Moore, Merrill 1903-1957 creator mixed material monographic eng 131,750 504 86 234 Correspondence, diaries, literary papers, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, genealogical records, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Moore's career as a psychiatrist and poet. Documents his medical career at institutions including Boston City Hospital and Washingtonian Hospital (Boston, Mass.) as well as his years in private practice in Boston, Mass. Moore's literary papers consist chiefly of manuscript, typewritten, and printed sonnets supplemented by poems, prose writings, published articles and books, and other materials. Subjects include Moore's research in mental illness and neurological disease chiefly in the areas of alcoholism, drug addiction, suicide, and syphilis; role as a consultant with companies producing bromides; and efforts to aid Jewish doctors to escape Nazi Germany, 1938-1940. Subjects also include Moore's World War II service as a U.S. Army medical officer in New Zealand and the South Pacific; studies of alcoholism and shell shock among military personnel; work to improve neurological services in military hospitals; tour of duty in China, 1946; and concern for friends who remained in China. Includes interviews with Moore and research materials collected by Henry A. Murray for a project at the Harvard Psychological Clinic. Correspondents include Adam G.N. Moore and other family members. Other correspondents include Alexandra Adler, Arlie V. Bock, Stanley Cobb, Walter Ames Compton, Donald Davidson, Dudley Fitts, Winfred Overholser, John Crowe Ransom, Hanns Sachs, Harry C. Solomon, Allen Tate, Louis Untermeyer, and Frederic Lyman Wells. Open to research. Some photographs, drawings, and prints transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Psychiatrist and poet. Full name: Austin Merrill Moore. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012044 Index of selected correspondents available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms012044.appx.pdf Adler, Alexandra 1901- Correspondence Bock, Arlie V. (Arlie Vernon) 1888- Correspondence Cobb, Stanley 1887-1968 Correspondence Davidson, Donald 1893-1968 Correspondence Fitts, Dudley 1903-1968 Correspondence Moore, Adam G. N Correspondence Overholser, Winfred 1892-1964 Correspondence Ransom, John Crowe 1888-1974 Correspondence Sachs, Hanns 1881-1947 Correspondence Solomon, Harry C. (Harry Caesar) 1889-1982 Correspondence Tate, Allen 1899-1979 Correspondence Untermeyer, Louis 1885-1977 Correspondence Wells, Frederic Lyman 1884- Correspondence Moore family United States. Army Medical care Boston City Hospital. Harvard University. Harvard Psychological Clinic. Washingtonian Hospital (Boston, Mass.) Alcoholism American literature American poetry Americans China Bromides Drug abuse Jews Germany Literature Medicine Practice Massachusetts Boston Military psychiatry Neurology Poetry Psychiatry Sonnets, American Suicide Syphilis War Psychological aspects World War, 1939-1945 Medical care World War, 1939-1945 Germany World War, 1939-1945 New Zealand World War, 1939-1945 Oceania Poets Psychiatrists Murray, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1893-1988 mm 78033373 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012044 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012044.3 http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms012044.appx.pdf http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012044 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012044.3 http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms012044.appx.pdf Open to research. DLC 780810 20260227111625.0 mm 78033373