Dr Philip Cowen

/1 Ms copy of letter from Philip Cowen as Assistant Editor, University of Durham Medical Gazette to Marie Stopes, soliciting an article suitable for medical students 'concerning the place of sex in medical teaching', 12 May 1952

/2 Ts letter, signed, to Cowen from Marie Stopes, regretting that she is 'at the moment absolutely swamped with India and cannot undertake another thing at present', 20 May 1952

enclosing reprints of 3 articles by her in

/3 original envelope postmarked 20 May 1952

/4 'Some New Concepts and Laws in Human Biology', C.B.C. Bulletin no. 5, 1948

/5 'Practical Notes on Contraceptive Technique', reprinted from Medical World, 23 Nov 1951 (inscribed 'With the Author's Compliments' but not in Stopes's unmistakable hand)

/6 'On Some Aspects of Contraception for Indian Women', C.B.C. Bulletin no. 5, 1952

/7 Ms copy (in pencil) from Cowen to Stopes, thanking her for letter and reprints, 22 May 1952

/8 Carbon copy of ts letter from Philip Cowen, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Leeds, to Dr Margaret Jennings (later Lady Florey), enclosing some specimens for her, 17 May 1965

/9 Ts letter signed to Cowen by Margaret Jennings, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, thanking him for the specimens, 'for class teaching they are the staff of life', 26 May 1965

1948-1965

1 file

Donated to the library at Wellcome Collection by Dr Cowen in January 2003.

Letters generated and acquired by Dr Cowen, a pathologist, while he was Assistant Editor, University of Durham Medical Gazette, and later when he was in the Department of Pathology at Leeds Medical Shool.

Marie Stopes papers, PP/MCS, Eugenics Society archives, SA/EUG, Family Planning Association archives SA/FPA; papers of R Gwyn Macfarlane, PP/RGM, include correspondence with Lady Florey in connection with his biography of her husband.