Papers, Photographs, & Audio-Visual Material Regarding Dr. Karl Menninger: Written and Related Material

Biographical sketch: Famous psychiatrist, co-founder of the Menninger Clinic (Topeka, Kan.), author; of Topeka.

Abstract: Contains audio and video tapes of Karl A. Menninger, M.D.; items relating to Dr. Menninger's birthday celebrations & death; and interviews with & articles about Dr. Menninger. Includes published & unpublished articles by various Menninger Foundation staff and 3 binders containing speeches & mss., 1938-1985, by Robert Gaines Menninger, M.D. Dr. Karl Menninger's medical school journal (1911-1922) and a notebook where he recorded medical information on pregnant women March 4-18, 1916. The latter was kept while he was at the South End Branch of the Boston Lying In Hospital.

Summary:


Menninger UID numbers are descriptions of individual items. They can be accessed on-line by adding http://www.kshs.org/archives/ before the number, e.g. http://www.kshs.org/archives/251387

Abbreviations: APA = American Psychiatric Association, CFM = C. F. Menninger, FM = Flo V. Menninger, KAM = Karl A. Menninger, MF = Menninger Foundation, NBC = National Broadcasting Co., RGM = Robert Gaines Menninger, RWM = Roy W. Menninger, TMF = The Menninger Foundation


KAM #1 (Box 1)

Rapaport, David. Letter : Osawatomie State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kan., to Karl Menninger, 1940 Jan. 31. 1 p. “Restricted material.” Includes Rorschach and other psychological test results. “May be examined only with permission from Dr. Herbert Schlesinger, secretary of Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, Feb. 25, 1964.” Envelope.

Topeka capital-journal, 1990 July 19: selected pages on the death of Karl Menninger [Menninger UID 288618].

Kansas. State Board of Medical Registration and Examination. Application for a certificate : from Karl Augustus Menninger, Topeka, Kan., 1918 Nov. 2. 1 p. With: Menninger, W. Walter. Memo : to Bob [Menninger], 1991 Mar. 11, 1 p.

Menninger, Karl A. (Karl Augustus), 1893-1990. Letters, 1941-1960. 6 items. Mostly to Robert Gaines Menninger.

Menninger, Karl A. (Karl Augustus), 1893-1990. Letter : to Bob and Mavis [Menninger], 1950 Sept. 9. 1 p. On the birth of Robert Gaines & Mavis Menninger's son Karl.

Osborn, Shirley W. Letter : Santa Monica, Calif., to Dr. [Karl A.] Menninger, 1967 Apr. 6. 1 p. Forwarded by Karl A. Menninger to his children with the annotation “[O]ne of the nicest letters I ever got.”

Menninger, Karl A. (Karl Augustus), 1893-1990. Draft #2 : to Bill [Menninger], 1965 Feb. 26. 14 leaves. With: Inter office memo : to Bob [Menninger], 1965 Apr. 26. 1 p. Relating to proposals for the future of the Menninger Foundation.

Loretta, 1980-1992. Folder with items relating to and intended for the Menninger Archives, specifically pertaining to Karl A. Menninger. Loretta is Loretta Payne, his administrative assistant. Includes information on the filing system used for his papers.

The Psychohistory Review, 19, no. 1 (fall 1990). Issue devoted to Menninger [cf. Menninger UID 302567].

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 37, no. 4 (July 1973) [Menninger UID 36960]

Menninger family statistics. Folder. Contents: Historical outline, 1947 June 9 – Some items taken from WCM's personal log which might be of interest in the history – Facts about the Menninger Foundation, 1963 October – Vital statistics about members of the Menninger family, 1963 – Foundation milestones, 1963 Dec. 11.

“State of the union” ; various messages from KAM, 1950-1962. Folder. Announcements, press releases, statement of purpose, staff study memo, and a report. Included are Karl A. Menninger's proposals for future growth & talks, information about a new geriatric program, and policy questions for consideration [Menninger UID 251367].

80th birthday, 1973 July-Nov. Folder. Articles, tributes, an invitation, a program, photographs, and a thank you letter relating to Karl A. Menninger's 80th birthday [Menninger UID 231704].

