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The Calvin Wells Palaeopathology Archive, Special Collections, J.B. Priestley Library, University of Bradford
CONTENTS
THE CALVIN WELLS PALAEOPATHOLOGY ARCHIVE: handlist ......................... 1 1 - Notes, reports and correspondence on analysis of skeletal material from archaeological sites ................................................................................................ 1 2 - Notes, reports and correspondence on cremations from archaeological sites .. 3 Norfolk and Suffolk.............................................................................................. 3 Other U.K. sites................................................................................................... 4 3 - Correspondence files : correspondence with archaeologists, museum staff, medical professionals, editors, publishers - not primarily concerned with skeletal material................................................................................................................... 4 Correspondence files .......................................................................................... 4 Individual packets of correspondence ................................................................. 5 4 - Articles and notes by Dr. Wells and others........................................................ 8 Articles by Calvin Wells on archaeology & palaeopathology............................... 8 Articles by Calvin Wells on Norfolk topics ........................................................... 9 Articles by other authors ..................................................................................... 9 5 - Video programmes and tape/slide presentation on palaeopathology .............. 10 6 - Calvin Wells - biographical material................................................................. 10 7 - Objects ............................................................................................................ 10
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1 - Notes, reports and correspondence on analysis of skeletal material from archaeological sites
1/1. Icklingham 1974, Risby 1975. 1/2. North Elmham 1970-76. 1/2/A. Report (typescript carbon). 1/2/B. 2nd carbon. 1/2/C. Lead concentrations. 1/2/D. Working copy. 1/2/E. Maps. 1/3. Spong Hill - report from Dept. of Archaeology, University of Warsaw 1976 (with photos). 1/4. Owslebury, circa 1974. 1/5. Martyrs Bay, Iona, circa 1970. 1/5/A. Description of human remains. Typescript. 1/5/B. Summary and conclusions. Typescript. 1/5/C. Dr. Wells manuscript notes and tables. 1/5/D. Richard Reece correspondence 1969-78. 1/5/E. Richard Reece correspondence 1978-83 (2 packets). 1/5/F. Richard Reece correspondence 1960-71 on Cirencester excavation. 1/6. Furzebrake (Steep Hill, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) 1958. Brothwell notes. Includes letter from Arthur Keith (Royal College of Surgeons) dated 1923. 1/7. Norfolk skeletal reports. Reports and correspondence 1953-76 and undated. 1/8. Caerwent (Vicarage Orchard) 1973. 1/8/A. Report, manuscript and typescript, with handwritten notes on individuals. 1/8/B. Report, typescript, with rundown of measurements of bones. 1/8/C. Department of the Environment. Correspondence 1973-74. 1/9. Twyning mammoth tooth 1974. .
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1/10. Kingsworthy (Worthy Park, Kingsworthy, Hants.) 1966-76. . 1/10/A. Sonia Hawkes notes 1966, photographs, dental X-rays, Dr. Wells notes on individuals. 1/10/B. Sonia Hawkes notes on sexing of individual skeletons and Dr. Wells pathology tables . 1/10/C. Duckworth laboratory. Skeletal measurements and comments. 1/10/D. Report, draft manuscript. 1/10/E. Report, manuscript. 1/10/F. Report, first typescript. 1/10/G. Report, first typescript carbon with corrections, and retyped. 1/10/H. 3 articles by Sonia Hawkes and Calvin Wells, typescript and photocopy typescript : (1) Note on Worthy Park burial 26 / An Anglo-Saxon obstetric calamity from Kingsworthy, Hampshire, (2) On Worthy Park, Kingsworthy Hants. Graves 43 and 78 / Crime and punishment in an AngloSaxon cemetery ?, and (3) A unique Anglo-Saxon burial from Worthy Park, Kingsworthy, Hampshire [Absence of left upper limb in Grave no. 38]. 1/10/I. Correspondence with Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine. Includes manuscript and typescript of article by Sonia Hawkes and Calvin Wells, A unique Anglo-Saxon burial from Worthy Park, Kingsworthy, Hampshire. 1/10/J. Carolyn Toomey - proposed work on Kingsworthy and Portway 197576. 1/11. Longbridge Deverill. Notes by D.R. Brothwell and B. Denston on skeletal remains, with photos. 1/12. Andover (Portway Industrial Estate, Andover) / Alison Cook [Department of the Environment]. 1/12/A. Correspondence 1975-76, plans of site and graves, inventory of grave goods. 1/12/B. Calvin Wells manuscript notes, pathology tables, and draft typescript of report. 1/13. Peter Donaldson. Ras el Khaimah (U.A.E.). Correspondence 1977-78. Includes manuscript notes on remains. 1/14. Brixworth (Northants.) Paul Everson et al. Correspondence 1972-77. Includes typescript of report. 1/15. Portchester Castle [Bari Hooper]. Correspondence 1967. Includes typescript of report. 1/16. Beckford (Glos.) [Anglo-Saxon cemeteries]. Correspondence 1959-68. Includes manuscript and typescript report.
