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Letters between/about visiting temporary workers and students from Britain, Australia, USA and Russia.

Bundle of letters re H J Duncan's visit/temp work at VRU, Cambridge: Letter from HJD to Roy Markham, personal letter, news after return to Glasgow, 25 Oct c 1966. 3 letters btw HJD, Chemistry Dept., Glasgow University and RM, 14 June, 22, 28 Sep, 18 Nov, 22, 28 Dec 1966 2 letters btw RM and Dr W E Berry, Agr. Research Council, London, 4, 10 Oct 3 letters btw RM and Dr W R Rees, Chemistry Dept., University of Glasgow, 13, 24 May, 1 June 1966 re HJD' s work at Glasgow and request for work experience at VRU

Bundle of letters re Michael Anthony Epstein: Letters btw Roy Markham and Prof Wilson Smith, Microbiological Research Establishment, Exp. Station, Porton, Salisbury and others re awarding Epstein's D.Sc., 22 March, 10, 14 May, 7 June, 17 July 1963. RM and WS were co-examiners. Draft summary of Epstein's research, 1 page, nd, c 1963.

Correspondence in folder labelled 'ARC Virus Res Unit Correspondence, Short (or long) period workers L-Z': visiting workers and students from Britain, Australia, USA and Russia.

Bundle of letters re Dr Hugh Lindley (b. 1916, Leeds; BA Cambridge, Ph.D., Leeds) a visiting worker at the VRU from January to September 1964 working under M W Rees. Lindley was a protein chemist, specialising in wool. He worked at the Wool Research Laboratories of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia from 1948. Letter from Hugh Lindley to Roy Markham re request to work at VRU in 1964 to acquire skills in protein biosynthesis relating to nucleic acid and nucleoproteins to help with his research on keratin biosynthesis, 8 Jan 1963. Letter from Roy Markham to Hugh Lindley re his app. to the VRU, 1 Feb 1963 Letters x 2 from HL to RM, Paris, June 1963 Letters x 2 btw HL and RM, ? and 6 Nov 1963 Letter from W J Catton to HL re accommodation, Dec 1963. Curriculum vitae for Hugh Lindley, nd, c 1963 Letters x 2 btw F V Bird, Agricultural Research Council (ARC) and RM re refs for HL's application for job at the ARC, incl. job description, June 1966.

Boris Fedorovich Vanyushin, a Russian biochemist, b.16 Feb 1935, Tula; USSR (Russia) Exchange Scholar, Moscow University, VRU visiting worker 1965: Application form for the Anglo-Soviet Scholarships Exchange by BFV x 2 copies in Russian and English: details of educational background, research, publications and proposed research subject at VRU, 4 April and May 1964. Letter from Roy Markhm to Prof. Belozersky, Inst. of Biochemistry, University of Moscow, re BFV, 10 July 1964. Letters btw RM and J E Lankester, Dep. Area Officer, The British Council, re report on BFV, 5, 16 Feb,1, 5 July 1965. Letters btw RM and Dr P S Squire, Churchill College, Cambridge, 12, 18 May 1965. Letter from RM to Dr Ken Burton, Oxford, 4 Jun 1965 Letter from RM to Miss S Clive-Smith, The British Council, 9 Jun 1965. British Council scholarship invoice, 28 June 1965.

Robert Peter van Tubergen, Yale Biophysics Dept., New Haven, Connecticut, USA: visiter worker at the VRU on a post doctoral US Public Health Service Fellowship 1959: Letters btw Roy Markham and RPvT, 5 March (incl. research proposal and scholarship notification/certificate), 6 April, 1959, 28 Aug, 12 Sep, 28 Nov, 1960, 4 Jan, 28 Jun 1961, 12 March 1965: admin, personal and work news. RPvT went on to work at the Rockefeller Institute, USA.

From box labelled 'Correspondence mainly with Roy Markham, 1957 to 1958; May 1960 to April 1966. purchasing arrangements 1962-1968. Correspondence re purchases for the VRU, with the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), contractors, invoices, tax office etc., including.: Electron microscope service contracts Ministry of Pensions: National insurance Motor Vehicle Licensing Authority: purchase of a Morris Mini-Estate for the VRU and maintenance products Laboratory Equipment: list of suppliers with special purchasing arrangements negotiated by the ARC. Misc. scientific/ lab equipment invoices, contracts and correspondence.

