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Personal papers of Silas Burroughs, manufacturing chemist and co-founder of Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Contains business papers, including a few letters between him and Henry Wellcome, plus letter books, writings, travel diaries, photographs and his postcard collection. Also includes the business papers of Olive Burroughs following the death of her husband, and notes on family history compiled by Len Goodwin.

6 transfer boxes, 15 archive boxes, 1 small non-standard box, 1 folder and 1 packet

Burroughs, Silas Mainville

Illustrated typescript account of service in Iraq, 1916-1918; inventory for insurance purposes of house, including contents of surgery; materials relating to Miss Waller's work in the Red Cross and the Voluntary Aid Detachment, 1912-1920.

Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

Cassette tape and transcript of an interview, 1993, with Professor Kurt Hellman, Professor Gerald Westbury and Dr Kenneth Newton, former colleagues of Sir Stanford Cade at Westminster Hospital.  Their reminiscences cover the closure of the radiotherapy department at Westminster and the re-organisation of the National Health Service in the 1980s, as well as their early years and the work of cancer therapy under Cade.

Westminster Hospital Radiotherapy interview

Roger Money-Kyrle was an influential psychoanalyst particularly noted for his promotion and development of the ideas of Melanie Klein. He was analysed by Ernest Jones, by Freud and later by Klein.Initially his interest in psychoanalysis was stimulated in connection with his work in philosophy, anthropology, and the social sciences generally, but following his analysis with Klein he became a practising analyst and subsequently a training analyst. His papers therefore reflect both his interest in the contributions psychoanalytic thought could make to understanding social problems, in particular in matters of war and politics, and also his contributions to analytic theory and praxis.The survival of these papers has been somewhat sporadic and haphazard and there are significant lacunae. However, there is a substantial amount of material relating to Money-Kyrle's writings and a significant number of case histories of his analytic patients. There is a little personalia, including some material of his wife's. There are a number of files relating to his work in the 1920s leading to his PhDs from Vienna and the University of London and the early development of many of his ideas. There is a small amount of material relating to his wartime activities and work in the aftermath of World War II in the German Personnel Research Branch. There is some correspondence with professional colleagues (though the survival of this appears to have been a little haphazard) and files relating to professional organisations and congresses. His work in preparing festschrift volumes with colleagues for Melanie Klein, and posthumous editing of her works, is also reflected in this collection.These papers were in a considerably disorganised state when received and in many instances a somewhat artificial order has had to be imposed to create a degree of coherence.

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Burroughs, Silas Mainville

Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

Westminster Hospital Radiotherapy interview

Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle (1898-1980), psychoanalyst

Nel tempo di una vita : studi sull'autobiografia in Galeno / Tommaso Raiola.

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Autobiography

Images

Catalogue

Burroughs, Silas Mainville

Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

Westminster Hospital Radiotherapy interview

Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle (1898-1980), psychoanalyst

Nel tempo di una vita : studi sull'autobiografia in Galeno / Tommaso Raiola.

Wellcome Collection

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