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On Puységur's successes on treatments by mesmerism. Letter was either from Clements C. Fry or purchased with funds donated by him.

Mentions Dr. Warren, natural history, and Dr. Jackson, so he may be referring to John Collins Warren and Boston.

Henry Cline was a London surgeon. He is setting up an appointment to see Mr. Birch. Gift of L. Cohen, Argosy Books, 1952.

Cobb is writing to his father and family from New Orleans, where he is a surveyor. He mentions his recent marriage. Most of the letter concerns his contracting smallpox, the progression of his symptoms, and his treatment with the help of his wife.

James Cogswell was a surgeon in the American Revolution and the brother of Mason Fitch Cogswell. The letter concerns some shipments to Scotland being made by Cogswell for Hart, and the death of Hart's wife, Rebecca. From the J. G. Bell and Sir Thomas Phillipps collections. Gift of John Fulton, 1959.

The letters discuss the illness of their mutual friend, Dr. A. Aubert, and Aubert's efforts to introduce vaccination for smallpox into France, as well as the first vaccination in Switzerland. Letters purchased from Bader, May 1958.

At the request of historian Benson J. Lossing, Colton's letter provides a lengthy account of his career and his version of the discovery of anesthesia, for Lossing's proposed history of New York. Purchased from Whitlock Americana, New Haven, June 1960.

Cover letter for a requested testimonial. Removed from Clements C. Fry's copy of Charles Gibbon, Life of George Combe.

Lengthy letter written when Coomes was a freshman at Yale College on family matters, farming, a fire caused by student reveling, and the typhoid fever epidemic. Coomes says the newspaper coverage of the typhoid epidemic at Yale is exaggerated. However, Coomes succumbed to typhoid fever before his freshman year was over. Donated to the Library by Mrs. Lucene (Cecil H.) White, a great niece of Coomes, September 1987. Typed transcript available.