Correspondence

This section contains copies of letters by McDougall, letters to him and letters between third parties in matters interesting to him. File A/1 contains correspondence between RJW Rees (from the National Institute for Medical Research in London), Elisabeth Palmer and AGM Weddell (both from the Department of Human Anatomy at Oxford University), on experiments on mice inoculated with m. leprae, from 1963-1971, when McDougall was still in Zambia.

File A/2 contains correspondence on the cultivation of M leprae in the nine-banded armadillo; the examination of tissues from experimental animals (armadillos, mice, hedgehogs) from the NIMR and biopsies from patients in various trials, notably those established by the Medical Research Council (MRC) unit in Sungei Buloh (Singapore) under the direction of two UK leprologists, Dr MFR Waters and Dr JMH Pearson.

Subseries A/3 is correspondence (1973-1988) as Consultant in Clinical Research (Leprosy) to the British Leprosy Relief Association (LEPRA) and as Editor of Leprosy Review and some of its content overlaps with file A/2.

Please note there is more correspondence in country files (B/1-B/15) and in research files (D/1/1, D/2/1, D/3/1, D/4/1).

Please note that correspondence discussing patients' conditions has been extracted to file A/3/9 and closed under the Data Protection Act until 1 January 2089.