Manuscripts

Nurse's account book

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Description: Nurse's account book kept by Laura R. Simpson, possibly in Portland, Oregon. Includes patients' names, details of their ailments, the number of days they were attended to by Simpson, and a record of her fees.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1921-1930.
Call number: mssHM 73764
Creator: Simpson, Laura R(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Fred Lockley, August 10, 1967.
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Thomas Wood account books

Manuscripts

The account books record personal expenditure and the finances for Wood's estate from 1696 to 1736. It details payments to servants and agricultural laborers, gardeners, saddlers, carpenters, the keeper of the hunting house, a butler, housemaid, coopers and expenditures on horses and livestock. Personal expenditures include: money given to his wife and children, chartable gifts, school fees, clothing, medical and physician's fees, food, wine, and the purchase of miscellaneous household items such as candles and soap. The volumes also contain medicinal remedies by Wood.

mssHM 81035-81036

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James Hervey Simpson letter to Josiah Simpson

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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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Medical account book

Manuscripts

This account book includes patient names and fees paid for medical treatment from 1851 to 1881. The author is unknown but might be in Ohio. There is some mention of the treatment performed and reason for visit such as: childbirth, prescriptions of medicine, treatment of wounds, and even some dental work. There are 23 pages of newspaper clippings from newspapers in Ohio (the clippings are sometimes glued over the medical information). The clippings include poems and short articles, many of which are written by Thomas C. Harbaugh, a writer from Ohio. The clippings are from 1895 to 1897. Several pages have been cut-out of the volume.

mssHM 75114

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Friench Simpson papers

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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James P. Hammet accounts

Manuscripts

Misc. records and accounts that Dr. Hammet entered in in January - May 1861 (ff. 1-21 v., 61-62); October 1862 - August 1863 (42-46, 49, 59, 66 v.) and July - November 1865 (ff. 22- 31 v, 40, 42, 46 v., 57-58) The entries list his patients' names, medicines and treatments administered, and fees received. Dr. Hammet's clientelle consisted mainly of local families and their slaves and employees of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company. The patients include John Wyn Davidson, Gabriel C. Wharton, "Capt. Ward No. 1 Hospital Camp case," "William, slave of Miss Virinia Allen," "Wyatt slave of Miss Lettinch hire to Bob Buchner," "Dick, slave of Col. Garnett," and others. At the end of the book (ff. 70 v. - 71), there is a summary of the accounts of "D. Barnett" from July 1853 to Apr. 1859 and the 1860 accounts with the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company (f. 73 v.).

mssHM 71550

Original drawing of Frederick W. Graves

Manuscripts

One original ink drawing of Frederick Graves by Lute Pease. The cartoon reads, "Publicity is a faithful helpmate who will do her share for success if you will do yours." The quote was possibly from a speech given to a group of Portland businessmen. There is some water damage around the edges.

mssHM 80803

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