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Billings, John Shaw (1838-1913) Papers, 1856-1966
Hammond, Bryan, and Cumming Families Papers, 1737-1976.
Billings, John Shaw II. Scrapbook Collection.
Katharine Stevens Billings (1837-1912). Papers, 1857-1960.
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
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Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Dan Jenkins
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| Collection Number: | MS Film 26 |
| Creator: | Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913 |
| Title: | John Shaw Billings Papers at the University of South Carolina
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| Dates: | 1856-1966 |
| Quantity: | 2 microform reels |
| Abstract: | Material by or about John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) drawn from several collections in the University of South Carolina Library. |
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Included among the manuscript collections of the University of South Carolina are several large collections of materials from John Shaw Billings II, the grandson and namesake of John Shaw Billings. In 1983 the National Library of Medicine had most of the material in the collection relating to the elder Billings microfilmed; an additional reel was filmed in 1990. The material is found as the library's MS Film 26.
The material on the film comes from four collections. A collection of material relating specifically to the elder Billings was microfilmed in its entirety. It consists of 259 items, and includes Billings admission cards to medical school, his certification as a teacher, and copy of some of his military records. One Civil War letter from Billings to his wife is also included. Also found are letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Francis Parkman, Charles W. Eliot, and James R. Chadwick (the latter mostly relating to the unsuccessful campaigns to have Billings appointed Surgeon General of the Army). The remainder of the material is divided between the honors and tributes bestowed on him by his colleagues in the medical and library professions, and genealogical data on the Billings and Stevens families.
The second group of material on the film are letters from the Hammond, Bryan, and Cumming Families Papers collection. These are followed by volumes (some only excerpted) from the John Shaw Billings II scrapbook collection. A detailed calendar of these collections follows.
The final collection found here is the entirety of the Katharine Stevens Billings papers. These are almost all genealogical listings and correspondence.
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Restrictions
Restrictions
Portions of the collection are restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/contacts/custserv-email.html.
Copyright
NLM does not possess copyright to the collection. Material from the University of South Carolina Library may be reproduced or published only with the permission of the Library.
Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/contacts/custserv-email.html.
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| These terms are indexed in the National Library of Medicine's on-line catalog LocatorPlus. Researchers wishing to find related materials should serach the catalog using these terms. |
| Personal Names |
| | Billings, Katharine Mary Stevens |
| | Chadwick, James R. (James Read), 1844-1905 |
| | Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 |
| Corporate Names |
| | United States. Army Medical Dept |
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[Call Number, Collection Name, Series Number], Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, USA.
Purchased from the University of South Carolina in 1983.
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Billings, John Shaw (1838-1913) Papers, 1856-1966
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| 259 manuscript items. |
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| | No calendar available. |
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Hammond, Bryan, and Cumming Families Papers, 1737-1976.
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| 1 | | ALS, [New York], John [Sedgwick Billings, Jr.]., to [Katharine H. Billings, Beech Island], 31 Mar. [18]98 |
| | | (relating his father's plan to assist Ellen Fitzsimmons in attaining a position at the University of South Carolina and stating that his father had found the library "to be a very good Library indeed--of course it is not up to date.--on the same plan as the Astor. The difficulty in the way of doing any thing for it, is that they have only $400. a year," and outlining his father's suggested plan for employing Ellen Fitzsimmons). |
| 1 | | LS, New York, J.S. Billings, to Maj. [Harry] Hammond, 25 Apr. 1898 |
| | | (collecting documents for the New York Public Library and commenting on the war as "a two penny business thus far. We ought not to have seized private property that was not contraband of war--and by doing so we have put ourselves on a low plane"). |
| 1 | | ALS, J.S. Billings, to Maj. [Harry] Hammond, 13 July [18]98 |
| | | (reporting on his salmon fishing trip to Canada and remarking re the war--"I hope Spain will give up soon for the dragging out of this unequal contest is simply useless and only causes misery to innocent people"). |
| 1 | | ALS, New York, John [Sedgwick Billings, Jr.], to [Mrs. Emily C. Hammond], 13 May [June] 1901 |
| | | relating that his father dreaded a visit to Andrew Carnegie at his castle in Scotland--"where the walls are plastered with No smoking allowed on the premises', and a kilted bag-piper solemnly skirls them in to dinner every night"). |
| 1 | | ALS, [New York], John [Sedgwick Billings, Jr.], to [Mrs. Emily C. Hammond], 19 Oct. 1901 |
| | | (discussing family finances, his father to receive honorary degree at Yale, and remarking--"N.Y. will be a pig-style if Tammany wins in November"). |
| 1 | | ALS, [New York], John S. Billings, Jr., to [Harry Hammond], 26 Nov. 1901 |
| | | (backing Biggs for head of the Health Department--"But I was discouraged when I read in the paper this morning that one of Platt's professional Republican Heelers was after the job," Seth Low looking for higher things and will do anything for T.C.P.," and Billings, Sr. interested in one of Carnegie's "large schemes"). |
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Billings, John Shaw II. Scrapbook Collection.
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| 1 | | MP vol. bd., 1862-1913. |
| | | Billings family tree; pictures of family homes, members of the John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) family; Army Medical Library and Museum, Washington; Johns Hopkins Hospital staff; offices of John Sedgwick Billings (1869-1928); family tombstones in Arlington National Cemetery. |
| 1 | | MS vol. bd., 1877-1959. |
| | | Career data on John Sedgwick Billings (1869-1928): autobiographical sketch of his training at University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins; experience as Chief of Bureau of Communicable Diseases, New York City, and Major in Medical Corps, World War I. |
| 1 | | MP vol. bd., 1864-1924. |
| | | Photograph album, including pictures of the Billings family, Irene Castles, Marilyn Miller, General Meade's staff in 1864, offices of John Sedgwick Billings, home at Douglas Manor, Long Island. |
| 1 | | MS vol. bd., 1952-1957. |
| | | Arrival of desk of John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) from Billings Wilson. |
| 2 | | MS vol. bd., 1855-1908. |
| | | Autobiographical account of "the early life of John Shaw Billings II (1898-1975) in detailed prose, childhood drawings (photostats) and photographs that include his family, relatives, friends, homes, and places visited. Biographical sketches of John Sedgwick Billings and Katharine Hammond Billings (1867-1925). |
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Katharine Stevens Billings (1837-1912). Papers, 1857-1960.
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| 2 | | Chiefly genealogical materials on the Breese, Hyde, Livermore, Sedgwick, Stevens, and Stone families of New York. No calendar available. |
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| Originals located at the University of South Carolina. |
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