Collection Scope and Content Note

The papers in the manuscript collection "Williams & Wilkins vs. the United States of Americao represent the National Library of Medicine's records of the case. Included are files from Martin Cummings and Scott Adams, the Director and Deputy Director of the Library, and Albert Berkowitz, the Reference Services Division Section Chief. The files arrived in the History of Medicine Division in a jumbled condition, making it impossible to identify the original provenance of the records. Consequently, the decision was made to combine the files into nine artificial series.