Sources Guide: North America (A&M)

Medical notebook including a copy diary extract describing a rebellion on board a slave ship sailing from Africa to America, 1676–8

MS.MSL.19

Charles Morton, Puritan divine, Vice–President of Harvard: transcripts of his System of Physics and various short papers, 1682–1709

MSS.3635–8

Benjamin Hildreth, tailor, New York City: probate and copy of will, in collection of material on slavery, 1738

MS.7151/1

Sir Clifton Wintringham, British physician: notebook recording conversations, latest entries relating to the war in America, 1740–c.1775

MS.5034

Corbyn & Co., chemists and druggists, London: correspondence, letter–books and papers relating to trade with North America and the West Indies. c.1745–1851

MSS.5441–3

John Foster, Queen’s County, Long Island, New York: copy of will, including bequests of slaves to family members (part of collection of material on slavery), 1753

MS.7151/2

George Washington, first President of the United States: order for household and plantation supplies, Mount Vernon, 1759

MS.Amer.91

– Copy of letter by Washington concerning his false teeth, 1798

MS.7799

Dr. Townsend W. Thorndike of Boston, Massachusetts: collection of material on exploration, chiefly in the Arctic, including various items relating to sub–Arctic Canada and Alaska and much on American explorers of the Arctic such as Elisha Kent Kane or the members of the Greely expedition (see handlist no.7, on sources for the Polar Regions, for a full listing), 1761–1920 and n.d

MSS.7481–90

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: material relating to Canada and USA, 1770s–1970s: look in ‘Place Name Index’

RAMC

William Stearns, druggist, Salem, Massachusetts: correspondence and financial papers of William Stearns (described variously as ‘Dr Stearns’, ‘apothecary’, and ‘druggist’), and of Major Joseph Sprague and Seth Low (described as ‘Dr Low’ and ‘druggist’), with whom Stearns appears to have been in partnership, 1781–1875 and n.d.

MSS.5855–9

Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, lawyer and statesman with a strong interest in agriculture and botany: extract from a manuscript on the plants of America, with additional material by the botanist, agronomist, geologist and archaeologist Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy and the mineralogist François Pierre Nicolas Gillet de Laumont, 1785

MS.Amer.125

Antonio Maria Vassalli–Eandi, Italian scientist writing on physics, astonomy, agriculture and meteorology: paper on the botanical description and uses of the peanut. c.1806

MS.Amer.106

Nicasio Lugo–Viña y Carta, Cuba: general survey of Native American medicine, dedicated to Sir Henry Wellcome, 1909

MS.Amer.131

Richard Price, British non–conformist minister, radical: letter concerning the birth–rate in Britain’s colonies in North America and the West Indies and referring to questions asked by “Mr. Clarkson”, probably the anti–slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson, 1786

MS.7433/26

Harriett Clinton, wife of Sir Henry Clinton, commander–in–chief of British Forces in North America 1778–81: recipe book. c.1788–early 19th century. MS.7720

Rev. George Charles Jenner: appointments as a missionary and Justice of the Peace, Newfoundland, 1794

MS.5228/6–8

Sir Benjamin Thompson F.R.S., Count Rumford, American–born inventor: letters to the publishers Cadell and Davies, 1797–8

MS.7717

Benjamin Waterhouse, introducer of Jennerian vaccination to North America: letters and twentieth–century background material, 1800–1 and 1919–49

MS.7801

Benjamin West, artist: signatures. n.d. MS.7800/7

George Dillwyn, American Quaker: letter to William Allen F.R.S., London Quaker chemist and philanthropist, discussing poor relief and mentioning the effects of laudanum use, 1800

MS.7397/2

Lyman Spalding, surgeon and anatomist: exchange of letters with Benjamin Waterhouse concerning the introduction of vaccination to the United States, 1800

MS.7801

George Montagu: copies of extract from Testacea Britannia, New York, 1803, and a letter by ‘Senex (of Albany)’ on Radiant Heat from The National Intelligence, Washington, 1814, 1803–1814

MS.8948

Enoch Tappan, New England: letter to a law student, 1804

MS.7755/12

Samuel Emlen, American Quaker: letter to William Allen F.R.S., London Quaker chemist and philanthropist, discussing writings of the anti–slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson and the prospects for abolition in the U.S.A., and mentioning American mutual acquaintances such as the teacher, chemist and philanthropist John Griscom, the brothers George Dillwyn and William Dillwyn (the latter was Emlen’s father–in–law) and “R. Jones”, perhaps the Philadelphia preacher Rebecca Jones, 1806

MS.7397/3

Nathan Smith, surgeon and physician, professor at Yale: letter to John Coakley Lettsom, 1808

MS.5370/70

Ship’s surgeon, French: accounts of voyages, including to the West Indies and to New Orleans, 1808–16

