Items

• Letter, Washington City, February 13, 1853, to [Joseph Wales]
  Handwritten letter sent from Washington, DC by Truman Smith to Joseph Wales on February 13, 1853 regarding the failed experiment of the previous day and the need to prove efficiency of the gas in New York; in black ink
• Letter, January 19, 1858, to Joseph Wales
  Handwritten letter in form of a poem sent by Miss Matthews to Joseph Wales on January 19, 1858; in black ink
• Letter, New York, November 20, 1858, to Benjamin F. Pinckney
  Handwritten letter of introduction of Joseph Wales and his stakes in the discovery of anesthesia sent from Mayor Office in New York by Daniel F. Tiemann to Benjamin F. Pinckney on November 20, 1858; in black ink
• Letter, Hartford, April, 1860
  Photocopy of Elizabeth Wells letter with a plea for the Medical Convention of1860 to endorse Horace Wells as discoverer of anesthesia
• Letter, 1873, to Joseph Wales
  Handwritten letter written about 1873 by Elizabeth Wells to her brother Joseph Wales on the history of the Wales family (The Wales' from Windham, Conn.); in black ink
• Letter, Point Pleasant, N.J., August 24, 1885, to Miss Perkins
  Handwritten draft of two letters on one piece of paper, one written to Miss Perkins and the other to [Mr. Chas. S. Schuman?]
• Letter, Hartford to Mary Wales
  Handwritten letter sent from Hartford by Elizabeth Wells to her niece Mary Wales, undated; in black ink
• Family register
  A leaf of the Wells family register, with the marriage date between Horace Wells and Betsey Heath, and birth and death dates of other members of the family.
• Note with a death date of Horace Wells' father
  Handwritten note (a piece of the family register?) with birth and death date of Wells family members
• The Wellcome Guest
  Colton Dental Association's broadsheet on the discovery of laughing gas and its anesthetic properties, with testimonials on painless tooth extractions.
• Letter, February 6, 1940, to Dr. H. E. Friesell
  Typewritten letter reporting to Dean Friesell on the trip to Hartford, Conneticut, south Deerfield, Boston, and Wellsley, Massachusetts, and New York to acquire materials for the Horace Wells collection in the School of Dentistry library.
• Letter, Pittsburgh, January 3, 1980, to Janet Kubinec
  Handwrittten note on the W. Harry Archer's office stationary to Janet Kubinec, curator of historical collection at the Health Professions Library, University of Pittsburgh explaining the provenance of the Horace Wells letters, to which a copy of the 1940 letter with details on acquiring the materials was attached
• The Horace Wells Permanent Memorial contribution receipt
  A receipt issued to the Pennsylvania Association of Dental Surgeons for their monetary contribution to the future Horace Wells Permanent Memorial in Washington, D.C. donated in 1895
• Note for the Wales family tree
  Handwritten note on the Wales family members from the family lot at the cementery in Hartford
• Note on on the bust of Horace Wells
  Note, partially typed and partially handwritten, explaining the provenance of the bust of Horace Wells acquired by the Falk Library Historical Collection (University of Pittsburgh) through W. Harry Archer
• Letter, New York, July 10, 1948, to Alice M. McCann
  Typewritten letter accompanying proofs of the Horace Wells Memorial volume from the editor, William J. Gies to the reviewer, Alice M. Mc Cann
• Letter, February 28, 1945, to H.E. Friesell
  A typewritten letter explaining the scope of the bibliography of anesthesia prepared for the Horace Wells Centenary
• Journals - First supplement
  A bibliography of anesthesia assembled from journals to complement the bibliography prepared for the Horace Wells Centenary as referred in the H.M. Reitzel's letter.
• Historical vignettes - Dr. Horace Wells
  A brief biographical article on Horace Wells from Anesthesia and analgesia current researches (vol.1, no 5 September - October 1972)
• Historical notes on Horace Wells
  Offprint of article on Horace Wells by W. Harry Archer, reprinted from Dental rays (Vol. 14, no. 3, March 1939)
• Chronological history of Horace Wells discoverer of anesthesia
  Offprint of an article read at the 17th general meeting of the International Association for Dental Research, Cleveland, Ohio, March 18-19, 1939.
• Chronological history of Horace Wells
  Offprint of the Archer's article, reprinted from Bulletin of the History of Medicine vol. 7, no. 10 (December 1939) pages 1140-1169
• Notes on the life of Horace Wells
  Offprint of article by dr. Edwards, reprinted from the Journal of the American College of Dentists (p. 234-244)
• Dr. Horace Wells, dentist, who first discovered, demonstrated and proclaimed the blessings of surgical anesthesia
  Offprint of dr. Archer's article reprinted from the New York journal of dentistry, vol. 39, no. 10 (December 1969), p. 458-460
• Letter, Hartford, March 28, 1847, to Mrs. Abiather Shaw, Westmoreland, N.H.
  Photostat copy of the original letter (missing from the collection) by Horace Wells to his mother and sister from Hartford on March 28, 1847