BETT, Walter Reginald (b 1903)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 TH/PP8
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full 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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

Archival Information

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

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

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

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
January 2004