Correspondence chiefly concerning joint publications

Includes abstract of joint talk on 'Diagnosis of the syndrome of deafness and abnormal cardiac conduction' by George Fraser and Peter Froggatt prepared by Froggatt for meeting of the Society for Social Medicine, September 1963, and an account of Fraser's (illegal) visit to Lutheran Pastor in Pappendorf über Mittweida, East Germany, in connection with a suspected case from the nineteenth century, 2 September 1965, with photocopied material relating thereto.

Other correspondents include A. I. Friedmann.

George Fraser recorded,

‘In 1965, my wife and I, together with 16-month-old Elizabeth, set out in a red Volkswagen Beetle for Brno where I attended the Mendel Centenary Symposium between 4 and 7 August. I then spent some time in Prague and on 20 August left for the German Democratic Republic (DDR) where I had a two-day transit visa specifically to drive to Karl-Marx Stadt (now (and previously) Chemnitz) to stay there, and then to go on to the main crossing point to the Bundesrepublik (BDR) at Marienborn-Helmstedt. I only stayed one night in Karl-Marx Stadt and went on my successful, albeit illegal, mission to Pappendorf über Mittweida on the morning of 21 August 1965. Then, instead of taking the prescribed route through Leipzig to Marienborn, I went via Dresden to Berlin, where, as a good tourist, I wanted to spend my second night, never having been there. A Russian soldier in the outskirts of Berlin stopped my red Volkswagen Beetle and put paid to the tourist excursion by ordering me to cut across the outskirts to the Berlin-Marienborn autobahn and get the hell out of the DDR or else....perhaps it was because I could speak Russian that the ‘or else’ did not happen.’