Personal and Biographical, 1925-1988

The Personal Series contains items on Adriani's personal life, his education and training, and highlights of his professional career. It would be valuable to the researcher interested in biographical details of Adriani's life. Among the notable items in the series are a group of family letters written by Eleanor Adriani in the early 1940s; compositions written by Adriani for his high school English classes in the mid-1920s; notes from his medical school classes in the late 1920s and early 1930s; a detailed handwritten notebook outlining the epidemiology, pathology, clinical course, and treatment of various diseases (undated, probably 1930s); an account of Adriani's surgical internship at the French Hospital in New York City (1934-36); a file of correspondence among his former residents, Glace E. Bittenbinder, Ray Parmley and John Parmley regarding plans for his fifteenth anniversary at Charity Hospital in 1955; photographs of Adriani and information on his awards. Also found in the series are press clippings and copies of articles about Adriani and his various awards, his Congressional committee testimony, his public statements, and other events.