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Moore (Dorothea) Letters
mssHM 40104-40187
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Dorothea Moore letters
Creator:
Moore, Dorothea, 1860?-1942
Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 40104-40187
Physical Description:
0.40 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1883-1884
Abstract: Letters of Dorothea Lummis Moore written to her husband Charles Fletcher Lummis while in medical school in Boston.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item]. Dorothea Moore letters, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Ronald Woodlin, August 1974.
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.
The collection consists of letters from Dorothea Moore to her first husband, Charles Fletcher Lummis. They describe the life
of a woman in medical college in the 1880s and bring out a little-known period in the life of Charles Fletcher Lummis.
Processed by Huntington Library Staff. In 2020, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid.
Arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women medical students -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Letters (correspondence) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928