Guide to the Clelia D. Mosher Papers

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1997

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Overview

Call Number: SC0011

Creator: Mosher, Clelia Duel, 1863-1940

Title: Clelia D. Mosher Papers

Dates: 1886-1938

Physical Description: 4.75 Linear feet (6 boxes)

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University Libraries

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Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: speccollref@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html

Administrative Information

Provenance

The Clelia Mosher Papers were given to the Stanford University Libraries by the Mosher estate following Dr. Mosher's death in 1940. The papers were stored but not arranged until the creation of the University Archives in 1965.

Custodial History

Clelia D. Mosher estate.

Information about Access

None.

Ownership & Copyright

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Cite As

[Identification of item], Clelia D. Mosher Papers (SC0011). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Processing Notes

The preliminary guide to the Mosher papers was prepared in 1965; the present inventory and guide was compiled in 1980 by Margaret Kimball.

Alternative Formats

Volume X, The Mosher Sex Survey is available on microfilm.

Separated Materials

Some photographs of Clelia Mosher, both formal and informal, and of women students in exercise studies by Mosher were transferred to the General Photograph Collection.

Christmas cards from Herbert Hoover were transferred to the Hoover Institution Archives.

Bibliography

Publications based on use of this collection include:

Degler, Carl. "What ought to be and what was: women's sexuality in the 19th century," American Historical Review 79:5 (1974) 1474-1490.

Degler, Carl. "A 'dream' discovery: the Mosher survey," Imprint 3:2 (Oct. 1977).

Jacobs, Kathryn Allamong. "Clelia Duel Mosher," Johns Hopkins Magazine (June 1979).

The Mosher Survey: sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women. Edited by James Mahoon and Christine Wenberg, with an introduction by Carl Degler. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

Biographical Note:

Clelia Duel Mosher, the daughter of Cornelius Duel Mosher, M.D. and Sarah Burritt Mosher, was born on December 16, 1863 in Albany, New York. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1891, and spent the next year studying at both Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin. She then attended Stanford University, receiving an A.B. in zoology in 1893 and a masters in physiology in 1894. She received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1900.

Dr. Mosher returned to Palo Alto to set up practice as a physician. She joined the Stanford faculty as a professor of personal hygiene in 1910, retiring as Professor emeritus in 1929. Interested particularly in women's health, she carried out her research and writing interests both as a physician and faculty member in the Department of Physical Hygiene, the linear ancestor of Stanford's Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation.

Mosher was a fellow in the American Medical Association (1906-1936) and in the American Association for Advancement of Science. She was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Kappa Alpha Theta. An avid genealogist, she was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Between 1901 and 1929, Mosher published twenty-one books, including four "War Sketches" which appeared in the Medical Woman's Journal, 1921. She died in Palo Alto in 1940.

Scope and Contents Note:

The collection contains primarily correspondence, writings (published and unpublished), diaries, and biographical and genealogical material spanning the years 1886 to 1938. Correspondents include Ray Lyman Wilbur, William H. Welch (President of Johns Hopkins), David Starr Jordan, and Havelock Ellis.

Six bound volumes of her notes, reports, and charts, Hygiene and Physiology of Women, can be found in box 3. Volume "X" of this series, known as the Mosher Sex Survey, has been republished as The Mosher Survey: Sexual Attitudes of 45 Victorian Women (edited by James Mahood and Christine Wenberg. New York: Arno Press, 1980, 469 pp.).

Boxes 3 and 4 also include extensive biographical and genealogical material, including photographs.

Collection Contents

Box 1, Folder 1

Publications and letters:

Health and the Woman Movement, published January 1916 (New York National Board, YWCA ,)

Physical Description: 47 pages

Conference pamphlet, (CDM spoke) May 1915

The Relation of Health to the Woman Movement, final copy.

Letter: To Dr. Mosher from Margaret Johnson, University of Wisconsin, July 15, 1915.

Dr. Mosher to Dr. Johnson, July 20, 1915.

Telegram: To Dr. Mosher from Elva L. Sly, July 21, 1915.

