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Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Miscellaneous correspondence, with letters from Michael Faraday (1791-1867), Richard Rush (1780-1859), and Pennsylvania Governors William F. Johnston (1808-1872) and David Rittenhouse Porter (1788- 1867), whose son John Kearsley Mitchell was treating, 1817-1854
File — Container: 3, Folder: 9
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Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography.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:
1817-1854
