Merrill Moore papers
Contributors: Murray, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1893-1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 750
Subjects: Suicide; American poetry; Bromides; Drug abuse; Syphilis; Poetry; Boston City Hospital; Psychiatry; Medicine; Military psychiatry; World War, 1939-1945; Psychological aspects; Medical care; War; Correspondence; United States; Washingtonian Hospital (Boston, Mass.); Literature; Jews; Practice; American literature; Alcoholism; Neurology; Americans; Harvard University. Harvard Psychological Clinic; United States. Army; American Sonnets; Harvard University
Description: Correspondence, diaries, literary papers, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, genealogical records, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Moore's career as a psychiatrist and poet.  Documents his medical career at institutions including Boston City Hospital and  Washingtonian Hospital (Boston, Mass.) as well as his years in private practice in Boston, Mass.  Moore's literary papers consist chiefly of manuscript, typewritten, and printed sonnets supplemented by poems, prose writings, published articles and books, and other materials.

Subjects include Moore's research in mental illness and neurological disease chiefly in the areas of alcoholism, drug addiction, suicide, and syphilis; role as a consultant with companies producing bromides; and efforts to aid Jewish doctors to escape Nazi Germany, 1938-1940.  Subjects also include Moore's World War II service as a U.S. Army medical officer in New Zealand and the South Pacific; studies of alcoholism and shell shock among military personnel; work to improve neurological services in military hospitals; tour of duty in China, 1946; and concern for friends who remained in China.  Includes interviews with Moore and research materials collected by Henry A. Murray for a project at the Harvard Psychological Clinic.

Correspondents include Adam G.N. Moore and other family members.  Other correspondents include Alexandra Adler, Arlie V. Bock, Stanley Cobb, Walter Ames Compton, Donald Davidson, Dudley Fitts, Winfred Overholser, John Crowe Ransom, Hanns Sachs, Harry C. Solomon, Allen Tate, Louis Untermeyer, and Frederic Lyman Wells.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Moore family, 1937-1979.

Gift, Roy Basler, 1973.

Gift, Henry A. Murray, 1984.

Transfer, Library of Congress Reference Dept., 1959.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Psychiatrist and poet.  Full name: Austin Merrill Moore.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012044

Index of selected correspondents available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms012044.appx.pdf