Letter from Sir Henry Dale to Dr. Schild Copy letter from Dale at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampsstead, London NW3 to Dr. H Schild at the Pharmakologisches Institut d. Universitat, Munchen, Nusbaumstrasse 28 'I received your letter of July 10th. I remember seeing you at Wiesbaden, and my suggestion to you that you should write to me later in the year, as to the possibility of your working here for a period. I am now in a position to consider your proposal, but, before answering definitely, I must have a few more details. I presume that you have a Fellowship or stipendium from some source, to provide for your personal support during your period of work in this country. Then, I should like to know as to the probable length of your stay. I am reluctant to accept workers here for a short period of only a few months, as, according to my experience, the result is usually to occupy a good deal of time for myself and my colleagues, making arrangements for a visitor's work, without any prospect of his being able to finish anything, and obtain any advantage propotionate to the effort. I imagine, from what you told me, that you contemplate a somewhat longer stay; but I should like to have a definite indication on that point. Lastly, as to the date of commencement. Assuming your replies on the other points to create no difficulty from my point of view, I do not think that it would be worth while that you should start before about the beginning of October. I myself am going on a later holiday this year and want to keep September as free as possible from any definite obligations. Subject to these various matters being satisfactorily settled on both sides, I shall be pleased to ask authourisation from the reserch council to receive you here as a visitor, for a period beginning in October next, and hope that we shall find the arrangement of advantage to both sides. Please give my warmest regards to Professor Straub' 3 July 1932