MSS 2/0146-05 Acc. 1992-032-03 ABBE, ROBERT, 1851-1928, collector Memoranda of Louis Pasteur, 1886-1923 Biographical Robert Waldo Abbe, New York surgeon, was born on 13 April 1851. 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 scrapbook, "Memoranda of Louis Pasteur", contains items collected by Robert Abbe. Present in the volume is a biographical sketch of Pasteur; copies of etchings,photographs, and portraits of Pasteur and his family; a program for the Pasteur Centenary Meeting in New York(1923); photographs of items appearing in the New York Academy of Medicine's Pasteur exhibit (1922); and two autograph letters, one from Pasteur, and one from his son in law, Rene Vallery Radot (1853-1933). included in the scrapbook are copies of portraits of Pasteur and Madame Pasteur by Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt(1854-1905); a photograph of Theodore Riviere's bronze statue of Pasteur; photographs of G. Prud'homme's bronze casts of Pasteur and his daughter, Madame Rene Vallery Radot; and a copy of a painting depicting Pasteur's funeral. The Pasteur letter in the scrapbook (in French, 8 Aug. 1886) is accompanied by Abbe's English translation. In the letter, Pasteur thanks the recipient, probably a French army officer in Algiers, for sending him mortality tables for cases of hydrophobia in the French army hospitals inAlgiers. Pasteur also requests statistics on cases of hydrophobia among the civilian population in Algeria. The second letter in the scrapbook (in French, 6 Mar. 1923) is from Pasteur's son in law, Rene Vallery Radot, and is addressed to Robert Abbe. Provenance The "Louis Pasteur Memoranda" volume was donated to the college of Physicians of Philadelphia by Robert Abbe on 23 May 1921. The volume was transferred from the Mutter Museum to the Historical Collections of the Library on 4 January 1983. The volume was catalogued in 1992. 1886-1923 1 v. (35 items) 9/11/1992 wvg MSS 2/0146-05 Acc. 1992-032-03 ABBE, ROBERT, 1851-1928, collector Memoranda of Louis Pasteur, 1886-1923 Page 3 1. [Abbe, Robert, 1851-1928.] "Pasteur" [biographical sketch] [n.d.] (1 item) 13 2. Reutlinger, Ch. Photograph [copy] of Louis Pasteur [n.d.] (1 item) 15 3. Drawing [copy] of Louis Pasteur "At Thirty" [n.d.] (1 item) 17 4. Photograph [copy] of Louis Pasteur "At Forty five" [n.d.] (1 item) 19 5. Photograph [copy] of Louis Pasteur (Int. Med. Congress at Copenhagen, 1884.) (Courtesy of Capt. J. C. Pryor, Naval Med. School, Washington, D.C.) [n.d.] (1 item) 21 6. Drawing [copy] of Louis Pasteur (From an old lithograph) (Courtesy of Capt. J. C. Pryor, Naval Med. School, Washington, D.C.) [n.d.] (1 item) 23 7. Edelfelt, A[lbert], 1854-1905. "Portrait [copy] of Dr. Pasteur" [n.d.] (1 item) 25 8. Noyes, [?] Engraving [copy] of Louis Pasteur (Courtesy of the Library of the Surgeon General) [n.d.] (1 item) 27 9. Manesse, [?] Steel engraving [copy] of Louis Pasteur (From Minerva, Vol. III, 1894) [n.d.] (1 item) 29 10. Drawing [copy] of Louis Pasteur [n.d.] (1 item) 31 11. Riviere, Theodore. Photograph [copy] of his bronze statue of Louis Pasteur [n.d.] (1 item) 33 12. Woodcut [copy] of Louis Pasteur (From Journal d'Agric. pratique, 1895) [n.d.] (1 item) 35 13. Photograph [copy] of Louis Pasteur (Courtesy of Dr. Winford H. Smith, Superintendent, Johns Hopkins Hospital) [n.d.] (1 item) 37 14. Photograph [copy] of Louis Pasteur (From a common photo) [n.d.] (1 item) 39 15. Etching [copy] of Louis Pasteur from the Louvre portrait With dedication to Robert Abbe from Dr. Calmette of the Pasteur Institute, 1920 Apr. 5 (1 item) 41 16. Photograph [copy] of Louis Pasteur (Courtesy of Dr. Winford H. Smith, Superintendent, Johns Hopkins Hospital) [n.d.] (1 item) 43 17. Photograph of Louis Pasteur "A popular portrait" [n.d.] (1 item) 45 18. Photograph [copy] of Louis Pasteur with facsimile of Pasteur's signature [n.d.] (1 item) 47 19. Prud'homme, G. Photograph [copy] of his bronze plaque of Louis Pasteur (Courtesy of Col. J. F. Siler, Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D. C.) [n.d.] (1 item) 49 20. Drawing [copy] of bust of Louis Pasteur [n.d.] (1 item) 51 21. Edelfelt, [Albert], 1854-1905. Portrait [copy] of "Pasteur studying rabies" [n.d.] (1 item) 53 22. Photograph of Louis Pasteur "A late portrait" [n.d.] (1 item) 55 23. Pasteur, L[ouis], 1822-1895. Autograph letter signed [in French] : Arbois, Jura, [France], to "Monsieur", [Algeria?], 1886 Aug. 18 (1 item) 57 24. Pasteur, L[ouis], 1822-1895. Robert Abbe's translation of Pasteur's letter of 1886 Aug. 18 [n.d.] (1 item) 59 25. Photograph of a crystal model used by Louis Pasteur [n.d.] (1 item) 60 26. Key to individuals appearing in the painting, "Funeral of Pasteur" (see item 27) 1897 (1 item) 61 27. Painting [copy] of "Funeral of Pasteur" [1897] (1 item) 63 28. Edelfelt, [Albert], 1854-1905. Portrait [copy] of Madame Pasteur [n.d.] (1 item) 65 29. Prud'homme, G. Photograph [copy] of his bronze plaque depicting Mme. Rene Vallery Radot, nee Pasteur [n.d.] (1 item) 67 30. Etching of Louis Pasteur [n.d.] (1 item) 69 31. Photograph of items in the Louis Pasteur exhibit at the New York Academy of Medicine [ca. 1922] (1 item) 71 32. Lebayle[?], Ch. Photograph of his drawing of Louis Pasteur at L'Ecole Normale [n.d.] (1 item) 73 33. Program for Pasteur Centenary Meeting 1923 Jan. 28 (1 item) 75 34. Notes re engraving the names of the Abbe custodians on the Pasteur volume [n.d.] (1 item) 76 35. Vallery Radot, Rene, 1853-1933. Autograph letter signed [in French] : Versailles, [France], to Robert Abbe, New York, N.Y., 1923 Mar. 6 With envelope (1 item) 1886-1923 1 v. (35 items) 9/11/1992 wvg