90th birthday, 1983 July-Oct. Folder. Articles, tributes, a publication, a schedule, an invitation, and a program relating to Karl A. Menninger's 90th birthday [Menninger UIDs 234275, 241892, 298183].

Karl & Robert bibliography, [not before 1978]-1993. Folder. Bibliographies of writings of Karl A. and Robert Gaines Menninger [Menninger UIDs 249565, 301215].

His death, 1972-1991. Folder. Drafts of Karl A. Menninger funeral arrangements & details, articles, tributes, obituaries, documents, biographical information, publications, correspondence & memos, a reminiscence, and reflections on him [Menninger UIDs 241491, 288618, 298213].

Photographs, 1896-1981. Photos of Karl A. Menninger, many from his son, Robert Gaines Menninger.


KAM II (Box 2)

Articles by and about KAM, largely reprints from professional journals (see table below)

Menninger UID numbers are descriptions of individual items. They can be accessed on-line by adding http://www.kshs.org/archives/ before the number, e.g. http://www.kshs.org/archives/251387

Author
Title
Remarks
Source
Citation
Date
Menninger UID



Tasks of penology: a symposium on prisons and correctional law (part I)
Reprint
Nebraska law review
45:1
©1966
cf. 251387


KAM
New violence and the new psychiatry
William C. Menninger Memorial Lecture

May 1968
253866, 290581


KAM
The glory and rewards of teaching
Topeka High School 1959 commencement address, reprinted
Menninger Quarterly

fall 1973
245363


KAM
Psychological aspects of foreign policy”
Statement, hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 91st Cong., 1st Sess.,


1969 June 5-20
262082, 243479


KAM
My town
Radio address, NBC, 1953 Dec. 5; reprinted, 11 p. (3 cop.)
Menninger quarterly

January 1954
241821, 250642, 245359, 299115, 240703


KAM
Psychiatry as a profession
Reprint of chapter
Listen to leaders in medicine


233670


KAM
The isolation type of personality
Reprint
United States naval medical bulletin
27:3–4
1929
250135


KAM
The quandary in correction: history repeats itself

Hackensack, N.J.: National Council on Crime and Delinquency

[n.d.]
251545


KAM
A special kind of energy crisis
Colloquium address given at Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Tex.)


1977 Feb. 24



KAM
The crime of punishment

Institute of Contemporary Corrections and the Behavioral Sciences, Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Tex.)

1970 Apr. 24
cf. 251427



The quarterly of the Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity
Mostly articles by and about KAM

53:3
October 1956
250681, 233928, 236342, 274632


Ranney, Dave
To public, prisoners just numbers”

Hays daily news

1988 May 23
299178]


KAM
Psychiatrists use dangerous words”
Reprint
Saturday evening post

©1964
251318


KAM
Hope
Reprint (Am. J. Psy.), inscribed by KAM to RGM
American journal of psychiatry
116:6, p. 481-91
December 1959
251013


Cerney, Mary S., Ph.D.
Book review: Menninger: The Family and the Clinic, by Lawrence J. Friedman
Ms.
Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences

May 18, 1992
285404


Crawshaw, Ralph, M.D.
Menninger
Review of Menninger: The Family and the Clinic, by Lawrence J. Friedman
Journal of the American Medical Association
265:12
Mar. 27, 1991
255328, 300405



Menninger perspective
14:1–2
1983
37039


McCarthy, Colman
Prevention beats solving problems
Photocopy of article
Topeka capital-journal

Aug. 10, 1990



Tiede, Tom
What Karl Menninger was really like
Photocopy of article
Topeka capital-journal

Aug. 10, 1990



Menninger Foundation
News release
News release on KAM’s 90th birthday


July 5, 1983
286647


KAM
Letter to “Folks” [his children]
Ms., photocopy


1982 Mar. 10

Menninger Foundation
Reading Dr. Menninger at random
“MF Publication”


“1982”



Hawver, Vickie Griffith
Menninger hears praise, applause during dedication
Photocopy
Topeka capital-journal

24 Feb. 1982



Robbins, Lewis L., M.D., and Mel Herman
Profiles of famous American psychiatrists: Karl Menninger, M.D.
Photocopy, 1 page missing
Psychiatric annals
12:1
January 1982
298166, 299933


