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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 (mss): 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
- Description:
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. (George Frederick), 1837-1907
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.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
George F. Shrady Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qf85nb340
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-2
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- Subject Terms:
- Husband and wife -- Kentucky -- 19th century.
Medicine -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
Presidents -- United States -- Health -- 19th century.
Prisons, Military -- Virginia -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Clippings.
Correspondence.
Medical illustrations.
Physicians -- New York (State) - Names:
- Libby Prison
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.
Shrady, John, 1830-1914 - Places:
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