MS.4956

James Smithson F.R.S., English founder of Smithsonian Institution, Washington: mentioned in a letter by Sir Joseph Banks, 1809

MS.7331/26

Benjamin Rush, American physician and philanthropist: receipt cut from a larger document, 1812

MS.7559/12

New Orleans expedition: volume of medical and topographical sketches by an un–named British military surgeon, including service in the New Orleans expedition of 1815, 1813–15

MS.3504

William Bartram, traveller and ornithologist: copy, made by the polar explorer Edward Sabine, of material on North American birds published by Bartram in 1792 in his Travels through North and South Carolina, 1813

MS.Amer.109

Edward Sabine, Arctic explorer: ornithological notebooks, compiled in the Niagara region, 1814–15; See also William Bartram, above

MS.Amer.110

François André Michaux, French botanist and traveller: letters, including one giving detailed advice on planting acorns to be dispatched from America for various crown properties in France and a list of the seeds of Kentucky, 1817–27 and n.d. MS.7342/12–15

Nicolas Chervin, French physician: collection of professional opinions concerning the contagiousness of yellow fever, received from New York and New Orleans as well as from the West Indies (most of the collection comes from Guadeloupe) and South America, 1817–22

MS.Amer.113

George Cheyne Shattuck, U.S. physician and philanthropist: letter, and piece headed “Webster upon Mann”, 1821 and n.d. MS.7755/4–5

Agricultural Society, Philadelphia: letter from the vice–president to a member of the Thoüin family, French botanists, 1824

MS.7598/54

Dr. Shirley Palmer, British medical writer: letter concerning the forwarding of plants sent to Palmer from the U.S.A, 1824

MS.7364/68

Charles Waterton, English traveller and naturalist: letter describing a visit to the United States, 1825

MS.7806/1

Philippe Ricord, U.S.–born French syphilologist: letters and papers. 1826–1922 and n.d.

MS.7540

Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New Brunswick, Canada: manuscript copy of a published depiction of “the most approved toilet”, linking toilet articles to virtues (the best lip salve, for example, is cheerfulness), 1828, copied 1860

MS.4810

John Torrey, botanist and chemist: letter, 1829

MS.7755/14

Joseph Lakanel, former President of the University of Louisiana: letter to Dominique François Arago, French astronomer and politician, describing the United States, n.d. MS.7039/7

Lewis David von Schweinitz, American mycologist and Moravian clergyman: letter to the Danish botanist Dr. Nathaniel Wallich, concerning specimens sent by the East India Company, 1830

MS.7559/13

Thomas Say, U.S. conchologist: letter to the British conchologist and artist George Brettingham Sowerby I, 1830

MS.7755/3

Benjamin Silliman, physician, chemist and scientific author: letter, 1831 MS.7755/6

Horace Evans, American physician: Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction certificate of attending a year’s course of instruction, signed by the physician Joseph Parrish, the chemist Franklin Bache, the surgeon John Rhea Barton, George B. Moody and the physician, geologist, zoologist and paleontologist Samuel George Morton, 1831 MS.7338/11

John James Laforest Audubon, ornithologist and artist: letters, 1831–9 and n.d. MS.7803

Thomas Nuttall, English–born American naturalist: letter to his mother and sisters in Yorkshire, concerning his career, 1831 MS.74286/6

Edmund Roberts, United States merchant and diplomat: letters, in the papers of John Robert Morrison, Chinese interpreter and Colonial Secretary of the Hong Kong government, concerning the Peacock expedition to Siam and Cochin China led by Roberts, 1832

MS.5830

Thomas Hodgkin, pathologist and campaigner against slavery, colonialism and the mistreatment of native peoples: see general collection. Particularly relevant in this section are papers on the treatment of Native Americans, with particular reference to the Chippeway (Ojibway); on slavery in the USA and plans to resettle freed slaves in Liberia, including extensive correspondence with Elliot Cresson of the American Colonization Society; Numerous American figures represented in correspondence, chiefly Quakers. See Hodgkin collection catalogue for full details, including index to correspondents

PP/HO.

Samuel Lytler Metcalfe, American physician: letter to his publisher about his work Caloric: Its mechanical, chemical and vital agencies in the phenomena of nature, 1842

MS.7222

George Bacon Wood: published volume, Syllabus of the Course of Lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy delivered in the University of Pennsylvania by George B. Wood, M.D. (published 1844), with manuscript notes interleaved. c.1845

MS.8637

John Thomas Metcalfe, American physician: letter, in French, to the French surgeon Jean Zuléma Amussat, 1845

MS.7312/56

James Tyrrell Carter Ross, Surgeon and medical officer, British Army in India: commonplace book including account of travels in North America. c.1850–c.1870

MS.7857

Sir Clements Robert Markham, geographer: account of travels in Peru, 1852–3, including journey there from New Brunswick, Canada, through New England and New York, 1845–1915

MS.Amer.126

– Letters, 1865–1913 and n.d.

