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Joseph Danner Taylor correspondence
Manuscripts
Personal correspondence of Joseph Danner Taylor, chiefly correspondence with his wife Elizabeth A. Hill Taylor and her correspondence with her father, brothers, and sisters in North Berwick, Maine. The letters discuss primarily family and personal matters, with some information on Taylor's legal cases.
mssHM 44205-44273
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The flat rock club: photocopy
Manuscripts
The item is a photocopy of Raymond G. Taylor's short memoir: "The "Flat Rock" Club." The essay describes an Idaho ranch and fishing club frequented by Taylor and several other physicians from Southern California. Taylor details the layout development of this rustic summer vacation spot from a bare ranch house in the late 1910s to a veritable resort along the Snake River just west of Yellowstone National Park. He tells comical anecdotes about effite, well-to-do urbanites attempting to rough it. He relates the uneven, ocassionaly hostile, relations between the fishing club and the regions regular residents. Mainly, however, Taylor describes fishing: types of fish, places he fished, tackle and gear.
mssHM 74848
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Huckleberry Finn : incomplete scenario for silent film
Manuscripts
Incomplete scenario for the silent movie "Huckleberry Finn," dated May 22, 1919. This screenplay was written by Julia Crawford Ivers, for her friend, William Desmond Taylor, an Anglo-Irish-American director and actor. This scenario was slated for production as Taylor's first post-World War I film. The typescript includes a cover page and abruptly ends on line 287.
mssHM 83965
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Personal Recollections: Dictated to Deane Fischer, her nurse and companion: [reminiscences]
Manuscripts
Photocopies of personal recollections of Nanny Moale Wood, begins with early memories about her family at the beginning of the Civil War. She describes events leading up to meeting her future husband, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, following with the birth of their five children, Erskine, Max, Berwick, Nan, and Lisa. Also included is additional information about William Maxwell Wood, March 9, 1880.
mssHM 80474
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M. K. (Morse K.) Taylor letter to Ira Bartholomew
Manuscripts
Letter from Dr. Morse K. Taylor to his colleague Dr. Ira Bartholomew, in which Taylor seeks to establish his claim over Dr. Jacob Da Costa as the physician who first described a condition of "heart diseases in the military service" (later called "military heart" or Da Costa's Syndrome). Taylor describes his service as a field surgeon during the Civil War, noting that his "investigation" into heart diseases began "in the field" at Cornith, Mississippi, in May 1862. In August of that year he was transferred to the general hospital at Keokuk, Iowa, and he describes furthering his research and quotes the number of admissions, deaths, and autopsies during his time at the hospital. He goes on to outline how his further research has verified his earlier conclusions, and that it is a "great satisfaction" to him that other surgeons had subsequently come to similar conclusions. Regarding Da Costa, Taylor writes that he had altered his views to be more in line with Taylor's in an 1871 article, and Taylor concludes that there was "now but little difference between us - no more...than might be expected to arise from different standpoints, civil and military." Taylor concludes by saying he is writing an article on "Heart Strain in the Military Service" for Wood's Reference Handbook. In a postscript, Taylor clarifies that he does not intend to "antagonize" Da Costa, conceding that "we were working simultaneously in the same direction unknown to each other." But he is firm in noting that "I do claim precedence" for having described the condition, and cites various correspondence and published papers to support his claim. The letter also mentions doctors by the names of Keeney, Woodward, Seitz, Myers, and Franzel.
mssHM 80479
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Letter written from camp near Monterrey, Mexico, to Robert Crooke Wood, New Orleans, Louisiana
Manuscripts
This collection consists of letters sent by Zachary Taylor while serving in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848, primarily to his brother-in-law, U.S. Army surgeon Robert Crooke Wood (1800?-1869). Letters concern war logistics and strategies; army life; troops movements and health; supplies; General Winfield Scott; the progress of and future projections of the war; and some reportage of battles, especially of the battle of Monterrey in September 1846. Letters also discuss Taylor's presidential prospects and potential nomination in the 1848 race; politics; health; and family, particularly his daughter Ann and her children. All items are autograph letters signed unless noted otherwise.
HM 4149