Correspondence: Reprints, Speaking Engagements, Personal, Applications, and Manuscript Evaluations (RESTRICTED-FERPA), 1992-1993

The William J. Ledger, MD Papers span from 1978 through 2007 and comprise the personal and professional papers of Ledger, former obstetrician and gynecologist-in-chief at the New York Hospital and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cornell University Medical College.

Ledger’s involvement at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center is well represented in the collection. There are files related to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, including reports and statistics, policies and procedures, programs, publications, financial materials, and committees documenting the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. These include departmental committees such as the Women’s Health Steering Committee and the Lying-In Hospital Committee. There are also personnel-related material from the department, including the employment, scheduling, evaluation, and appointment of residents, nursing staff, faculty, and physicians.

Ledger’s collection also includes reports and statistics, policies and procedures, financial materials, and committee minutes and agendas documenting the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center more broadly. Committees include the Curricula Committee, the New York Hospital Executive Committee, the Quality Assurance Committee, the Faculty Practice Plan Committee, the Major Modernization Committee, the Committee of Infections, as well as numerous search committees. Additionally, there is a large number of personnel-like files related to the wider New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, noting the scheduling, promotion, and appointment of hospital staff, faculty, and physicians from other departments.

The collection also includes Ledger’s personal and professional correspondence with colleagues, patients, and friends. The correspondence includes topics such as applications for faculty positions, fellowships, and residency appointments, hospital and department operations, research, professional societies, manuscript drafts, diagnoses, letters of recommendation, and invitations to social events. The bulk of these topics involve the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, though some correspondence relates to the hospital, the medical college, the wider medical community, and Ledger’s personal life. While the bulk of the correspondence consists of paper-based manuscripts, there are a handful of other formats and 3D items as noted in the Content List.

Finally, the collection includes many files related to national and international medical conferences Ledger attended, including conference brochures and presentation notes.

The William J. Ledger, MD Papers are in the original order they were organized in when received by the Medical Center Archives; they have not been rearranged by the archival team. Materials are roughly in chronological order within each box.

While the original order of the materials remains intact, the materials arrived to the Medical Center Archives unfoldered and without folder titles. Therefore, the materials were foldered and labeled by the archival team. The labeling system created by the archival team includes a set of five recurring and descriptive keywords meant to facilitate collection discovery and represent the scope and content of the collection: • Conferences • Correspondence • Department Files • New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (NYH-CMC) • Personnel

See the Contents List for more information.