MS.7308

Samuel Morse, American artist and inventor, telegraph pioneer: letter, signed, to Dominic François Jean Arago, describing a successful test of his telegraph system, 1846

MS.7338/7

William Middleton Michel, American physiologist and histologist of French extraction: letter concerning his thesis, 1846

MS.7338/1

Philip Clayborne Beech M.D., Richmond, Virginia: letter to Beech from the English physician and author George Henry Kingsley; matters of American interest discussed in the letter include the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and a mutual acquaintance named Naysmith who has just spent a year in America, 1849

MS.7838

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, physician and geologist: letter concerning the biography of an un–named general (probably another member of the influential Van Rensselaer family), n.d.

MS.7755/17

Mr. Thompson, American marine engineer: report to a French learned society concerning a life–saving apparatus invented by Thompson, n.d. (c.1850s)

MS.7435/61

Sir Henry Wellcome: Personal Papers: Material on his early years in the USA and on his family and friends there, as well as his interest in the Metlakhata settlement of Native Americans, 1850s–1930s

WA/HSW

Thomas D. Müller, Philadelphia professor of surgery: 1 signature, n.d.

MS.7428/1

Valentine Mott, American pioneer of arterial surgery: letters to Jean Zuléma Amussat, French surgeon. n.d.

MS.7338/8–10

Louis François de Pourtalès, American zoologist of Swiss origin: letter to the astronomer William Cranch Bond, concerning Morse telegraph links, and congratulating Bond’s son, 1852

MS.7428/7

Orlando Williams Wight, lawyer and writer, Newark (N.J.): mansucript of The Romance of Abelard and Heloïse, philosophical novel, 1852

MS.5002

Dr. Flügel, United States consul–general in Leipzig: letter about autograph collecting to Flügel from Dr. Karl Ludwig Christain Rümker, 1853

MS.7550/35

James Armstrong Macdonagh, Cunard Company surgeon: journal and observations made on voyage on emigrant ship from Ireland to Quebec, and on subsequent travels in Canada, 1853

MS.Amer.139

Albert Lee Ward, American diplomat and Red Cross Volunteer: letters and papers relating to his service as private secretary to Elihu Benjamin Washburne, US Minister in Paris during the Franco–Prussian War; with related letters and papers of other members of the Ward family, 1854–1921 and n.d.

MS.6243

James Joseph Sylvester, professor of mathematics at University of Virginia, Woolwich Academy, Johns Hopkins University and Oxford University: letters, 1855–84

MS.7755/7–11

Henry Piers, British naval surgeon: journal while surgeon on HMS Satellite on a voyage to Vancouver Island via the Falkland Islands and the Pacific coasts of Chile and Peru, 1856–7, and while stationed at Vancouver Island, 1857–9, during which British Columbia was declared a British Colony, 1856–9

MS.6110

Arthur Wellington Clah, Tsimshian Native American, member of Metlakahtla settlement on west coast of Canada later transferred to Alaska: journals including notes on his culture and reminiscences; plus writings by Sir Henry Wellcome related to the journals, 1859–c.1920; See also Albert Wellington, below, his son

MS.Amer.140

Henry Augustus Ward, mineralogist and geologist: 3 letters, 1859–66

MS.7800/1–3

Edward Jarvis, American physician: facsimile of Jarvis’s autograph autobiography, the originial held at Harvard as MS. Amer. 541 Jarvis was born in Concord, Mass., and practiced here and in Louisville, Ky.; his dominant interest was in care of the insane. Original item 1860 (date of copy not known)

MS.8028

Emma, Queen of Hawaii: letter by Jane, Lady Franklin, widow of the polar explorer Sir John Franklin, discussing a visit to England by the Queen, n.d.

MS.7831/8

Matthew Fontaine Maury, American oceanographer: letter to Lieutenant Elie Margollé of the French navy, plus letter by Admiral Robert Fitzroy, hydrographer, explaining that the outbreak of war in America has cut off communication with Maury, 1860–2

MS.7312/42–43

Henry Darwin Rogers, American–born chemist and biologist: letter, 1861

MS.7545/9

John Hodgkin, barrister and Quaker preacher: papers and correspondence including those relating to a visit to the USA in 1861 and exchange of letters with the poet John Greenleaf Whittier. See Hodgkin collection catalogue for full details, including index to correspondents

PP/HO.

