The Silas Weir Mitchell Papers [MSS 2/241-03]

The Silas Weir Mitchell Papers

• Series 1. Personal papers, 1839-1941

  • Subseries 1.1. S. Weir Mitchell estate, 1908-1941

    • Papers left on SWM's desk at his death. Includes genealogical information, poetry, correspondence, and business accounts, 1908 - 1912, undated
    • Will : holograph, 6 p., 1913 December 5
    • Obituaries/Memorials, 1914,1925, undated
    • Appraisals of wines, books, and china, 1913-1915
    • Correspondence re: memorials to SWM, 1915-1936
    • Correspondence re: property at 256 S. Van Pelt Street, 1923-1924
    • Sheriff's office sale sheets. Includes list of items sold, prices, and purchasers, circa 1930s
    • Lists of items sold to auction house, 1941

    Subseries 1.2. Royalties statements, 1882-1918

    • J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1882-1913
    • Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1888-1895
    • The Century Co., 1895-1918
    • Miscellaneous publishers, 1899-1911

    Subseries 1.3. Miscellaneous personal papers, 1893-1910

    • Obituaries of Alexander H. Mitchell (1823-1839) and John Kearsley Mitchell (1798-1858), [1839, 1858]
    • SWM's academic transcript--University of Pennsylvania, 1844-1847
    • Lectures on obstetricy : the science and the art / by C[harles] D. Meigs : Jefferson Medical College, 1849-1850
    • Papers re: Edward Donnaldson Mitchell's service as a medical cadet, 1862-1910
    • Papers re: SWM's membership in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S., 1887-1908
    • Diploma for honorary degree from University of Bologna, oversize document with wax seal and leaves, 1888
    • Passports, 1891, 1898
    • Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894). Untitled poem, signed by the author : typescript, 4 p. with holograph emendations, 1892 April 18
    • Wharton, Thomas and Owen Wister (1860-1938). Francois Villon: A romantic drama in four acts with songs / by Thomas Wharton and Owen Wister : typescript, 80 p., 1894
    • Ribbon bestowed on SWM by the Princeton Class of 1876 at the Princeton Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1896
    • Papers re: Robert Walsh Mitchell's military service, 1899-1903
    • Souvenirs from Japan, [1901]
    • Miscellaneous poems : typescript and holograph, undated
    • Salmon drawing, undated
    • Photographs of SWM and John K. Mitchell (1859-1917), undated
    • Miscellaneous, includes photographs of a horse (perhaps SWM's horse, Jerry) and a map of property in Newport, Rhode Island, undated

  Series 2. Genealogical information, 1788-1912

  • Subseries 2.1. Mitchell family, 1788-1911

    • Correspondence of Alexander Mitchell (1766-1804), 1788-1804
    • Alexander Mitchell--list of balances. Includes alphabetical list of patients and balances due, 1799
    • Papers re: Alexander Mitchell's estate, 1804-1822, undated
    • SWM's correspondence re: John Mitchell and Robert Burns, 1908-1911
    • [Essay on the Mitchell and Kearsley families]: typescript, 14 p., undated
    • Miscellaneous notes, undated

    Subseries 2.2. John Kearsley (d. 1819), 1797-1910

    • Correspondence, 1797-1813
    • Miscellaneous papers, 1819-1910

    Subseries 2.3. Henry family, 1825-1912

    • Correspondence of Alexander Henry (d. 1847), 1825-[183-]
    • Correspondence, clippings, and notes concerning the Fitz-Randolph, Snowden, and Henry families, 1879-1897, undated
    • Clipping re: the Henry family, 1912, 1912

    Subseries 2.4. Symons family, 1907-1911

    • SWM's correspondence with Bessie Symons, Mary Hay, and Howard F. Hay. Includes photographs of Hatt House, Cornwall, 1907-1911
    • [Hay, Mary?]. Early recollections of the Symons family : typescript, 39 p., undated
    • Miscellaneous notes, undated

    Subseries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1792-1911

    • Correspondence, with letters from J. W. Hamilton, Harmon Pumpelly Read, and Agnes M. Swan, 1895-1911
    • Adventures and misadventures in the wilds of Virginia : holograph, 9 p., 1860
    • Miscellaneous, includes a sermon, a funeral announcement, and an essay on Anna Seward, 1792-1890, undated

  Series 3. Family papers, 1806-1949

  • Subseries 3.1. Mitchell, John Kearsley (1798-1858), 1806-1858

    • Biographical information, 1853, 1858
    • Personal papers, 1826-1855
    • Lecture tickets from Ayr Academy, the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and Jefferson Medical College, 1806-1853
    • Diary of trip to China. Includes an account of the trans-Atlantic voyage and descriptions of Macao and Canton, China; recounts interactions with the native people of Sumatra and Java, and provides a detailed explanation of the Malay language, 1817, 1819
    • Letters to Matilda Mitchell, 1819-[circa 1855]
    • Letter to Alexander H. Mitchell, 1833
    • Letters to Elizabeth K. Mitchell, 1833-1850
    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, 1849-[1853?]
    • Miscellaneous correspondence, with letters from Michael Faraday (1791-1867), Richard Rush (1780-1859), and Pennsylvania Governors William F. Johnston (1808-1872) and David Rittenhouse Porter (1788- 1867), whose son John Kearsley Mitchell was treating, 1817-1854

    Subseries 3.2. Mitchell, Matilda Henry (1800-1872), 1819-[1868?]

