Portsmouth Hospital Collection – MS066
Provenance: Gift in 1990
Citation: Portsmouth Hospital Collection (MS066), Manuscript Collections, Portsmouth Athenaeum
Size: 3.5 Hollinger Boxes (21 linear inches), one separate bound volume
Access: No restrictions
Processed by: Susan Stowe Kindstedt in 2010
Scope and Content
The collection is mainly related to research leading to the publication of a history of Portsmouth Hospital in the early 1980s. Box 1 contains notes and correspondence related to the research project. Box 2 contains photocopies of published articles related to the history of the hospital as well as some more general medical history. The second part of the collection contains hospital records including: staff meeting records (with monthly hospital statistics for the early twentieth century) and ledgers recording hospital finances and investments.
Folder List
Box 1
Folder 1 Research Committee Notes, includes committee member meetings, survey of hospital departments, basic outline of research, timeline for book publication, and summary of known archival materials
Folder 2 Research Correspondence, includes memos and correspondence regarding research inquiries and requests for information
Folder 3 Research Notes, includes outlines and notes regarding physicians and history of medicine
Folder 4 Research Note Cards, miscellaneous facts about medicine and the hospital’s history
Folder 5 Research – Lizzie Wood’s Diary. Lizzie Woods was a nurse at the Cottage Hospital and kept a diary of daily activities and reflections from 1888-1891. Folder includes a transcription of the diary. Lizzie mentions the names of patients she is treating, conditions in the hospital, doctors such as Dr. Parsons of Rye.
Folder 6 Drafts
Folder 7 Drafts
Folder 8 Scrapbook 1915-1943 and Scrapbook 1944-1948, newspaper clippings related to the hospital and the Guild
Folder 9 Scrapbook 1947-1957, newspaper clippings related to the hospital and the Guild
Box 2
Folder 1 Clippings 19 th century and earlier
Folder 2 Clippings 1900-1910
Folder 3 Clippings 1920s
Folder 4 Clippings 1930s
Folder 5 Clippings 1940s
Folder 6 Clippings 1950s
Folder 7 Clippings 1958-1962
Folder 8 Clippings 1960s
Folder 9 Clippings 1970s
Folder 10 Clippings 1980s
Folder 11 Hospital Guild Clippings and Minutes
Box 3
Folder 1 Account Book 1922-1948, financial records related to investments
Folder 2 Staff Meeting Ledger, 1919-1938, includes monthly hospital statistics for the early twentieth century
Folder 3 Staff Meeting Ledger, 1936-1948
Folder 4 Staff Meeting Ledger, 1958-1962
Box 4
Folder 1 1981 Published Annual Hospital Report, contains history
Folder 2 Miscellaneous collections, correspondence, flyers, etc.
Separate Bound Volume
Account Book, 1925-1951