Solomon Cummings Wellcome, farmer, preacher and father of Sir Henry Wellcome, Garden City, Minnesota: lectures and sermons, c.1865–6

MS.4987

Harriet Martineau, English writer: letter on various topics including the emancipation of slaves in the U.S.A, 1866

MS.7307/4

Simon Newcomb, American astronomer: autograph review by Newcomb of Taxation: Its Levy and Expenditure by the contractor and politician Sir Samuel Morton Peto, c.1866

MS.7428/3

Sir John Lubbock F.R.S., later 1st Baron Avebury, British banker, Liberal M.P., author of popular science books: letter to B. M. Wright, asking about the provenance of an Easter Island statue and of material from Vancouver Island, 1870

MS.7830/38

Medical Women’s Federation: Some material on pioneer medical women in USA and Canada; files relating to Medical Women’s Hospital Fund support for civilian relief in, also Canadian Medical Women’s Gift and Federation of Medical Women of Canada assistance during, World War II; MWIA file for International Congress 1966 in Rochester, NY, USA/Niagara Falls, Canada

SA/MWF

Edward Tuckerman, professor of botany, Harvard: letter, 1871

MS.7755/16

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, born Welsh but emigrated to the United States: letters and associated material, including seating plan for dinner at close of 1891; American lecture tour with map showing towns visited during tour, 1872–1933 and n.d.

MS.7635

Richard Anthony Proctor, American astronomer: letters, plus manuscript “The Moon & Planets in the Lick Telescope”, 1873–87 and n.d. MS.7559/1–5

John Strong Newberry, American geologist and paleontologist: letter to the English paleontologist Thomas Pallister Parkes, discussing the Carboniferous fossils of Ohio, 1874

MS.7428/2

James Craig Watson, astronomer: letter, 1877

MS.7800/5

Joseph Everett Nourse, professor at the Maritime Observatory of the United States: letter concerning his election to the Société de Géographie Commerciale de Paris, 1877

MS.7428/5

William Fisher Norris, Philadelphia ophthamologist: letter to his fellow ophthamologist Wilhelm Stricker, concerning the launching of the Index Medicus, 1880

MS.7428/4

Wellcome Foundation: Materials relating to operations of pharmaceutical firm in USA and Canada, 1880s–1990s

WF

Sir Edward Sharpey–Schafer: Correspondence with colleagues in USA and Canada, 1880s–1930s; visit, 1913

PP/ESS

William Williams Keen: Small group of papers of this US surgeon, 1880s–1920s

GC/53

Physiological Society Additional deposited papers: Microfilms, etc, of papers relating to Professor GR Mines, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Canada, early C20th; also material on American Physiological Society, 1880s–1930s

GC/151

Henry Augustus Rowland, American physicist: letter concerning gratings for spectrum analysis, 1882

MS.7559/11

Charles Brodie Sewell, British physician: journal of holiday in the United States and Canada: sailing to New York City (paying particular attention when sightseeing to the Brooklyn Bridge), travelling via upstate New York and Niagara to Toronto, then Montréal, Québec, Boston, New York City again, Washington D.C. and back to New York City, 1883

MS.4508

Edmund Duncan Montgomery, physician at German Hospital and Bermondsey Dispensary, London, and demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Thomas’s Hospital before emigrating to America and writing on the nature of protoplasm: letter, 1883

MS.7338/6

Silas Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia physician and author, specialist in nervous disorders: letters, including one to the portrait painter Frank Holl mentioning pictures of Edward Jenner and James Paget, and one to Holl’s widow, c.1887–8 and n.d.

MS.7338/3–5

Hobart Amory Hare of Philadelphia: paper awarded the Fothergillian medal by the Medical Society of London, on “The pathology, clinical history and diagnosis of the affections of the mediastinum other than those of the heart and aorta...”, subsequently published under the same title in Philadelphia, 1888

MS.6163

John Monroe Van Vleck, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Wesleyan University: receipts and letter, 1890–1 MS.7755/18–20

Sir Arthur Cushny: Correspondence with individuals and institutions in the USA, 1890s–1920s

PP/ARC

Sequah: Various papers relating to activities of James Kasper (PA Gordon) on behalf of Sequah Ltd, in USA and Canada, 1890s

GC/69

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: Correspondence with individuals and institutions in USA and Canada, including dispersal of collections to various museums, 1890s–1980s

WA/HMM

Sereno Watson, curator, Herbarium of Harvard University: letter, 1891

MS.7800/6

David P. Todd, astronomer: signature, 1892

MS.7755/13

San Diego: letters relating to a British citizen’s death in a San Diego sanatorium, with ornamental letterhead showing the building, 1892

MS.7755/1–2

Thomas Morgan Rotch, American pediatrician: letters, 1 mentioning Sir William Osler, 1895 and n.d. MS.7559/8–9

