General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 3 June 2003. 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 22 of the Witness Seminar series, D.T. Zallen, D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey (editors), The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2004).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor Sir David Weatherall), organisers of the meeting (Professor Doris Zallen and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (D.T. Zallen, 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:

A figure provided by Professor Patrick Mollison showing a graph of percentage survival against haemoglobin concentration of cord blood (appeared as figure 4 in the published volume).

A typed copy of Professor Ronald Finn's talk prepared for the seminar.

A typed paper prepared for the seminar by Maureen Young titled, "Newborn Cardiovascular Responses During Exchange Transfusion".

A copy of a letter from Cyril A. Clarke, President of the Royal College of Physicians sent to David R. Zimmerman, dated 11 September 1973, with comments on Zimmerman's book disagreeing with facts set out in the book.

A reprint of a biography of Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, written by Sir David Weatherall, from Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol.48, pp.69-85, 2002.

A copy of the article by A.W. Liley, "The Development of the Idea of Fetal Transfusion", American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 15 September 1971.

A selection or articles from British Medical Journal, 2 November 1963.

A reprint of the article, L.A. Derrick Tovey, "Towards the Conquest of Rh Haemolytic Disease: Britain's Contribution and the Role of Serendipity", Transfusion Medicine, 1992.

A copy of the article, L.A.D. Tovey, Beryll J. Stevenson, Alison Townley and J. Taverner, "The Yorkshire Antenatal Anti-D Immunoglobulin Trial in Primigravidae", The Lancet, 30 July 1983.

A copy of the article, R.R. Race and R. Sanger, "Fisher's Contribution to Rh", Vox Sanguinis, vol.43, pp.354-356, 1982.

A copy of the article, D.R. Bangham, T.B.L. Kirkwood, G. Wybrow, N.C. Hughes-Jones, and H.H. Gunson, "International Collaborative Study of Assay of Anti-D (Anti-Rh) Immunoglobulin", British Journal of Haematology, vol.38, 1978.

A copy of the article, Sir Cyril A. Clarke and Ronald Finn, "Prevention of Rh Hemolytic Disease: Background of the Liverpool Work", American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, vol.127 no.5, pp.538-539, 1 March 1977.

A copy of George R. Saade's article, "Noninvasive Testing for Fetal Anemia", The New England Journal of Medicine, vol.342 no.1, 6 January 2000.

A reprint of the article, Maureen Young, "An Investigation of Baroreceptor Responses in the Newborn Infant", The Heart and Circulation in the Newborn and Infant.

A reprint of the article, L.A. Derrick Tovey, "The Conribution of Antenatal Anti-D Prophylaxis to the Reduction of the Morbidity and Mortality in Rh Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn", Plasma Therapy and Transfusion Technology, vol.5, pp.99-104, 1984.

A reprint of Beryl D. Corner, "The Rhesus Factors II: Haemolytic Disease of the New Born", The Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal, vol.LXIV, no.231, Autumn 1947.