DEP/SMS | Collection of Sir Sydney A Smith | | 1798 - 1968 |
DEP/SMS/1 | Correspondence of Sydney Smith and Harvey Littlejohn | This section contains the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Sydney Smith and the official correspondence of Harvey Littlejohn, which Smith presumably inherited when he took over the Chair of Forensic Medicine in 1928. | 1909-1962 |
DEP/SMS/1/1 | Correspondence of Sir Sydney Smith | This series contains general correspondence which tends to be more personal than the correspondence found in the subject files. The items include letters of thanks and congratulation, invitations, financial matters etc. but some do also cover forensic matters. It is not clear whether the letters in this series were intended to be kept separate or whether, in some cases, letters have become separated from the appropriate subject file. Although he may have kept this correspondence alphabetically, this has been changed to a chronological arrangement. Some outgoing letters are included in the correspondence series, particularly for 1953-1954, and are all punched in the same way which indicates that they were possibly kept together in a separate ring binder system at one time. Smith's replies have been matched with incoming letters where relevant for ease of use.
Where items have been closed, this is indicated in the access fields in each entry. Correspondence is both typed and manuscript.
For correspondence concerning Smith's work in Ceylon, see SMS/7/77-83. | 1909-1962 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/1 | Letter from E A Schafer, North Berwick to Sydney Smith | He replies to a letter from Smith concerning the striation of muscles and directs him to an article by Professor Macdonald in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology. Includes stamped envelope. | 30 Jun 1909 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/2 | Letter from A Thomson, Edinburgh to Sydney Smith | He replies to a letter from Smith who had suggested a vein to drain a patient's peritoneal cavity. Thomson also reminds him that you cannot conduct experiments without a licence. Includes stamped envelope. | 17 Feb 1910 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/3 | Letter from C J Duffy, Wellington Licensed Milk Vendors Association to Sydney Smith | He writes to congratulate Smith on his promotion in Egypt. Letter addressed to the Chief Clerk, District Health Office who forwarded it to Smith with his own message. | 8 Feb 1916 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/4 | Letter from Director of Artillery, War Office, London to Sydney Smith | He replies to Smith's letter on the use of paper filling and the break up of bullets at close range (see p90 'Mostly Murder'). | 2 Jul 1921 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/5 | Letter from First Secretary, Cairo, Egypt to Sydney Smith | A reply to a letter from Smith concerning Colonel Kennedy's pension. | 19 Nov 1921 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/6 | Correspondence between Sydney Smith and J & A Churchill, Medical and Scientific Publishers | | 1925-1956 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/6/1 | Letter from J & A Churchill to Sydney Smith | They ask if he would undertake an eighth edition of Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence. | 14 May 1925 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/6/2 | Letter from J & A Churchill to Sydney Smith | They discuss arrangements for the eighth edition of Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence. | 10 Jun 1925 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/6/3 | Letter from J & A Churchill to Sydney Smith | They give details of illustrations Smith had been trying to locate. | 5 May 1941 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/6/4 | Letter from J & A Churchill to Sydney Smith | They ask for Smith's address in Ceylon and discuss Gerald Howard and Keith Simpson's collaboration on a further edition of a book. | 1 Oct 1953 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/6/5 | Letter to J Rivers of J & A Churchill from Sydney Smith | Letter from Smith agreeing with the suggestion of Howard for legal revision and Simpson for general revision of his book. | 27 Oct 1953 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/6/6 | Letter to J Rivers of J & A Churchill from Sydney Smith | Letter from Smith asking for corrected proofs. | 2 Dec 1953 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/6/7 | Letter to J Rivers of J & A Churchill from Sydney Smith | Letter from Smith asking them to bank his payment and about book proofs. | 15 Jan 1954 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/6/8 | Letter from J & A Churchill to Sydney Smith | Letter addressed to Cairo with details of the distribution of complimentary copies of Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence and enclosing a cheque for 200 guineas. | 16 Jan 1956 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/7 | Letter from Professor Harberder [?], Universitäts-Institut für Gerichtliche Medzin [Medical... | Letter of thanks for Smith's book. | 10 Jul 1925 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/8 | Letter from Arthur Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England to Sydney Smith | He thanks Smith for his article on Egyptian crania and wishes for more data on modern Egyptian skulls and measurements. | 30 Jul 1925 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/9 | Letter from J F C Carter, Metropolitan Police, London to Sydney Smith | He thanks Smith for sending copies of his article from the British Medical Journal which he will circulate round his detectives. | 18 Feb 1926 |