| Description Of Item | Mostly correspondence arranging the trip and letters from many American doctors. Folder 1 includes airline tickets; itinerary; letters concerning his visits to Salt Lake General Hospital, National Institutes of Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Boston City Hospital, V P Syderstricker at University of Georgia School of Medicine, Western Reserve University, Veterans Hospital, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School etc; letters concerning the publication and appreciation of Meiklejohn's paper describing his trip titled 'The American Scene' including an outline for a possible broadcast with that title; letters on his comments on medical education in Time magazine; letters on his comments on British doctors training in America; and Meiklejohn's unsuccessful application for a World Health Organisation travel fellowship.
Folder 2 includes: letters concerning his visits to Indiana University Medical Center, Holzer Clinic, Queens University Kingston, Duke University, University of Minnesota, State University of New York etc ; list of members of staff of the Thorndike Laboratory 1927-1951; drafts of an article on the trip; correspondence with the Nuffield Foundation who funded the trip; US immigration forms; typed draft of 'Medicine within the Atlantic Community'. For copies of the articles see MEA/1/4/12-13. |