Manuscripts

Alexis Carrel letter to My Dear Doctor

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Description: Letter written by Alexis Carrel to an unidentified recipient addressed as "My Dear Doctor." The letter, written from Chicago, thanks the doctor for a gift and encloses a letter of introduction for Professor Léo Testut, a celebrated anatomist with whom Carrell had worked in Lyon, France.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1904.
Call number: mssHM 83062
Creator: Carrel, Alexis (1873-1944)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
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Noah Brooks letter to "My dear lad,"

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mssHM 29223

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mssHM 21339

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mssHM 78396

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mssHM 29224

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Essays and letter concerning Ishi

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mssHM 68201-68203

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Charles Lyell letter to "Dear Sir,"

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Letter from Charles Lyell to an unnamed recipient (possibly James Hague) in which he gives directions to a February 17, 1871 meeting of the Geological Society. He also describes changes he would like to have made to Elements of Geology, particularly in regards to the "tertiary age of the fissure" of a lode from which "vast quantities of . . . precious metals" had been extracted. A copy of the book was apparently sent with the letter, and Lyell asks the recipient for further suggestions on revision.

mssHM 72339

Alexis Carrel letter to My Dear Doctor

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