Applications -- Fellowship

Scope and Contents This collection of failed fellowship applications, spanning 1900 to 1937, is part of the records of the office of the Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Each fellowship application consists of an application form containing basic information about the applicant and three or more letters of recommendation from Fellows of the College. These applications are useful in that they reveal some of the reasons why candidates were rejected from the fellowship, provide the names of...

Scope and Contents This small collection of acknowledgments of election to associate fellowship in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1839-1850, contains autograph letters from distinguished American and English physicians, including Richard D. Arnold, John L. Atlee, Theodric Romeyn Beck, Benjamin W. Dudley, Samuel D. Gross, John Hubbard, James McNaughton, Peter Parker, Jonathan Pereira, John Revere, Thomas Sewall, George Cheyne Shattuck, Thomas Stewardson, Amos Twitchell, John Ware, John Collins Warren,...

Overview The Office of the Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia created during organization in 1787. Secretary is the appointed officer of record whose original duties included maintenance of College minutes and transactions and preservation of its documents and correspondence.This collection holds correspondence, financial papers, reports, medical cases, and fellowship applications and resignations, 1787-1847, kept by the Secretaries of the College of Physicians of...