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040-001950974

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032-001950872

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FLEMING PAPERS. Vol. XCIV. 8-20 April 1950.

ff. i + 50. 145 x 90mm. Herald Square notebook with limp cover of blue paper.

Journal has ‘End of USA trip 1950’ written on the front.

Tour started on 14 March 1950; see 56198 for entries relating to the start of the tour.

See 56110 and 56111 for papers and correspondence relating to the tour.

Journal includes:

Section one: Newspaper articles

1. f. 1. ‘Fleming Portrait given to Academy of Medicine’, New York Herald Tribune, Thursday April 13, 1950.

2. f. 2. K. Lewis Warren ‘As Sir Alexander Fleming, here sees it: Penicillin termed forerunner of better drugs’, Richmond News-Leader, April 11, 1950.

Section two: 8-20 April 1950.

ff. 3-27. Last section of American lecture tour

8 April. Description of Roanoke.

10 April. Visit to Jefferson University.

11 April. Interview with Karen Lewis Warren of Richmond News Leader (see f.1). Visit to hospital and laboratories. Lecture ‘Search for Antibiotics’ under the title of ‘Modern Research in Antibiotics’. Dinner with Alpha Omega Alpha.

12 April. To New York, visit to Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medicine for presentation of portrait.

13 April. Met Gladys Hobby (microbiologist) at Pfizers and gave short talk. Boarded boat back to England.

14-20 April. Journey to England via Le Havre.

Met Sir Gerald Campbell, previous Consul General and High Commissioner to Canada.

Visited the ship’s hospital, casualty and operating ward.

Section three:

ff. 46v-50.

Notes on experiments

Notes on Serramycin (Hobby)

Names and addresses

includes:

ff. 1-27 America: A. Fleming's journal entries relating to a lecture tour, includes newspaper cuttings, 14 March-20 April: 1950: Partly printed.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001950872
036-001950958
040-001950974

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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 56199 : FLEMING PAPERS. Vol. XCIV. 8-20 April 1950. ff. i + 50. 145 x 90mm. Herald Square notebook with limp cover of blue paper. Journal…

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032-001950872[0004]/036-001950958[0016]/040-001950974

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View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 56106-56225

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File

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1 item

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1950

End Date:

1950

Date Range:

Apr 1950

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America, North America