Autobiographies

Scope and Contents 4 versions of a lecture by Norman Dott, 'Reflections on personal experience', dated 1964. These talks related to Dott's own career, including personal and professional material, given to various Edinburgh societies, principally the Rotary Club of Edinburgh, August 1964 and the Soroptimist Club of Edinburgh, September 1964. The material consists of 4 versions of the talk, all different or with different manuscript corrections, and brief correspondence with club secretaries regarding the...

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Address by Norman Dott to Edinburgh University Club of Bristol, dated January 1962. The lecture mainly mainly contains autobiographical reminiscences. The material consists of 2 copies of the address, one with manuscript revisions and extensions; and correspondence with George L. Alexander.

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Address by Norman Dott to the Borders Clinical Club, dated January 1964. The material includes autobiographical material on 'Medical Travels' and notes for a similar talk given to Kirkcaldy Round Table, dated March 1964.

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'An itinerant medical man'. The Talk was given to the Colinton Parish Church Literary Society, dated December 1962. The material consists of a manuscript of the talk, and correspondence. Dott was born in Colinton and both talk and correspondence contain reminiscences.

Scope and Contents This series contains typed documents authored by David Sugden concerning his studies, his career, and his academic and scientific achievements.It includes: - "CV 2022": an extensive CV with personal information, studies, appointments, research and teaching activities, prizes and awards, research students he supervised, scientific lectures, and publications (numbered). - "Personal thoughts on work": two autobiographical texts written for his family...

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Todd, James Eadie. Autobiographical fragments in typescript.

Scope and Contents Autobiographical notes, curriculum vitae, lists of appointments and publications, prepared by Dott for the American College of Surgeons 1967 and regularly updated by him to 1972. The notes are in sections as follows, many with pencilled notes and dates by Dott: Personal; Academic distinctions, appointments, research; Academic appointments; ...

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MacDiarmid's autobiography "Lucky Poet", part typescript/mansucript, incomplete, with corrections and additions, c 120pp. Originally published in 1943.

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Commonplace book of William H. Peyton, indexed, c. 80,000 words. Copious notebook kept some of the time when the writer was visiting France and Switzerland, with references to Darwin and Huxley, and an autobiography at p. 181. Dated 1893-1898.

Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.

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Correspondence from Percival Bailey to Norman Dott, dated 1965. The brief correspondence was written to accompany a copy of his autobiographical paper 'Eulogium Magistrorum Meorum', and a typescript copy of 'Pepper Pot', Bailey's account of his work with Harvey Cushing, which are included in the folder.