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George F. Shrady Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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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.
Gift of R. Hasbrouck Shady '24.
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Folder list written by Lisa Yankowitz ('13) in 2012.
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Subject
- Husband and wife -- Kentucky. -- 19th century
- Medicine -- New York (State). -- 19th century
- Prisons, Military -- Virginia. -- 19th century
Place
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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Bound book of original watercolor medical drawings, human and animal.
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Contains original autograph telegram from Frank W. Mack announcing Grant's death to the world.
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