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Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Diary of trip to China. Includes an account of the trans-Atlantic voyage and descriptions of Macao and Canton, China; recounts interactions with the native people of Sumatra and Java, and provides a detailed explanation of the Malay language, 1817, 1819
File — Container: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 3_1
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1817, 1819
