DEP/ALW/2/9 | Letter from W F J M Thom to Dr William Alister Alexander | Copy of a letter describing his experiences in India. | 22 Apr 1942 |
DEP/ALW/2/11 | Letter from John Brims to Dr William Alister Alexander | He writes from the 27 General Hospital, Middle East Force. Copy of a letter in which he describes his life in the army and meeting [John] Halliday Croombe [Croom]. | 6 Sep 1943 |
DEP/ALW/2/12 | Letter from John Brims to Sister V MacIntyre | From the correspondence collection of William Alister Alexander. Brims writes from the 27 General Hospital, Middle East Force and describes his life in the army and meeting [John] Halliday Croombe [Croom]. | 1 Oct 1943 |
DEP/ALW/2/15 | Letter from Christina Eason to Dr William Alister Alexander | She writes to thank Alexander for his condolences on the death of her son Pat in India and encloses a letter from Major General Lentaigne. | Jun 1944 |
DEP/ALW/2/17 | Letter from James Faifor, Military Hospital, Shenley to Dr William Alister Alexander | He is going to apply to UNRRA [United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration] and asks Alexander to act as a referee. | 23 Sep 1944 |
DEP/ALW/2/20 | Letter from W J Dempster to Dr William Alister Alexander | He writes of his experiences in India and the lack of medical work he has been given as a medical officer with the RAF. | 8 Dec 1944 |
DEP/BRE/1/9 | Diary of Edwin Bramwell, volume 9 | Includes cuttings on: the war including air raids; Major General Alan Cunningham of the 51st Division; and a review of 'Highland View' by James Bramwell. | 6 Sep 1940-31 Dec 1940 |
DEP/BRE/1/13 | Diary of Edwin Bramwell, volume 13 | Includes newspaper cuttings on the war, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Churchill's speech on Scotland and the war October 1942, the Beveridge Report, 4th December and Admiral Darlan; and Bramwell's report on post-graduate teaching, 9th November. | 1 Aug 1942-31 Dec 1942 |
DEP/BRE/1/14 | Diary of Edwin Bramwell, volume 14 | Includes newspaper cuttings on the war, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and obituaries of Sir St Clair Thomson and Sir Robert Armstrong Jones; article from the Picture Post on Admiral Cunningham, 8th May; article on American foreign policy from the Illustrated London News, 25th September; and letters concerning the nomination of Dr Menzies by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh for membership of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 21st September 1944 next to discussion in the diary of admission of fellows, 22nd January. | 1 Jan 1943-20 Oct 1943 |
DEP/BRE/1/15 | Diary of Edwin Bramwell, volume 15 | Includes newspaper cuttings on the war, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, the Report on Post-War Hospital Problems in Scotland 15th October, funeral of Sir Dudley Pound and occupational therapy in military hospitals including the work of Dorothy Bramwell. | 22 Sep 1943-15 Feb 1944 |
DEP/BRE/1/16 | Diary of Edwin Bramwell, volume 16 | Includes newspaper cuttings on the war, the marriage of Hilda Bramwell to Lt Commander G W McKendrick, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, medical reform and the National Health Service, public schools, obituaries for Dr Lewis Smith and W T Ritchie and a Times article 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - The Long Road to Victory', 8th May 1945; and letter on increasing the membership of the Association of British Neurologists, 2nd March 1944. | 19 Feb 1944-6 Jun 1945 |
DEP/BRE/1/17 | Diary of Edwin Bramwell, volume 17 | Includes newspaper cuttings on the award of honorary degree, investiture as Knight of the Thistle and election as rector of Sir Andrew Cunningham; proposal for post-graduate medical training in Edinburgh; atomic bombs dropped on Japan; letter to the British Medical Journal on the relationship of neurologist and neurosurgeon; obituary for Sir Farquhar Buzzard; appointment of Sir Alan Cunningham as High Commissioner to Palestine. | Jun 1945-25 Dec 1945 |
DEP/BRE/1/22 | Diary of Edwin Bramwell, volume 22 | Includes newspaper cuttings on the unveiling of the St Giles war memorial; letter notifying Bramwell of his election as honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine; letter from Betty; and obituaries for Bramwell. | Nov 1951-Aug 1952 |
