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Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott Collection: The Sir Charles Scott Sherrington fonds Names: Charles Scott Sherrington, Sir, 1857-1952 Description: Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was a British physiologist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1932. He was also a friend of Dr F. F. Wesbrook, first President of The University of British Columbia. The fonds consists of letters, personal documents, and memorabilia of his career acquired from his son, Carr E. R. Sherrington in 1964. Dates: 1892-1951 Location: Memorial Room Rare Cabinet 27 Items: 24 cm of textual records Path:S:\LSLwebsites\woodward\memoroom\collection\inventory_docs\Sherrington_Charles.doc Last Revised: April 11, 2007 Page 1 of 31 Collection: The Sir Charles Scott Sherrington fonds Inventory: Brief Index Part I. Correspondence Part I. Section 1. Letters by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Section 1. i. To Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997) Section 1. ii. Removed from sequence Section 1. iii. Miscellaneous Section 1. iv. To Carr E.R. Sherrington Section 1. v. To Dr. William C. Gibson Part I. Section 2. Autograph letters to CSS Part I. Section 3. Letters relating to CSS Part II. Manuscripts A. Manuscripts of the Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Collection Part III. Miscellaneous articles or items about or pertaining to Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Part IV. Photographs in the Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Collection (See also the Sherrington folder in the port.-biog. file) Part IV. Section 1. Removed from sequence Part IV. Section 2. Removed from sequence Part IV. Section 3. Book illustrations, frontispieces, etc. Part IV. Section 4. Photographs of laboratories, buildings, landscapes, etc. Part V. The Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Diploma Collection (in the Sherrington Room or map cabinet) Part VI. Objects in the Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Collection Part VI. Section 1. Medals, stored or in the Sherrington Room Part VI. Section 2. Personal objects, stored or in the Sherrington Room Part VII. Books and Pamphlets in the Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Collection Path:S:\LSLwebsites\woodward\memoroom\collection\inventory_docs\Sherrington_Charles.doc Last Revised: April 11, 2007 Page 2 of 31 Collection: The Sir Charles Scott Sherrington fonds I. Correspondence Section 1. Letters by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington All letters are signed autograph letters unless otherwise stated i. Letters to Sir John Carew Eccles 1. Sept. 19, 1933. 2. Christmas 1935; one signed postcard. 3. Feb. 7, 1936; with envelope, stamp missing. 4. July 30, 1936; with envelope, stamp missing. 5. Oct. 3, 1936. 6. Nov. 4, 1936; with envelope, stamp missing. 7. Christmas 1936; one signed card. 8. Feb. 6, 1937. 9. May 4, 1937; with envelope, stamp missing. 10. May 29, 1937. 11. Dec. 17, 1937; with envelope, stamp missing. 12. Christmas 1938; two signed cards with envelope. 13. New Year's Eve 1938; two letters with envelope, stamp missing. 14. Feb. 9, 1940; with envelope, stamp missing. 