Letter from Howard Walter Florey to Geoffrey Jefferson, Didsbury, Manchester Says it was Hugh Cairns' initiative that started Lord Nuffield on the idea of founding a substantial addition to the Oxford Medical School - discusses this and memorandum which Cairns prepared - Farquhar Buzzard took over the matter - Buzzard's main aim seems to have been to set up a clinical school in opposition to the scientific school - comments on this - Buzzard antagonised all the pre-clinical Professors - Cairns planned small medical school which would take people trained in same sharp discipline from the scientific departments - comments on this - Cairns fell completely under Buzzard's influence - one of fundamental error was failure to accept Arthur Ellis's advice not to start clinical school until the University had control of the hospital - comments on this. 1 July 1952