Heatley and Florey's Work on Penicillin (copies of their correspondence) 1941-1942

Photocopies of exchanges of letters and cables between Heatley and H W Florey recording the collaboration of their research on penicillin and investigations into its possible large scale production, in the early 1940s. Includes accounts of interviews and discussions, progress reports on research, and some personal news.

Many of the copies are feint and difficult to read.

According to Heatley's notes in the files, the originals of some or all of the copies are held in the archives of the Royal Society.

The copies were probably made around the late 1970s or early 1980s.

(See also C/9/4).

1970s-1980s

4 files

This formed part of the batch of papers chosen by Heatley to be placed in an archive in the early 1980s and can therefore be said to have been material that he saw as particularly important.