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Exhibit 028

Henry S. Pritchett to Arthur Dean Bevan, undated (quoted by Brown)

Exhibit 028 ยท Correspondence

Henry S. Pritchett to Arthur Dean Bevan, undated (quoted by Brown)

In a sentence Brown reports Pritchett privately added to a letter to Bevan before the report's publication, Pritchett writes: "It is desirable ... to maintain in the meantime a position which does not intimate an immediate connection between our two efforts."

Source
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Date
Undated; before the 1910 report
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/rockefellermedic00browrich
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Known through E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men (1979), p. 152; wording matches Brown. Brown gives no date in the text; the nearest note is Pritchett to Bevan, 4 November 1909 (Brown n. 52). Secondary: the archival document is not in the record.

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Finding MED-1.3
Reported The Carnegie Foundation and the AMA agreed to keep their collaboration on the Flexner Report out of public view.