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Note (ANS) informing the mayor that the Chemical Amphitheatre will be available at the requested date and time. Includes translation.

Letter (ALS) regarding a case of sudden death immediately following and apparently caused by aspiration of the chest witnessed by McMurtry at the Charity Hospital of New Orleans in 1873 or 1874.

Letter (ALS) informing the Governer of a small balance due from the Governor's grandfather, Arthur Fenner. On the address side is a note in the Governor's hand.

Holograph, signed. A statement of payments past due on Bourn's account.

Note (ANS) inviting Gilman to an evening with the "Gesellschaft naturforscher Freunde."

These documents were separated from Brayton's ledger books, 1882-1913, which have been catalogued separately. One group consists of receipts of purchase and medical supply company contracts. A second group relates to Brayton's efforts to collect on delinquent accounts through the employment of various collection agencies, including the National Mercantile Company, the Whitney Law Corporation, and Everett A. Kingsley.

3 letters (ALS). Breschet places a subscription to Cuvier's work on fishes with a M. Lerrault. In a letter to Breschet, J. Cruveilhier expresses discontent with his situation in Montpellier.

3 letters (ANS).

Letter (ALS). As Director of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, Brigham writes with news about the affairs of and events at the Asylum.

2 letters (ANS) and 2 holograph notes, unsigned, relating to various social engagements.

Holograph inscription, signed. Broadbent's compliments to Dr. H. Barton Jacobs, on the fly-leaf of a copy of the third edition of Broadbent's book on heart disease, presented to Jacobs. Attached is a note in Jacobs' hand.

Note (ANS) with regards to a course of treatment, and a letter (ALS) discussing, among other things, artificial limbs. Includes transcriptions of both items, and a translation of the letter (ALS).

8 letters (ALS) and a note (ANS). Correspondence includes a letter to his brother, W.B. Brodie regarding his health, a letter of recommendation for Dr. Seth Thompson, and a letter to Daniel Ellis regarding the election to the Royal Society of the physician and physiologist Alexander Philips Wilson Philip, nominated by chemist and physicist William Hyde Wollaston and others. Other letters and notes relate to patients and treatments. A transcription of the letter to Ellis is included.

Collection comprises a autographed letter (4 pgs., 19 cm x 23 cm) written by Charlotte Brontë to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey on 1840 November 12, possibly from Yorkshire. Pages also hold sketches of her and of a horse head created by William Weightman (1814-1842), who was assistant curate to Patrick Brontë beginning in 1839. Topics include Weightman's drawings; an invitation to her to provide entertainment; procuring students for a local school; and the abusive and dissolving relationship between Mr. Collins, who was a curate, and his wife. Includes Brontë's negative assessment of Mr. Collins' character. Collection includes a typescript transcription of the letter.

2 documents, signed, appointing Henry Adams as Coroner of Norfolk County and John Rollins as Division Inspector of the Second Division of the Militia. Both documents are also signed by Alden Bradford, as Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Letter (ALS) regarding the transport of various anatomical specimens across the French-German border. Includes transcription and translation.

Letter (ALS), referring a patient to Dr. Husson's care. Includes transcription and translation.

Letter (ALS) and a document, signed. Both related to military matters. Includes translation of the letter.

Letter (ALS) to Peabody, editor of the "North American Review", regarding his article "The poetry of anatomy."

Holograph, signed. Attests that William Patterson, Jr., cannot serve in the military due to his physical and mental condition. Also signed by Colin Mackenzie.

Letter (ALS) regarding the estate of his wife, Mary (Reeder) Ireland Brown, daughter of Colonel John Reeder.

Letter (LS). Reports failure to discover an English translation of "Luzumiyat" by the Arab poet Alu'l-Ala, who lived from 973 to 1055.

A collection of letters (ALS) from Brown, including a letter from Brown's grandfather, the Rev. John Brown; photostats, including one of the first page of the first edition of Brown's "Horae subsecivae"; and holograph notes in an anonymous hand.

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

Letters (ALS), in French and English, relating to professional matters and prescribing treatments, and a portrait of Brown-Séquard.

Letter (ALS) to H.S. Scott in the course of his inquiry into the "state of Public Vaccination in London."

Letters (ALS), including instructions for the third edition of Buchan's "Domestic Medicine". In the same letter he also relates anecdotes of incidents in which people made use of the book's medical advice. A letter to Cadell and Davies (booksellers and publishers) concerns his Medical advice to mothers and his Treatise on venereal disease. This letter was removed from the Thomas Cadell collection. A holograph note, in an anonymous hand, provides biographical information.

Letter (ALS) to his publisher. Apologises for not having fulfilled his obligations and promises to start work on his book the following week. Includes transcription and translation.