KAM
Letter : TLS, TMF, Topeka, to President & Mrs. Jimmy Carter
Ms., photocopy; re Medal of Freedom


1981 Aug, 21
300123


Horner, Carol
Menninger: from country doctor’s dream came clinic that humanized psychiatry
Photocopy
San Jose mercury
p. 1C
July 21, 1981



KAM
A night before Christmas” : ALS, Topeka
Ms., letter to his children and grandchildren, photocopy


1977 [December]



TMF Dept. of Education
Invitation to members of the psychiatric community to Dr. Karl’s Christmas colloquium, Dec. 17, 1977



December 1977



KAM
Memorandum : to RWM
Ms.; subject: concept of a “schizophrenic hospital,” photocopy; includes photocopies of relevant articles


1973 Feb. 26



KAM
Hope
Reprint (by TMF). 3 copies, 2 different covers
American journal of psychiatry
116:6, p. 481-91
December 1959
251013
[TMF]
Children’s Division, the Menninger Foundation
Ms., photocopy; history


[not before 1965]



KAM and Martin Mayman, Ph.D.
Psychological homeostasis and organismic integrity”
Ms., Chapter 4 of a proposed book, preliminary synopsis presented at the APA, 1951; cover inscribed to RGM by KAM


1956 Jan. 1
260850


KAM
The Bolivar lecture, APA, Chicago, 17 May 1979
Ms., photocopy of typescript


1980 Aug. 11
300097


KAM
To my father, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday
Ms., photocopy of typescript


1952 July 11
250628


RWM
Summary of Doctor Karl’s seminar on psychoanalytic technique”
“Chapter IV: ‘Interpretation and Other Intervention,’” ms., photocopy, text approved by KAM


1963 June 22



KAM
Healthier than healthy
Reprint, ©1959 KAM, “Adapted especially for Think Magazine from a lecture delivered at Chautauqua, New York, August 8, 1959, first published in A Psychiatrist’s World … Viking Press, 1959.”
Think magazine (International Business Machines Corporation)

January 1960



KAM
Psychiatrists have no business in courtrooms : Karl Menninger
“Special report”
Roche report: frontiers of clinical psychiatry
[pp. 5-6]
1 Jan. 1969




A Conversation with Karl Menninger and Mary Harrington Hall, or The psychology of vengeance”

Psychology yoday
pp. 56–63
[February 1969]
251338



The Remarkable Menningers
Reprint
M.D., the medical newsmagazine
16:[189]–195
June 1972
267394


Jelliffe, Mrs. Smith Ely
[Letter : TL, Brooklyn, N.Y., to KAM]
Ms., photocopy


1971 Sept. 17
cf. 248063, 252482


Holzman, Philip S.
From the eye of the storm
Book review: The Selected Correspondence of Karl A. Menninger, 1919-1945; edited and with an introduction by Howard J. Faulkner and Virginia D. Pruitt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988); photocopy
Readings: a journal of reviews and commentary in mental health
pp. 18–21
December 1989
cf. 223197, cf. 230525, cf. 246182


Villages, The (Topeka, Kan.)
[Invitation/lecture series program]
Luncheon invitation in honor of KAM’s 90th birthday. On verso: “Taking Care of the Children: Private and Federal Cooperation” [by] Senator Robert Dole (Karl Menninger Lecture Series, in honor of Dr. Karl’s 90th birthday


July 22, 1983
cf. 223178, cf. 298177


KAM
A declaration of probable needs
Reprinted from Kansas Alumni, June 1980
Menninger perspective
12:1, pp. 4–8
Spring `1981
282133



[Invitation and program. On verso: Greeting card to RGM]
To honor KAM and inaugurate the Dr. Karl Menninger Community Service Lecture Series.


Feb. 23, 1982
cf. 286648


KAM
Letter : TLS, Chautauqua, N.Y.
Ms.: Thank you letter


1983 July 29




[TMF 60th anniversary articles]

Menninger perspective
no. 3–4; pp. 1–12, 20–25
1985
258790


Farney, Dennis
Famed psychiatrist analyzes the world, finds it needs help
Newspaper article, photocopy
Wall Street journal, Midwest ed.
p. 1
Dec. 23, 1985



Harvard College (1780- )
Invitation to commencement, 5 June 1986
With: photo of KAM in procession


1986 June 5
cf. 242799


Mental Health Association in Kansas
Tribute to Dr. Karl & Jean Menninger
Program


28 June 1986



Smith, Gene
A simple child of God
Photocopy
Topeka capital-journal

17 July 1988



KAM
The selected correspondence of Karl A. Menninger, 1919-1945
Selection of letters from the book, published separately with copies of KAM’s artwork. Reprinted from Menninger perspective, 3 (1988).


