Medawar, Sir Peter Brian

This items contains the following letters:

Letter dated 30 June 1946 from P B Medawar to Haldane regarding corrections to a manuscript.

Letter dated 13 July 1946 from Medawar to Haldane regarding an unkown disease affecting Medawar's mouse colony.

Three letters dated 17, 18 and 19 November 1947 between Haldane and Medawar regarding an article by Medawar in Biological Review. Includes a handwritten draft of Haldane's letter of 17 November and a handwritten, untitled, article on selection which does not appear to be related to the correspondence.

Three letters dated 3, 19 and 29 December between Medawar and Haldane regarding ABO blood groups and the newly-created Chair of Genetics at the University of Birmingham. Includes a handwritten draft of Haldane's letter of 19 December.

Two letters between Medawar and Haldane regarding research into the use of cortisone during pregnancy for Rhesus-negative women. Haldane's letter is dated 19 July 1951.

Two letters dated 9 and 10 November 1951 between Medawar and Haldane regarding reports on the work of L S Penrose and others for the Royal Society Sectional Committee for Zoology. Includes a copy of Haldane's report.

Copy of a note from Haldane's secretary to the Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, returning a paper by A M Turing. [paper not enclosed with this copy]

Jun-Jul 1946

13 letters, 2 drafts plus 2 enclosures 29 sides

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.