Dr. Mosher to Elva L. Sly, July 21, 1915.

Dr. Mosher to Elva L. Sly, August 6, 1915

Letter: To Dr. Mosher from Dr. Anna L. Brown, August 9, 1915

Dr. Mosher to Helen Thoburn, August 10, 1915

To Dr. Mosher from Thorvald Solberg, August 10, 1915.

To Dr. Mosher from Elva L. Sly, August 11, 1915.

To Dr. Mosher from Anna L. Brown, September 15, 1915

Box 1, Folder 1a

Xerox copy of "the Relation of Health to the Woman Movement"

Box 1, Folder 2

Letters and manuscripts:

"The Typhoid Fly Problem and Civic Fly Campaigns,"

Physical Description: 20 pages.

Oxford. Concerning Scarlet Fever Epidemic and Carmel -Postcard to Dr. Mosher, February 17, 1906,

Letter: To Dr. Mosher from Ermina R. Stillman, May 9, 1906.

To Dr. Mosher from ?, May 5, 1906.

To Dr. Mosher from Barbara H. Alden, May 22, 1906.

To Dr. Mosher from ? Pierce, May 17, 24, 29, 1906.

To Dr. Mosher from Charles C. Hill, June 5, 1906.

Copy of Letter from Mosher to Mr. Hill, June 8, 1906.

To Dr. Mosher from Dr. Hill, June 12, 1906.

To Dr. Mosher from Bessie M. Ashlaw, June 18, 1906.

Dr. Mosher to Mr. Devendorff, June 21, 1906.

To Dr. Mosher from Ruth Beveridge, (n.d.).

Dr. Mosher to Ruth Beveridge, on back. July 31, 1906,

Notes: concerning Virginia Newhall, Frances Beveridge, Donald Clampett, Lillian Devendorff, Bessie Ashton, Leanna Davis

List of children taken ill.

Letter: To Dr. Mosher from Mrs. E.W. Newhall, June 7, 1906.

"Another Method of Avoiding the Public Drinking Cup", 2 pages with example.

Box 1, Folder 3

Drafts:

"A Study of the Respiratory Movements in Women,"1901.

Physical Description: First draft, 12 pages. Second draft, missing page 1, 10 pages

"Age Groups of College Women."

Physical Description: 12 pages notes and drafts, and calculations.

Box 1, Folder 4

Articles and notes on height, feet and gait in women:

Chart - Relation of Change in Fashion to Height and Periodic Disability of Women.

"Some of the Causal Factors in the Increased Height of College Women," (1891-1921). Second and Third Note, (Reprint from The Medical Women's Journal, November, 1921.)

"A Perfect Shoe for a Perfect Foot," Harriet Wilde.

"The Angle of Gait in Women," Sadie D. Patek, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, July- September, 1926.

Physical Description: 17 pages.

Newsclipping - "Who Invented Shoes?", Hester Bronson Copper.

"A Case of Onychrogryposis," Clelia D. Mosher, A.M., M.D., Reprint from The Woman's Medical Journal, November 1910,

Physical Description: 7 pages.

"Functional Periodicity in Women and Some of the Modifying Factors," Reprint from The California State Journal of Medicine, Jan-February, 1911, 1923

"A Physiologic Treatment of Congestive Dysmenorrhea and Kindred Disorders Associated with the Menstrual Function."

Physical Description: 15 pages.

Note to self: concerning feet, gait, etc. November 18, 1927,

Physical Description: 3 pages.

Box 1, Folder 5

Articles and letters on posture:

Public Health Reports, May 6, 1927

A Study of Literature Relating to Posture.

Physical Description: 29 pages.

"A Resume, with Comments, of the Available Literature Relating to Posture," Louis Schwartz.

"Habits of Posture: A Cause of Deformity and Displacement of the Uterus," Eliza Mosher, M.D., November, 1893.

Physical Description: 16 pages.

"Faulty Habits of Posture, A Cause of Enteroptosis," Eliza Mosher, M.D. May 1914,

Physical Description: 15 pages.

