Series II. Correspondence, 1940-2011, undated., 1940-2011,

Primarily consists of Joseph E. Murray's professional correspondence, with a limited amount of personal correspondence inlcuded. Series includes Murray's correspondence with colleagues on topics in organ transplantation and plastic surgery, correspondence regarding the plastic surgery departments at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston, and professional organizations correspondence, including the American Association of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. Also inlcuded in the series is family correspondence, correspondence with viewers of a NOVA program on plastic surgery that featured Murray, correspondence about Murray's Valley Forge General Hospital Patient Charles Woods, and organizational correspondence of the Voice of the Faithful, a Lay Catholic group to which Murray belonged. Major correspondents include Roy Calne (1930-), Greg Ganske (1949-), George Gifford (1930-2012), Willard Goodwin (1915-1998), Mutaz Habal (1938-), Leonard Kaban, John Mulliken, Thomas Starzl (1926-), and Paul Tessier (1917-2008).