Noel Alexander Gillespie papers, 1899-1955, 1970-1972

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Gillespie, Noel A. (Noel Alexander), 1904-

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Papers of Noel Alexander Gillespie, a British anesthetist who became a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, including correspondence by and relating to Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 1922-1952; l...

Papers of Noel Alexander Gillespie, a British anesthetist who became a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, including correspondence by and relating to Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 1922-1952; letters from T. E. Lawrence, 1913-1921; and letters and diaries of Gillespie's mother, Emily Rieder, lecturer on the Middle East and on women's and humanitarian movements. Gillespie worked with Schweitzer in Africa in 1924 and wrote detailed letters to his mother during his months there.

Also included are letters, 1970-1972, between editor William C. Haygood and scholars, mainly in Switzerland, concerning Albert Schweitzer-Noel Gillespie letters in the possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and other institutions; including various publications relating to Schweitzer archives and societies.

The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

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