This letter was written by Dr. John R. Brinkley to Amanda Jackson, a family friend whom he often referred to as “Aunt Amanda.” The letter was sent from his hospital practice in Del Rio, Texas, to his childhood hometown of East...
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Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942, Surgery, and Travel
This letter was written in 1939 from Dr. John R. Brinkley to Mrs. Amanda Wike Jackson in response to a letter Dr. Brinkley received from Mrs. Jackson. Brinkley also mentions being in communication with Jackson’s son Walter...
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Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942, Dwellings--Maintenance and repair, Therapeutics, and Traditional medicine
John R. Brinkley II, a self-proclaimed doctor, was born July 8, 1885. While he is best known for his practice of xenotransplantation of goat testicles in an attempt to cure related to the prostate and impotence. Brinkley was...
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Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942, Loans, and Extortion
This document is a letter dated with only the year 1941 from Dr. John R. Brinkley to W. Lee O’Daniel. Dr. Brinkley was both a highly controversial and very successful medical figure in early 20th century. Known popularly as the...
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Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942, Political candidates, and O'Daniel, W. Lee (Wilbert Lee), 1890-1969
This document is a letter from Dr. John R. Brinkley to William Jennings Lawson. Dr. Brinkley was both a highly controversial and very successful medical figure in early 20th century. Known popularly as the "Goat-Gland Doctor,"...
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Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942 and Political candidates
Josefina María Niggli was in Monterrey, Mexico on July 13, 1910, but her family fled to Texas when violence emerged during the Mexican Revolution. Her family stayed roving back and forth across the border for many years and...
This edition represents one of the earliest correspondences between Leonard Kephart and his wife Frances during a Department of Agriculture-sponsored trip the former made to Africa. This trip was taken in the interest of...
This edition project originated as a final assessment for the ENGL 618 – Research Methods course at Western Carolina University. For the project, we were assigned between four and ten individual manuscript pages of letters...
Mariah Wike, the author of this letter, was born on December 6th, 1887 in North Carolina. Mariah relocated to Texas following her marriage to Galen Linwood Whitfield (who was born in Texas on April 26th, 1879) on November 19th,...
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Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942, Lectures and lecturing, and Rheumatoid arthritis
This document is a letter from Minnie Brinkley, John Brinkley II’s wife, to “Aunt” Amanda Jackson. John Brinkley II was a notorious quack doctor who practiced medicine throughout the 1920s and 1930s, most well-known known for...
