The papers of Lorraine Sweeney Nicoli span 1942 to 2013. The bulk of the papers are dated 1963. Papers include an outpatient admission form, correspondence, ephemera, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a draft of a published article.

The admission form is from the Medical Out Patient Department of the Children’s Hospital recommending admission to the same department at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Materials from the Heart Association consist mainly of press releases announcing the award of “Heart Mother of the Year” to Nicoli in 1963, as published by the American Heart Association, Massachusetts Heart Association, and New York Heart Association. The newspaper clipping files contains articles that mention Dr. Gross and Nicoli, as well as feature articles on the surgery from Children’s Today and Vectorblog.org. The main point of interest within the correspondence files is a group of letters from Dr. Gross and his wife Jean to Nicoli. The file on a draft article for publication contains not only the draft itself, but correspondence to Nicoli requesting her review of the draft and permission to publish. The set of photographs contains one black and white print of Dr. Gross and four color snapshot portraits of Nicoli.