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Alan Sharp letters to Ann Andrews

(1) Personal and semi-professional letters to Ann from Alan Sharp with ms copy of 'Dean Spanley' script and script of 'Piano Movements', which Sharp sent to Ann with the idea of her producing one of them for New Zealand television,
(2) Review of and background to the letters by George Andrews, 2022

Annual General Meeting papers

(1) Minutes of Annual General and Vestry meetings, with some loose papers, relating to finances, activities, the building and lay posts such as the organist and caretaker and any pertinent Diocesan business, 1975-1981

(2) Minutes of Annual General Meetings containing Priest's and Treasurers' reports, plus those of projects such as 'Church in Society', and annual accounts, 1992-2012. Also financial and and congregational returns, 1990-2011

'Autograph letters'

(1) Annotated envelope containing letters of acknowledgement to Riley signed by HW Florey, Prof John McMichael, Sir Henry H Dale, Prof Alex Haddow and Bill Paton, 1960-1964
(2) Letter of appreciation for Riley's book by Prof HG Callan, 1964
(3) Annotated envelope containing letter from Henry H Dale with Riley's reply concerning published research, with letter of appreciation from JH Humphrey, 1964
(4) Letter from Henry H Dale appreciating Riley's good wishes after his accident, 1965
(5) Letters of appreciation between Riley and Henry H Dale concerning Riley's article and Dale's health, 1966
(6) Letter from Henry H Dale with advice and consideration of the properties of acetylcholine, 1966
(7) Letters between Riley and Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark concerning reprints of the latter's work, 1966
(8) Letter from Professor Haddow to Dr Robert Mahler concerning his and Riley's joint funding application, 1966
(9) Letter from WL Bragg re Riley's copy of JJ Thomson's book, 1966
(10) Note agreeing to sign Riley's copy of 'Physics and Philosophy from WProf W Heisenberg, 1968
(11) Letter about a colleague's research by retired Professor Kathleen Lonsdale, 1969

'Autograph letters from Scientists'

(1) Letter from [Lord] Dawson about Riley's reprint on Sulphydryl wound repair, 1941
(2) Letter from [Lord] Dawson concerning a paper Riley asked him to look at, 1943
(3) [Sir] HH Dale's signature on tea ticket, 1952, with notes on envelope explaining event was Riley's first visit to Cambridge and his first paper
(4) Note from [Sir] WL Bragg referring to meeting Riley in Dundee, 1961
(5) Note from Peyton Roux [Nobel Laureate, 1966] about the reprints he sent to Riley, 1964
(6) Note from [Sir] GP Thomson concerning Bragg's idea on structure for an electron, 1966
(7) Card from [Sir] GP Thomson warning Riley he will be away over the winter, 1966
(8) Card from Henry Dale thanking Riley for his birthday wishes, 1967
(9) Letters [2] between Riley and Henry Dale concerning Riley's 'Introducing Biology', 1967
(10) Letter from Henry Dale referring to Riley's discovery 'about another function of the mast cells', 1968
(11) Letter from [Sir] WL Bragg referring to the early days of x-rays, 1967
(12) Letter from [Lady] Nora Barlow referring to Riley's 'Introducing Biology', 1967
(13) Letter from [Lady] Nora Barlow offering help to Riley in his effort to 'teach science through scientists', 1967
(14) Letter from [Lady] Nora Barlow about using Riley's Darwin Henslow publication for his 'Science through Scientists' project, 1967
(15) Note from Professor PB Medawar referring to Rosemary Cass commemoration, 1968
(16) Letter from Hans Krebs about self-made scientists, 1968
(17) Note acknowledging receipt of Riley's letter, 1968
(18) Note from PMS Blackett agreeing to write a few words in Riley's copy of Marie Curie's book, 1968
(19) Note agreeing to lunch from Professor PB Medawar, 1968
(20) Letter from Ruth D'Arcy Thompson referring to pasting her father's signature into the volume, 1968
(21) Letter from Ruth D'Arcy Thompson referring to an exhibition of her father's years in Dundee, 1968
(22) Letter from Professor PB Medawar concerned about Riley's sick leave, 1969
(23) Card from Sir Juliun Huxley agreeing to inscribe his grandfather's 'Man's Place in Nature', 1969
(24) Letter by A Timmer with news and thankful that Riley is better, 1969
(25) Letter from the Science Museum about Geissler tubes, 1969
(26) Note from Sire Alexander Haddow: 'I have no doubt at all that your contribution is still insufficiently appreciated and that its significance will become much more generally known very soon', 1969
(27) Note by WA Wooster agreeing to sign a copy of XRay Crystals book, 1969
(28) Letter from Lady Lyell about the terminology used for lords and ladies, 1970
(29) Letter by EJS Walton debunking the splitting the atom celebratory story, 1970
(30) Note from WL Bragg about 'the broadcast', with Blackett's signature on paper slip enclosed, 1970
(31) Letter from Franz Sondheimer enclosing xerox dedication in the Curie thesis, 1970
(32) Note by Julius Axelrod thanking Riley for copy of his mast cell monograph , 1973
(33) Letter from Lord William Taylor about the labyrinth design, 1971
(34) Letter enclosing forward by Sir Peter Medawar about strokes of which Riley and he were victims, nd

Boomerang project

Correspondence and related papers concerning the establishment of Boomerang, its licence and relationship with the Church, including Boomerang's constitution. Also papers relating to Boomerang's tenancy of the cafe at the Baxter Park Pavilion. Costs and accounts of the Boomerang Project, with outlie of groups using the centre.

'Cat Chaser'

(1) Screenplay, from the novel of Elmore Leaonard, December 1983
(2) Ms screenplay, marked 'continued', nd

Coastal surveys of the east in the 1780s

(1) 'A Chart of the North West Coast of Borneo....by James Barton' printed 1780
(2) 'A New Chart of the Oriental Seas and Islands....from the Isle of Ceylon to Amoye in China' Printed 1783

Cockcroft and Walton

Annotated envelope containing signed reprint of article 'Experiments with High Velocity Positive Ions' by JD Cockcroft and ETS Walton, with letter to Riley from Walton. Also reprint of Cockcroft and Walton letter sent by Walton

'Dark fire'

(1) Draft screenplay, nd
(2) Dark Fire electronic folder: 60’_Dark_Fire_-_Part_Two.fdx; DARK FIRE-1st Draft-Part One.fdx; Dark Fire outline.fdx; Darkfire.fdx

David Keilin

Reprinted article biographical memoir, 1964 and reprinted obituary, 1965 of Keilin (1887-1963) with annotated envelope

Diaries of research notes

'4 Quarter 1943' notebook containing research notes, 1943
23 x University of St Andrews' diaries containing research notes, with one containing a small artwork by his young daughter, 1947-1969

Dorothy C Hodgkin, letters and article

Envelope containing signed copy of Hodgkin's Nobel Lecture, 'The X-Ray analysis of complicated molecules', 1964 with accompanying letter and letter of thanks from Riley

Droplets

Microscope images of the shrunken residue of droplets less than 0.1mn in diameter, and a drawing explaining their stay airborne and inhalable
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