George F. Shrady Collection, 1885-1951 (mostly 1885-1906)

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Collection Overview

Creator:

Shrady, George F. (George Frederick) (1837-1907)

Title:

George F. Shrady Collection

Repository:

Manuscripts Division

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qf85nb340

Dates:

1885-1951 (mostly 1885-1906)

Size:

2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet

Storage Note:

Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2

Language:

English

Abstract: Contains papers of George F. Shrady relating primarily to his role as Ulysses S. Grant's physician during Grant's last illness in New York in 1885.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

The collection contains papers of Shrady relating primarily to his role as Ulysses S. Grant's physician during Grant's last illness in New York in 1885. Included are several handwritten notes by Grant discussing his condition, letters about Grant by Fordyce Barker, M. F. Blake, and J. H. Douglas, and two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on the progress of Grant's illness. Also present are Kentucky-based correspondence of Shrady's brother John, also a physician, with his wife and a manuscript of his article "The Social Life of Libby Prison" concerning his imprisonment in a Confederate Civil War camp; an unidentified volume of original medical drawings; the first issue of the Medical Record (1866) edited by George Shrady; and miscellaneous clippings.

Collection Creator Biography:

Shrady

George F. Shrady was Ulysses S. Grant's physician during Grant's final illness in New York in 1885.

Collection History

Acquisition:: Gift of R. Hasbrouck Shady '24.
Appraisal: No appraisal information is available.
Processing Information: Folder list written by Lisa Yankowitz ('13) in 2012.

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