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Book collecting

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of the Office of the Librarian

 Collection
Identifier: CPP 13/004-01
Scope and Contents Morse corresponded with librarians from all over the United States and the world. Most of the incoming correspondence is from librarians at universities, medical schools, hospitals, and corporations; included are interlibrary loan requests, inquiries about the library's holdings, and requests to establish borrowing privileges at the Library of the College of Physicians. Also present are letters from patrons requesting searches or photocopying.Morse's outgoing correspondence consists...
Dates: 1959-1963; Majority of material found in 1963-1964

Letters received by the Office of the Librarian I

 Series
Identifier: CPP 13/003-01
Scope and Contents The collection contains letters received, 1875-1942, by the Office of the Librarian of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The bulk of the letters, 1884-1934, are addressed to Charles Perry Fisher, and several contain drafts of his replies. Most of these letters concern donations of books, pamphlets, reprints, manuscript material, photographs, bookplates, medals, and oil paintings to the College of Physicians and its Library. There are also letters concerning medical library policies and...
Dates: 1875-1942

Letters received by the Office of the Librarian II

 Collection
Identifier: CPP 13/003-02
Scope and Contents The collection contains letters received, 1884-1932, by Charles Perry Fisher of the Office of the Librarian of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Occasional drafts of replies are included. The letters concern the acquisition, through donation, purchase, or exchange, of books, pamphlets, journals, reprints, incunabula, manuscript material, photographs, bookplates, medals, and oil paintings. There are also letters concerning medical library policies and procedures; the organization of the...
Dates: 1884-1932

Recently added publications

 Collection
Identifier: CPP 13/010-10
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of five volumes, listing the recently added publications (mostly periodicals) to the Library collection for the years 1935 to 1961 and 1973-1976.
Dates: 1935-1961; 1973-1976

Records of the Office of the Librarian I

 Series
Identifier: CPP 13/001-01
Scope and Contents This collection of records of the Librarian of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, spanning 1855 to 1909, consists of correspondence, lists of accessions and subscriptions, and miscellaneous material. Included in the collection are the papers of librarians Thomas Hewson Bache (1855-1863), C. S. Boker (1864), J. H. Slack (1865-1867), Robert Bridges (1868-1881), Frank Woodbury (1881-1882), and Charles Perry Fisher (1882-1932).Included in the correspondence are numerous letters...
Dates: 1855-1909

Records of the Office of the Librarian II

 Series
Identifier: CPP 13/006-01
Scope and Contents The collection contains records from 1931 to the 1970s, the bulk of the records dated during McDaniel's tenure as Librarian (1933-1953). Unless otherwise noted, the records are arranged by year or group of years, and then alphabetically and chronologically by correspondent. (In most cases where this system is not in place, materials are arranged chronologically.) Records of McDaniel's tenure as Curator are cataloged separately. There is overlap between the dates of McDaniel's papers as...
Dates: 1931-1973

Sir William Osler papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/145-02
Scope and Contents This collection consists of letters, 1885 to 1919, written by Sir William Osler. The time span covered by the collection includes Osler's years in Philadelphia (18841889), at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (1889-1904), and as Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, England (1905-1919). Recipients of Osler's letters include Thomas B. Futcher (1871-1938), Guy Hinsdale (1858-1948), W. H. Jefferys (1871-1945), William W. Keen (1837-1932), E. B. Krumbhaar (1882-1966), S....
Dates: 1885 - 1919