| Description | Letter from David Daube, All Souls College, Oxford, inviting Kosterlitz to join him for lunch or dinner at All Souls, 14 October 1958. With Kosterlitz's draft reply pencilled on back (acceptance for lunch), 16 October 1958.
Correspondence with Degenhardt and Co. Ltd., London, regarding the order and delivery of a Zeiss Epi-technoscope, January - May 1962. Includes quotation and confirmation of order, itemising all component parts requested.
Correspondence with Dr Gerald A. Deneau, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, regarding samples of analgesic compounds exchanged with Kosterlitz and analysis of experiments thereon, June 1962 - January 1963. In his letter of 27 June 1962 Kosterlitz states that '... we were intrigued by the smallness of sample 6 ... and can confirm that this compound is very much more potent than morphine in inhibiting the reflex [of the gut]'. In his response, 10 December 1962, Deneau confirms that ' ... your data parallel analgesic responses in man very closely' and continues 'I will be interested to follow your papers closely and hope that you may unravel the mechanism of action on morphine.'
Correspondence with Dr Peter Dews, Department of Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, regarding proposed revision of the medical curriculum at Aberdeen and the effects of recent curriculum changes at Harvard, June 1959.
Correspondence with Dr J.M. Dodd, Gatty Marine Biological Station, St Andrews, regarding the supply of Spisula solida, whose hearts Kosterlitz intended to use 'for the assay of 5-hydroxytryptamine by the technique of Gaddum and Paasonen', January - March 1957. Kosterlitz also extends his congratulations to Dodd on his election to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 28 March 1957. |