Box 1

Typescript letter describing Roosevelt's condition.

Reproductions in various formats of a photograph of Roosevelt in uniform as a colonel of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry.

Original (framed) and reproduction copies (in Box 1, Folder 1) of the Mercy Hospital patient register page listing Colonel Roosevelt among the patients admitted from October 15 to October 17, 1912. Roosevelt's diagnosis is described as "Gunshot wound of Chest" and J. B. Murphy is listed as his physician.

Photocopy of a printed page of information about Roosevelt and Murphy, including photos of Roosevelt making a speech, of Murphy, and of Sister Mary Victorine, who came to Mercy in 1903 and was a surgical nurse for Dr. Murphy. The original sheet was created by Mercy Hospital staff and was framed and hung in the Hospital in a display with the register page and chest x-ray.

Handwritten reminiscences about Dr. Murphy and his work at Mercy Hospital by an unknown author, on notebook paper in a ring binder.

Handwritten letter by 13-year-old Werner A. Greve describing Murphy's skill as a surgeon after setting his broken leg, plus photocopy of letter and newspaper clipping about the letter.

Pages of various materials related to J. B. Murphy, compiled by his daughter Cecille Murphy Baggot and sent to Miss Redmond, including pamphlet "A List of Cases Operated on and Demonstrated by Dr. John B. Murphy...During the Week of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America, November 10-15, 1913"; newspaper clippings and photocopies of clippings; and a photocopy of a typescript history of Mercy Hospital written by J. B. Murphy.

Document from the United States Department of State certifying that Doctor J. B. Murphy has been appointed a delegate to the International Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Amsterdam, signed by Secretary of State John Hay.

Letter to Murphy from Thomas J. Shahan, Bishop of Germanicopolis, informing Murphy that the Catholic University of America has decided to confer an honorary degree on him.

Biographical Record for John Benjamin Murphy from the Chicago Surgical Society, including personal information, educational and professional record, publications, and club memberships.

Papers and images compiled by the staff of Mercy Hospital related to the life and work of Dr. J. B. Murphy, particularly his treatment of Theodore Roosevelt at Mercy after an assassination attempt in 1912.