Briscoe, Ruth Lee; [University of Maryland]; MacArthur, Douglas

SKILLING-DOYLE MEMORIAL VOLUME [Original Documents, Including General Douglas MacArthur TLS]

Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Medicine, 1927. Quarto, [unpaginated], 164-165, 110-111, 246-247 pages. In Good condition. Bound in contemporary burgundy cloth, with gilt titling to front cover. Boards show some fading and discoloration, and slight shelf wear to edges and corners. Ex-library copy with usual markings, including a bookplate to front pastedown, institutional stamps to several pages, and call number written in pencil. An unpaginated compilation of ephemera, with exception of extracts from Bulletin of the University of Maryland School of Medicine). MF Consignment.

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Special Collections

Price: $1,250

NOTES

Ruth Lee Briscoe was the University of Maryland librarian who compiled all of ephemera appearing in this volume. The material relates to the installation of a memorial dedicated in honor of two alumni of the medical department of the University of Maryland (now the University of Maryland School of Medicine), Lieutenant John Galen Skilling and Dr. Joseph Francis Doyle. Both were graduates of the 1917 class, and lost their lives while serving during World War I.

Many of the documents are Briscoe's original copies, including documents for the bound volume, the invitation list composed of carbon copies of letters sent, with her signature, and letters in response to her invitation. Letters responding to her invitation came from numerous notable librarians, deans, doctors, and organizations in Maryland, as well as the following:
TLS from Douglas MacArthur, who served as General of the Army for the United States. 1925, he became the Army's youngest major general and in 1927 assumed command of the III Corps area, based at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.

TLS from Michael Joseph Curley, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and later first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington.

TLS from Enoch Barton Garey, president of St. John's College.