Genevieve Tucker, physician, Colorado: letter, 1896

MS.7755/15

Queen’s Nursing Institute: District Nursing Overseas files include one on Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada, 1898; ‘Countries’ files include associations in Canada and USA, 1940s–70s

SA/QNI

Albert Wellington, Tsimshian Native American, member of Metlakahtla settlement, son of Arthur Wellington Clah (see above): memorandum and account book, compiled at various locations in Western Canada, 1900–2

MS.Amer.141

Walter Reed, American army surgeon, investigator of transmission of yellow fever: photocopied letter to a fellow military surgeon based in Cuba, describing work on yellow fever, 1900

MS.7559/7

Sir W Arbuthnot Lane: Autobiographical material re visits to USA, early C20th

GC/127

John Lancelot Todd, Canadian tropical medicine specialist: material on various diseases, chiefly African but also including work in the Canadian prairies on swamp fever in horses, 1902–20

MSS.4790–4807

Walter Bayne Geikie, Dean of Trinity School of Medicine, Toronto: printed volume with manuscript emendations, comprising Brief History of the Trinity School of Medicine, plus short printed papers relating to his resignation as Dean, 1903

MS.8554

Casper Lavater Redfield, writer on heredity and evolution: letter to the British geneticist William Bateson, asking his opinion of Redfield’s Control of heredity: a study of the genesis of evolution and degeneracy (Chicago, 1903), 1904

MS.7559/6

Burroughs Wellcome & Co: Historic Notes and Canadian Medical Lore, draft version of text later published by Burroughs Wellcome & Co. for 1906 British Medical Association Meeting in Toronto, 1905

MS.8539

Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton, Canadian tropical medicine specialist: notes and papers, chiefly material on beri–beri compiled whilst in Malaysia, 1905–1922

MSS.4693–4700

George Grey Turner: Correspondence with colleagues in Canada and USA, 1920s–30s, visits, 1906, 1918

PP/GGT

Roy Lee Moodie, American palaeopathologist: papers and correspondence, mainly concerning palaeopathology; various correspondents, especially in the United States, 1907–1934

MSS.5898–5938

Robert Ernest McConnell, specialist in tropical medicine: notebooks on swamp fever in horses, Canada, 1910

MSS.3353–4

Eileen Palmer: File on Edith How–Martyn’s birth control tour of USA, 1936, mostly Hawaii and California; correspondence with birth control campaigners in USA and Canada , 1910s–40s

PP/EPR

Howard Dudley King: typescript paper on The Epidemiology of Amoebiasis in the Southern United States. With some pertinent remarks as to the absence of liver abscess in the same regions, 1911

MS.8179

Edward Morrell Holmes, American–born curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society, London, and author on botany and materia medica: draft papers on the glucoside vanillin and obtaining it from the vanilla pod, on the United States pharmacopoeia, on Brazilian drugs and on yagé, 1914–27

MS.Amer.145–8

George Bernard Shaw, playwright: correspondence chiefly with J. McPeake, London representative of the Hearst press, about publishing Shaw’s work in the U.S.A., and also mentioning H.G. Wells in America, 1914–30

MS.7624

James Porter Mills, New York doctor, author of Spiritual Healing, from Existence to Life, The Science of Self–Consciousness (1914): letter, n.d.

MS.7338/2

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes: Correspondence with leaders of USA birth control movement, 1915–30s, one file of correspondence with individuals in Canada, 1934; much correspondence from private individuals scattered through ‘ML–GEN’ sequence

PP/MCS

Joseph Leidy, naturalist, palaeontologist and biologist, professor at Philadelphia University: memoir of Leidy’s life by the medical historian Fielding Garrison, read at the Medical History Club of Washington D.C, 1916

MS.2476

Sir Thomas Lewis: Files on training of US Medical Officers at Military Hospitals, 1917–8

PP/LEW

Louisa Martindale, surgeon: notes of cases etc. made on visit to Baltimore, Rochester, Chicago, Cleveland and Toronto, 1919

MS.3473

– Diary of visit to New York, Hartford (Conn.), Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago, 1924

MS.3478

– Diary of visit to New York, Philadelphia, Canada, Pittsburgh and Florida, 1950

MS.3487

Strangeways Research Laboratory: Files re funding from Rockefeller Foundation USA, 1920s–60s, and correspondence with individuals, organisations and journals in USA and Canada

SA/SRL

British Medical Association: Files re American Medical Association and on medical education in America, 1920s–50s; also advertising of yeast in American newspapers, 1920s–30s

SA/BMA

Eugenics Society: Files on US eugenics societies, correspondence with North American eugenicists, 1920s–50s; files pertaining to ‘Homes in Canada’ evacuation scheme, World War II Access only with permission of the Galton Institute
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SA/EUG

Family Planning Association: ‘Foreign countries’ files include USA and Canada, 1950s–60s; also correspondence with and other material about individuals active in US birth control movement, from 1920s

