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Smith argues that the feeling of shame is encouraged by the wearing of clothes and not vice versa.

ALS. Explains his absence at forthcoming meetings and the need to defer the lecture due from him.

ALS. Writes of the circumstances of the death of Grier's son in the explosion of The Miami.

ALS. Explains that he must defer giving his lectures on fever until the end of the course and that the fever hospital is not yet set up to receive patients.

ANS. Certifies that Edmund Green is suffering from inflammation in the chest.

The Southern Sweet Gum Company was a chewing gum manufacturer in Greensboro (Guilford Co.), N.C. Collection comprises 8 full-color advertising trade cards (approx. 4x6 in.), featuring authors and composers, produced as a purchasing incentive for the chewing gum. Included are cards for Burns, Byron, Dickens, Goethe, Longfellow, Mozart, Schiller, and Tennyson. Missing from the collection are Wagner, Beethoven, and Liszt. The cards are undated, but there is documentation for the company's location in Greensboro between 1898 and 1903.

34 ALS, including 2 photostats. Most are addressed to Spalding. Correspondents include: Ezekiel Porter, Arthur Livermore, S.L. Mitchill, Nicholas Rousselet, B. Waterhouse, S. Ricketson, W.H. Woodward, Clement Storer, G. Richards, W.D. Peck, N. Potter, Ebenezer Lerned, J.C. Warren, C. Wistar, J. Langdon, J.A. Smith, G.C. Shattuck, H.U. Onderdonk, J.L.E.W. Shecut, J. De La Motta, William Eustis Langdon, and S.N. Trevett. Matters discussed include: the cause and prevention of yellow fever and the promotion of the Pharmacopoeia. Reference is also made to medical periodicals, e. g. The New England journal of medicine, The medical repository, and the Medical and philosophical journal and review. Letters from U. Parsons, Sir Robert Perceval and M. Rouviere offer a view of European medicine, referring to J. Abernethy, Sir E. Home, Sir C. Bell, Sir W. Lawrence, W.T. Brande and J.P. Frank, and of the influence of books by Americans such as J. Gorham, P. Cleaveland and B. Rush.

ALS to a client. He quotes prices for various optical and astronomical instruments and describes the manufacture of microscopes in the mid-nineteenth century.

ALS. Expressions of gratitude.

ANS. An autograph signature sample.

ALS. Claims that Townsend cannot have a grievance against him, since he has never met Townsend.

ALS. Thanks the editor of a periodical for printing a notice of his lecture.

ALS. Stevens writes a letter of recommendation for a Doctor Morgan and comments upon a case of Pott's Disease.

2 holograph manuscripts; clean copies, with some corrections. "Visit to the Zurich School" is a transcript (30 pp.) of interviews with members of the "Zurich School" of psychoanalysis, including C.G. Jung, Oskar Robert Pfister, Alphonse Maeder, Paul Federn, Emil Oberholzer and Eugen Bleuler. "My analysis with Freud" is a transcript (44 pp.) of 15 sittings with Sigmund Freud. Stirling-Gilchrist claims to be a student of W.H.R. Rivers.

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.

ALS from Stopes to Lord Samuel and TL, presumably from Lord Samuel, to Stopes. In this exchange, Lord Samuel declines Stopes' request to review her collection of poems, "We burn", in his upcoming presentation to the English Association.

ALS. Invites Putnam and family to attend his lectures on natural history.

ANS. Thanks Norton for his gift of the medal of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.

ANS. Autograph signature sample.

Document, signed. John Mitchell petitions the Hospital for admittance. The Hospital receives the promise of John Haighton, physician, to supply the patient with clean body linen weekly and to remove the body at his expense, if the patient should die within the Hospital's care.