Two Autograph Letters Signed from John Charles Boileau Grant to Professor David Waterston, 20 June 1939 ; 17 November 1940

1) 20 June 1939: Grant begins by thanking Waterston for a previous letter expressing appreciation for his attempt at a book on Anatomy. The book has been reasonably successful - particularly in the United States and in Australia, and he is very hard at work now on a second edition, to be published the following year. He reminisces about the past, with reference to the Mackenzie Waterston encouraged him to compete for at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and the "ghostlike", "semi dark passages & storeroom" containing Sir William [Turner]'s Collection. He finds the death of Woollard [Herbert Henry Woollard, 1889-1939] a great loss. He urges Waterston to visit Canada, and discusses their colleagues Alex Gibson, William Boyd, James Miller, and John Tait.

2) 17 November 1940: Grant was pleased to see Waterston's familiar handwriting in his letter about Dr. Mitford. The delay in replying was occasioned by a stay in hospital. His wife, who is teaching in the department of Physiology, had Dr. Mitford to tea with some friends ... He is sorry to hear that Waterston is not contributing to the next Edition of Cunningham. He has been asked to revise the respiratory section, and he has accepted. Grant adds that "Professor Cunningham would be very proud of St Andrew were he alive today."