General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "Intestinal Absorption", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 9 February 1999. 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 8 of the Witness Seminar series, D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey (editors), Intestinal Absorption, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2000).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor Sir Leslie Turnberg), organisers of the meeting (Sir Christopher Booth and Dr E.M. Tansey), editors of the published transcript (D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts, marketing leaflets and a publicity pamphlet for the meeting. Also details of a dinner following 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 copy of the references section from the end of Chapter 64, "Methods for Investigation of Intestinal Absorption", Handbook of Physiology; copies of four pages handed out at the meeting (journal extracts marked "A", "B", "C" and "D"); and the article, M.D. Hellier, C.D. Holdsworth, D. Perrett and C. Thirumalai, "Intestinal Dipeptide Transport in Normal and Cystinuric Subjects", Clinical Science, vol.43, pp659-668, 1972.