General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "Cystic Fibrosis", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 11 June 2002. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 20 of the Witness Seminar series, D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey (editors), Cystic Fibrosis, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2004).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor John Walker-Smith), organisers of the meeting (Dr James Littlewood and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts and marketing leaflets for the meeting.

Handwritten notes and copies of e-mails regarding the organisation of the meeting and notes between the organisers and editors regarding the transcript and accommodating people's comments.

Documents include:

Photocopies of six slides titled; "CF Microbiology - Early days: Staphs et al."; "The Antibiotic Era"; "The Doggett Legacy: Mucoid Psuedomonas, Alginate Biofilms and a Rationale for early Therapy"; "Epidemic Spread, Cross-infection Control and Genomic Fingerprinting"; "Interdisciplinary Bridges; Superbugs Have Big Genomes, Eat Antibiotics and Aren't All Bad"; and "Emerging CF Pathogens - Thoracic Park!".

Typed copy of Dr Mary Goodchild's speech on "Diagnosis: Birmingham Work With Charlotte Anderson", dated 11 June 2002.

Copy of handwritten document produced by Dr Archie Norman about, "CF 1945-1955".

Typed transcript covering the visit of Dr Anne Kerr to Dr Mary Goodchild's home in Kent on 23 February 2000.

Typed document written by Dr James Littlewood titled, "The History of the Development of Cystic Fibrosis Care", fully referenced.

Typed document written by Dr James Littlewood titled, "Some Milestones in Cystic Fibrosis".