University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

2 versions of lecture by Norman Dott on Robert Burns and Medicine given in Edinburgh. The lectures have different mauscript corrections, and one has a note 'lent to Dr. Happel 27.11.70. [27 November 1970]'.

Correspondence between Norman Dott and the British Council Specialist Tours Department, dated 1963-1964. The correspondence relates to tours planned and Council support. It includes letters about recital of Burns' songs in the vernacular.

Correspondence between Norman Dott and Douglas Guthrie dated 1963 and Dott and Sir Walter Mercer, dated 1967. The correspondence relates to references for Dott's talks on Robert Burns and Medicine.

Speech given by Norman Dott at Colinton Burns Club, proposing 'The Immortal Memory', dated January 1966. The material uses some of the same material as Coll-32/D.212-D.216 and it includes correspondence.

Text of paper by Norman Dott on 'Facial Pain', delivered in June 1951. The material consists of the text of the paper, with summary, list of slides, and glossary of Scots terms used in poem by Robert Burns 'Address to the Tooth-Ache', with which paper opens. When the lecture was first delivered, these verses were spoken by Doctor A. Brownlie Smith and the item includes Dott's letter of instructions to him on his 'powerful declamation'.

Version of lecture by Norman Dott on Robert Burns and Medicine given. The paper was given at the Medical Historical Society of Norway meeting at Oslo, May 1964. The material has many manuscript corrections, and it contains brief correspondence regarding Scots dialect in the lecture, see Coll-32/E .45.