| Description | File of letters sent and received by Wilkie between 1983 and 1989. Includes invitations to symposiums; administrative letters; requests for scientific literature; seeking and giving advice on thesis topics; and reports on students. Specific letter content breaks down as follows:
1981-1983:
Request from Christopher P. Rose, M. D., Chief Resident in Radiology, McMaster University, Ontario, seeking Research Fellowship opportunities; amusing letter from C. Tyler Burt, Massachusetts General Hospital in relation to phosphodiesters in frogs; an exchange between Wilkie and Richard H. T. Edwards, Professor of Human Metabolism, The Rayne Institute, pertaining to the organisation of a workshop on nuclear magnetic resonance, planned for April 1983, in Travemunde; response from Wilkie to Dr. Pietro E. di Prampero, Univeristy of Geneva, to his enquiry about man powered flight; a copy of Wilkie’s statement in support of the proposal that Dr. R. C. Woledge be conferred the title of Professor; letter from Wilkie to Dr H. Lansdowne, Science and Engineering Research Council detailing his work on spectra from the brains of human infants.
1984:
Wilkie’s short report on the part played by the Wellcome Trust in advancing the application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods-firstly in physiology, then in medicine, requested by Dr B. A. Bembridge, of the Wellcome Trust; letter to Edward Arnold Publishers about Wilkie’s new edition of “Muscle”; letter from Wilkie to Professor Anthony R. Crofts, University of Illinois, regarding the possible appointment of Dr. M. Joan Dawson to a faculty position in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics; Wilkie proposing his colleague, Professor Osmund Reynolds, for ordinary membership in the Physiological Society; Wilkie updating Dr B. A. Bembridge on the progress of his and his colleagues work on NMR spectroscopy, hoping to expand NMR facilities at University College Hospital (UCLH) and mentioning the strong possibility of working on the brains of human adults, particularly senile ones; Wilkie updating Sir Rex Richards, Merton College Oxford, on his work on the brain metabolism of premature and full-term babies whose 31P spectra have turned out to be very useful clinically; inviting Dr M. F. Wood, Oxford Instruments Group, to the UCLH to visit the facilities, explaining his desire to have upgraded their existing 27-20-27cm spectrometer and to obtain a larger instrument in which to examine larger babies; letter from Wilkie to Paul expressing his interest the article ‘Thermodynamics in finite time’, published in Physics Today, September 1984.
1985:
Letter from Wilkie to Professor R. C. Woledge pertaining to the A. V. Centenary, sending him a copy of the final proposal he submitted to the Royal Society, including notes on the effect of pH and fatigue on the Creatine Kinase equilibrium; letter from Wilkie to Sue expressing his interest in her writing on ATP-ase of myofibrils; Wilkie responding to Professor M. Barany, University of Illinois, commenting on reprints and the difficulties in quantifying 1H and 13 C spectra from tissues; letter from Wilkie to Sir Leslie Fowden FRS, enclosing his Exhibit Porposal Form for the commemorative exhibition on the centenary of the birth of Archibald Vivian Hill FRS, at the Royal Society Conversazione.
1986
Letter from Wilkie to Krista, detailing personal and confidential professional opinions; Wilkie’s identifying an omission of any reference to research on in-vivo NMR Spectroscopy carried out by himself and his colleagues, in a Report of the Meeting held on 10 October 1985, sent to Sir James Gowans, Medical Research Council; details of the symposium on Muscle Contraction for the annual meeting of the Federated Societies for Experimental Biology, to be held in Sao Paulo in July 1986; Wilkie’s letter to Professor George Radda expressing surprise on reading about the latter’s MRS work on the brain, featured in the press, enclosing a photocopy of ‘Diagnosis goes magnetic’ the article in question, from The Sunday Times, 23 March 1986; an exchange between Andrew Huxley FRS and Wilkie discussing a letter to Nature about NMR.
1987-1989:
Wilkie writing to Dr R. Gordon, The Wellcome Trust, in hope of applying for a research grant to fund an ongoing research project; invitation from Professor A. Angel, on behalf of the Committee of the Physiological Society, for Wilkie to give the Review Lecture or 1988; confirmation of Wilkie receiving the title of “Emeritus Professor of Experimental Physiology”; Wilkie responding to Dr Walter Herzog, Human Performance Laboratory, The University of Calgary, about the Muybridge Award. |