Letter (ALS). Thanks Mrs. Doremus for the kindness and sympathy shown to him and Mrs. Bull. Written on stationary from New York City's Plaza Hotel.

This typed transcript copy of a letter from Bumgarner to Davison, made for Mrs. Trent, was removed from the "Bataan" copy of Davison's "Compleat Pediatrician", a volume in the Historical Collection, call number "II Davison". The letter relates that Bumgarner made much use of the book during the WWII campaign in the Pacific.

Letter (ALS) to the editor or publisher of the "Annual Register" soliciting an assignment.

Letter (ALS) to his editor or publisher, asking for paper to finish his autobiography.

Letter (ALS) to Mrs. Burr informing her that Benjamin Rush, uninformed that she is already taking hemlock for her illness, advises the same. Includes transcription.

Busse's holograph translation of sections from Alois Eduard Kornmuller's "Einfuhrung in die klinische Elektrenkephalographie," whose focus is electroencephalography. Accompanied by an 11-page typescript of holograph translation. Both were received as part of Busse's gift of a copy of Kornmuller's book to the History of Medicine Collections. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.

Letter (ALS). In this very cordial letter, apparently written to Maine de Biran after his exclusion from the Council of Five Hundred on suspicion of royalism, Cabanis, himself a member of the Council, admonishes him to continue with his work, promising him every assistence.

Notes (ANS) instructing the proctor to pay the monthly salaries of two infirmary employees.

Letters (ALS) to Thomas Cadell, Sr. (1742-1802), Thomas, Jr., and William Davies (d. 1820), publishers and booksellers, from James Makittrick Adair, regarding his essay on regimen; from John Aikin; from George Armstrong, regarding his Essay on the diseases most fatal to infants; from Alexander Peter Buchan, regarding a book on sea-bathing; from Thomas Cogan, regarding his Theological disquisitions; from Quintin Craufurd; from James Currie; from William Hey, regarding his Practical observations in surgery, and from Benjamin Rumford, regarding the second edition of his Seventh essay. A letter written by William Buchan was removed from this collection and placed with the William Buchan collection.

Letter (ALS) to Nahum Capen, restating the argument of Caldwell's book, Phrenology Vindicated, and Anti-Phrenology Unmasked, and a letter (ALS) to Reverend Samuel Gilman, relating to personal matters.

Holograph, signed. Promisory note for forty-five dollars to be paid to Joseph Basset.

Advertising agency founded in 1911 in Detroit, Michigan. Campbell-Ewald held the Chevrolet account from 1919-2010. Collection consists of a booklet of photographs produced as part of an exhibit of Chevrolet print advertising held in May 1937. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Letter (ALS). Typescript of French original and typed English translation are available. Discusses the petrified fossils of Montmartre, Maestricht, and Euhstedt and the cetaceans at M. de Buffon's in Paris. Expresses disappointment at being unable to see Goethe, touching on the troubled internal political affairs of the Netherlands. Announces intention to make a short trip to Germany in the spring in order to visit Merck and Soemmerring.

Lawyer of Charleston (Charleston Co.), S.C. Represented the county for two terms in the state's general assembly; member of the Confederate Army's German Artillery; and member of the Charleston City Council under T.T. Hyde. Also, officer in the National German American Alliance and active in the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South. Married Julia Pieper in 1882. Collection primarily comprises printed material related to John D. Cappelmann's numerous activities. Includes advertisements, church bulletins, invitations, tickets, and programs for balls, orations, literary society meetings, concerts, dances, baccalaureate exercises, recitals, and bicycle races. In addition, there are notices for events and general orders concerning the German Artillery, as well as information on other Confederate memorial events. There are also drafts of legislation for the General Assembly; copies of Charleston City Council minutes, local election campaign materials, bank organizing documents, as well as annual reports and other records regarding the Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, Parker Cotton Mills Company, and the Georgia State Building & Loan Association of Savannah. Charleston organizations represented include the Star Gospel Mission, and The Knights of Pythias; other organizations represented include the YMCA and the German University League. Topics of interest include the peace movement during World War I; the anti-German and anti-German American sentiment of the period; Lutheranism in the early twentieth-century South, especially regarding the Sunday School movement. The collection contains only a few personal letters written to Cappelmann; the majority of letters to him contain solicitations for monetary support, mostly to benefit various local and national Lutheran entities. A few items reference Cappelmann's children, John D., F. William, E. Henry, and Gertrude. Contains several items published in German, as well as a folder of biographical information. Several items postdate Cappelmann's death, and their immediate connection to the collection is unclear.

Holograph, signed.

Letters (ALS) to Anthony Panizzi, regarding Panizzi's articles on Rosetti and Boniface, and to Archibald Glen, placing an order for a book, Davis' Chinese.

3 letters (ALS) to Seaver relating to personal and professional matters.

