MSS 2/0146-01			Acc. 1990-116

ABBE, ROBERT,
(1851-1928)


Robert Abbe Collection of Louis Pasteur Memorabilia,
 1883-1923

1. Pasteur, Louis,
   ALS, 8 August 1883, [n.p.], to [Emile] Roux, 
   [n.p.], (1 p.).  Includes copy and translation by
   Belle Gurnee, circa 1923.	(3 items)	1883

2. Postcards:
	
	1. Institut Pasteur	(3 items)    [n.d.]
	2. Hopital Pasteur 	(1 item)     [n.d.]
	3. Monument erected to the memory of Pasteur 
		(3 items)    [n.d.]
	4. Statue of Pasteur at the Sorbonne 
		(1 item)	   [n.d.]
	5. Grand amphitheater at the Sorbonne 
	   [includes explanation by Robert Abbe]
		(1 item) [ca. 1923]

3. Photograph of Pasteur's tomb, Paris,
   bw, 5" x 7", Underwood   Underwood, New York
	(1 item)	   [n.d.]

4. Pictorial material:
	
	1. L. Pasteur	(1 item)	[n.d.]
	2. Monsieur Roux	(1 item)	[n.d.]

5. Pasteur Day (22 May 1923) relics:

	1. Invitation and program	(2 items)	1923
	2. Newsclipping [photocopy]	(1 item)	1923
	3. Postage stamps	(18 items)	[ca. 1923]
	4. Tags	(5 items)	1923


1883;1923
1 folder (41 items)

9/12/1990
jde


MSS 2/0146-01			Acc. 1990-116

ABBE, ROBERT,
(1851-1928)


Robert Abbe Collection of Louis Pasteur Memorabilia,
 1883-1923


Biographical

Robert Waldo Abbe, New York surgeon, was born on 13 April1851. 
 He married Catherine Amory Palmer in 1891.  Abbe died of anemia, 
probably related to his work with radium, on 7 March 1928.

Abbe received an A.B. from the College of the City of New York 
in 1870 and an M.D. from the College of Physicians and surgeons 
in New York in 1874.  He then served an internship at St. Luke's 
Hospital, New York.

From 1877 to 1884, Abbe was Attending Surgeon in the outpatient 
Department of New York Hospital.  He was also surgeon at St. 
Luke's Hospital and the Cancer Hospital and Attending Surgeon 
at New York Babies' Hospital.  Abbe held positions as Professor 
of Didactic Surgery at the woman's medical College of New York, 
1878-1880, and Professor of Surgery at the New York Post Graduate 
Medical School, 18881897.  In 1898, he became Lecturer in Surgery 
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Robert Abbe was known for his pioneering work in intestinal anastomosis, 
spinal surgery, and the use of radium to treat cancer.  He was 
a member of the American surgical association, the International 
Surgical Society, and the New York Surgical Society.  In 1911, 
he became an associate fellow of the College of Physicians of 
Philadelphia.


Scope and contents

This small collection was assembled and preserved by Robert Abbe 
to document the life and work of Louis Pasteur (1822-1893). 
 The contents of the collection are: an autograph letter to 
Monsieur Emile Roux, Pasteur's associate, 1883;postcards, a 
photograph of Pasteur's tomb, and pictorial material, circa 
1923 and undated; and an invitation and program, newsclipping, 
and commemorative postage stamps and tags from Pasteur Day, 
held in Paris on 22 May 1923.


Provenance

Charles Perry Fisher of the Library of the College of Physicians 
of Philadelphia received the Abbe Collection of Louis Pasteur 
Memorabilia from Robert Abbe of Bar Harbor,Maine, on 28 July 
1923.  Although Abbe intended that William W. Keen 
formally present the collection to the College for inclusion 
with other Pasteur material in the Abbe Cabinet"at a meeting 
during the winter", this was never done.  The collection was 
isolated during a survey of the Historical Collections and processed 
and catalogued in 1990.


1883;1923
1 folder (41 items)

9/12/1990
jde