Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Subject Headings
- Administrative Information
- Access and Use
- Encoding Information
- Container List
Collection Summary
| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
|---|---|
| Creator: | Stanley-Brown, Margaret, 1895-1958 |
| Title: | Margaret Stanley-Brown Papers |
| Dates: | 1882-1958 |
| Quantity: | 0.6 cubic feet (3 boxes) |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, mostly from Dr. Margaret Stanley-Brown to her sister Ruth. The collection also includes letters to and from other family members. |
Biographical Note
Margaret Stanley-Brown, born in Washington, DC, was graduated from Vassar in 1919. Her sister Ruth was Vassar Class of 1915. Her mother Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown, was the daughter of President James A. Garfield. By her own account, "surgery was all" Margaret Stanley-Brown "ever wanted to do." She graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1923. In addition to the surgical practice she established in New York City, Dr. Stanley-Brown was an instructor in the Department of Surgical Pathology at Columbia for twenty-five years. She was a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and one of two women members of the New York Surgical Society. In 1950 she was married to Max K. Sellers, a writer.
TopScope and Content Note
Personal letters from Stanley-Brown to her parents, her brother Rudolph, and her sister Ruth (Mrs. Herbert Feis), 1902-1958, concerning travel arrangements and sights seen, camping trip in Wyoming in 1922, her hospital and teaching duties, family visits, and other personal news; other family letters, including Rudolph's childhood letters to his parents; and a poem by Stanley-Brown to her mother about her non-traditional career, 1926.
TopAccess and Use
Access
This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
Subject Headings
Names:
- Feis, Ruth Stanley-Brown, 1892-1981
- Stanley-Brown family
- Stanley-Brown, R. (Rudolph), 1889-1944
Subjects:
- Family--New York (State)
- Hospitals Camping--Wyoming
- Medicine--Study and teaching
- Women in medicine
- Women in the professions
- Women travelers
Places:
- Wyoming--Description and travel
VCL Categories
- Family
- Math, Science and Medicine
- Travel
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Margaret Stanley-Brown Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Processing Information
Original processing date unknown. Last updated August 2007.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Ruth Feis.
Container List
| Box 1 | Letters, 1882-1943 |
| Box 2 | Letters, 1944-1951 |
| Box 3 | Letters, 1952-1958, n.d. |
Return to the Table of Contents
Details
Correspondence, mostly from Dr. Margaret Stanley-Brown to her sister Ruth. The collection also includes letters to and from other family members.