1988
cf. 35625


[TMF : RWM]
Objectives and plans of the Menninger Foundation for the decade ahead
“Draft,” ms., typescript, 17 leaves, photocopy


1972 Dec. 20
260902


KAM
To whom it may concern regarding the Tower plans and employee morale
Memorandum, ms., typescript, 2 leaves, photocopy


1979 May 4
299278


KAM
Outline of talk to Board of Trustees on Oct. 6, 1972
Ms., typescript, photocopy, 4 leaves


1972 Sept. 28



KAM
What can we Navajos do ourselves to promote mental health? : an address to the Fourth Annual Navajo Health Symposium; Community College, Tsaile, Arizona … / by Dr. Karl Menninger …
Ms., typescript, photocopy, 19 leaves


1977 Aug. 22


299602


[KAM]
How the Menninger Foundation began as, then ceased to be, a family corporation
Ms., typescript, photocopy, 4 leaves






[KAM]
Essay
On internal (TMF) co-operation and TMF’s place in the community


1979 July 3

TMF
C. F. Menninger’s dream : “These boys will be doctors”
Pt. 1 of a history


[2000]



TMF
Karl Menninger : dean of American psychiatry
Pt. 2 of a history


[2000]



TMF
The spirit of Menninger : Dr. Will’s enduring legacy
Pt. 3 of a history


[2000]



KAM
The doctor as a leader / by Karl A. Menninger, M.D.
Photocopy; commencement address, University of Rochester Medical School (N.Y.), Mar. 27, 1948
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
13:1
January 1949
250358


McMahon, Peg
Karl Menninger looks at our changing life
Photocopy
Kansas City star

8 Mar. 1970
251434


Christian, Gary
Execution hardly exists; for it’s contrary to human nature
Photocopy
Houston post

3 May 1970



United States. President (1969-1974 : Nixon)
Letter : TLS, Washington, D.C., to Dr. Karl A. Menninger, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kan.
Ms., photocopy, 1 p. Thanking KAM for participating in the Task Force on Prisoner Rehabilitation


1969 Oct. 18
cf. 248594, 249964


Hoffman, James W.
A psychiatrist’s remedy for crime
Review of The Crime of punishment, photocopy, 1 p.
Presbyterian life

1 May 1969



Schreiber, Flora Rheta
A conversation with Karl Menninger
Reprint
Modern maturity
14:2
Apr.-May 1971
251450



The Menninger family
Biographical chronologies and sketches of CFM, FM, and their sons; ms., photocopy


[not before 1975]



Menninger, Grace (Grace Gaines)
Abstract / by Grace Menninger (Mrs. KAM)
Appears to be a summary of FM’s ms./book Days of my life; ms. : typescript, 38 leaves, with cover memorandum from Hazel Bruce to KAM, 1960 June 15


[between 1939 and 1941?]



TMF
The foundation’s face of the future
Removed from a publication, p. 9-13, information on building projects including a proposed patient recreation area


[not before 1 Apr. 1964]
cf. 254798, cf. 302625



The Menninger Clinic
Photocopies of articles
The American psychoanalyst
25:1
[not before 1990]



KAM
Freud and American psychiatry / by Karl Menninger, M.D.
Presented to the American Psychoanalytic Association, Chicago ; 9 leaves (mimeograph)


1956 Apr. 28
246222, cf. 250663


KAM
The genius of the Jew in psychiatry / by Karl A. Menninger, M.D.
Mimeograph, reproduced from Medical leaves (Joseph C. Beck, ed.); 6 leaves
Medical leaves

1937
250216


KAM
Polysurgery and polysurgical addiction / by Karl A. Menninger
Reprint
The Psychoanalytic quarterly
3:2, p. 173-99
April 1934
250244


