Correspondence
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Decatur Bryant letters to Colonel Daniel Scott Lamont
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/307
Scope and Contents
Five letters to Daniel Scott Lamont, 1893 June 26-1893 June 29, concerning Joseph D. Bryant’s preparations for President Grover Cleveland’s jawbone tumor operation on 1 July 1893. Typed transcriptions by donor with emendations by W. B. McDaniel II included.
Type of reproduction--Positive photocopies.
Dates:
1893
William W. Keen's material related to the operation of President Cleveland
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/076-07
Abstract
This collection documents William Williams Keen’s role in President Grover Cleveland’s 1893 then-secret surgery through Keen’s correspondence and reflections. Given the tumultuous financial markets at the time, President Cleveland’s health was kept secret, with Keen being entrusted to perform a quick yet safe surgery on the President while aboard the yacht Oneida. The collection primarily covers developments surrounding two events: the surgery on July 1st, 1893, and the publication of Keen’s...
Dates:
1893, 1905, 1915-1918
