UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Materials relating to Miles' history of the NIH. Includes correspondence between Dr. Miles and Harold J. Abrahams, and a 1988 draft obituary of Abrahams.

Jean Francois Coste,1741-1819, served as director of the medical staff and chief physician for the French expeditionary forces aiding America in the war of independence. Harold Justin Abrahams, 1901-, was a research associate at the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia specializing in the history of chemistry and the history of medicine.

Photocopies of documents used in the preparation of Harold J. Abrahams' book, Extinct medical schools of Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1969).