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Simpson, the obstetrician : a biography
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Collection includes logbook and photograph album of the Revenue Cutter Perry, 1909, and a letter by Simpson to F. Smith, 1909.
mssHM 50168-50171
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Manuscripts
An autograph, signed letter from James Hervey Simpson to his brother Dr. Josiah Simpson, with envelope. The letter was written three weeks before the 1864 election and Simpson is responding to his brother's concern that it is "injudicious" for him to become involved in presidential politics. Simpson had contributed a long letter to the anti-McClellan pamphlet "Gen'l McClellan's Record. His Sympathy with the South," (1864) a publication attributed to Edgar Conkling. The letter is accompanied by two items which quote Simpson's views on McClellan: a copy of this 1864 pamphlet, with edits by Simpson, and a newspaper clipping from the "Cincinnati Daily Times" with Simpson's letter to the editor (November 12, 1864).
mssHM 84054
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Manuscripts
Letter from Dr. Josiah Simpson, a surgeon with the United States 6th Infantry Regiment during the Mexican War, written to his brother. The letter is missing several pages but describes the fall of Mexico City and the negotiations of the United States treaty with Mexico. Also includes Simpson's military orders, field diary, and copy of the New Testament in Spanish and English.
mssSimpsonj
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Manuscripts
This small group of items includes receipts to and from John Chisum for the payment of debts including state and county taxes. One of the receipts is for school taxes in Sherman, Grayson County, Texas. Some of the receipts relate to other Chisum family members such as T. J.?, Elijah, and Delilah. There are a few fragments as well as a wallet and a handkerchief, both presumably owned by Chisum.
mssHM 78280-78287