DEP/BRE/2/1 | [Rough Notes on Recollections Volume 1] by Edwin Bramwell | Chapter headings are: my health; my early contacts with Sir William Turner and Professor D J Cunningham; honorary degrees; peace and war; the determination of a war; persecution of the Jews; Lord Haldane's part in the first world war; 'I might have stopped the war'; the Crown Prince Frederick and his illness; the Buccleuchs and the Guelphs; upon surnames; the transmission of congenital deformities of the hands; children's remarks; speaking in public; Sir James Barrie as a speaker; the brain that doesn't tire; a cure for the tobacco habit; Capetown to Freemantle - the journey across Australia - Canberra and the Halford Oration; the first international Neurological Congress; Sir James Mackenzie; the country gentleman; the nouveau riche; Professor Greenfield; neurology and psychiatry - their respective scopes; the Heptagon Club; Sir James Purves-Stewart; Sir Robert Hutchison; Rt Hon the Viscount Dawson of Penn; Lewis Smith; Sir Frederick Menzies; Lord Macmillan; Viscount Dunedin of Stenton; Earl of Rosebery; fishing on the Laerdal; Frankfort [sic] in 1898; I go abroad for work and pleasure; the Russian rumour - Colonel Mason-Macfarlane; Bessemer of steel fame and the Encyclopaedia Britannica; de Ramsey and the hair ball in the King's stomach; some absent-minded professors; some old people I have met; and earliest recollections. Includes an additional different copy of 'Early Recollections'. Some pencil amendments throughout and the dates 1945 and May 1943 added in pencil at different locations. | 1943-1945 |
DEP/BRE/2/2 | Rough Notes on Recollections Volume 2 by Edwin Bramwell | Chapter headings are: family portraits and pictures; Sir Harold Gengoult Smith - a story of a surprising career; Dr J W Thompson - the village of the blind; some changes in Edinburgh during the last sixty years; the progress of medicine and surgery during the past fifty years; consulting practice in Edinburgh, Scotland during the past sixty years; was he a spy?; the 2nd Scottish General Hospital and the First Great War; the new principal of Edinburgh University; the professorship of medicine; postgraduate developments in Edinburgh; Sir John Thomson Walker and the Fenwicks; Sir Harold Stiles; Sir Norman Walker and the Octogenarians; some recollections of the Parliament House; the future of 23 Drumsheugh Gardens; the last of the general practitioners on the surgical staff of the Royal Infirmary; and the National Hospital as I knew it in 1900. Undated but presumed to be 1945. | 1945 |
DEP/BRE/2/6 | [Memoirs Volume 4 by Edwin Bramwell] | This volume is less organised than BRE/2/1-5. Loose sheet at the front lists the chapters: the first great war; physician to RIE [Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh] - lecturer on neurology - Professor of Clinical Medicine; Laennec celebration in Paris - lectures at Basle - first International Congress at Berne - Neurological Section of RSM [Royal Society of Medicine] visits Amsterdam; Chair of Medicine 1927; President RCPE [Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] I retire from my chair and RIE appointment - President Association of British Neurologists - LLD [Legum Doctor]; visit of BMA to Australia; Illness; Came to 29 Ormidale Terrace. This is followed by a list headed 'Possible headings for further chapters in memoirs'.
The actual chapters are: The Years of the First Great War; the Chair of Medicine in 1927 (which includes diary entries for July 13th to February 24th 1928); the BMA [British Medical Association] - Annual Meetings I have Attended - BMA Lectures. At the rear were handwritten notes for chapters titled 'The Physician as a reader of and contributor to medical literature' and 'The Physician as reader and writer' with a list of prominent medical men Bramwell had known or met; a typed chapter 22 'The Medical Man and the Literature'; a journal of a visit to Basle where according to an annotation he was invited by the university to give a short course of lectures; rough handwritten chronological biography; list of journey abroad for work and sport and BMA meetings attended; and an index. | 1945 |
DEP/BRE/3/2/97 | Letter from Sir Frederick Menzies, Bath, England to Edwin Bramwell | He has been involved in devising an Air Raid Precaution Scheme for London. | 20 Apr 1938 |
DEP/BRE/6/18/17 | Letter from Sis [Mrs Henderson] to Edwin Bramwell | She is returning from Italy soon and settling war damage claims. | 9 Jul 1951 |
DEP/BRE/6/18/18 | Letter from Sis [Mrs Henderson] to Edwin Bramwell | She writes of the war damage claim in Striscia and personal news. | 10 Jul 1951 |
DEP/BRE/6/18/19 | Letter from Jock [Professor Crighton Bramwell], Manchester, England to Edwin Bramwell | He writes of their sister's war damage claim. | 12 Jul 1951 |