A. Correspondence, 1962, 1967, 1975-2007, undated., 1962, 1967, 1975-2007,
Scope and Contents
Consists of William A. Haseltine’s correspondence with friends, family members, and colleagues, frequently accompanied by notes, meeting minutes, agendas, curricula vitae, reports, drafts, and letters of recommendation. A majority of the correspondence pertains to the administrative and research activities at Human Genome Sciences and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Administrative correspondence includes job applications, letters of recommendation, curricula vitae, research project reports, and meeting minutes. Interfiled with Haseltine’s administrative correspondence are letters of congratulations and thank you notes Haseltine received and sent to friends and colleagues, as well as correspondence with his sister Florence Haseltine, and his uncle, Charles Haseltine. Frequent correspondents include: Deeda McCormick Blair; Robert Gallo; Gary Buck; Anthony S. Fauci; Lloyd Cutler; and Marguerite Littman. A small number of patient records is in this subseries.
Dates
- Creation: 1962, 1967, 1975-2007,
Language of Materials
Papers are predominately in English, with some correspondence and publications in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Physical Description
13.49 cubic feet in 17 records center cartons.
Conditions Governing Access
Subseries IVA contains personal information about individuals and student records that are restricted for 80 years and corporate and organizational records that are restricted for 50 years. The end of the restriction period is noted with each folder.
Extent
146.96 cubic feet ((171 records center cartons, 10 letter size document boxes, 1 half letter size document box, and 3 oversize flat storage boxes) )04.16 gigabytes* (18 compact discs and 2 3.5 inch floppy disks)
Arrangement
Records have been maintained in their original order, as grouped and maintained by the creator. Haseltine employed several different filing structures for correspondence. While the original groupings were maintained, occasional folders located in each of these groupings were reordered to better promote chronological or alphabetical access. Similar groupings of records found elsewhere in the collection have been integrated. Subseries IVA has been arranged into seven sub-subseries: 1. Chronological Correspondence, 1981-1992; 2. Alphabetical Correspondence, 1978, 1988-1992; 3. Alphabetical Incoming Correspondence, 1962, 1982-2001; 4. Alphabetical Outgoing Correspondence, 1992-2001; 5. Alphabetical by Correspondent, 1975-2005, undated; 6. Subject Correspondence, 1981-2007, undated; 7. Alphabetical Correspondence Related to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 1967, 1977-1993, undated.
Creator
- From the Collection: Haseltine, William A. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) Repository
The Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine is one of the world's leading resources for the study of the history of health and medicine. Our mission is to enable the history of medicine and public health to inform healthcare, the health sciences, and the societies in which they are embedded.