Letters from L S Penrose to Various

Date:
Mar 1969
Reference:
PENROSE/2/30/42
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L. S. Penrose Papers
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Letters from L S Penrose to Various. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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.

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Description

Contains two carbon copies of letters from Penrose to Mr Dazai and Dr Sughioka, Kyushu Kosei Menkin Hospital, requesting permission for Sohei Akiyama to visit the Kennedy-Galton Centre in the summer of 1969; a letter to Keio Tushin & Co. thanking them for a copy of the translated monograph of The Biology of Mental Defect; and a letter to John Maddox of Nature asking if he could use the block for an illustration from Wolfgang Schnedl's "The Bending Pattern of Human Chromosomes" published in Nature, for his revised edition of The Biology of Mental Defect.

Publication/Creation

Mar 1969

Physical description

4 folios

Related material

PENROSE/2/30/33 and PENROSE/2/30/41 in relation to the Japanese translation of Penrose's book, and PENROSE/2/30/45 in relation to Penrose's request to use the printing block.

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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.

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