Title:

Letter from Florence R. Sabin to Catharine Macfarlane

Creator:

Sabin, Florence R.

Recipient:

Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and Macfarlane, Catharine

Date:

22 September 1936

Description:

Macfarlane was a professor at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. In this letter Sabin politely declines Macfarlane's invitation to help raise funds for WMCP, saying that she is "skeptical as to the necessity and the wisdom of maintaining a medical school by and for women at this time in the United States."

Original Repository:

The American Philosophical Society. Library. Florence R. Sabin Papers

Location:

Folder: Macfarlane, Catharine

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Geraldine F. Swan.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Catharine Macfarlane to Florence R. Sabin, 1936
Letter from Catharine Macfarlane to Florence R. Sabin, 1936
Letter from Florence R. Sabin to Catharine Macfarlane, 1936

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. American Philosophical Society. Library. Florence R. Sabin Papers. 11332

Legacy ID:

RRBBKQ

NLM ID:

101584641X158

Profiles Collection:

The Florence R. Sabin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584641X158

Story Section:

At the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1925-1938