SA/FPA

Maj–Gen Sir Leonard Rogers: Material relating to leprosy in Hawaii, USA, 1920s–30s

PP/ROG

‘Insulin Controversy’: Copy documents and notes (1957) re controversy over responsibility for discovery of insulin, Toronto, Canada, 1922

GC/67

Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: Correspondence and reports from BW&Co USA Experimental Research Laboratories in Tuckahoe, 1925–33

WA/BSR

Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of Western New York: letter to Sir Thomas Barlow, in one of Barlow's scrapbooks, 1926

PP/BAR/M/3

– Printed memorial publication marking Brent's death, 1929

PP/BAR/T/6/8

[Francis] Peyton Rous, pathologist: letter to the medical researcher and historian Dr. Henry Peter Bayon on transplanting tumours in chickens, 1927

MS.7559/10

Ronald Hare: Various materials relating to his period at the Connaught Laboratories, University of Toronto, Canada, 1936–46, and his involvement with Canadian Government penicillin production; file on 1928 influenza epidemic in North West Canada

PP/HAR

International Physiological Congresses: File re Congress at Boston, MA, USA, 1929

GC/71

Henry Havelock Chown: Medical Men and Medicine in Early Years in Western Canada, paper read to Canadian Medical Association, 1930

MS.8551

Voluntary Euthanasia Society: Correspondence with Euthanasia Society of America, 1930s–50s, and with Prynce Hopkins Fund of San Francisco, 1960s–70s

SA/VES

Carlos Paton Blacker: Diary notes on visits to USA, correspondence with US colleagues in birth control movement, 1930s–70s

PP/CPB

Sir James Craigie: Reports, papers, correspondence etc, produced while working at Connaught Laboratories, University of Toronto, Canada, 1930s–50s

PP/CRA

Sir Robert Macintosh: Correspondence with anaesthetists in Canada and USA, 1960s–70s; diaries of visits, 1930s–60s

PP/RRM

Charles Joseph and Dorothea Waley Singer: Correspondence with institutions and colleagues in USA, 1930s–50s

PP/CJS

Robert George Ranyard West: Correspondence with individuals, organisations, publishers etc in USA and Canada on his various interests, 1930s–60s

PP/RRW

Sir Christopher Andrewes: Travel journals re visits to, conferences in, USA, 1930s–60s

GC/168

Rockefeller/Eugenics: Copy items from Rockefeller Family Archives (North Tarrytown, NY, USA) re support for English Eugenics Society, 1930s–40s

GC/88

Professor Hans Grüneberg: geneticist: correspondence, 1930s-82, with North American colleagues and re visit to US as Fulbright Fellow, etc

PP/GRU

Harvey Williams Cushing, U.S. surgeon: 2 letters to Professor F. Wood–Jones of the University of Melbourne, purchasing rare books, 1931

MS.7830/9–10

Archibald Malloch, Librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine: letter to Sir D’Arcy Power (1855–1941), mentioning Benjamin Bell, Joseph Lister, his own father, and a portait of Dr. Harvey, 1934

MS.7229

Katherine Harman: diary kept during British Medical Association Round the World Tour, on which Mrs. Harman travelled with her husband Nathaniel Bishop Harman F.R.C.S., describing journey from Southampton to New York and across the USA via Washington, Chicago, Albuquerque, the Grand Canyon and Los Angeles to San Francisco, 1935

MS.7394

Cancer Research Campaign, formerly British Empire Cancer Campaign: Files re research apparatus and chemicals imported from North America, 1948–58; material relating to donation and importation of Cobalt 60 Beam Therapy Unit from Canada to Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex, 1952–6; file on the Ontario Cancer Committee of the Department of Health, Canada, 1935–48

SA/CRC

R A McCance and Elsie Widdowson: Diary of Widdowson’s Study Visit to observe Research and Teaching in Nutrition and Dietetics in the USA and Canada, Apr–Jun 1936

GC/97

Philip D’Arcy Hart: files relating to trips to Canada and the USA, on matters to do with tuberculosis, some general travel materials, 1940s-2000s

PP/PDH

Sir Edward and Lady Mellanby: Files re Abraham Flexner Lectureship at Vanderbilt University, and visit to USA, 1947, lectures given in Canada, 1938

PP/MEL

William Walters Sargant: Two long stays in USA, 1938–9 and 1947–8, many subsequent visits: articles, lectures, etc, comparing psychiatry in Britain and US, 1950s–60s; involved in case of Patty Hearst, kidnapped and ‘brainwashed’, 1970s

PP/WWS

Health Visitors Association: Report on educational tour of Canada and USA, 1939

SA/HVA

Frederick Gordon Spear: Report of a visit to USA and Canada, 1940, on behalf of British Empire Cancer Campaign

