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BETT, Walter Reginald (b 1903)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP8

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: BETT, Walter Reginald (b 1903)

Date(s): 1931

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Bett | Walter Reginald | born 1903 | medical writer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Publications: The Infirmities of Genius, Christopher Johnson: London, 1952; Osler: the Man and the Legend William Heinemann Medical Books: London, 1951; The Preparation and Writing of Medical Papers for Publication, Menley & James, [London, 1952.] A Short History of Nursing, Faber & Faber, London, 1960; The Short-Lived Spring. Poems of youth and desire, A. H. Stockwell, London, 1934; Sir John Bland-Sutton, 1855-1936, E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh & London, 1956; Editor of The History and Conquest of Common Diseases. [By various authors.] University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, [1954.]; and A Short History of Some Common Diseases, Oxford University Press, London, 1934.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter to W R Bett from Sir George Makins, 16 Apr 1931, concerning Bett's article, and relating a number of anecdotes about Sir James Paget.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 item

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archives and Corporate Records Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Presented by Dr Bett to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library, 1949.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Bett's correspondence with Warren Royal Dawson, 1945-1967, held by the Natural History Museum, London (Ref: L MSS DAWS A)

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: British Library Public On-line Catalogue; Historical Manuscripts Commission's On-Line National Register of Archives. Compiled by Alison Field.