KAM
Bleeding Kansans / by Karl A. Menninger, M.D.
TMF copy (mimeograph) from Kansas magazine
Kansas magazine
p. 3-6
1939
250196, 246243


KAM
Remarks upon the sod breaking ceremony for the new Topeka VA hospital … / by: Karl Menninger, M.D.
2 leaves (mimeograph)


1955 July 25
250694


KAM
Verdict guilty : now what? / by Karl Menninger, M.D.
Reprint, 5 p.
Harper’s magazine

August 1959
245342, 247923, 251047,
cf. 251048


KAM
What the girls told / by Karl Menninger, M.D.
Review of Alfred C. Kinsey, et al., Sexual behavior in the human female (Philadelphia, Saunders, 1953); Menninger School of Psychiatry; mimeograph, 5 leaves
Saturday review
36 (Sept. 1953), p. 21, 30-31, 26
1957 April
250650


KAM
Totemic aspects of contemporary attitudes toward animals / by Karl A. Menninger, M.D.
Reprint, inscribed “Bob”
Psychoanalysis and culture (International Universities Press)
p. [42]-74
[1951]
250605


KAM
To my father : on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, July 11, 1952 / by Karl Menninger, M.D.
Mimeograph

6 leaves
1952 July 11



KAM
Whatever became of sin?

The Rotarian
p. 14-18ff.
1974 January
251541


KAM
Menninger symposia on schizophrenia
Reprint, inscribed “Dr. Bob from Dad”
Group practice
18, no. 7 (July 1969); [4] p.
1969 July
242387


KAM
Collected reviews of Menninger, Karl: Theory of psychoanalytic technique. N.Y., Basic Books, Inc., 1958
Mimeograph

[v.p.]
[not before 1958]
275441


TMF
[Three brochures descriptive of the work and plans of the Menninger Foundation]
Contents: Toward mental health – The Menninger Clinic – The new Southard School and Hospital. In folder

1 folder (3 v.)
[1951-1952]
239537



The most important Americans of the 20th century
P. 83: Karl Menninger : the shrink who made it O.K. to not be O.K.
Life
13, no. 12 (fall 1990)
1990 autumn




Box 3

Reprint of 4 articles by Steven M. Spencer: “The Menningers of Kansas” from Saturday Evening Post, 1962 and 1972 Apr. 7 issue of the magazine with 1st installment. [Menninger UID 288862]

2 sets of letters sent by KAM to CPT Douglas R Bey, M.D., 1969 Feb.-Aug., while Dr. Bey was a military psychiatrist during the Vietnam War and 1977-1979 containing a Christmas letter & congratulating Dr. Bey.

Black binder labeled “My Papers”: RGM’s, 1941-1972. Includes college, medical, & professional papers and a Ladies Home Journal article. Most psychiatric or medical, but also college zoology papers.

Black binder labeled “Bob’s Speeches #1, 129, 195810/10/75” [sic]: RGM. Primarily given at professional meetings and TMF events. Partial list in front of vol.

Black binder labeled “Speeches 3051, 10/25/75 thru 5/3/85: RGM. Primarily given at professional meetings and TMF events.

Cardboard box labeled “Alvin Todd, Neis. Bldg.” / “Poems” / “Lucy book as of 5/87. Large print masters”: Unpublished mss., “The Last Dragon,” [not after 1987] on the suicidal aspects of nuclear armament (U.S. relations with the Soviet Union), written by KAM [and Lucy Freeman?]; rejected by a publisher. With: Memos containing explanation of contents.

Program: Menninger Foundation. A celebration of 90 years : Karl Menninger, MD. Commemorative program for KAM’s 90th birthday celebration [Menninger UID 232281].

Folder labeled “Dr. Karl obituaries”: newspaper articles from major US and 1 UK newspaper, Menninger publications, funeral information.