15. Jan. 16, 1941. 16. Apr. 4, 1941; with envelope, stamp missing. 17. Aug. 24, 1943; with envelope, stamp missing. 18. Dec. 12, 1944; with envelope. 19. Nov. 18, 1945; with envelope, stamp missing. 20. Oct. 20, 1946; envelope, stamp missing. (a) Nov. 12, 1946; carbon of typed letter from JCE to CSS. 21. Dec. 10, 1946; two letters with envelope, stamp missing. 22. Dec. 1, 1947; envelope, with stamp. 23. July 31, 1948; envelope, stamp missing. 24. Jan. 4, 1949; envelope, with stamps. 25. Oct. 1950; one signed Christmas card, with envelope and stamps. 26. Jan. 4, 1951; envelope, with stamp; addendum: an incomplete typed copy of a letter from JCE to CSS (May 2, 1951). 27. Dec. 1951; one signed Christmas card, with envelope and stamp. Path:S:\LSLwebsites\woodward\memoroom\collection\inventory_docs\Sherrington_Charles.doc Last Revised: April 11, 2007 Page 3 of 31 Collection: The Sir Charles Scott Sherrington fonds ii. Removed from sequence iii. Miscellaneous Letters 1. To Frank Fairchild Wesbrook; April 26, 1915. This letter is the inclusion of Bidloo's Anatomia (1685), a gift from CSS to the University of British Columbia. 2. (Removed from sequence) 3. (Removed from sequence) 4. To Dr. W.C. Gibson; two letters, Dec. 15, 1948, with envelope and stamp; Jan. 16, 1949. 5. (Removed from sequence) 6. To Alexander Forbes; May 18, 1948; typed unsigned copy. 7. To Sir E.H. Starling; June 8, 1924. (Missing July 1976) 8. (Removed from sequence) 9. To Margaret Sherrington (daughter-in-law); Nov. 20, 1935; one signed card. 10. To E.N. da C. Andrade; Oct. 1935? rough draft of letter; reply to Andrade's letter (item I, 2, 259) about his (A's) forthcoming book. 11. To Oliver Elton; May 19, 1940. 12. To Lady Dale; October 7, 1941. 13. To Sir Henry Hallett Dale; November 30, 1947. 14. To Lady Dale; July 13, 1946, with envelope and stamp. 15. To Lady Dale; July 13, 1946, with envelope and stamp. 16. To Institut de France, Academie des sciences; January 10, 1924 (draft of a letter). 17. To Margaret Sherrington; Oct. 2, 1929. Discusses debasement of English language and alternate spellings our/or: e.g. labour. iv. Letters to Carr E.R. Sherrington 1. Apr. 22, 1922. 2. Sept. 27, 1922. 3. Oct. 11, 1922. 4. Apr. 18, 1923. 5. June 11, 1927. 6. May 18, 1921. 7. Aug. 5, 1921. 8. Sept. 18, 1922. 9. Oct. 10, 1922. 10. Mar. 26, 1918. Path:S:\LSLwebsites\woodward\memoroom\collection\inventory_docs\Sherrington_Charles.doc Last Revised: April 11, 2007 Page 4 of 31 Collection: The Sir Charles Scott Sherrington fonds v. Letters to Dr. William C. Gibson 1. Nov. 18, 1935(?). 2. Feb. 27, 1936. 3. July 19, 1936. 4. July 30, 1936. 5. Nov. 29, 1936. 6. Dec. 4, 1936. 7. Feb. 20, 1937. 8. June 8, 1937. 9. July 3, 1937. 10. July 31, 1937. 11. Oct. 12, 1937. 12. Oct. 31, 1937. 13. Dec. 20, 1937. 14. Jan. 22, 1938. 15. Feb. 10, 1938; 1 postcard. 16. May 28, 1938. 17. July 2, 1938; 1 telegram. 18. July 3, 1938. 19. Feb. 21, 1940; with envelope. 20. June 28, 1940. 21. Jan. 14, 1941. 22. Jan. 8, 1943; with envelope. 23. Jan. 9, 1946. Note: two more letters to W.C.G. under I, 1, iii. Section 2. Autograph letters to Charles Scott Sherrington All letters are signed autograph letters unless otherwise stated 1. ACLAND, Theodore Dyke, 1951-1931; two typed, signed letters, March 4, 1919 and March 12, 1919. 