Folder (1) labelled 'Roy Markham Correspondence with Scientists 1959-60': From R W(Wallace) Brockman, Head of the Drug Resistance Sec., Southern Research Inst., Alabama, USA, re resistance to purine analogues, Stereptococcus faecalis, the Markham-typehigh voltage electrophoresis apparatus they set up after RM visit to their lab, acknowledged in their paper on cancer research, sent with papers 'Studies on the Metabolism of purines and Purine Analogs by 8-Azaguanine-Sensitive and -Resistant Lympphomas', 'Decreased Ribonucleotide Pyrophosphorylase activity in S faecalis Mutants Resistant to Purine Analogs' and 'Metabolismof 8-azaguanine, 6-mercaptopurine and natural purines by drug sensitive and drug resistant neoplasms, by R W Brockman et al, 1959. From the Professional Board of the University of Sydney inviting RM to be examiner for Mr G L Ada's doctorate, 24 Sep 1959. From Ministry of Agric., Rome, re cabbage black ringspot and alfalfa mosaic virus samples, 29 Feb 1960. From Waldo C Cohn to Dr A S Jones, Univ. Birmingham (with note to RM) re Mr Bramwell to work at his lab, 15 March 1960. From Waldo C Cohn to RM re Bramwell, 29 March 1960. Btw. RM and Dr Alex Berrie, Univ. Glasgow, re [Roderick] Macleod, 25 March, 5 April 1960. From B Cinadar, Univ. Toronto, Canada, re antibody action on ribonuclease, 13 May 1960. To Kenneth Smith from Miss A M Everard, The British Council, re prof. K S Bhargava, India visit, 13 June 1960. To RM from G E Wilde, Hon. Sec., Biochemical Soc., RM to give talk in 1961, 14 June 1960. Btw RM and Prof F G Young, Dept. Biochemistry, Cambridge, 21, 27 June, 1960. Btw RM and Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Organisé par le Centre Naitonal, Strasbourg, 2, 14 July 1960. Btw RM and H E McHugh, Housemaster, Desford Boys Approved School, Leicester, re specimens for a 'nature museum', 27 Jun, 4 July 1960. Btw RM and Mr A M Onyekwelu, Path. Div., Fed. Agric. Research, Ibadan, Nigeria, re request to study and work at VRU, 28 Jun, 4 July 1960. Syed Shamim Ahmad, Univ. of Sind, Hyderabad to Kenneth Smith (passed on to RM) re biological crop control in Pakistan and request to work for PH.D at VRU/Cambridge, 28 Jun, 5 July 1960. From RM to Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., re Silcoset, 5 July 1960. Btw RM and Prof. W V Thorpe, the Biochemical Journal, re presentation to Sandy Ogdon, 6, 7 July 1960 Btw RM and Prof. W T J Morgan, Lister Inst. of Preventative Med., London, re Mr Pusztai's visit to VRU, 11, 12 July 1960. From RM to Dr Martin, 12 July 1960. Btw RM and A Pusztai, The Lister Inst., Chelsea, 12, 14 July 1960 Btw RM and Whitehall, re certificate, Cruelty to Animals Act, 10 April, 14 July 1960. From P N Campbell, Hon. Sec., the Biochemical Soc., thanks to RM for role as Editor, 13 July 1960. Btw RM and Dr G S Verma, Lucknow University, India (worked in VRU with RM in 1950) re chromatographic study of nucleic acids, 13, 26 July 1960. From RM to Frank Calloway Esq, 28 July 1960. Btw RM and Prof. W T J Morgan, Lister Inst. of Preventative Med., London, re Mr Pusztai, quantitative amino acid equipment and resins needed and where to source materials, 29 July, 3 Aug 1960. From RM to Burgess & Co, Berks., re mist propagator, 3 Aug 1960. Btw RM and Matthew and Son Ltd, credit reference request for wife of a visiting scientist (Charles Lowe), 2, 3 Aug 1960. To RM from Dr Edward Herbert, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., USA, 3 Aug 1960. Btw RM and Dr Aaron King, Birkbeck College Crystallography Lab, 4, 5 Aug 1960 Abstract paper by RM re influenza virus (3 pages) nd [c 1960]

Box labelled 'Kenneth M Smith and C F Rivers VRU correspondence 1955-1962':