Arthur Lawrie Tatum Papers, 1916-1954

Contents List

Container Title
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   1
1916 Jan. 5 -1917 Sept. 28
Scope and Content Note: 99 letters, primarily concerning arrangements for teaching physiology at the University of South Dakota
Box   1
Folder   2
1917 Oct. 1 - 1918 Sept. 24
Scope and Content Note: 98 letters primarily concerning Tatum's application for employment at Chicago, his move to Chicago, and also letters of recommendation which he wrote for students
Box   1
Folder   3
1918 Oct. 1 - 1921 June 14
Scope and Content Note: 100 letters, Chicago dept. business
Box   1
Folder   4
1922 Jan. 13 - 1927 Oct. 21
Scope and Content Note: 45 letters primarily dept. business and publication of papers
Box   1
Folder   5
1928 Jan. 13 - Oct. 5
Scope and Content Note: 80 letters primarily concerning Tatum's move to Wisconsin
Box   1
Folder   6
1928 Nov. 7 - 1929 March 28
Scope and Content Note: 66 letters re: dept. and research business
Box   2
Folder   1
1929 April 2 - Sept. 17
Scope and Content Note: 69 letters; death of Loevenhart
Box   2
Folder   2
1929 Oct. 2 - 1930 Dec. 30
Scope and Content Note: 51 letters; non-research business
Box   2
Folder   3
1931 Jan. 20 - 1932 Dec. 20
Scope and Content Note: 100 letters; re: arseno therapy of surra (T. Evansi) infection. Routine informational requests. Mapharsin clinical tests
Box   2
Folder   4
1933 Jan. 3 - Dec. 21
Scope and Content Note: 74 letters re: Mapharsin studies plus other business
Box   2
Folder   5
1934 Jan. 13 - Dec. 21
Scope and Content Note: 44 letters re: Mapharsen plus business
Box   2
Folder   6
1935 Jan. 2 - 1936 Dec. 26
Scope and Content Note: 103 letters; re: Mapharsen (primarily requests for information), speaking engagements, and malaria studies
Box   3
Folder   1
1937 Jan. 11 - 1939 Dec. 27
Scope and Content Note: 69 letters; primarily concerning Mapharsen and bird malaria studies; business not research oriented for the most part
Box   3
Folder   2
1940 Jan. 3 - 1942 June 18
Scope and Content Note: 82 letters; clinical studies of Mapharsen and bird malaria studies
Box   3
Folder   3
1942 Aug. 5 - 1943 Sept. 7
Scope and Content Note: 71 letters; re: malarial work (stepped up due to war); cooperation with National Research Council. Also Mapharsen and security info. on Tatum
Box   3
Folder   4
1943 Oct. 5 - 1946 Dec. 17
Scope and Content Note: 77 letters, primarily concerning Mapharsen clinicals; also bird malaria tests
Box   3
Folder   5
1947 Feb. 7 - 1954 May 25 and undated
Scope and Content Note: 61 letters; malaria, Mapharsen (especially royalties), plans for a journey to South America
Class Lecture Notes
Box   4
Folder   1
1918 Jan. - March, Introductory Pharmacology.
Box   4
Folder   2
1918 March - 1921 Nov., Introductory Pharmacology plus summer class
Box   4
Folder   3
1921 - 1948 May, Pharmacology
Box   4
Folder   4
1948 May - 1951 May, Pharmacology
Box   4
Folder   5
1952 Feb. - 1954 May, Pharmacology
Box   4
Folder   6
Undated, Pharmacology
Box   5
Folder   1
Lectures, undated
Scope and Content Note: 16 lectures (9 in Spanish, 7 in English). Topics range from hypnotics to morphism to teaching methods to syphilis to “Coca Chewing in Peru” (1947)
Box   5
Folder   2
Professional Financial Materials
Scope and Content Note: 61 check stubs, Parke, Davis & Co. (Mapharsen work and royalties). 8 items: budget, 1927-28, morphine and thyroid intoxication, 3 AAAS cards, 1928-29, 3 departmental budget items, n.d.
Box   5
Folder   3
Guatemala Trip, 1943
Scope and Content Note: 1 diary, addresses, phrases, plus notes. Itinerary attached
Box   5
Folder   4
Papers and Publications
Scope and Content Note: 3 meeting schedules, 1936-1942; 14 Tatum papers all later published (?)
Records of Experiments
Box   5
Folder   5
1923-1953
Scope and Content Note: 46 reports on toxicity and efficacy of experimental drugs: arsenicals plus antimalarials
Box   5
Folder   6
undated
Scope and Content Note: 1 lab notebook, 1919; 1 notebook “Materia Medica Laboratory, Al. Tatum,” n.d. (student?); toxicity reports on experimental drugs; 33 pages miscellaneous notes; 1 “blue book” re: drug tests in rabbits
Box   5
Folder   7
undated
Scope and Content Note: scrap paper, filter paper, 3 “blue books,” and 17 “write ups of drug tests”