Letter from Robert I. Lee to Ella Lowell from Base Hospital No. 5, January 24, 1918.

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Robert I. Lee to Ella Lowell from Base Hospital No. 5, January 24, 1918.
Description:
Professor of Hygiene at Harvard, Roger I. Lee was a member of the Surgical Unit in 1915. He was a Major in the Medical Reserve Corps at the United States' entry into the war. Assigned to Base Hospital No. 5, Lee was its officer in command through most of 1918. Late in his life, Roger I. Lee published these extracts from letters written almost daily to his then fiancée, Ella Lowell Lyman. They letters give a vivid portrayal of the ordinary experiences of camp life at Base Hospital No. 5.
Creator:
Lee, Robert Irving, 1881-
Date:
January 24, 1918
Format:
Documents
Location:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection (local):
Rare Books and Journals
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives
Harvard U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 5
Extent:
1 printed page.
Link to Item:
https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/17931
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Publisher:
Brookline, Mass. : Privately Printed, 1962.
Notes:
Roger Irving Lee, 1881 Letters from Roger I. Lee, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army Medical Corps, 1917-1918
From the Library of Harvard Medical School.
Identifier:
D570.9 .L47 1962.