Biographical, personal and miscellaneous material

Throughout his career, Sir Leonard Rogers seems to have kept a diary, if only in very brief form; these survive from 1900, and were deposited up to 1950. After his retirement from the Indian Medical Service in 1920 he began to prepare a summary of the contents of his diaries in 'Diary Notes'. Each diary contains a typescript list of the important events occurring during the year covered, and these were eventually, it seems, collated together into one continuous narrative, which served as the basis for Rogers's autobiography Happy Toil: Fifty-five Years of Tropical Medicine.

This section also includes notes prepared by Rogers on various topics which he felt he could not deal with, or only touch on at a superficial level, in Happy Toil. Listed here also are some miscellaneous items deposited by Rogers with the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine at a later date than the rest, which cannot be fitted into other sections of the list.