Diary: Trip to France, 1916

This collection contains correspondence, notebooks, a diary, will and reprints as well as biographies and memorial statements relating to L. A. Stimson.

A large part of the correspondence consists of typewritten excerpts made by Dr. Stimson's nephew, Philip Moen Stimson, from original letters now presumably in the Henry L. Stimson Papers at Yale University. The correspondence also contains letters from Henry L. Stimson, Harvey Cushing and William S. Halsted.

The diary was kept in 1916 when Dr. Stimson made a trip to French military hospitals. The notebooks consist of three volumes of medical notes taken in Paris, 1872-1873. The other major component of the collection is memorial statements and biographies relative to Dr. Stimson, most of them dating to 1917-1918 after Dr. Stimson's death. There is, in addition, a three-volume bound set of Dr. Stimson's reprints, several loose reprints and a copy of his "Civil War Memories" published in 1918. The reprints, besides scientific articles, contain several speeches made by Dr. Stimson, including one made at the opening of the CUMC Building in 1900.

The collection contains correspondence from 1965 to 1968 between Philip Stimson, M.D. and Cornell University Medical College’s Library, as well as Dr. Stimson’s correspondence with the Presbyterian Hospital. These letters pertain to Dr. Stimson’s endeavors to obtain his uncle’s records.

Non-Manuscript Material: An 1867 deed between Stimson and Mason Young for a plot on East 13th Street has been removed to Oversize Box I. Photographs of Dr. Stimson can be found in the Philip M. Stimson Papers as well as in the regular Biographical Photo Collection.