I1 infer from a recent article2 in the New England Magazine3 that the latest Edition of your books, and the one, perhaps, which you regard as the most accurate, is to be obtained directly from you. If this be the case, will you kindly inform me of the amount which I may send as the price of a copy?4
Correspondent:
Dr. Robert Fletcher
(1823–1912), a native of Bristol, England, was the son of the attorney
Robert Fletcher and Esther Wall Fletcher. He studied law at his father's office,
then was educated at Bristol Medical School and continued at London Hospital. He
came to the United States to Ohio in 1847 and practiced medicine; during the
Civil War he was in the field as a surgeon in Ohio and later was responsible for
a military hopsital in Nashville. In 1876 he was appointed Acting Assistant
Surgeon, U.S.A., and prepared the Index Catalogue for the Library of the Surgeon
General's Office. He was a member of numerous socities, was honored with a gold
medal from the Royal College of Surgeons, and a portrait of him was placed the
Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the Army Medical Museum Building. See
D. S. Lamb, "Robert Fletcher," American Anthropologist
n.s. vol. 14.4 [October–December 1912], 687–690).