Holiday card from Doris and Bernard Appel featuring a photograph of Doris's sculpture, Praying Hands, along with a quote from General MacArthur about the ending of World War II. The holiday greeting printed on the card includes the names of the Appel's three daughters, with the names of each daughter's own children handwritten beneath.

Letter from Marjorie Bartholf to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake discussing the admittance of students from the Nurse Cadet Corps during 1944-45, new professors, and commendations for the John Sealy Hospital staff and UTMB faculty.

Photograph of doctors at a Pediatric meeting in Dallas, Texas. The group is arranged in approximately six rows, with the back few standing on the steps to the hotel The Stoneleigh; everyone is wearing formal attire.

Annual report for the U. of Texas Medical Branch's Physical Therapy Departments, John Sealy Hospitals, including patients treated by month, types of cases, and diagnoses.

Letter from William O. Bohman to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake discussing data from the 1944-1945 fiscal year at John Sealy Hospital.

Study by Dr. B. I. Burns for UT President Theophilus Painter, wherein he recommends an expansion of the UT Medical Branch, including redevelopment of parts of the campus, changes in administration, new faculty appointments, expansion of hospital and clinic services, and other changes.

1944-1945 annual report from the Dept. of Dermatology and Syphilology at UTMB, submitted to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake by Dr. Chester N. Frazier, with an introductory letter from Frazier's secretary, Wilma Waterman. Inlcuded is information on the department's budget, personnel, clinics, divisions, scholarships, tables of patients, and other pertinent information to its operation.

Letter from B. M. Hendrix to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake discussing the state of the biochemistry department.

An analysis of services offered at John Sealy Hospital in from September 1, 1944 to August 31, 1945, with data on patients, cases, surgeries, blood and plasma supplies, physical therapy treatments, laboratory reports, and other relevant data.

Letter from Dr. Jesse B. Johnson to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake with a report on the Department of Radiology, which list examinations performed by the department over the 1944-1945 academic year.

A description of available clinical facilities at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas, a table of comparable facilities at other medical school hospitals, and a summary of patients treated and operating costs for 1944.

Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake to several friends discussing research, recent correspondence, developments in the medical community, and his family.

Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake to several friends discussing holiday events and recent correspondence.

Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake to several friends discussing taxes, meetings, and correspondence.

Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake to T. S. Painter introducing reports from the University of Texas Medical Branch and appendices.

Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake to Dr. W. B. Russ discussing efforts to expand health programs in Texan institutions.

Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake to Dr. W. B. Russ discussing developments at the U. of Texas Medical Branch.

Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake to the U. of Texas Medical Branch discussing the Branch's aims for the new year and improvements over the previous decade.

A handwritten list of ongoing research at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

An introduction and schedule for a post-graduate program on surgery at the University of Texas School of Medicine, taught from October 22 to 26, 1945.

A statement by Dr. Chauncey D. Leake on the U. of Texas Medical Branch's location, its status among American medical schools, its finances, and the need for another medical school in Texas.

Memo from Dr. Carl A. Nau to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake summarizing the UTMB Preventive Medicine Department's activities of the previous year, as well as listing accepted and published papers by the department's faculty.

UTMB finances as of July 31, 1945, including various balances, funds, appropriations, expenditures, encumbrances, transfers, and other statistics.

Photograph of US Army Medical Corps officer Thomas E. Keys autographing copies of "The History of Surgical Anesthesia" in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 2nd, 1945. Standing behind him from left to right: Mrs. L McMahan, Gen. R Lull, Col. Gandina, Col. Harold Jones, and Chauncey D. Leake.