Letter from Ernst Chain, New York to Howard Walter Florey Says there will be a preliminary anonymous brief publication of the essential facts of penicillin chemistry, followed by an extensive monograph under a joint Anglo-American Editorial Board - comments on this - comments on penicillin production in USA - comments on possibility of raising money in USA to support work at Oxford - comments on anti-British attitude he has encountered and life in USA - USA might become stronghold of reactionary forces - important for Britain to become scientifically powerful - comments on clinical trials and on chemistry of streptomycin - comments on equipment he wants to buy - asks if he might return in early November, instead of at the end of October as originally planned - has been able to get only a few of the references Florey wanted - is sending microfilms of these. 3 September 1945