Wright, Sir Almroth

Notes, drafts, etc, used in Prolegomena to the Logic which Searches for Truth (1941) and Alethetropic Logic (1953); copies of letters from Wright to Mrs Mildred Bliss 1917-1947.

c.1906-1947

2 o/s boxes and 1 folder Uncatalogued: 1 archive box and 1 envelope

Sir Almroth Wright's papers were reported to have been destroyed by his wife after his death. A few items survived, including the material listed here, which was presented by his grandson, G J Romanes, to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in four batches, numbers 1 and 5-10 in 1985, and number 11 in 1987. Numbers 2-4 were received with the papers of Leonard Colebrook in 1993. They were marked `To go to Giles Romanes after my death (or senility) L Colebrooke', and transferred with the approval of the depositor, The Royal College of Physicians. A certificate from the Warsaw Medical Society was also transferred from the Colebrook papers, and integrated into file 11.

Wright was Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School, 1892-1902, Pathologist at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, 1902-1927, and Director of Bacteriology under the Medical Research Council during the First World War. He pioneered vaccine therapy, most famously in the treatment of typhoid.

Further drafts of Alethotropic Logic, correspondence, biographical notes and photographs can be found among the papers of Leonard Colebrook: PP/COL

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The following is an interim description of material that has been acquired since this collection was catalogued. This description may change when cataloguing takes place in future:

Accession 1170 received in July 2003:
Letters of Sir Almroth Wright dating from the early 20th century.

Accession 1453 received in September 2006:
Correspondence, papers and photographs of Sir Almroth Wright and of Leonard Colebrook about his biography of Wright, 1915-c.1949.