"The Care of the Abdomen in Infancy and Childhood," Eliza Mosher, M.D. December 1914,

Physical Description: 13 pages.

"The Etiology and Diagnosis of Chronic Intestinal Stasis," Eliza Mosher, M.D. January, 1914,

Physical Description: 8 pages

"Results of Research on Conditions Affecting Posture," Henry Ling Taylor, June, 1916.

"A Combined Medical and Postural Examination of 746 Young Adults," Lloyd T. Brown, M.D., November, 1917

The Schematograph - 2 pamphlets describing the Mosher-Lesley Schematograph.

"The Schematogram - A New Method of Graphically Recording Posture and Changes in the Contour of the Body," Clelia D. Mosher, February, 1915.

Physical Description: 8 pages.

Letter: To the Surgeon General from Louis Schwartz, concerning Schematograph. June 4, 1928,

To Dr. Mosher from Louis Schwartz, June 4, 1928.

To Dr. Mosher from R.C. Williams, Assistant Surgeon General, June 7, 1928.

Imitations of the Schematograph - newspaper clippings, July 13, 1919.

Box 1, Folder 6

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers:

Library of Congress Copyright Office - steps to insure copyright.

Receipt.

Application - Daughters of the American Revolution.

Memorandum of Florist business, carried on by CDM in New York, 1888-1889.

Physical Description: 1 page.

"The Tale of Psi's Kite" - publication including article on Dr. Mosher, March, 1936.

Letter and application from Who's Who of American Physicians.

Paul Bert to CDM, January 12, 1919.

Postcard E. Homer Bois ? to CDM, December 30, 1922.

Havelock Ellis to CDM, September 28, 1901, May 6, 1921

A. Marion Gammon to CDM, June 8, 1914

Grace Margaret Gneld to CDM, August 6, 1920

Olivia James (Mrs. Henry James) to CDM, February 17, 1919

Vernon Kellogg to CDM, March 16, 1921

Ira S. Lillick to CDM, September 23, 1935

Mary Riggs Noble, M.D. to CDM, September 30, 1932.

CDM to Mary Riggs Noble, October 10, 1932.

Helen W. Peckleane? to CDM, March 3, 1924.

Ruth to CDM, March 28, 1924.

Lucy M. Salmon to CDM, April 26, 1911.

Milicent W. Shinn to CDM, March 24, 1896.

Jane Snyder to CDM, June 16, 1929.

Ray Lyman Wilbur to CDM, December 16, 1938.

Edith Williams to CDM, n.d.

Letter J unsigned. anuary 1920,

Letter of Introduction: A.W. Edwards to Mrs. Thompson, n.d.

Letter of Introduction: Gertrude E. Knox to Dr. Patrick, March 21, 1924.

Letter of Introduction: Gertrude E. Knox to John Randolphe, March 21, 1924.

William H. Welch (Johns Hopkins University) to Mr. Ball, n.d.

CDM to Dr. Kate Campbell Mead, October 10, 1932.

Memo: CDM to Ray Lyman Wilbur, May 12, 1919

Memo: CDM to Ray Lyman Wilbur, April 19, 1923.

Memo: CDM to Ray Lyman Wilbur, April 29, 1923.

Physical Description: 2 pages, 2 copies of first page.

Memo: CDM to Ray Lyman Wilbur, January 3, 1927.

Woman's Club - talk on CDM's war experiences.

Information sheet re: David Starr Jordan Fund.

Expense Sheet, June 4, 1892.

Box 1, Folder 7

Article and letters on drinking water:

"Drink More Water and Keep Well", Clelia Duel Mosher, A.M., M.D.

Letter to Edward Bok, Ladies Home Journal, submitting article. April 21, 1911,

Examples of folding paper cups.

Rejection from Ladies Home Journal. May 5, 1911.

List of Companies - Sanitary Drinking Fountains.

Box 1, Folder 8

Articles:

A Mess of Pottage,

Physical Description: 2 pages handwritten and 2 pages typed.

