Digital Transgender Archive
Letter from Alan Hart to Mary Roberts Rinehart, August 3, 1921
Letter written by Dr. Alan L. Hart, an American physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, and writer to Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, an American mystery writer and nurse. Hart is known as one of the first trans men to undergo hysterectomy in the United States. Because Hart ordered for his personal letters and photographs to be destroyed upon his death, few such materials exist today. However, in this letter, Hart describes his transition, being forcibly outed by a colleague, his subsequent medical career, and a manuscript of an autobiography he never published. Hart concludes by requesting that Rinehart read his autobiography and offer advice.
- Identifier
- vt150j54x
- Collection
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Miscellaneous Correspondence
- Institution
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University of Pittsburgh Library System, Archives & Special Collections
- Creator(s)
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Hart, Alan
- Date Created
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Aug. 3, 1921
- Dates Covered
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1917
1918
Oct. 1920
- Genre
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Correspondence
- Subject(s)
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Alan Hart
Dr. A.G. Hamilton
Joshua Allen Gilbert
Judge John B. Cleland
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Stanley Marshall Rinehart
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases
- Places
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California
>
San Francisco County
>
San Francisco
Oregon > Multnomah County > Portland
Wyoming > Hot Springs > Thermopolis
Montana > Yellowstone > Huntley
- Topic(s)
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Anti-transgender discrimination
Gender affirming surgery
Law
Legal name change
Medical care
Outing (LGBTQ+ culture)
Suicidal behavior
Trans men
Transgender autobiographies
Transgender employment
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Transphobia
- Resource Type
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Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:31735037971201/viewer#page/18/mode/2up
https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/kd17ct13d
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