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Materials Held by the Sagall Family
Dr. Elliot L. Sagall, a
relative of Sidis, was a major figure in the founding of
the medico-legal field.
He was a founding
editor of the Medico Legal Journal,
and was one of the first to earn both an
M.D. and J.D. from Harvard.
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Contents of two boxes of WJS materials held by Dr. Sagall
Box 1
patent for calendar
misc. papers on Indians
little book of photos of transfers (photographed)
second patent for calendars
Constitution for Proposed Geprodis Association
Libertarian folder (Letters from Eichel & others, CO [conscientious objector] material)
letters to the "Transfer Collector"
Peridromophile Federation Folder (all correspondence re transfers)
Geprodis railroad station material (dates, times, etc. - not copied)
Syllabus Program & Draft Constitution of the Geprodis Association
more correspondence
American Independence Society
manila envelope with regular envelopes of transfers inside (not copied)
1 copy of the Conscientious Objector, Oct. 1942
Tribes & States, first section
America's Search for Liberty in Song & Poem -- 13 copies (not copied)
more correspondence, plus copyright to Notes on Transfers
misc. perp. calendars, booklets on transportation (not copied)
Box 2
blocks for imprint of perpetual calendar (not copied)
letter from Helena [his sister]
Article of JS in Saturday Review
2 Sidis Psychotherapeutic Institute catalogs (not copied)
more Indian papers
misc. maps & indecipherable symbols (not copied, tho some maps photographed)
book - Gregg Shorthand Dictionary
newsletter - The Transfer Collector - 2
book -- Russian/English Dictionary (not copied)
A play by Moliere in Russian (not copied)
Peridromophile correspondence
misc. transfer material
Pickwick Papers in Russian (not copied)
book - guide to American Esperanto (not copied)
Geprodis Code of Geprodis Procedure
Civil Service State misc. folder
correspondence- "General projects - Recognition"
letters to patent office wuth ammendments to calender patent
Harvard degree
black bound book w. code to Geprodis
peridromophiles
Geprodis guides scattered throughout both boxes
2nd & 3rd pages-------------------------------------
(See also Notes on the Collection of Transfers.)
Transfers -- where they're from, and idea of the proportions of how many he had from each place (for the one quarter of the transfers I went through):
America
NYC - 1 book and a few misc.
* Philadelphia & PA: 60+
Chautaqua, NY: 1
MD: 1 bk + 11
Boston & MA: 1 bk + 20
St. Louis: 15
Conn.: 1
SF & CA: 30
LA: 22
Detroit: 1
Iowa: 1
Ohio: 2
Georgia: 1
Milwaukee: 1 bk
Other
Germany-- Hamburg, Berlin, etc.: 50
Russia: 5 or 10
Greece (?):1
Chekoslovakia (?): 1
France: 2
Italy:1
Tokyo: 2
4 bags of transfers
Geprodis Transit Guide to the following places: (one for Brooklyn included in copied material as an example):
District of Columbia, incl. Arlington & Alexandria VA (plus one or just Arlington and Alexandria VA)
Staten Island, NY
Philadelphia
Brooklyn -- 4
Albany & Rensselaer
nw suburbs of Boston
Milwaukee, WI
Bronx, NY
Worcester, MA - 2
Quincy, MA
Boston
Springfield, MO (preliminary material)
Wakefield " "
Weymouth " "
Stoneham " "
Saugus " "
Woburn " "
Braintree " "
Winchester " "
Manhattan
Melrose, Reading, etc. (MA)
NYC - 2
Cleveland
Lynn, MA - 2
Milton, (MA?)
"Out of town material"
Newton & Waltham
Newark, NJ
NJ - Hudson County
Milwaukee (WI again?)
Boston Region
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