Scope and Contents note From the Series: Nine volumes of memoirs and three essays by physician and author Robert Tomes.The first seven handwritten volumes are early memoirs recalled when Tomes was 62 years old and living in Wiesbaden, Germany. They cover the period beginning with Tomes's immediate ancestors through his birth in 1817 and boyhood in New York City, his schooling through college in American and his medical school in Edinburgh through graduation in 1840. The last three volumes were published in 1880 by Harper...