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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Letter of the Day: March 12

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 04449

War Department,
Surgeon General's Office,
U.S. Army Medical Museum and Library,
Corner 7th and B Streets SW.,
Washington

March 12, 1900

Mrs. Benjamin Cushing
Percival Ave.
Dorchester, Mass.

Dear Madam:

I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt, through the kindness of Dr. Robert T. Edes, of a pair of forceps and a Laennec stethoscope, used by your husband, the late Dr. Benjamin Cushing, and to thank you for these interesting contributions to the collections of instruments in this Museum. They have been deposited as Nos. 2559 and 2560, series of instruments.

Very respectfully,
JC Merrill
Major & Surgeon,
U.S. Army

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