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Includes incoming and outgoing personal and professional correspondence with the bulk of the correspondence dating from the 1950s to 1970. Personal and professional correspondence are mixed together and contain other materials such as receipts, clippings, product advertisements, invitations, conference speeches, telegrams, and memos. Topics discussed in the personal correspondence include family events, travel, thank you notes, correspondence to different companies Persons patronized, reservations, and invitations. Topics discussed in the professional correspondence include department appointments, professional organizations, consultations, research, letters to journal editors, and recommendations. Major correspondents include Eugene Stead, Jesse Helms, C.E. Persons, and P. Walter Davis. Large amounts of correspondence is also located in the following series: United State Armed Forces and American College of Physicians. The materials are arranged both alphabetically and chronologically and date from 1946 to 1970.

Includes food lists and recipes for a variety of different types of diets such as diets for weight loss, G.I. Tract issues, diabetes, high protein, high calcium, high vitamins, arthritis, low purine residue, low sodium, the smooth diet, as well as a small amount of correspondence pertaining to the Rice Diet. Materials date from circa 1940 to 1949.