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Nathaniel Smith (1762-1822) and Nathan Smith (1770-1835) were brothers born in Woodbury Connecticut. Both became lawyers and politicians in Connecticut. Nathan Smith, a judge, served as U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1833 to 1835. Nathaniel Smith served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1795 to 1799. This letter, written presumably when Nathaniel Smith was in Congress in Philadelphia, concerns a legal case of Baron & Curtis. The letter refers to Benedict and Daggett.

See note for previous folder. Nathaniel Smith is concerned about the health of his son Nat who is studying in New Haven. He is worried that the doctor by his treatments has "driven the disorders of his body into his head," and asks his brother in New Haven to report on his health.

Purchased from Bader, May 1958.

Hand written letter on the letterhead of "Office of the Solar Caustic Patent, for the New Process of Treating, Cancers, Mole, Birth-Marks, Skin Excrescences..." The letter promotes the product which appears to be an instrument.

William Steig was a cartoonist for the New Yorker. In the letter, Steig is sending an original drawing of a cartoon to Fry. The folder also contains a copy of the published cartoon. See Susan Wheeler,Five Hundred Years of Medicine and Art, cat. 135.10.

Sternberg asks Welch to send a culture of "Brieger's bacillus" to compare with a very pathogenic bacillus he found in the intestines of yellow fever cases.

Official acknowledgement form for Osborne's gift to the Surgeon General's Library of a copy of "The Progress of Medicine."

Document with large red seal signed by the Secretary to the University, Charles H. Stewart, introducing Douglas Guthrie, M.D. who goes to Yale "not merely as a visiting Lecturer but as an accredited representative of the University of Edinburgh charged with the delivery of a message of good will and cordial greeting."

John L. Sullivan was with the U.S. military in India. He is probably the John L. Sullivan who graduated from Yale School of Medicine in 1951.