Folder labeled “Dr. Karl : interviews, writings”: KsHS news releases on famous Kansans; “Topeka: Vienna on the Kaw” article by Jo Ann Klemmer, 2007 (2 drafts); KAM articles & tributes; bibliography on KAM (1993); photocopy of 1953 confidential “Some Statements for the Counsel and Guidance of the Trustees and Medical Council of the Menninger Clinic and Menninger Foundation in Future Years” written by the 3 founders [Menninger UID 233917]; tribute to KAM by WWM, 1990 December; ms. Of review of Lawrence Friedman’s book on Menninger by Ralph Crawshaw, M.D., 1990; “Bleeding Kansans” / by KAM (Kansas magazine, 1939) [Menninger UIDs 250196, 246243]; pamphlet on KAM’s views on the death penalty (Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty) [Menninger UID 244024]; articles on KAM’s positions; letter & telegram sent to President Carter re Medal of Freedom, 1981; KAM biographical sketch of E. E. Southard, M.D. (Psychiatric Annals, 19:2, February 1980) [Menninger UID 251576]; “Religio medici : Karl A. Menninger, Calvinism and the Presbyterian Church / Paul W. Pruyser (reprint: Journal of Presbyterian History, 59:1, spring 1981) [Menninger UIDs 286580, 286729, 286815]; Menninger Perspective, 14:1-2, [1983], issue in honor of KAM [Menninger UID 258680]; “Vengeance,” (KAM’s Bolivar Lecture, APA, Chicago, 1979 May 17) [Menninger UID 300097]; accounts of interviews with KAM.


K A M : Audio Tapes & VHS of KAM (Box 4)

Audio cassette tapes:

• “Interview : Dr. Karl Menninger, 7/8/74” (1 cassette)
  
• “Interview w/Dr. Karl Menninger,” 1974 Aug.-Nov. (11 cassettes)
  
• “Conversations with Dr. Karl Menninger” / The Menninger Foundation, © 1985 (1 cassette) [Menninger UIDs 284588, 284564]

• “Dr. Karl’s Colloquiem, 1986” [sic]
  
• “Dr. Karl” / produced by KTWU
  
• Dr. Karl : a legacy
  
• “A Remembrance of Dr. Karl,” 1990 Sept. 27

Language note: Text is in English.

Contents: KAM #1 (box 1). Correspondence, 1940-1967 ; articles on Karl A. Mennninger's death, 1972-1991 ; items relating to the Menninger Foundation, 1950-1992 ; publications about the Menninger Foundation, 1973-1990 ; Menninger family statistics, 1947-1963 ; Karl A. Menninger 80th and 90th birthday celebrations, 1973-1983 ; Karl A. & Robert Gaines Menninger bibliographies, [not before 1978]-1993 ; photographs, 1896-1981 -- KAM II (box 2). Articles by and about Karl A. Menninger, 1929-[2000], largely reprints from professional journals -- box 3. Article about the Menninger family, 1962-1972 ; letters received by Karl A. Menninger, 1969 Feb.-Aug. ; Robert Gaines Menninger professional papers, 1941-1972, and speeches, 1958-1985 ; The Last dragon (unpublished mss.), [not after 1987] ; 90th birthday commemorative program, 1983 ; obituaries and related items ; interviews, writings, 1939-1990 -- K. A. M. : audio tapes & VHS ... (box 4). Interviews, 1974-1985 (audio tapes) ; colloquium and programs on Karl A. Menninger, 1986-1990 (videocassette tapes) ; history of Southard School ; Menninger Foundation publications, 1995 May ; memorandum, 1979 Dec. 6 ; tribute articles ; photographs ; medical school journal, 1911-1922 ; patient notebook while he was at South End Branch of the Boston Lying In Hospital, March 4-18, 1916 ; lectures, 1959 Apr. 27-May 1 ; articles on Karl A. Menninger, the Menninger family, and the Foundation, 1947-1988.

Related materials: Menninger Foundation. Menninger Foundation archives, 1644-2009 (bulk 1925-2001), ca. 2300 cubic ft.; http://www.kshs.org/archives/218916

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Ownership/Custodial Hist.: Material collected by Karl A. Menninger's son, Robert Gaines Menninger, and grandson, Karl Menninger II.

Cite as: Menninger, Karl A. Papers and Photos Relating to and Written by Dr. Karl Menninger, 1896-2007 (bulk 1940-1990), Kansas Historical Society.

Action note: Preliminary description written by Robert L. Knecht, volunteer, 2017.

Accumulation/Freq. Of Use: Accretions are possible but not scheduled at this time.

General Note: Title supplied by cataloger.

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