in April 1959, which received press coverage in England and the United States. The article discussed the psychiatric treatment of such students. Contains Creed's corrected copy of the reprinted article and an excerpt from the July meeting minutes for the Warneford Management committee, where faculty and staff mentioned in the article's acknowledgments expressed their outrage at the unwanted and sensational publicity. Includes Creed's letter to the author following that meeting, which questioned Spencer's research results and approach to writing, as well as Spencer's letters written in response to defend his work.

Holograph, unsigned. A memorial to Dr. Clarke Abel.

5 letters (ALS). Includes letters to J. Forbes Royle, comparing East Indian and American caoutchouc (rubber); to John Ashburton Thompson, remarking upon the "power of coca to remove bodily fatigue"; and to Ernest Hart, disparaging the antivivisection movement.

ALS. Advises Mr. White, the suitor of a young lady in Emmet's care, that her father is strongly opposed to the match.

ALS. Hare thanks a Dr. Muaran for the medical attention given to Robert Waln; discusses land investment with Edward S. Burd; writes to Zachariah Allen regarding the "cuts" used in his publications; and recommends Emile Therouanne of Paris to R. Gilmor. There is also an obituary notice.

ALS. Regrets that his present state of health prevents him from visiting Anderson.

ALS. Stone writes as a member of the Board of Health of Washington, D.C., of the dangers arising from the smoke and ashes falling on Washington from the burning of dead army animals in Virginia.

ANS. Instructs Mr. Buckman to deliver a copy of Lyall's "Travels" to the bearer of the note.

ALS. Doremus explains his duties at the City College.

ALS. Joseph Leidy writes regarding the prices of various anatomical preparations; Samuel George Morton sends a book with an autograph of J. Locke; and John Edwards Holbrook inquires whether the library owns a particular volume of the "Transactions of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston."

Vincenzo Andrei was a professor at the Royal Institute of Music in Florence. Collection comprises a manuscript volume (133 pages) containing Vincenzo Andrei's "Robespierre. Dramma in 5 quadri. Epoca dal 1789 al 1793," handwritten in Italian. The volume is dedicated to (Costantino?) Ressman, an Italian ambassador.

2 ALS. In a letter to the New York printer and publisher Justus Starr Redfield, Dunglison writes regarding his biography in "Men of the times" and about the use of burnt sponge in the treatment of goitre. He refers to various people and affairs at the Jefferson Medical College. The treatment of goitre is also the subject of his letter to Henry Randall.

Department store in Portland, Ore. Collection consists of three volumes of photographs that depict window and retail sales floor displays, store staff, staff events, and interior and exterior architecture. Displays include ties, hats, shoes, sportswear, golf apparel, outerwear, sleepwear, shirts, sweaters,business attire as well as toiletries and other merchandise. Companies represented include Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Jantzen. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

ALS. Satterlee appeals to Worth, informing him that horses intended for the ambulance train were taken by cavalry company captain Philip Kearny.

Holograph manuscript, signed, in which Laennec desribes the case of a patient "W." A facsimile of an ALS to Baron Cuvier, in which Laennec presents various reasons why he should receive the prize, instituted by M. de Montyon and awarded by the Academy of Sciences, for the most useful discovery in the field of medicine.