Chapter Four: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Memorabilia, 1907 - 2004

 File — Box: 1c, Folder: 24B
Identifier: 1

Scope and Contents note

Program for dinner honoring Welch in 1950; Copy of EWG's graduation announcement from VU in 1907 with EWG as Historian; letter Flexner to EWG about paying for colored drawings in unspecified paper; letter EWG to Graham in 1929 about program of Southern Medical, section on pathology; notice in 1937 of EWG's election to Nashville Academy Med; EWG's speech in 1937 on receiving Southern Med Research Medal; Minor Bland to EWG in 1937 congratulating him on medal with response; 1939 notice that Southern pathologists were to meet in Memphis--EWG not mentioned but article saved by Sarah; 1938 article from Tennessean about Ridley G's oxen; Winternitz to EWG in 1939 about honorary degree at Yale with response; 1944 Tennessean about Signa Xi meeting at VUwith picture of EWG; EWG to Carter Williams in 1938 notifying him of vacation at Monteagle for two weeks; front material from Physiological Reviews showing EWG on editorial board--no date; 1940 newspaper articles about EWG's work on vaccine in Tennessean and from Press Scimitar about Mims biography of Kirkland; notice from Phys Reviews in 1941 that EWGwould stay on until 1943; Edwards Park of Hopkins to EWG in 1941 about Dr. Follis; notice of EWG speech at Sigma Xi in 1945 on "Can Scientific Research Develop Wisdom?"; notice of opening of Bowen School on March 29, 1904 at 1501 Broadway; Letter to EWG in 1942 from Director of International Health Division Rockefeller on mental health with mention of Luton; Copy of EWG's state license in 1949; Branscomb to EWG in 1949 about "our recent decision"--not specified. Mentions Youmans; Letter Duckett Jones of Ford Foundation to EWG in 1949 about visit to Vanderbilt; letter Branscomb to EWG in 1950 about Henry Clark's role in reversing downward trend at hospital and that it was EWG's "judgement and decision that picked him."letter EWG to Dr William Blake in 1952 containg info that Blake's father rented apartment from Goodpastures in Boston when they went to Phillipines; letter EWG to Henry Christian about time in Boston and death of Francis Blake--EWG was preparing memoir for American Philosophical Society; obituary of Oswald Avery in Banner, 1955; letter Miley Wesson to EWG in 1958 describing Cullen's role in facilitating interaction Buttrick and Kirkland and mentioning "latest honor"; letter Wilson of Tenn Academy Science in 1961 that EWG was elected a fellow posthumously; handwritten note EWGto Christie in 1960 about standards in a university; letter Tom Rivers to Sarah in 1961 about memoir on EWG for Amer. Philosophical; letter Esmond Long to Katherine G. about revisions in manuscript on a memoir; 1967 notice thatSir McF. Burnet was to be first EWG visiting professor; letter Douglas Henry to Collins in 2001 about rail connections Nashville to east; undated memo by EWG on teaching pathology--prepared for Southern Path Conference; copy of EWG's last lab notes in 1960--actual book is in Eskind; donation of EWG's office chair to Eskind.

Dates

  • Creation: 1907 - 2004

Creator

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Full Extent

From the Collection: 12.94 Cubic Feet (24 Hollinger boxes, 1 half Hollinger box, and 3 Paige boxes.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Location:

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Repository Details

Part of the History of Medicine Manuscripts Collection Repository

Contact:
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232

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