2. ADAMI, John George, 1862-1926; two letters, June 3, 1919 and Oct. 18, 1920. 3. ADAMI, Marie; four letters, Nov. 10, 1935, Feb. 19, 1936, May 12, 1936, Oct.22, 1936; on the Keats family and on two letters of John Keats. 4. ADRIAN, Edgar Douglas, Lord, 1889 -; thirteen letters, March 17, 1924, July 8, 1924, Oct. 24, 1929, March 27, 1930, July 14, 1930, Oct. 30, 1932, Oct. 27, 1933, May 25, 1946, Nov. 24, 1951, Dec. 19, 1933, Nov. 8, 1934, June 11, 1936, April Path:S:\LSLwebsites\woodward\memoroom\collection\inventory_docs\Sherrington_Charles.doc Last Revised: April 11, 2007 Page 5 of 31 Collection: The Sir Charles Scott Sherrington fonds 8, 1937. (The Oct. 27, 1933 letter has a penciled draft of a reply by CSS on the back) 5. ALEXANDER, Samuel, 1859-1938; June 7, 1930. 6. ALEXANDER, Frederick Matthias, 1869 - ; Aug. 5, 1946. 7. ANDERSON, Sir Hugh Kerr, 1865-1928; five letters, Mar. 10, 1920, June 6, 1922, Nov. 13, 1925, June 2, 1928 (typed, signed), Oct. 15, 1928 . 8. ANDERSON, Louisa Garrett; Oct. 30, 1924. 9. ANDRADE, Edward Neville da Costa, 1887-; four letters, July 9, 1942, Oct. 29, 1949, June 9, 1951, Nov. 3, 1949 (typed, signed), also one typed copy extract of letter from Miss Ruth Pitterto Andrade on Sherrington's poems and reprint of Andrade’s Newton article from Royal Society Proceedings, 1943, ser.A, 181, pp. 227-243. See also I, 2, 259. 10. ASAYAMA, Chuai; three letters, Feb. 26, 1916, Sept. 26, 1915, Dec. 31, 1917. 11. ASTOR, John Jacob, 1886-; two letters, May 30, 1924, Feb. 6, 1930 (typed with salutation, close, and signature hand-written). 12. BALDWIN, Stanley; Oct 8, 1934 (typed, signed). 13. BALFOUR, Arthur James, 1848-1930; June 6, 1921 (typed, signed). 14. BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred, 1856-1936,?, 1922 (card) sent with the Thomas Vicary Lecture. 15. BARCROFT, Sir Joseph, 1872-1947; July 4,1939. 16. BARRAQUER-FERRE, Luis; Feb. 7, 1949 (typed, signed). 17. BATESON, William, 1861-1926; three letters, Nov. 17, 1920, May 23, 1923, Dec. 23, 1925. 18. BAYLISS, Sir William Maddock, 1860-1924; two letters, Oct. 17, 1915, Nov. 21, 1920. 19. BAZETT, Henry Cuthbert, 1885-1950; April 17, 1921? 20. BEIT, Sir Otto (John), 1865-1930; Nov. 8, 1924. 21. BELL, Robert Anning, 1863-1933; three letters, May 21, 1931, June 1, 1931, Jan. 28, 1932. 22. BENNETT, Joan, 1896-; Aug. 12, 1942. 23. BENNETT, E.K.; July 31, 1946. 24. BERITOV, Ivan Solomonovich, 1884-; four letters, Jan. 27, 1915, April 30, 1916, Nov. 23, 1916, June 7, 1937 (typed, with envelope). 25. BLACKALL, E.; two letters (typed, signed), May 21, 1948, May 30, 1948. 26. Omitted from sequence. 27. BOSE, J.C.; Nov. 14, 1920. 28. BOTTAZZI, Filippo, 1867-1941: five letters. Dec. 28, 1914, Nov. 24, 1915; Dec. 16, 1917, Feb. 2, 1918, n.d. 29. BOWER, Frederick Orpen, 1855-1948; July 26, 1942. Path:S:\LSLwebsites\woodward\memoroom\collection\inventory_docs\Sherrington_Charles.doc Last Revised: April 11, 2007 Page 6 of 31 Collection: The Sir Charles Scott Sherrington fonds 30. BOWES & BOWES; two letters (typed, initialed), May 20, 1947, June 27. 1947, also one typed list of books donated by CSS to the Royal College of Surgeons or the British Museum.
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