PP/FGS

Sir Ernst Boris Chain: Correspondence with institutions and individuals in USA, consultancies for US bodies, visits, 1940s–70s

PP/EBC

Grantly Dick–Read: Correspondence about ‘natural childbirth’, with mothers and medical professionals in USA, 1940s–50s, and mothers in Canada; lecture tours to USA and Canada, 1940s–50s

PP/GDR

Francis Crick: Correspondence with colleagues in USA and Canada, also lecture tours, connections with various institutions, etc, 1940s–90s

PP/CRI

Dame Honor Bridget Fell: Files relating to membership of US societies, attendance at conferences, correspondence with individuals, institutions, journals, etc in USA and Canada, 1940s–70s

PP/HBF

Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord Moran: Ephemera and correspondence re visits to USA and Canada (as Churchill’s physician and in a private capacity), 1940s–50s, correspondence with US publishers of Struggle for Survival, 1950s–60s

PP/CMW

Sir William Paton: Attendance at meetings in the USA, including of Washington Submarine Escape Committee correspondence with colleagues, institutions (including Wellcome US operations), etc, 1940s–80s

PP/WDP

John Winston Gallop: Material re cyclotrons in USA, 1940s–50s

GC/160

Napsbury Hospital: Reports of Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Topeka, Kansas, USA, 1948–55, and reports on service psychiatry by US Army Officers, 1940s

GC/135

Sir RA Peters: British Anti–Lewisite: Correspondence and reports from US bodies and individuals re BAL research, 1940s–50s

GC/197

Constance AP Wood: Various materials re visits to and papers given in USA, 1940s

GC/95

Norman Heatley: Material relating to his visit to USA re penicillin production, 1941–2, and later work on secretin in US institutions, correspondence with North American colleagues, etc, 1950s–70s

PP/NHE

Forest Fulton: Papers relating to his work with Medical Research Council Typhus Committee, 1942–1946, include material from USA, including Report of US Typhus Commission at Dachau, 1945

GC/177

Valentina P. Wasson, paediatrician: letter, 1943

MS.7800/4

Robert Henry Stewart Thompson: Travel diary, and other material, relating to visit to USA and Canada, 1943

PP/RHT

Professor Donald Hunter: Visit to USA to investigate industrial health for MRC, attend Industrial Health Congress, 1945–6

PP/HUN

Alastair Robb–Smith: Material re consultancy visit to USA and Canada, re teaching of pathology, 1945–6; US National Committee on the Joint Causes of Death, 1947; Conference on Connective Tissue 1952; photos of other conferences

GC/182

Sigmund Heinrich Foulkes: Files relating to US visit, 1948–9, to observe and discuss group therapy, as visiting professor, University of North Carolina, 1958

PP/SHF

International Confederation of Midwives: correspondence with Canada and USA (member countries) 1970s-80; correspondence etc of Mrs Doris Haire, President of the American Foundation for Maternal and Child Health, 1954-77; ICM/WHO/UNICEF pre-Congress Workshop Midwifery Practice - Measuring, Developing and Mobilising Quality Care USA, 1995; Project reports, Vancouver, 1992; ICM collaboration with USAID (The United States Agency for International Development), 1960-80s; correspondence with various US-based organisations, 1970s-80s

SA/ICM

Air Marshal Sir Harold Whittingham: Notebooks with notes of inspections, as Director of Medical Services, BOAC, of airport medical and health facilities in the USA, including New York and Washington, 1949–54

PP/HEW

Leonard Colebrook: Diaries of American tour, 1950

PP/COL

Multiple Sclerosis Society: International Federation of MS Societies files include Canada, 1950s–70s, USA, 1960s, meetings in Minneapolis, 1968, New York, 1969 and Toronto, 1976

SA/MSS

Edith Bulbring: Correspondence with institutions and colleagues in USA; visits and conferences, 1950s–60s

PP/BUL

Sir Alan Daley: Papers relating to consultant appointment in Baltimore, 1952; correspondence with individuals in USA and Canada; lectures given in USA, 1950s–60s

PP/AWD

Michael Fordham: Correspondence of Jungian analyst with US colleagues and institutions, visits to USA to lecture, participate in seminars, etc, 1950s–90s

PP/FOR

Sir Peter Brian Medawar: Correspondence with individuals, institutions, and journals in Canada and USA, 1950s–80s

PP/PBM

Sir Edward Eric Pochin: Correspondence with US scientists re questions of radiation risks, 1950s–70s

PP/EEP

Marthe Vogt: Correspondence with colleagues in USA and Canada, 1950s–80s

PP/MLV

Sir Graham Selby Wilson: Files relating to work on Medical Advisory Committee of Research Institute, Chicago, USA, 1950s–70s; visits to USA and Canada, 1950s

