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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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