Note (ANS). Expects a good season in Carlsbad.

Letter (ALS) recommending Mr. Falkenstein, Librarian to the King of Saxony, to Cuvier.

Letters (ALS, TLS) relating to sample bacterial cultures sent by Castellani to Smith.

Letter (ALS) from Castiglioni to Josiah Trent and two clippings of reviews of the English translation, History of Medicine, of Castiglioni's Storia della Medicina.

An inventory of Chancellor's estate, in four parts: medicines, medical instruments, books, and personal and household goods.

Note (ANS) asking a colleague to meet him at the Hospital St. Antoine to be shown a method of treatment.

Letter (ALS) recommending Dr. Barrington for naval service, bearing a recommendation by William E. Horner; 2 letters (ALS) regarding a treatment for a stomach disorder; holograph notes, probably in Samuel Jackson's hand, regarding this treatment.

Note (ANS). Attests that Mary Colebrooke was still alive on January 6, 1764.

A letter (ALS) of sympathy on the occasion of the death of the addressee's mother-in-law. A biographical note accompanies letter.

Letter (ALS). Prescribes a treatment for a gynecological patient. Includes transcription and translation.

Note (ANS). Bears an order for a book. Reverse bears an ink drawing.

License to practice as an apothecary in any part of England and Wales.

2 letters (ALS) and 5 calling cards, signed. Samuel A. Christie's collection of the autographs of the physicians who attended President James A. Garfield after he was shot, between July 2 and Sept. 2, 1881. These included David H. Agnew, Frank Hastings Hamilton, Joseph K. Barnes, D.W. Bliss and Robert Reyburn. Correspondence from Hamilton and from a S.A. Boynton relate to this collection.

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.

Note (ANS) in response to a circular sent out by the editor.

Methodist minister who preached in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Born in Salisbury, Mass., in 1830, to Jonathan Cilley and Abigail Fowler; married Sarah A. Eaton in 1849, and died after 1910. Collection comprises a volume, 250 pages, filled with handwritten religious essays (called themes or lectures, which are sometimes separated into chapters), on the topics of natural theology, theism, and creationism versus evolution. Whether the essays were written to support the author's theological studies, as material to be presented in convocations, or in response to the scientific revelations or debates of the time is unclear; however, a reader with initials "J.W.M" read, notated, and provided short comments on the contents. Cilley provided a few ink drawings, including a chart showing the geologic strata and time periods, as well as an image of the human heart. Many essays contain citations to theological writings of the period. Among the many philosophers and writers covered are Aristotle, Benedict Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, d'Alembart, Diderot, Voltaire, Alexander Pope, David Hume, Hugh Miller, and Enoch Pond.

2 notes (ANS), including a note to a Mr. Darwin.

Letter (ALS) to his publisher, accompanying a corrected copy of his book, Mother's Medical Assistant, for the second edition.

ANS. A note of sympathy.

2 notes (ANS).

ALS to Cleaveland from Adam Seybert, regarding mineral specimens; from John Doane Wells, relating to affairs at Bowdoin College; and from Andrew Ferdinand Holmes, informing Cleaveland of his election to honorary member of the Natural History Society of Montreal.

ANS. Appoints a time to meet.

Holograph, signed. Certifies that M. Truinet suffers from various physical ailments which warrant his release from service in the national guard.

Holograph, signed. Obituary notice of Dr. Benjamin Ellis. Read before the Philadelphia Kappa Lambda Society, March 1, 1832. Ellis was Professor of materia medica and pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and author of The medical formulary.

Holograph, signed and addressed to Joseph Couthouy. An extract from the minutes of a meeting of the members of the South Sea Surveying and Exploring Expedition. Conveys the resolution to empower Couthouy to secure books and instruments for the Expedition in the Boston area.

Holograph receipt, signed, for forage. ALS relating to Cochran's orders to Dr. John Warren. Cochran explains that he was unaware that his orders conflicted with those issued by the addressee. A reprint of an article by T. Wood Clarke from the New York State Journal of Medicine gives biographical information.

ALS relating to various personal and business matters.

ALS. Informs Miss Butler of a slight change in travel plans due to a headache suffered by Mrs. Cogswell and relays Mrs. Cogswell's instruction to write and let them know how "Catherine and the rest are."

ALS. Regarding his family, his scientific interests and writings, the Finnish botanist Per Kalm, Carolus Linnaeus, and Benjamin Franklin.