A War Produce - Who Pays?,

Physical Description: 16 pages (oddly numbered)

Earthly Immortality,

Physical Description: 12 pages.

The Making of a Misfit,

Physical Description: 13 pages.

Gilding the Lily,

Physical Description: 5 pages.

24 Hours in a Day,

Physical Description: 9 pages.

It Might Be True, It Might Have Happened,

Physical Description: 7 pages.

Sketches and Notes,

Physical Description: 29 pages.

Newspaper clipping.

Box 1, Folder 9

Articles and correspondence:

The Spring Song, by M.C. Deville (Clelia Mosher),

Physical Description: 7 pages, mismatched?

Notes,

Physical Description: 1 page.

All in a Day's Work,

Physical Description: printed pamphlet, 4 pages; second copy, 5 pages typed.

Again in the Running,

Physical Description: 7 pages

When Lillie Was Taken,

Physical Description: 8 pages.

Madame,

Physical Description: 5 pages.

Presque Tours Les Enfants du Pays,

Physical Description: 13 pages.

As Seen By a Doctor, 3 pages as introduction to collection of stories above.

Correspondence: Cousin Eliza to CDM, May 26, 1921.

Correspondence: David Starr Jordan to CDM, September 17, 1921.

Correspondence: Ray Lyman Wilbur to CDM, May 31, 1921.

Box 1, Folder 10

Diaries and other papers:

April 16, 1926,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Notes on medical problems and issues, personal thoughts,

Physical Description: 54 pages.

March 15, 1919,

Physical Description: 1 page.

January 30, 1921,

Physical Description: 4 pages.

June 6, 1926,

Physical Description: 2 pages.

May 16, 1928,

Physical Description: 1 page.

May 26, 1926, October 27, 1926,

Physical Description: 6 pages.

July 19, 1906,

Physical Description: 1 page.

May 13, 1930,

Physical Description: 1 page.

February 14, 1932,

Physical Description: 1 page.

August 5, 1931,

Physical Description: 1 page.

January n.y.,

Physical Description: 1 page.

December 20, 1926,

Physical Description: 1 page.

December 24, 1933-January 21, 1934,

Physical Description: 2 pages.

n.d.,

Physical Description: 17 pages.

Diary,

Physical Description: 15 pages.

Box 1, Folder 11

Biographical materials:

Clelia Duel Mosher - The Questioner (biographical sketch),

Physical Description: 23 pages.

Clelia Duel Mosher, M.D. - Publications, 1901-1920,

Physical Description: 2pp.

Mary Roberts Coolidge to CDM, July 15, 1933.

Biographical Information, brief,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Newsclippings on Clelia Mosher's death - Palo Alto Times, December 23, 1940.

Biographical Information,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Revisions on biography,

Physical Description: 2 pages.

Comments on biography by Mary R. Coolidge,

Physical Description: 2 pages handwritten, 1 page typed.

Theme written by CDM while at Wellesley College,

Physical Description: 5 pages handwritten, 2 pages typed.

Comments on Theme and C.D. Mosher's composition training,

Physical Description: 6 pages handwritten, 4 pages typed.

Information on CDM's education,

Physical Description: 2 pages.

Memorial to Clelia Duel Mosher,

Physical Description: 3 pages.

Box 1, Folder 12

Materials on Mosher's medical studies:

"Contribution to the Study of the Inquiry of Gall Stones in the United States," CDM. Report of the Johns Hopkins Medical Society Meeting, March 4, 1901. From Maryland Medical Journal, May, 1901,

Physical Description: 5 pages.

Journal article - "The Health of Women Wage Earners," 1 page, CDM cited in article.

Newsclippings and notes on CDM's work.

Letter: S.M. Croonquist to CDM and attached newsclipping.

Notes,

Physical Description: 3 pages.

Newsclippings on CDM, December 15, 1920, October 18, 1933.

