Mary Amanda Dixon Jones papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2000
Subjects: Correspondence; Physicians; Trials, litigation; Female Generative organs; Diseases; Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn; Gynecology; Instruction and study; Music; Malpractice; Brooklyn daily eagle; Medicine; Surgery; Hospitals; Libel and slander; Description and travel
Description: Correspondence, lectures, writings, notes, family papers, legal papers, financial papers,  newspaper clippings, printed material, medical illustrations, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Dixon Jones's career as a physician and surgeon, her legal difficulties, and her research and writings about diseases of the reproductive system.  Subjects include her work as chief medical officer (1882-1884) and gynecologist (1884-1891) at the Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn, criminal lawsuits against Dixon Jones for the deaths of two patients and her lawsuit for libel against the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the murder of her daughter Mary D. Jones and death of her son Henry D. Jones.  Family papers include correspondence, a patient logbook of her son Charles N. Dixon Jones, also a physician; a travel journal of her daughter Mary when she studied music in Europe in 1884; and a notebook with genealogical material about the Dixon family.   Correspondents include Charles N. Dixon Jones, Henry D. Jones, and Mary D. Jones.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Gift, Virginia Triplett Linthicum via Melanie Merryweather, 2005.

transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Physician.  Born 1828.  Death date uncertain; Dixon Jones is listed as alive in the 1910 census.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010115