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- Record Id:
- 040-001950970
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001950872
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000392.0x000376
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FLEMING PAPERS. Vol. XC. 22 June-14 July 1949.
ff. iii + 32. 159 x 99mm. Memo book with double cover of limp blue paper.
Journal has ‘June 22 1949 USA’ written on the front.
Trip to America primarily for the inauguration of the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Research.
See 56193 and 56109, 56110 and 56118 for journals, papers and correspondence relating to visit to America.
Journal includes:
22 June. Queen Elizabeth II (boat) to New York
26 June. Met Dr Wyeth and talked about his work on cancer.
27 June. Meeting with the hospital staff and cocktails with Frank Brobst.
27 (should be 28, due to time difference).
Met by Allan [Fruff?] of the Rockefeller Foundation, Hugh Payne, Stan Pate (Pate Organisation) and Bill Jenkins of Oklahoma Foundation, Eduardo Castaño (Manager Parke Davis and Co, New York). Press conference.
29 June. Interviews for television and radio, including Daily Mirror.
30 June. Visit to Whitehouse and meeting with President Truman. Flight to Oklahoma.
3 Sept. Visit to Kiowa and met Chief Doy-Gei-Taun (Maker of Great Medicine) where Fleming became an honorary member of Kiowa Tribe. Dedication ceremony for Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Research. Dinner where Fleming made a speech.
5 Sept. Visited Mayo Clinic.
7 Sept. Conference and visit to Parke Davis and Co.
8 Sept. Lecture.
10 Sept. Flight to New York. Gave a speech at dinner of baseball club owners.
11 Sept. Lunch and speeches, visited new infectious disease building at Merck.
13 Sept. Visit to Pfizers (Chairman, John L. Smith).
14 Sept. Flight to Heathrow via Boston and Shannon.
includes:
- ff. 1-32 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: A. Fleming's journals containing notes and entries rel. to a visit to America for the inauguration of the Foundation, 22-14 July 1949: [1949].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001950872
036-001950958
040-001950970 - Is part of:
- Add MS 56106-56225 : Sir Alexander Fleming Papers
Add MS 56184-56208 : D. JOURNALS FLEMING PAPERS. Vols. LXXIX-CIII. Journals, mostly of Fleming’s travels abroad; 1935-1954. Twenty-five volumes.
Add MS 56195 : FLEMING PAPERS. Vol. XC. 22 June-14 July 1949. ff. iii + 32. 159 x 99mm. Memo book with double cover of limp blue paper. Journal… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001950872[0004]/036-001950958[0012]/040-001950970
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 56106-56225
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1949
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 22 Jun 1949-14 Jul 1949
- Era:
- CE
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