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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Winfred Overholser, psychiatrist, educator, and superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D.C., were given to the Library of Congress by the co-executors of his estate, Winfred Overholser, Jr., and the American Security and Trust Company in 1965.
The papers of Winfred Overholser were arranged and described in 1966. The finding aid was revised in 2010.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Winfred Overholser in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The papers of Winfred Overholser are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Winfred Overholser Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Winfred Overholser (1892-1964) span the years 1911-1965, with the bulk from 1950 to 1965. The collection is organized in eight series: Selected Correspondence , General Correspondence , Subject File , Writings File , Manuscript Index Cards , Collected Reprints , Printed Matter , and Scrapbooks .
Scrapbooks in the collection include announcements, invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printed matter reflecting Overholser’s career as a psychiatrist from 1925 to 1962. The scrapbooks treat his appointment as director of the Division for the Examination of Prisoners of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases in 1925, his term as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases, 1934-1936, including his removal from the latter position by Governor James M. Curley, and his appointment and tenure as superintendent of Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1937-1962. The Subject File is dated largely after Overholser’s retirement from Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in 1962. A series of writings includes typed, printed, and photocopied works that Overholser contributed to the literature of psychiatry. Also in the collection are a few drafts and typescripts of articles, lectures, and book reviews, and a card file of a bibliography compiled by Overholser on forensic psychiatry.
Prominent correspondents include Harold H. Burton, C. G. Jung, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Karl Menninger, Richard M. Nixon, Ezra Pound, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Santayana, and Gregory Zilboorg.
This collection is arranged in eight series:
Letters received from prominent individuals.
Alphabetically arranged by name of correspondent.
Letters received and a few letters sent.
Arranged chronologically by month.
Correspondence, biographical material, certificates, diplomas, lists, photographs, printed matter, and records relating to organizations of which Overholser was a member.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Drafts and typed copies of addresses, lectures, book reviews, and miscellaneous writings.
Arranged by type of material.
Cards comprising a bibliography by Overholser on forensic psychiatry.
Arranged in the order received.
Bound and unbound printed reprints.
Arranged chronologically.
Printed transcripts of court decisions and opinions, reprints of works by others, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged by type of material.
Scrapbooks.
Arranged chronologically.