Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)

Typescript notes about data in various libraries and repositories relating to the history of the National Library of Medicine, including its predecessors. Much of the material pertains to the period when John Shaw Billings was librarian.

Contains both a typescript, 105 leaves, and the manuscript copy, 200 leaves, of Toepper's History of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office.

Primarily consists of Billings' correspondence during his time as head of the Library of the Surgeon General (1868-1895). Also includes some biographical information, a collection of Billings' reprints, speech texts, scrapbooks, and clippings.

Invoices for items purchased for the Surgeon-General's Office.

Official papers of the Library for the years Walter Drew McCaw served as librarian.

Contains official papers of the Library for the years that Champe C. McCulloch was librarian.

The head of the Museum and Library Division's official correspondence from 1897 to 1903.

Instructions on the type size and style and arrangement to be followed in the Index-Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's Office, apparently for the first series.