PP/GSW

Sir Weldon Dalrymple–Champneys: Material re visits to USA and Canada, attendance at congresses, 1950s

GC/139

John Gilson: International involvement in classification of pneumoconiosis includes correspondence with colleagues in USA and Canada, 1950s–70s, and lectures given; consultant in investigation of case of employees of Reserve Mining Co, Lake Superior, 1977–9; reference materials from the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Montreal

GC/237

Henry McIlwain: Visits to USA and Canada, correspondence with colleagues, 1951–82

PP/MCI

Henry Rouse Viets: diary of journey in USA from Boston to Richmond and Los Angeles, 1957

MS.8628

Sir James Keith Ross: Files relating to his Heller Fellowship in Cardiovascular Surgery working in San Francisco with Dr. Frank Gerbode, and visits to other centres in the USA, 1958–60

GC/238

Frederick WG Wolf: ‘Research in Medicine in North America: some impressions of a study and lecture tour... 1958’

GC/38

Sir John McMichael: file relating to to professional visits to North America, c. 1959-64

PP/JMM/H/3

Stanley George Browne: Information on seminars attended by Browne at the United States Public Health Service Hospital, Carville, Louisiana, 1965, 1978; accounts of visits to Canada and USA in 1972 and 1979; correspondence re publication of Browne biographies ‘Bonganga’ and ‘Mister Leprosy’ in the USA, 1960 and 1980s respectively

WTI/SGB

Robina Addis: Files re association with Family Service Association, Edmonton, Canada, 1960s–70s and Commonwealth Fund, USA 1977

PP/ADD

Sir Richard Doll: Epidemiological consultancy work for US clients, correspondence with colleagues, lectures, etc, 1960s–90s

PP/DOL

Professor Percy Cyril Claude Garnham: Correspondence with USA scientists, mostly working on malaria, 1960s–70s

PP/PCG

R J Hetherington: Files on oral contraception and thalidomide in USA and Canada, 1960s–70s

PP/RJH

William Van Heyningen: Correspondence with US individuals and institutions re cholera research, 1960s–70s

PP/VAN

Cicely Delphine Williams: Files relating to visiting professorship in maternal and child health, Tulane University, New Orleans, and work in USA generally, 1960s–80s, lectures given at various venues in US and Canada

PP/CDW

Sir Rickard Christophers: Correspondence with US colleagues, 1960s–70s

GC/161

Sir John Gaddum: Correspondence with colleagues and institutions in USA, 1960s

GC/213

Peter Karl Lewin: His memoir, 'A Chameleon of Sorts: Autobiographical Vignettes', includes accounts of his life in Canada, including as a medical officer in the Canadian Army, 1960s onwards

MS.8369

Biochemical Society: files on international congresses in New York, 1964, and Toronto, 1979; visit to and meetings in US, 1990-1

SA/BIO/E.4, A.5/16

Sir Ronald Bodley Scott: Diary of tour to USA, 1966

PP/RBS

Ciprian Emmanuel Amoroso: material relating to visit to the University of Guelph, Canada, 1970s

PP/AMO

Alice Mary Stewart: Material relating to her involvement with occupational health issues to do with nuclear installations in the USA and Canada, visits, correspondence with colleagues, being an expert witness in legal cases, 1970s-90s

PP/AMS

John Bowlby: Material relating to overseas lecture tours to USA and Canada, 1970s–80s, and correspondence with colleagues

PP/BOW

ASH: Action On Smoking And Health (f. 1971) Some material on similar initiatives and issues in USA and Canada, 1970s–90s

SA/ASH

Mary Catterall: Papers include correspondence with North American colleagues working on neutron beam therapy, especially at FermiLab, and material relating to visits there, conferences, etc, 1970s–2000s

PP/CAT

Hubert Carey Trowell: ‘USA general correspondence’ (on dietary fibre), 1973–7

PP/HCT

Surgeon Captain 'Peter' Thomas Latimer Cleave: Evidence to US Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs (1973), correspondence etc with US supporters of his ideas on diet, 1970s

PP/TLC

Sir Ludwig Guttmann: Photograph album of paralympic games in Toronto, Canada, 1977

PP/GUT

BACUP: British Association Of Cancer United Patients And Their Family And Friends (f. 1985): Material on relations with organisations and individuals in the field of cancer treatment and care in USA and Canada, 1980s–90s

SA/BAC

World Federation of Occupational Therapists: file relating to constitution of American national association, 1987-93

SA/WFO/I/1

Psychiatry Interviews: Conducted by Sam Sussman, Director of Social Services, London, Ontario, Canada, 1988–9 re training and experiences of psychiatrists and changes in profession since 1940s

GC/132