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Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Paget, Sir James (1814-1899), letters sent. Paget discusses Mitchell's work, describes his own neurological research, reports on the congress of the British Medical Association, and introduces Mitchell to Frank Holl, who later painted Mitchell's portrait. Includes chronological index of letters, 1865-1894
File — Container: 8, Folder: 10
Identifier: Series 4_2
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Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography.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:
1865-1894
