Call Number:

C0499

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 0.8 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); George F. Shrady Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1885-1906 (bulk) and 1885-1951 (inclusive)

Creator:

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

Form:

Clippings., Correspondence., Medical illustrations., and Physicians -- New York (State)

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.

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

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.