A SHEET OF HIS LETTERHEAD SIGNED BY AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIST, MEDICAL HISTORIAN, AUTHOR AND PRIEST JOHN RATHBONE OLIVER.

Baltimore, MD: June 18th, 1929., 1929.. Good. - A sheet of his 5-1/2 inch high by 11 inch wide cream-colored letterhead with "Dr. John Rathbone Oliver", his Baltimore address and "Consultation by Appointment Only" printed at the top, is boldly signed in black ink "John Rathbone Oliver". Penned below the signature, possibly in another hand, is "Baltimore Md / June 18th 1929". There is a stain to the right of this notation. There are small areas of offsetting to the sides of the letterhead from remnants of tape on the verso and the verso is rubbed where the letterhead has been removed from an album. Good. <p> John Rathbone Oliver [1872-1943] was an American psychiatrist, medical historian,author and priest. After graduating from Harvard and teaching from 1894 to 1897, he entered the priesthood in 1900, leaving it in 1903, probably in the process of coming to terms with being gay. [He returned to the priesthood in 1927]. Oliver obtained his M.D. from the University of Innsbruck in 1910 and from 1917 to 1930 he was Chief Medical Officer for the Supreme Bench of Baltimore and a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. He was also Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Maryland and an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins from 1930 to 1939.