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1 leaf. Two vertical folds and three horizontal folds. Good. Letterhead: 1201 Eutaw Place./ Baltimore, MD./ The Letter: March 20, 1922/ Mrs. Leah Rogers,/ 692 Pierce St.,/ Baltimore. "My dear Leah:/ I shall be greatly interested to note the result of the operations/ performed on you at the Johns Hopkins Hospital on August 8, 1919, and/ August 26, 1919, by Dr. Holmes [sic]/ Will it be convenient to you to meet me in my office on the 4th floor/ of the Surgical Building, Johns Hopkins Hospital, on Friday morning,/ March 24, at 10.30 o'clock?/ Very truly yours,/ W. S. Halsted [signed], Surgeon-in-Chief." Halsted's resident Emile Holman wrote on the letter in red ink: "No recurrence No discomfort/ Incision well healed No hernia/ on left. Holman." Pencil note: "Information entered/ on cards/ MMR." Although the typed letter says the name of the surgeon was "Holmes", I feel sure it was meant to be "Holman". The surgeon who performed the operation was Dr. Emile Holman. About Emile Holman: "He entered Stanford University in 1907, initially majoring in mathematics, but he soon changed to the Department of Education. To support himself in college, Holman dropped out for a semester in his sophomore year to learn shorthand and typing. On returning to Stanford, he applied at the President's office for stenographic work, and Dr David Starr Jordan promptly supplied him with manuscripts to copy. This led to his becoming secretary to President Jordan on graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1911, a position he held until 1914, when he went to Oxford as Stanford's second Rhodes Scholar. Jordan was a constant inspiration to Holman and was the source of his initial interest in medicine, as well as his opposition to war. Before beginning his Rhodes scholarship, Holman spent 3 months touring the Balkans with President Jordan, who was lecturing on the need for peace and the perils of war. Holman's first 2 years at Oxford were spent working in physiology with Sir Charles Sherrington. The third year was spent as a casualty house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary. During his time at Oxford, Holman became acquainted with Sir William Osler and was a frequent guest in Osler's home. Osler encouraged Holman to apply to medical school at Johns Hopkins, saying in his letter of recommendation for Holman, 'He is an A1 student and will be a great credit to the school. I do not think there is any doubt that he will have done enough work to warrant admission to the fourth year.' Holman was, in due course, accepted to Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1917 and graduated AOA [Alpha Omega Alpha] a year later. By this time, Holman had changed the spelling of his last name from a more Germanic Hollmann to Holman. After graduation from medical school, Holman worked in the Hunterian laboratories under Halsted and served as Halsted's last resident in 1922, the year of Halsted's death (James B. D. Mark, "Historical Perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Emile Frederic Holman, MD (1890 1977)", The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol. 130, no. 1, July 2005).". Seller Inventory # 17422
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