    • Letters to John Kearsley Mitchell, 1819-1840
    • Letters to Elizabeth K. Mitchell, 1850-[1868?]
    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, 1839-1857
    • Letters to Letitia Mitchell Harrison, [1855?]
    • Letter to Nathaniel Chapman Mitchell and Edward Donnaldson Mitchell, [1855?]

    Subseries 3.3. Mitchell, Elizabeth Kearsley (1825-1874), 1849-[circa 1873]

    • Letters to John Kearsley Mitchell, 1850-1851
    • Letters to Matilda Mitchell, 1850-1851
    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, 1849-1857
    • Letter to Sarah Mitchell Neilson, 1851
    • Letters to Letitia Mitchell Harrison, 1850-1851
    • Letter to "Little Brothers", 1851
    • Letters to John K. Mitchell, circa 1873
    • Letters to Bessie Kane, with typescript copies of letters., 1850-1864

    Subseries 3.4. Mitchell, S. Weir (1829-1914), 1849-1913

    • Letters to family from Europe. Descriptions of English hospitals, surgical techniques, and physicians, and accounts of Mitchell's daily life and medical studies in Paris, 1850-1851
    • Letters to Elizabeth K. Mitchell, 1849-1873
    • Letter to Sarah Mitchell Neilson, undated
    • Letters to Nathaniel Chapman Mitchell, 1873
    • Letters to Mary Elwyn, undated
    • Letters to Mary C. Mitchell, 1888
    • Letters to John K. Mitchell, 1868-1913, undated
    • Letters to Anne K. W. Mitchell, 1897-1913
    • Letters from Japan to Anne and John K. Mitchell, 1901
    • Letters to Langdon E. Mitchell, 1873,1884, undated
    • Letters to Elizabeth Mitchell Horsbrugh, 1913, undated
    • Letter to Mary Mitchell Freedley, 1899
    • Letters to S. Worthington Mitchell Macdonough, 1911-1912

    Subseries 3.5. Neilson, Sarah Mitchell (1831-1906), 1850-1906

    • Letters to Matilda Mitchell, 1850-[1851?]
    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, 1905-1906, undated

    Subseries 3.6. Harrison, Letitia Mitchell (1832-1914), [1850?]-1902

    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, [circa 1856]-1902
    • Letter to Sarah Mitchell Neilson, [1850?]

    Subseries 3.7. Mitchell, Robert Walsh (1836-1872), [circa 1840s]-1872

    • Letters to Matilda Mitchell, 1860-1863
    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, [circa 1840s]-1872
    • Correspondence with Col. Richard H. Rush, 1862
    • Civil War papers. Includes muster-out rolls, lists of quartermaster's stores, inventories, and inspection reports, 1864 August-September

    Subseries 3.8. Mitchell, Nathaniel Chapman (1840-1900), 1844-1887

    • Letter to S. Weir Mitchell, 1884

    Subseries 3.9. Mitchell, Edward Donnaldson (1843-1864), 1851-1864

    • Personal papers, includes diplomas and discharge papers, 1860-1864
    • Consolidation [of Philadelphia] : holograph, 3 p., 1854
    • Letters to Matilda Mitchell, 1863
    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, 1851,1863
    • Letters to "Sister", 1863
    • Letters to William W. Keen (b.1837), 1862

    Subseries 3.10. Mitchell, Mary Cadwalader (d.1914), 1898-1913

    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, [1898?], undated
    • Letters to Anne K. W. Mitchell, 1898-1901, undated
    • Miscellaneous correspondence, with letter [copy] from Elihu Root (1845-1937) and letters to Alice Child and Sarah Butler Wister (1835-1908), 1898-1913, undated
    • Account of a slave : typescript, 4 p., undated

    Subseries 3.11. Mitchell, Maria Gouverneur (1876-1898), circa 1890s

    • Letters to Alice Child, [circa 1890s]