Journal article re: CDM's work - The Literary Digest, September 29, 1923,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Article including CDM, July 1929,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Box 2, Folder 1

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers:

Letter: Havelock Ellis to CDM, September 28, 1901.

Registered Mail slip and Return Receipt.

Receipt for payment of typing work, December 13, 1902.

CDM to Mrs. E.H. Richards, (note at bottom). December 13, 1902,

Notes - Blood Pressure Studies,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Office of the Dean, Johns Hopkins University, Medical Department to CDM, February 24, 1903.

Pertaining to Carnegie Grant:

David Starr Jordan to Secretary of Carnegie Institute, May 22, 1905.

N.M. Gilbert? to CDM, June 10, 1905

Mary Roberts Smith to Trustees of Carnegie Institute, September 20, 1905

CDM to Honorable W.W. Morrow.

William W. Morrow to Dr. Robert J. Woodward, September 25, 1905

Willaim W. Morrow to CDM, September 26, 1905.

CDM to William W. Morrow, September 29, 1905

CDM to Charles D. Walcott, September 29, 1905.

Receipt from Wells Fargo & Co. Express, September 28, 1905.

G. Stanley Hall to CDM, and 2 copies. October 2, 1905,

N.M. Gilbert to CDM, October 3, 1905.

Howard A. Kelly to CDM, October 5, 1905.

N.M. Gilbert to Howard A. Kelly, October 6, 1905.

W.H. Howell to CDM, and copy. October 7, 1905,

N.M. Gilbert to CDM, October 7, 1905.

John Henry Comstock to CDM, October 10, 1905.

CDM to Dr. Charles D. Walcott, October 11, 1905.

CDM to Dr. William H. Howell, October 12, 1905.

N.M. Gilbert to CDM, October 13, 1905.

CDM to Professor Comstock, October 16, 1905.

CDM to Dr. Howard A. Kelly, October 16, 1905.

N.M. Gilbert to CDM, October 17, 1905.

N.M. Gilbert to C.H. Gilbert, October 25, 1905.

CDM to Dr. William H. Welch, January 9, 1906.

R.S. Woodward to CDM, January 15, 1906.

CDM to Hon. Charles W. Walcott, January 9, 1906.

Postal Receipt, January 9, 1906.

R.S. Woodward to CDM, January 25, 1906.

David Starr Jordan to Florence M. Cushing, January 9, 1909.

D. Charles Gardner to Florence M. Cushing, January 12, 1909.

CDM to Mrs. N.P. Hallowell, January 23, 1909.

CDM to Florence M. Cushing, January 23, 1909, January 24, 1909.

Sarah Hallowell to CDM, reverse side: CDM to Mrs. N.P. Hallowell, January 28, 1909. February 3, 1909.

CDM to Dr. Emily Lewi, January 17, 1910.

Mrs. Dane Coolidge to Dr. Emily Lewi, January 19, 1910.

Sarah Hallowell to CDM, March 3, 1909.

CDM to Mrs. N.P. Hallowell, March 9, 1909

Sarah Hallowell to CDM, March 20, 1909.

Sheet headed Enclosures,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Sheet headed Previous Record (Academic),

Physical Description: 1 page.

Outline of A Study of Menstruation,

Physical Description: 4 pages, second copy, 3 pages.

CDM to Dr. Emily Lewi, January 18, 1910.

Normal Menstruation and the Factors Which May Modify It,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Notes,

Physical Description: 3 pages.

Information on Fellowship of the Woman's Education Association,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Information on Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Fellowship,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Typed pages re: normal menstruation,

Physical Description: 2 pages.

Mary Roberts Coolidge to CDM, January 20, 1910.

List of persons written to for recommendations.

CDM to C.D. Gilbert, n.d.

Information sheet on Mary Putnam Jacobi Fellowship,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Personal Hygiene for Women, book cover.

Box 2, Folder 2

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers:

J.H. Comstock re: CDM, August 29, 1891.

1 copy of above.

Sarah Woodman Paul re: CDM, September 7, 1891.

Sarah Woodman Paul to Secretary of Wisconsin University, September 7, 1891.

