Correspondence between Norman Dott and Harvey Cushing, 1924-1938

This sub-series consists of 3 files containing correspondence between Norman Dott and Harvey Cushing, dated 1924-1938. In 1923 the Award of a Rockefeller Travelling Scholarship enabled Dott to spend a year 1923-1924 studying under Cushing at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; he returned there in July 1929 for a few months only, and for some weeks was in charge of the major operative work of the Clinic. Dott always regarded his time with Cushing as the most important and influential event in his professional life, and referred to it passim in lectures, talks and correspondence. The correspondence ranges widely; it includes details of professional cases and treatment, the development of neurosurgery in U.S.A. and U.K. and the individuals and institutions concerned, arrangements for mutual vists, publications, appointments, colleagues, etc. The mutual respect and admiration of Cushing and Dott is very clear in this correspondence.