Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1922-1935.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, Gilbert William de Poulton, 1878-1949.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

32 items (53 leaves)

Contained In:

Morley Roberts Papers. Folder 104

Place of Publication:

1922-1935.

Biography/History:

Professor of Morbid Anatomy, University of London, Guy's Hospital.

Summary:

The correspondence was initiated in 1922 through the mediation of Arthur Keith, who had asked G. W. Nicholson to send Morley Roberts a certain reprint, which was enclosed in Nicholson's first letter to Roberts, in March 1922 (enclosure not present here). When Nicholson shortly later receives Roberts's letter in response, they quickly develop a rapport. They read each other's scientific work and exchange ideas (also in person), on topics that include: cancer or malignancy, specifically, the formation of tumors; and the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics. Nicholson often includes quotations from his own or Roberts's papers. In 1925, Nicholson reads and criticizes chapters in draft of Roberts's book Malignancy and evolution. Included is a reprint of Nicholson's article Cancer and causation (British Medical Journal, 30 March 1935, p. 650-651), which he sent to Roberts, with highlighting of a paragraph in which he credits Roberts with being: the first to Illuminate pathology by applying the biological conception of causation to cancer.

OCLC:

645628342