Certification of CDM's dismission from Wellesley, September 7, 1891.

Sheet on CDM's German education,

Physical Description: 1 page.

Certification of CDM's studies, June 15, 1892.

Certification of honorable dismissal from University of Wisconsin, June 17, 1892.

Certification of Admission to Stanford, July 7, 1892.

Ellen Hayes to CDM, October 30, 1894.

C.F. Hodges re: CDM , January 10, 1896,

Physical Description: 2 copies.

C.H. Gilbert re: CDM, and copy. April 16, 1896,

CDM to registrar of Johns Hopkins University, April 11, 1896.

O.P. Jenkins re: CDM, April 22, 1896,

Physical Description: 3 copies.

CDM to Dr. William H. Welch, June 30, 1896.

Photograph Johns Hopkins University.

Photograph Dr. William H. Welch and President Herbert Hoover.

Note Jim Flexus (?) to Dr. Herdin, n.d.

William Welch to CDM, May 5, 1896, July 13, 1896, August 12, 1896.

Steward W. Young re: CDM, July 23, 1896.

D.W. Murphy re: CDM, July 27, 1896.

Note signed H.A. Kelly regarding employment of CDM.

W.H. Howell to CDM, June 11, 1900.

Henry M. Hurd to CDM, June 27, 1900.

Frederick Burk to CDM, February 19, 1901.

CDM to Frederick Burk, n.d.

Frederick Burk to CDM, March 11, 1901, April 4, 1901.

Certification of Credentials - Stanford, February 27, 1937.

Box 2, Folder 3

Wellesley College items:

Envelope containing small bound book from Wellesley pertaining to college requirements.

Book of College Courses.

Box 2, Folder 4

Diplomas and miscellaneous items

Honorary Degree Mills

Sigma XI Award

Comrades in Zeal, by David Starr Jordan.

Box 2, Folder 5

Bound Diaries, 1917, 1922, and 1924.

Box 2, Folder 6

Studies and publications:

"Possistoreme Stouti (Hag Fish) From Monterey Bay"

"A Study of the Circulatory System, in the Zoological Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Junior University", 1892-1893.

Bound Volume, Publications by Clelia Duel Mosher. 1901-1929,

Box 3

Hygiene and Physiology of Women

Scope and Content Note

Bound volumes I, III, IV, V, VI, and X. Includes reports, charts, papers, and correspondence of Dr. Mosher. Volume X is Mosher's "sex survey."

Box 3

The Moshers, 1794-1937, and Related Families, Vol. II: Christopher Mosher, His Descendants and Related Families

Scope and Content Note

This bound genealogy includes history of related persons, photographs, certificates and some correspondence, clips and sketches.

Box 4

Biography, by Clelia Duel Mosher; bound volumes:

I. Women - includes articles on prominent women, women soldiers, women candidates for president, etc.

II. The Woman Movement - studies and notes.

III. Mary Astell, Part 1: Biographical material. Part 2: Works.

IV. Paul Bert - His Family - His Friends - includes clippings, photographs, correspondence.

V. Eliza M. Mosher, M.D. - Pioneer Woman Physician, 1896-1928. Includes portrait, characteristics, occupations, letters, memorial, publications.

Box 5

Photograph Album - Mosher Family.

Box 6

Publications by Mosher:

Woman's Physical Freedom, New York: The Woman's Press, 1923

"Strength of Women," reprinted from the Proceedings of the International Conference of Women Physicians, 1920

"The Height of College Women (Second Note)," reprinted from the Medical Woman's Journal, November 1921

"Concerning the Size of Women: Preliminary Note with Special Reference to Height," reprinted from the California State Journal of Medicine, February 1921

"The Means to the End," reprinted from the American Physical Education Review, December 1925

"The Physical Training of Women in Relation to Functional Periodicity," reprinted from The Woman's Medical Journal, April 1915

"A Physiologic Treatment of Congestive Dysmenorrhea and Kindred Disorders Associated with the Menstrual Function," reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 1914

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