| Description | Personal file containing correspondence regarding contracts of employment (University and consultancy) and other work-related topics, 1967 - 1979, 1983, 1990, 1995, including:
Letters of congratulations received on Kosterlitz's appointment to the first Chair in Pharmacology at the University of Aberdeen, January - May 1968.
Correspondence with Reckitt and Colman, Pharmaceutical Department, Hull, regarding Kosterlitz's appointment as a consultant in organic chemistry, August 1973 - 1976.
Letter from G.M. Hector, Senior Assistant Secretary, University of Aberdeen, 18 October 1973, advising Kosterlitz of his honorary status of Director of Unit for Research on Addictive Drugs in connection with the approval of a grant from the Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence to undertake an 'assessment of agonist and antagonist properties of new analgesic drugs.'
Corresponance with Dr John Vane, Wellcome Research Laboratories and Dr ?Blaschleo, University of Oxford, regarding Kosterlitz's award of the Schmiedeberg-Plakette of the German Pharmacological Society, May 1976.
Correspondence regarding contributions to a 'Birthday Book' for Professor A.V. Hill, July - 1 October 1976.
Correspondence with Dr John Vane, Wellcome Research Laboratories, regarding Kosterlitz's Fellowship of the Royal Society, May - June 1977.
Correspondence regarding Kosterlitz's and John Hughes' nomination by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh for the 1980 Gairdner Foundation International Award, November - December 1979.
Two posters advertising University of Aberdeen Molecular and Cell Biology Group lectures on aspects of the enkephalin story, May 1978 and December 1979.
Letter from Professor Howard R. Morris, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, regarding Kosterlitz's eightieth birthday celebrations in Cambridge, which he hopes he may manage to attend by re-arranging a prior engagement, 25 March 1983. Morris also expresses his disappointment at the lack of recognition he has received for the part he played in solving 'the Enkephalin structure', in particular, the disregard shown by John Hughes: '... it was nonetheless hurtful when John implied in his Inaugural lecture last year that he knew the structure from Edman data and I provided merely a confirmation ! The problem I solved was not a trivial one at the time, and relied upon methods which I had developed myself over a period of years ... Retrospectively, I find it interesting to note that, other then close colleagues such as yourself, I've never received any acknowledgement from the scientific community for my work, probably because of my rash acceptance at our '75 meeting in Hull to allow my name to be placed last rather then first on our paper on the 'Identification', the accuracy of which I took sole responsibility for.' He also alludes to working difficulties experienced by his colleagues at Imperial College, in reccent collaborative research with Hughes. Kosterlitz's brief reply, 4 April 1983, states 'I do understand your feelings about the enkephalin story. I wonder if it would help to know that I have had similar experiences, albeit in another area. In the long run, the scientific community in the field will bear witness as to where the most important contribution emanated from'.
Letter to Kosterlitz from Dr. Barry Smith, of The Health Foundation, New York, asking Kosterlitz if he would consider revising his article on 'Enkephalins' for the new edition of the 'Encyclopedia of Neuroscience', 18 May 1994. With reply from Gordon M Lees declining, due to Kosterlitz's poor health, 28 September 1995.
At the back of this file are notes on experiments on Galactose Phosphate in liver undertaken February - May 1935. |