Collected correspondence regarding the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology
Scope and Contents
Scope and content: Consists of correspondence regarding a possible transfer of funds from Howe Eye Hospital of New York to the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Letters are chiefly from law firm Ropes, Gray, Boyden, & Perkins to Elizabeth M. Howe, along with correspondence with Harvard Medical School Dean David Linn Edsall and Bowdoin College President Kenneth Charles Morton Sills.
Dates
- 1929
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
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Extent
0.01 cubic feet (3 folders)Biographical / Historical
The Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology was established in 1926 by a gift of Dr. Lucien Howe of Buffalo, New York, to Harvard Medical School.
- Title
- Collected correspondence regarding the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, 1929: Finding Aid
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Jessica Sedgwick
- Date
- 2021-02-25
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- med00850
Repository Details
Part of the Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) Repository
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