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Description: | Well-written ms Journal (83pp) with a ts transcript (33pp) covering his service as a doctor with the 4th Harvard Surgical Unit at 22nd General Hospital, Camiers in France, December 1916 - June 1917, including his experiences en route for France in November 1916, and on the way back to the United States in June 1917 when he visited hospitals in Paris and London; together with 31 ms letters, also transcribed (68pp ts), written to his fiancee in New England, Miss Bessie Miller, November 1916 - January 1917. The diary and letters give a good impression of the living conditions under canvas at Camiers and of off-duty social activities, as well as describing the treatment of some of the wounded (including a few diagrams), and providing insight into an American doctor's attitude to the War, in particular his impatience for and then delight at the American entry into the conflict; also 1 ms letter from Bessie to Dr Potter, April 1917.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1979-02-20 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Potter, Henry B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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