Letters of Dorothea Lummis Moore written to her husband Charles Fletcher Lummis while in medical school in Boston.

Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore was secretly married to Charles Fletcher Lummis (later a well-known author and editor in California) in 1880 while she was still a student at the Boston University School of Medicine. After graduation she began the practice of medicine in Los Angeles, California, in 1885. She was divorced from Lummis in 1891, and later married Dr. Ernest Carroll Moore, provost of the University of California at Los Angeles.

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