    Subseries 3.12. Cadwalader, John L. (1837-1914), 1874-1914

    • Letters to S. Weir and Mary C. Mitchell, 1874-1914

    Subseries 3.13. Mitchell, John K. (1859-1917), [1870s]-1917

    • Personal papers, includes report cards and M. D. certificate, 1874-1916
    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, 1875-[1909?], undated
    • Letters to Mary C. Mitchell, 1876-[1895?], undated
    • Letters to "Family", [1870s-1890s]
    • Letter to Anne K. W. Mitchell, [1894?]
    • Correspondence with Aunt and Grandmother, 1873, undated
    • Letters to Talcott Williams (1849-1928), 1901-1916, undated
    • Miscellaneous correspondence, with letters from Sophy Dallas Irwin, Fanny Kemble (1809-1893), Amelia Gere Mason, Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935) and Sir William Osler (1849-1919), 1876-1916, undated
    • Poetry notebook, 1880-1890
    • Nursing in the rest cure : address delivered at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, New York : typescript and holograph, 26 p., [1894 or 1895]
    • Graduation address : Nursing School of the Orthopaedic Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. : typescript, 8 p. with holograph emendations., 1911 December 8
    • Huesman, Mary Reed. Father and son [obituary] : typescript, 1917
    • Biographical entry for Jordan's Encyclopedia of Biography : typescript, [after 1917]

    Subseries 3.14. Mitchell, Anne Keppele Williams, 1890-1948

    • Letters to S. Weir and Mary C. Mitchell, 1890-1909
    • Correspondence with the Century Co. re: publication of the essays of John Worthington Williams, 1916
    • Publication materials for the essays of John Worthington Williams, [circa 1916]
    • Correspondence regarding real estate, 1924-1942
    • Miscellaneous correspondence, with letters from William H. Taft (1857-1930), Clements Collard Fry (1892-1955) and Samuel X. Radbill (1901-1987), 1901-1943
    • Genealogy of the Wyman, Keyser, and Stauffer families, 1916, undated
    • Genealogy of the Keppele family, 1928-1948, undated
    • Miscellaneous papers, 1905,1917, undated

    Subseries 3.15. Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn (1862-1935), 1876-1928

    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, 1889, undated
    • Letters to Mary C. Mitchell, 1877,1889
    • Letters to John K. Mitchell, [circa 1870s]
    • Letters to Talcott Williams (1849-1928), 1897-1915
    • Clippings, 1892-1923
    • Miscellaneous items, includes a miniature portrait of his mother, Mary Middleton Mitchell, and a biography of John Langdon (1739- 1820), 1876-1928

    Subseries 3.16. Freedley, Mary Mitchell (b.1894), 1876-1949

    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, 1908, undated
    • Letters to Sophia and Talcott Williams (1849-1928), 1917-1919, undated
    • Letter to Mary Mitchell Freedley, 1949
    • Certificate permitting Angelo T. Freedley to practice law in the Philadelphia District Court, 1876

    Subseries 3.17. Macdonough, S. Worthington Mitchell (b.1896), 1910-1919

    • Letters to S. Weir Mitchell, 1910, undated
    • Letters to Talcott Williams (1849-1928), 1919, undated

  Series 4. Correspondence, 1851-1928

  • Subseries 4.1. Letterbook [disbound], 1858

    • Letters and resolutions from individuals and societies on the death of John Kearsley Mitchell; includes items signed by Robley Dunglison (1798-1869) and Samuel Henry Dickson (1798- 1872), 1858

    Subseries 4.2. Correspondence with physicians, 1851-1928

    • Billings, John Shaw (1838-1913), letters sent. Discusses his professorship at University of Pennsylvania and work at the Library of the Surgeon General's Office and the New York Public Library, 1890-1903
    • Brunton, Sir Thomas Lauder (1844-1916), letter received [copy only]. Includes Brunton's obituary of SWM and a letter from his daughter, Alice H. Henry, explaining the provenance of the Mitchell letter, 1911, circa 1914, 1928
    • Cushing, Harvey (1869-1939), correspondence [copies, with one original], 1907,1910, undated
    • Flexner, Simon (1863-1946), letters received [copies only], 1903-1928, undated
    • Garrison, Fielding Hudson (1870-1935), letters received [copies only]. Anecdotes about Mitchell's relationship with John Shaw Billings, including how they met and how Mitchell led an unsuccessful campaign to get Billings appointed as surgeon general, 1912-1913
    • Gould, George Milbry (1848-1922), letters received [copies only]. Mitchell comments on Gould's work and discusses the concept of the "literary physician", 1896-1899, undated
    • Jackson, John Hughlings (1835-1911), letters sent. Includes responses to Mitchell's requests for advice on neurological cases., 1872-1904
    • Keen, William Williams (b.1837), Letters received [copies only]. Mitchell discusses the Philadelphia medical community, the end of the Civil War, activities at the College of Physicians, and the anti-vivisectionists, 1865-1912, undated
    • Osler, Sir William (1849-1919), letters sent. Osler discusses his son, the Dublin bicentenary, his involvement with the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and his plans to lecture at Yale and the College of Physicians, 1905, 1912
    • Paget, Sir James (1814-1899), letters sent. Paget discusses Mitchell's work, describes his own neurological research, reports on the congress of the British Medical Association, and introduces Mitchell to Frank Holl, who later painted Mitchell's portrait. Includes chronological index of letters, 1865-1894
    • Playfair, William Smoult (1836-1903), letters sent. Includes description of two cases of hysterical women and how they were treated according the recommendations in Mitchell's Fat and Blood (1877), 1880, undated
    • Power, Sir D'Arcy (1855-1941), letters sent [copies only]. Power discusses William Harvey, 1910-1912
    • Ross, Sir Ronald (1857-1932), correspondence. Includes discussions about poetry, especially Ross's poem "In Exile", and the concept of the physician as poet, 1907-1928
    • Tucker, Beverley Randolph (1874-), correspondence [copies only]. Includes career guidance and acknowledgment of the birth of Tucker's son, Weir Mitchell Tucker, 1904-1913, undated
    • Tuke, Sir John Batty (1835-1913), letters sent. Tuke discusses Mitchell's work and the need for asylum reform., 1891-1894
    • White, James William (1850-1916), letters received. Mitchell discusses his various social engagements in Philadelphia and expresses regret at missing dinner with Henry James. Also present is a letter from Letitia White explaining the provenance of the letters, 1905-1912,1921, undated
    • Miscellaneous, with individual letters from Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928) and Hugo Munsterberg (1863-1916), 1851-1911, undated

    Subseries 4.3. Correspondence with literary figures, 1858-1913

    • Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909), correspondence. Includes letters from Mitchell discussing editorial matters. Also present is a letter from Rosamond Gilder explaining the provenance of the correspondence, 1898-1907,1925, undated
    • Hale, Edward Everett (1822-1909), letters sent, 1886-1898
    • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911), letters sent. Describes his wife's nervous condition and asks for Mitchell's assistance in curing her, 1885-1905
    • Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894), letters sent [copies only]. Comments on some of Mitchell's early works, 1858-1864
    • Lea, Henry Charles (1825-1909), letters sent. Discusses his latest book and cites Mitchell as his inspiration, 1885-1893
    • Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903), letters sent. Discusses his works on folklore, 1883-1889
    • Mason, Amelia Gere, correspondence [copies, with five autograph letters]. Covers a variety of personal and literary topics, including Mason's criticism of Mitchell's work. With chronological index of letters, 1883-1913
    • Meredith, George (1828-1909), letter sent [copy]. Contains Meredith's comments on Hugh Wynne, 1896, 1898
    • Page, Thomas Nelson (1853-1922), letters sent, 1897-1908
    • Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (1844-1911), letters sent. Discusses Mitchell's work and expresses her desire to write a medical novel. With index of letters, 1887, 1897
    • Pyle, Howard (1853-1911), letters received [copies only]. Discusses Pyle's illustrations for Hugh Wynne (1896), 1896-1905
    • Repplier, Agnes (1855-1950), letters sent, 1894-1913
    • Rhodes, James Ford (1848-1927), letters sent. Praises Mitchell's "The Youth of Washington" (1904) and "Westways" (1913), 1908-1913
    • Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916), correspondence [copies only]. Includes a letter (1925) from Mary Riley Payne explaining the provenance of the correspondence, 1898-1913
    • Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908), letters received [copies only]. Includes three letters to Stedman's brother, Arthur, 1886-[1897?]
    • Wister, Annis Lee (1830-1908), letters sent. With index of letters, 1888-[1909?]
    • Wister, Owen (1860-1938), correspondence. With index of letters. Includes several birthday poems that Wister wrote for Mitchell, [1906]-1910, undated
    • Wister, Sarah Butler (1835-1908), correspondence. Personal and literary topics, including discussions of Mitchell's work. With chronological index of letters, 1886-1905, undated

    Subseries 4.4. General correspondence, 1855-1920

    • "A", 1888-1898, undated
    • "B", 1893-1913
    • "C", with letters from John Cadwalader (1842-1925), 1885-1912
    • Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919), correspondence [copies, with one autograph letter]. Includes Carnegie's letter in which he asks Mitchell what he would do with $5-10 millon, with Mitchell's reply, 1906-1913, undated
    • Child, Clarence Griffin (1864-1948), letter sent. With translation of the legend of St. Erkenwald, 1906
    • Clark, G. E, letters sent. Letters re: getting Mitchell's grandnephew, Edward, into the Naval Academy. With letter from the Secretary of War, Elihu Root (1845-1937), 1901-1910
    • "D", includes letters from Samuel Henry Dickson (1798-1872) and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Dana, patients of SWM, 1855-1907
    • Dandridge, Danske (1858-1914), letters sent, 1911
    • Dow, Mrs. Charles, letters received, 1890-1901, undated
    • "F", with letters from Frank Furness and Alice Fisher (1839-1888), 1878-1909
    • Farrand, Max (1869-1945), correspondence. Letters re: Professor Farrand's teaching of Hugh Wynne (1896) in his history class, 1902-1920
    • "G", with letter from patient Lewis Gates about his rest cure treatment, 1885-1910
    • "H", with letter concerning SWM's submission of a paper on rattlesnakes, 1857-1912
    • Holl, Frank (1845-1888), letters sent. Letters concern Holl's painting of Mitchell's portrait. With index of letters, 1884-1887
    • "J", with letter re: women and medicine, 1886-1907
    • "K", 1892-1906, undated
    • "L", with letter re: sleep and dreams, 1875-1912
    • Langley, Samuel Pierpont (1834-1906), letters sent. Includes letters concerning psychic events, 1885,1894
    • Larned, Charles William (1850-1911), letters received [copies only], 1910
    • Leigh, Frances Butler (1838-1910), letters sent. With index of letters, 1890-1907, undated
    • "M", 1898-1909, undated
    • Minot, Louisa S., letters sent. With index of letters, [1907-1913?]
    • "N", 1856-1910
    • "O", 1908,1913
    • "P-Q", 1887-1909, undated
    • "R", 1862-1912
    • Ritchie, Anne Thackeray (1837-1919), letters sent, 1898, undated
    • "S", 1878-1911
    • Swann, Agnes M., letters sent, 1900-1912
    • "T", with letter from William H. Taft (1857-1930), 1910, 1912
    • "U-V", 1907, undated
    • "W", 1898-1912
    • Walcott, Charles Doolittle (1850-1927), correspondence [copies and originals], 1901-1914
    • Wister, Mary Channing (d.1913), letters sent, undated
    • Wister, Owen Jones (1825-1896), letters sent, 1885
    • Unidentified correspondents, 1903, undated

    Subseries 4.5. Follow-up studies of patients with nerve injuries, 1863-1906

    • Correspondence, with letters from John Shaw Billings (1839-1913) and lists of patients contacted, 1890-1906
    • Questionnaires, 1893
    • Case reports, 1863,1893
    • Miscellaneous papers, undated

    Subseries 4.6. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1892-1913

    • Letters re: nursing, with letters from William V. Keating, 1892, undated
    • Letters on cat fear, 1904-1906
    • Letters re: the Real Estate Trust of Philadelphia, 1906-1908
    • Letters re: Edmund Randolph and The Red City, 1906-1908
    • Letters and clippings on psychotherapy and Christian Science, with The deadly error of Christian Science, The Church Literature Publishing Co., 1901,1908
    • Letters re: monument to Civil War surgeons, 1908-1913
    • Letters on sleep and dreams, with letters from John Bigelow (1817-1911), William Croswell Doane (1832-1913), Horace Howard Furness (1833- 1912), William Dean Howells (1837-1920), Louisa S. Minot, James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), and James Joseph Walsh (1865-1942). Includes Joseph Jastrow's "An Inquiry In Regard to Dream Types and Composition," Madison, Wisconsin, 1911

  Series 5. Travel journals and diaries, 1851-1912

  • • Travel journal--Italy, with sketches, 1851 June
    • Notebook--Europe, contains a list of expenses and numerous sketches, 1851
    • Travel journal--Lake Superior, 1869 August
    • Travel journal--Lake Superior and Lake Nipigon, Ontario, Canada. Includes manuscripts of poems, including "After sunset-- Lake Weelokenebakok", "Evening storm--Nipigon", and "Noonday woods--Nipigon". Also included are two water colors, sketches by John K. Mitchell (1859-1917), and a list of Chippewa phrases, 1870 August 6-30, 1874 August
    • Travel journal--Lake Superior and Lake Nipigon, Ontario, Canada. Includes manuscripts of poems, including "The carry", "The rapids", "Campfire in three lights", "Paddle song", "Solitude", "Nipigon Lake", "Night--Lake Helen", and "Windfall". Also included are sketches by John K. Mitchell (1859-1917), 1871 August 9-September 3, 1874 July 20-August 14
    • Travel journal--Europe, with manuscripts of poems, including "Milan: Da Vinci's Christ", "Bruges: Quai des Augustins", "Near Amsterdam: After Albert Cuyp", and "After Teniers", 1872 July-October
    • Travel journal--Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, 1879 July 3-27
    • Travel journal--England, 1880 June
    • Travel journal--Europe, 1884 June 14 - November 5
    • Diary, 1887 July 30 - December 11
    • Travel journal--Europe, 1888 May 25 - November 6
    • Travel journal--Spain, 1889
    • Travel journal--Europe, includes passenger lists from both trans-Atlantic voyages, 1891 February 17 - November 4
    • Diary, 1894 January 1 - December 31
    • Diary, 1895 January 1 - December 31
    • Diary, 1896 January 1 - December 28
    • Diary, 1897 January 7 - December 31
    • Diary, 1898 January 1 - November 27
    • Diary, 1898 December 16 - 1899 December 26
    • Diary, 1900 January 1 - October 22, December 1-15
    • Diary, 1901 January 1 - December 29
    • Diary, 1903 January 1 - December 31
    • Diary, 1904 January 1 - December 31
    • Diary, 1905 January 1 - December 31
    • Diary, 1906 January 1 - December 30
    • Diary, 1907 January 1 - December 29
    • Diary, includes letter from actress Marion Lea, SWM's daughter-in-law, 1908 January 1 - December 29
    • Diary, 1909 January 1 - December 31
    • Diary, 1910 January 1 - December 31
    • Diary, 1911 January 1 - August 11, October 3 - December 14
    • Diary, 1912 January 1 - April 13, May 10 - December 26

  Series 6. Literary notebooks, 1889-1910

  • • Poems about Venice and Newport. Includes manuscripts of "September", "A psalm of the water", "The waves at midnight", "Evening by the sea", "The Quaker lady", and "Dreamland", 1889-1890
    • Transferred notes, 1891-1892
    • Notes and early draft of Phillip Vernon, includes manuscript poems, 1893
    • Notes for Hugh Wynne, [circa 1895-1896?]
    • Poems and notes, includes manuscripts of "Lullaby" (published as "A Child's Prayer"), "Guidarello Guidarelli", and a long dramatic poem, 1896-1897
    • Poems and notes, includes manuscripts of "To A Magnolia Flower", "Guidarello Guidarelli", "Lullaby" (published as "A Child's Prayer"), "Henry the Fifth", and "A war song of Tyrol". Also contains a list of characters appearing in Hugh Wynne, 1897,1904
    • Poems and notes inspired by trip to Egypt. Includes a manuscript of his poem "Egypt", journal entries, and miscellaneous notes, including story ideas and character sketches, 1898-1900, 1904
    • Poems and notes inspired by trip to Japan. Includes poems, speech notes, and historical notes, probably for "The Red City", 1901-1905
    • Poems and notes, 1909-1910
    • Historical notes, arranged alphabetically., undated

  Series 7. Writings and manuscripts, 1841-1944

  • Subseries 7.1. Autobiography [disbound]: typescript, 313p., undated

    • P. 1-46 (genealogy, childhood), undated
    • P. 47-122 (childhood, college, first trip abroad), undated
    • P. 123-155 (early work in hospitals), undated
    • P. 156-193 (literary career, correspondence with R. S. Woodward), undated
    • P. 194-221 ("Honors"), undated
    • P. 222-275 ("People"), undated
    • P. 276-313 (President Taft, childhood memories by Sarah Mitchell Neilson), undated
    • Miscellaneous sections of autobiography, undated

    Subseries 7.2. Speeches, 1896-1913

    • Address delivered at reception of Colonial Dames : Senate House, Washington, D.C. : typescript, 8 p., 1896 March 5
    • Man, the individual : [n.p.] : typescript, 22 p., 1902 January
    • [College dinner notes] : College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : holograph, 3 p., 1903
    • [Address delivered at dinner in honor of Sir William Osler (1849-1919)?] : [Charaka Club, New York, N.Y.] : typescript, 6 p., 1905 March 4
    • Dr. Mitchell on athletics : address before the New York City Alumni Association, New York, New York : typescript, 4 p., 1906 January 16
    • [Notes for dinner celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin] : American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : typescript, 7 p., 1906 April 20
    • [Address delivered at the dinner celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin] : American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : typescript, 7 p. Includes an early draft of his poem, "The Memory of Franklin", 1906 April 20
    • Anniversary...St. Andrews Society : address before the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia, [Hotel Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : typescript, 7 p., 1909 November 29
    • [Address on the] 50th anniversary of Pathological Society [of Philadelphia], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. : holograph, 15 p., [1907]
    • Country doctor : address delivered in Toronto, Canada : typescript, 9 p., 1907
    • Lectures on the conduct of the medical life : [n.p.] : typescript, 78 p. Not delivered due to illness, 1908
    • [After-dinner speech at the banquet in celebration of the opening of the new building] : College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : typescript, 7 p., 1909
    • [Memoir of Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)] : [n.p.] : typescript, 8 p., with holograph emendations, 1909
    • [Address before the alumni of the University of Pennsylvania at the unveiling of a tablet in honor of Nathaniel Chapman (1780-1853)] : College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : typescript, 15 p., 1910 March 29
    • Lecture on William Harvey : Baltimore, Maryland : typescript, 67 p., 1910
    • Lecture on William Harvey : College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. : typescript, 68 p., 1910
    • William Harvey, M.D. : address delivered in New York, New York: typescript, 66 p., 1911 April 1
    • [Novels and novelists] : [n.p.] : typescript, 49 p.,with holograph emendations, [1910?]
    • Novels and novelists / by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. : read at John Kane's, New York, New York : typescript, 44 p., 1911 January
    • Some remarks on sleep symptoms and the prae-dormitium : address before the Philadelphia Neurological Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. : typescript and holograph, 27 p., with holograph emendations, 1911 March 24
    • Some remarks on sleep symptoms and the prae-dormitium / by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. : address before the Philadelphia Neurological Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: typescript, 28 p., 1911 March 24
    • [The medical department in the Civil War] : address before the Physicians' Club, Chicago, Illinois: typescript, 48 p., with holograph emendations, 1913 February 25
    • [The medical department in the Civil War] : address before the Physicians' Club, Chicago, Illinois: typescript, 30 p., 1913 February 25
    • Lectures and lecturers : address before the Girls' High School of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : typescript, 49 p., undated
    • [Lecture on student life] : Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: holograph, 9 p., never used, undated
    • [Address before the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia] : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: typescript, 7 p., with holograph emendations, undated
    • [Address at dinner in honor of John Bach McMaster (1852-1932)] : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: typescript, 5 p., undated
    • [Address before the president and alumni of Princeton University] : Princeton, New Jersey: typescript, 5 p., never used due to illness, undated
    • [Introduction to his reading of Francois Villon] : read before the post-graduates of West Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: typescript, 9 p. Used, not printed, with holograph emendations, undated
    • [Memoir of] James Wilson (1742-1798) : Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : typescript, 6 p., undated
    • [Address on the relation of the creations of the poet or novelist to the facts of history and the relation of an era to its own poets : [n.p.] : printed, 24 p., undated

    Subseries 7.3. Poetry, [1887?]-1907

    • [On the 100th anniversary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia?] : typescript and holograph, 8 p., [1887?]
    • "The Birth and Death of Pain": a poem read October sixteenth, MDCCCXCVI, at the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia. Boston: The Merrymount Press, [1896], [1896]
    • A prayer : printed, [1898]
    • The birthday of Washington. Proceedings of University Day. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania, 5 p., with holograph emendations, 1902 February 22
    • The pure of heart--Gennesaret : holograph, 9 p., 1904 October
    • Verses read to the Franklin Inn Club on the birthday of Franklin : typescript, 4 p., [1905?] January 6
    • Verses read to the Franklin Inn Club on the birthday of Franklin. Philadelphia: The Lippincott Press, [1905?]
    • The return of the flags : holograph, 6 p., 1905 August
    • The song of the flags on their return to the States of the Confederacy, Collier's, 1906 April 21, 23
    • [Lines given to M at Christmas] : holograph, 3 p., [1905]
    • [The comfort of the hills] : holograph, 9 p., [1906]
    • The memory of Franklin : printed, 1906
    • How champagne was invented : typescript, 5 p., undated
    • To the man with the spelling bee in his bonnet : typescript, 1 p., undated
    • Untitled poem : holograph, 15 p., undated
    • Miscellaneous printed poems, 1899, 1907, undated

    Subseries 7.4. Miscellaneous writings, 1841-1944

    • Account of a visit to Newport : holograph, 3 p., [1841 July 31]
    • The seven ages of Washington : typescript, 36 p., [1896]
    • [Reminiscences of a discussion with President William H. Taft] : typescript, 10 p., 1910 July 22
    • The waters of oblivion. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 5 p., 1944 January
    • An adventure on Fifth Avenue / by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell : typescript, 75 p., undated
    • Untitled sketch : holograph, 2 p., undated

    Subseries 7.5. A catalogue of the scientific and literary work of S. Weir Mitchell, 1894

    • A catalogue of the scientific and literary work of S. Weir Mitchell : typescript, 31 p., 1894

  Series 8. Clippings, 1881-1925

  • Subseries 8.1. Clippings re: S. Weir Mitchell, 1883-1925

    • Reviews, 1888-1913
    • Obituaries, 1914-1925
    • From the morgue of the Philadelphia North American, 1900-1919
    • Miscellaneous, 1883-1920

    Subseries 8.2. Clippings regarding wages, 1881-1920

    • Wages, physicians (331.2.610), 1881-1919
    • Wages, physicians (331.2.610.7), 1885-1916
    • Wages, poets (331.2.8), 1916-1919
    • Wages, literary ([331.2.]800), 1884-1914
    • Wages, American literature (331.2.810), 1901-1914
    • Wages, American [poets] (331.2.811), 1894-1913
    • Wages, poets (331.2.821), 1886-1911, 1886-1911
    • Wages, English fiction (331.2.823), 1884-1914
    • Wages, French novelists (331.2.843), 1891-1913
    • England, history of wages table (331.2.942), 1920
    • Miscellaneous, 1886-1911

  Series 9. Biographical project, 1914-1931

  • Subseries 9.1. Correspondence of Talcott Williams (1849-1928), 1914-1928

    • "A", 1920,1927, undated
    • Abbe, Robert (1851-1928), letters sent, 1917-1926
    • "B", includes letters from Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932), 1919-1922, undated
    • "C", 1920
    • The Century [Publishing] Co., correspondence. Includes letters from John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) and Isaac R. and Bevan A. Pennypacker, 1919-1923
    • Cushing, Harvey (1869-1939), letters sent, 1920-1923
    • "D", with letter from Henry S. Drinker (1850-1937), 1919-1920
    • "F", with letter from Horace Howard Furness (1865-1930), undated
    • "G", 1920
    • "H", with letters from Guy Hinsdale (1858-1948), M. A. De Wolfe Howe (1864-1960), and Houghton-Mifflin and Co., 1920-1924, undated
    • Henry, Bayard (1857-1926), letters sent, 1920
    • "I-J", 1920
    • "K", 1920-1922
    • Keen, William Williams (b.1837), letters sent. Includes his responses to questions about S. Weir Mitchell asked by Talcott Williams (1849-1928), 1914-1924
    • "L", 1920
    • "M", 1920,1923
    • Mason, Amelia Gere, letters sent, 1920
    • Mitchell, Anne Keppele Williams, correspondence, 1919-1927, undated
    • "O-P", 1920
    • "R", 1928, undated
    • "S", 1919-1922
    • "T", includes letters from William J. Taylor (1861-1936), William Sydney Thayer (1864-1932), and Beverley R. Tucker (1874- ), 1914-1923
    • "W", includes letters from J. C. Wilson (1847-1934) and George W. Wickersham (1858-1936), 1919-1920
    • Wister, Owen (1860-1938), letters sent, 1914,1920

    Subseries 9.2. Correspondence of Anne K. W. Mitchell, 1917-1931

    • "A", with correspondence from the Atlantic Monthly, 1919-1928
    • "B", 1918-1928
    • "C", 1928
    • The Century [Publishing] Co., correspondence, 1917-1928
    • Duffield Publishing Co., letters sent, 1928-1930
    • Dunbar, Elizabeth, letters sent, 1928
    • Furness, Horace Howard (1865-1930), letter sent, undated
    • "G", 1928
    • Garrison, Fielding Hudson (1870-1935), correspondence, 1928
    • "H", includes letters from Guy Hinsdale (1858-1948), M. A. De Wolfe Howe (1864-1960), and Houghton-Mifflin and Co., 1919, 1928
    • "J", 1928
    • Keen, William Williams (b.1837), correspondence, 1919-1928
    • "L", with letters from Alfred Pyle Lee (1871-1940), 1923, 1928
    • J. B. Lippincott and Co., correspondence, 1928-1929
    • "M", with letter from Andrew Jackson Montague (1862-1937), 1928
    • Minot, Louisa S., correspondence, 1928, undated
    • Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn (1862-1935), correspondence, 1927-1931, undated
    • "N", includes correspondence re: the papers of Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), 1928
    • "P", with correspondence from Mrs. Howard Pyle, 1928
    • "R", with letters from Agnes Repplier (1855-1950), Elihu Root (1845-1937), and Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932), 1928
    • "S-T", includes correspondence with the Smithsonian Institution, 1928
    • Tucker, Beverley Randolph (1874-), correspondence, 1928
    • "U", with correspondence re: University of Pennsylvania, 1928
    • "W", includes correspondence with Owen Wister (1860-1938), 1919, 1928
    • Williams, Talcott (1849-1928), letters received, 1926-1927, undated

    Subseries 9.3. Correspondence of Anna Robeson Brown Burr (1873-1941), 1928-1929

    • Dunbar, Elizabeth, correspondence, 1928
    • Keen, William Williams (b. 1837), letters sent, 1928
    • Mitchell, Anne Keppele Williams, letters received, undated
    • Miscellaneous correspondence, 1929, undated

    Subseries 9.4. Notes for biography, typescript, undated

    • Family and genealogy, including a list of birth, deaths, and marriages, undated
    • Family, military service, undated
    • Excerpts from poetry and letters, undated
    • Honors and memberships, excerpts from diary and letters of 1901, undated
    • University of Pennsylvania, including transcript and course of instruction, undated
    • Jefferson Medical College, undated
    • Miscellaneous notes, undated
    • Alphabetical index of correspondence, undated
    • Note cards with bibliographic citations and information on Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), undated
    • Miscellaneous notes and memoranda re: the progress of the biography and the transfer of materials between Talcott Williams (1849-1928), Anne K. W. Mitchell, Anna Robeson Brown Burr (1873-1941), and Elizabeth Dunbar, undated

    Subseries 9.5. Miscellaneous, circa 1880-1929

    • The novels and poetry of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, '48 C. The Alumni Register,12 p., tearsheets with holograph annotations, 1880 Fall?
    • Contracts for biography, 1916, 1929
    • Burr, Charles Walts (1861-), [Selections from his S. Weir Mitchell Oration] : typescript, 1919
    • Publication materials, includes page proofs, list of illustrations, and publisher's catalog, [circa 1929]
    • Organization of the Biological Club of Philadelphia : typescript, undated