Employee of the Lepetkatta Tea Co., Ltd., in Barbaru, Assam, India. Cole signed his letters "Johnson." Collection comprises weekly letters Johnson wrote to his parents in England while he served as an engineer for a tea estate, and provides commentary written from a late-colonial perspective. There is information regarding the management of the tea estate, tea manufacture, tea prices and trade, and the transformation of work processes and personal lives by mechanization, the introduction of electricity, and brick making. In addition, Johnson wrote about local customs, labor, wildlife, weather, religious festivals, disease outbreaks (esp. cholera), and Indian politics. He also wrote about various engine repairs he undertook; transportation; his favorite pastimes (including hunting and playing polo); his various horses and pets; medical and dental treatments; people he met; as well as his activities in the volunteer British military guard, where he participated in military tests, drills, and sports, and served as Farrier Sergeant. His final letters contained extensive commentary on England's role in World War I, as well as the impact of the war on Assam. Includes a few postcards, one photograph, a clipping, and a tea invoice. There is also one undated letter written to Johnson by a native missionary who requested assistance.

Holograph document, in an anonymous hand. Certificate of dissoluation signed by all members: Knape, Mursinna, Walter, Hermbstadt, Ribke, Formey, Willdenow, Konen, Grapengiesser, Hecker and Horn.

ALS to a Rev. H.H. Piper, responding to Piper's challenges to the scientific status of phrenology; ANS confirming news of Spurzheim's death; ANS to his dentist.

ALS. On his way home from the presidential inauguration, Condict remarks critically upon President Andrew Jackson's address and his cabinet.

Holograph, signed. Receipt of payment received by Cone from Mr. Beaumont Clark for medical visits, medicine and advice.

ALS responding to addressee's inquiries about "narciene" and a fragment of an ALS regarding the possibility of hereditary insanity in a patient's family.

TLS. Coolidge expresses his interest in Way's involvement with vocational schools for veterans of the World War.

ALS to and from Cooper. Includes two notes from Catherine Cooper, Cooper's daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Balderson and an anonymous recipient, and a note from W. Smith to Ann Cooper, Cooper's wife. Among Cooper's correspondents are well-known English physicians, scientists, and his patients. They include: A. Marcet, H. Halford, C.M. Clarke, J. Ingles, R. Leston, Sir C. Locock, Sir J. McGregor, A. Monro, Dr. Browne of Glasgow, Sir W. Lawrence, Sir C. Aldis, B. Travers, Dr. J.C.W. Lever, W.F. Montgomery, Dr. J. Kidd, Dr. Balderson, Dr. W. Prowl, H.S. Seton, J. Soogood, and B. Whittaker. Letters relate to personal and professional matters. The letters are in English. However, an ALS from Charles de Greti and an ANS from Pierre Moquet are in French. In his letters to Marcet, Cooper expresses strong opinions regarding the political situation in England and on the Continent during the Napoleonic wars. In his letters to Cooper, Kidd discusses the subject of medical reform. Seton's gossipy, personal letters relate to the royal family.

ALS. Regarding various matters related to military medicine.

ANS. Returning thanks for congratulations upon investiture as baron.

License to practice "physic, surgery, and midwifery" in the state of New York.

ANS. Sends compliments.

ALS. Requests copies of the minutes of those committee meetings of the Antislavery Society to which Mr. Price and Mr. Thompson refer.

ALS. Writes regarding the estate of Dr. Campbell.

Holograph statements of account and promissary notes.

Subscription to the New York journal of medicine and a holograph receipt of payment by Crammer or Cramer to Jas. W. Carmer.

TLS. Requests referrals for a patient in need of treatment in a sanitarium.

Holograph receipts, signed. Payments received by Crosby from Mr. Soley for medical services and from Oliver P. Hubbard for graduation fees.

2 TLS to Crummer, a typed copy of an excerpt of a paper, and a reprint of Crummer's paper, "An original drawing of the title page of Vesalius' 'Fabrica'". Correspondents are Cushing and Spielmann.

ALS. Announces that a medical jury composed of M. Lacroix, M. Valleday and himself will be visiting Gilledey's area.

Papers include an ANS attesting that medical student Louis de Charbonnel attended Cruveilhier's course during spring 1839, and an ALS prescribing a sea water bath treatment for a brain injury.

Fragment of an ALS, dated 1769, Aug. 16, Edinburgh, and a holograph manuscript in an anonymous hand with biographical information.

Holograph, signed. Certifies that Alfred Church studied at the School for six months. Gives details of Church's work during this period.

ALS. Certifies that a Miss Alice Vincent will not be able to sing due to "flayed vocal cords."

ALS. Inquiring after Curtis' application for the position of "aurist" to the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland.

ALS. Writes that he is fearful of being removed from his office of Superintendent of Registration on the Boston Sanitary Commission as a consequence of his signing a petition requesting a Board of Health. Asks that Walker speak to Secretary of State Warner or Governor Andrew on his behalf. Gives names of others who support his cause. Encloses a copy of a letter from William B. Calhoun, addressed to Warner, arguing his case.