Madeline Earle Stanton correspondence
Scope and Contents
The corresponence consists of letters and cards sent to Madeline Stanton by neurosurgical colleagues and former students of Harvey Cushing, by employees at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and others. Major correspondents include Percival Bailey, Claude S. Beck, Hugh Cairns, Louise Eisenhardt, Eric Oldberg, and Paul Martin. The letters document aspects of Madeline Stanton's role as Cushing's secretary and her private life.
Dates
- 1915-1963
- Majority of material found within 1927 - 1933
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Madeline Earle Stanton Correspondence is the physical property of the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. Yale does not own copyright. For further information, consult staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated to the Historical Library by Madeline Stanton.
Arrangement
Organized into two series: I. Correspondence arranged alphabetically. II. Miscellany.
Extent
0.75 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Madeline Stanton was secretary to Harvey Cushing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. She accompanied him to Yale in 1933, and after his death, she and John F. Fulton headed the Histiorical Library of the Yale Medical Library. The corresponence consists of letters and cards sent to Madeline Stanton by neurosurgical colleagues and former students of Harvey Cushing, by employees at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and others. Major correspondents include Percival Bailey, Claude S. Beck, Hugh Cairns, Louise Eisenhardt, Eric Oldberg, and Paul Martin. The letters document aspects of Miss Stanton's role as Cushing's secretary and her private life.
Biographical / Historical
Madeline E. Stanton was born in Canton, Massachusetts on June 9, 1898. After graduating cum laude from Smith College in 1919, she was employed as a secretary to Agade Jacchia, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. In 1920, she became secretary to Harvey Cushing, Mosely Professor of Surgery in the Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. She accompanied him to New Haven when he was appointed Sterling Professor of Neurology in 1933. After Cushing's death in 1939, she took a major role in organizing the Historical Library of the Yale Medical Library. She served as Secretary and then Librarian of the Historical Library. She continued to work in the Historical Library beyond her formal retirement in 1968. During her tenure as assistant to Cushing and as Librarian of the Historical Library, Stanton met many neurosurgeons who became long-lasting personal friends. Madeline Stanton died in 1980.
- Bailey, Percival, 1892-1973
- Beck, Claude S. (Claude Schaeffer), 1894-1971
- Cairns, Hugh, Sir, 1896-1952
- Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939
- Davey, L. M. (Lycurgus Michael), 1918-
- Eisenhardt, Louise, 1891-1967
- Henderson, William R.
- Horrax, Gilbert, 1887-1957
- Martin, Paul
- Neurosurgeons
- Oldberg, Eric, 1901-1986
- Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
- Title
- Guide to the Madeline Earle Stanton Correspondence
- Author
- Finding aid by Todd A. Lane
- Date
- 2003
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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