Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs

These letters and autographs of scientists and doctors were given to Miss Ainsworth for her collection by Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, a friend of her father. A few of the autographs are from letters to her father, M Ainsworth, or collected by him for her. A number of them were annotated by Sir Charles, or Miss Ainsworth's father, with additional information.

Letters:

Sir Joseph Barcroft, Cerro de Parco (Peru) 'high altitude expedition', 4 Jan 1922,

Sir Henry Dale, Mount Vernon House Hampstead NW3 'on occasion of knighthood', 3 Jan 1932,

Sir Ifor Evans, Provost, University College London, 3 Nov 1964,

Sir Howard Florey, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Oxford, 16 Nov 1960,

John Sanderson Haldane, Oxford, [3 page letter discussing physiology] 18 Oct 1928,

W D Halliburton, Church Cottage, Marylebone Road NW1, 26 Feb 1926,

Alan Hodgkin, Cambridge, 27 Oct 1963,

Ivan Pavlov, Leningrad, [in German, mentioning Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer], 10 Jun 1930,

Sir Charles Sherrington, Oxford, 9 Jun 1924,

Ernest H Starling, University College London [on Foulerton Professorship and insulin], 13 Dec 1922.

Autographs (in some cases more than one for each individual), mostly cut from letters, but some on loose pages from autograph album:,

Philip A Allison,

Hugh Clegg,

E C Dodds,

C G Douglas,

J C Eccles ('Nobel Prize 1963'),

L Farrer-Brown,

Jack Gaddum,

R A Galgany,

Louis Guttman,

Fong Yen Hsu,

Maj-Gen J Huston,

Andrew Huxley; Louise and Georg Kahlson,

J C Kendrew ('Nobel Prize, recent TV lectures Molecular Biology "The Thread of Life"'),

Prof Yas Kuno ('senior physiologist of Japan now retired'),

Sir John Lockwood ('Master of Birkbeck College London'),

Douglas H K Lee,('US Dept of Health Education and Welfare,Occupational Health Research,Cincinnati Ohio'),

Sir Douglas Logan,('Principal,Univ of London')

Sir Charles Lovatt-Evans,

A A Miles,

Frederick R Miller,

Prof G Paulet,

B H Spilsbury,

Donald D van Slyke,

C P Snow,

John R Squire,

Ernest H Starling,

Giulio Stella ('Prof Physiology at Padua. The Accademi dei Lincei (Academy of the Lynx) is the senior academy of Europe - early XVII cent'),

Professor Chiao Tsai ('Prof of Physiology,Pekin'),

Sir Owen Wansborough-Jones,

V B Wigglesworth,

Prof F G Young,

Prof Sir Solly Zuckerman,

Prof A O Zupancic (Ljublana),

1 illegible and unidentified.

1920s-1960s

1 file

Given to the library at Wellcome Collection by Miss Ainsworth in Feburary 2006

Letters, and signatures cut from letters, to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and given by him to Miss S Ainsworth via her father, M Ainsworth, a biophysicist who worked at Porton Down, for her collection; some autographs and signatures from letters acquired by M Ainsworth and given by him to his daughter

Papers of Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, PP/CLE

Preserved by Miss Ainsworth in her autograph collection