Seeking confidential information about the American Public Health Association in an autograph letter, signed and marked "confidential" 9 November 1872, on Smithsonian Institution letterhead, to Dr. Edward Jarvis of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
8vo. 2-pages, approximately 150 words; docketed by Jarvis at the head of the first page. In part: "While anxious to cooperate with every proper effort to advance the cause of knowledge, I must be careful … there are quite a number of names [in the association] of trustworthy men …..... More