John Shaw Billings Letters,
Scope and Content
The collection includes letters written by Dr. John Shaw Billings to Dr. Willis G. Tucker of Albany, NY. The three letters all date to October 1880. In the letters Billings acknowledges the receipt of several medical pamphlets Tucker donated to the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of which Billings was the Director. Billings thanks Tucker for the donation and also notes that he, "would be very glad to...receive odd numbers of medical journals and especially catalogues and announcements of medical colleges, files of which I am endeavoring to complete."
Dates
- 1880 - 1880
Creator
- Billings, John Shaw, 1838-1913 (Person)
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from John Shaw Billings letters must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical Note
John Shaw Billings, MD, was born in Indiana in 1838. He graduated from Miami University in 1857 and then attended the Medical College of Ohio and obtained his degree in 1860. Billings enlisted in the Union Army on April 16, 1862. He was commission an officer in the Regular Army Medical Staff Infantry Regiment. By the end of the Civil War, Billings had been promoted to Brevet Lt. Colonel.
In 1865, Billings was appointed Director of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. In the thirty years he spent in that position, he was instrumental in expanding their collection of medical resources and compiling an index for the collection to aid in research.
Sources: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/pdf/john.pdf
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
These are three letters dating October 1st, 8th, and 9th, from Dr. John Shaw Billings in Washington, D.C., to Dr. Willis G. Tucker in Albany, NY. In the letters, Dr. Billings thanks Dr. Shaw for his contribution of medical pamphlets for the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.
Acquisition Information
The John Shaw Billings letters were acquired by Special Collections prior to 2009.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the John Shaw Billings letters was completed in September 2013.
- Title
- John Shaw Billings Letters, 1880
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Betsy Reed, Student Assistant and Kira A. Dietz, Archivist
- Date
- © 2013 Virginia Tech. All rights reserved.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu