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E. V. Cowdry Papers
Series 46 – 55

Series List

Series 46: Miscellaneous Personal Items, 1938-1964

The series brings together a variety of items pertaining to the social life of E. V. and Alice Cowdry and their travels abroad. Gift of Margaret Cowdry Haun, June 1990. Accession 90-062. Box 155.

Box 155

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Series 47: General Correspondence, 1917-1918

This is the earliest of the series from the “crawl space” discovery of 1990 (accession 91-007). Some files (for example “A” and “W-Z”) appear to have been destroyed. Box 156.

Box 156

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Series 48: General Correspondence, 1924-1926

This series relates mainly to EVC’s life and work in New York City at the Rockefeller Institute. Accession 91-007. Boxes 157-158.

Box 157

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Box 158

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Series 49: General Correspondence, 1927-1929

This series documents the time when EVC left the Rockefeller Institute and joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine as head of Cytology. Accession 91-007. Boxes 159-162.

Box 159

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Box 160

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Box 161

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Box 162

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Series 50: General Correspondence, 1930-1931

Series 50 covers the period when EVC was on leave from Washington University to serve as chairman of the division of medical sciences of the National Research Council in Washington, D.C. He hired Robert R. Bensley, his former professor from the University of Chicago, to teach cytology courses in his place. Accession 91-007. Boxes 163-164.

Box 163

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Box 164

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Series 51: General Correspondence, 1932-1934

Series 51 is dated mainly from 1932-1934, but the file containing correspondence with the distinguished bacteriologist Stanhope Bayne-Jones extends to 1940. Accession 91-007. Boxes 165-166.

Box 165

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Box 166

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Series 52: General Correspondence, 1934-1935

Series 52 is incomplete, the missing files having been lost due to conditions in the “crawl space.” (See collection content note concerning accession 91-007.) Most of the contents date from the years 1934-1935. Box 167.

Box 167

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Series 53: General Correspondence, 1935-1936

Files from EVC’s administrative office of roughly the same period as his research focus on leprosy (see Series 5). Accession 91-007. Boxes 168-169.

Box 168

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Box 169