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1/17. Carolyn Dallas [Nene Valley Research Committee]. 1/17/A. Orton Longueville. Correspondence 1975. Includes typed report. 1/17/B. BGP74 (Barnack gravel pit, Lincs.) Correspondence 1976. Includes typed report. 1/18. Exeter / Paul Bidwell [Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter]. Correspondence 1975-82. Includes typescript report 1975. 1/19. Shrewton, Wilts. [Charles Green]. Correspondence 1959-60. Manuscript notes and typed report. 1/20. Eriswell (or Lakenheath) (Suffolk). Manuscript and typescript notes. 1/21. Caister. Report, Human skull said to have been recovered from the moat of Caister Castle, Norfolk. 1963. 1/22. Ilid Anthony / Verulamium Museum, St. Albans, Herts. Correspondence 1963-69 and reports 1964 (8 inhumations) and circa 1969 (Iron Age or Bronze Age skull found with shield boss). 1/23. Elizabeth Owles / Ipswich Museum. Correspondence 1965-72 and reports : A note on human cremations from Snape, Suffolk (1973), A note on human remains from Benhall, Suffolk (1973?), Notes on some human remains found at Barham, Suffolk (n.d.), Notes on assorted skeletal remains from Minsmere Beach, Framlingham and Felixstowe (1972). 1/24. Peter Scott / Durham. Correspondence 1974, photographs and report, A note on Skeleton PB 73TF from Piercebridge (1974).
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3 - Correspondence files : correspondence with archaeologists, museum staff, medical professionals, editors, publishers - not primarily concerned with skeletal material
Correspondence files
3/1. Correspondence file. Incoming correspondence 1961-78 in alphabetical order by correspondents surname. 3/2. Letters (Miscellaneous). Incoming correspondence 1953-78. Largely concerns professional comment on publications, invitations to lecture, requests for copies of photos, and requests for advice from students. 3/3. Letters (Miscellaneous). Incoming correspondence 1974-84. Includes letters from Dr. A. Batty Shaw and Eric Wood, also Freddie Wells correspondence with
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archaeologists and publishers 1978-84 while acting as Dr. Wells literary executor. 3/4. Letters (Foreign). Incoming correspondence 1953-84. 3/5. Correspondence and drafts relating to International Meeting on Disease in Ancient Man, at the Royal Society of Medicine (London) 5-7 March 1979.
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3/20. Harold Maxwell / History of medicine. Includes typescript of article, Sir Astley Paston Cooper : a bicentenary (1968). 3/21. Patrick Carnegy / Times literary supplement. Includes manuscript and typescript reviews - of Magic, myth and medicine by John Camp (1973), Human guinea pigs by Kenneth Mellanby (1973), and Palaeopathology by Paul A. Janssens (1970). 3/22. Jamie Camplin / Thames and Hudson. 3/23. Granada Publishing and Barry Cunliffe [Institute of Archaeology]. 3/24. Horizon and American Heritage Publishing Co. 3/25. Mrs Aspinall / B.P.C. Publishing. . 3/26. Temple Smith and Bill [Corelli Barnett]. Projected work on military medical history. 3/27. Dr. T.W. Potter [University of Lancaster]. Correspondence 1975-76, with manuscript and typescript of article, A note on the ex-votos of Ponte di Nona. 3/28. Klaus Simon [Landsmuseum fur Vorgeschichte]. Correspondence 1981, with offprints of articles by Klaus Simon : Anthropologische Bearbeitung des fruhmittelalterlichen Korpergraberfeldes von Grossschwabhausen, Kr. Weimar (Alt-Thuringen, 14, 1977, pp. 318-345), Sterblichkeit des Menschen im historischen Verlauf unter besonderer Berucksichtigung ihrer Geschlechtsspezifik (written with Adelheid Bach, Alt-Thuringen, 15, 1978, pp. 7-17), Zu einigen Problemen der Anthropogenese (EAZ Ethnogr.-Archaol. Z., 20, 1979, pp. 35-51). 3/29. Helen Sutermeister, Mary Jackes. Correspondence and photographs on Kleinburg ossuary, Toronto, 1976. 3/30. Patrick Hartney [University of Saskatchewan]. Correspondence 1972-76. Includes 1972 analysis from the Universitys Department of Anthropology of recent skeletal material handed over by the R.C.M.P.. 3/31. Charles Dent [University College Hospital Medical School]. Correspondence 1961-68, chiefly on possible case of alkaptonuria in an Egyptian mummy. 3/32. Gerald Dunning [Ministry of Works]. Correspondence 1960-73. Includes notes and photographs of skull from Toddington (Beds.) and notes on Furzebrake skeletal material. 3/33. Isabelle Davidson [University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine]. Letter 1972, with articles by Irving M. Shapiro et al. : Lead levels in deciduous teeth of urban and suburban American children (reprinted from: Nature, Vol. 235, (5333), 1972, pp.111-112), The distribution of lead in human deciduous teeth (photocopied from: Experientia, Vol. 28, (4), 1972, pp. 434-435), and The distribution of ingested lead in human teeth (photocopy typescript).
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3/34. George Yost [Florida State University]. Correspondence 1971. Includes photocopy typescript of article by George Yost, The Celtic and dramatic background of Masons Caractacus. 3/35. Ken Jefferies. Correspondence 1968-69. Includes manuscript report, A note on two decapitated human skeletons from Guildern Morden, Essex. 3/36. Dorothy Ley / Academy of Medicine, Toronto. Lecture invitation 1976. 3/37. H.E.P. Spencer [Ipswich Museum of Natural History]. Correspondence 1961-64. 3/38. John Blunden / University of Sussex. Correspondence 1968-69 on videotape series of programmes on palaeopathology. 3/39. Merton Satinoff [Nuffield Dept. of Pathology, Oxford]. Study of the squatting facets of the talus and delta in ancient Egyptians. 3/40. Balazs Bugyi [Ganz-MAVAG Policlinics, Budapest]. Correspondence 197275, with typescript article by Balazs Bugyi, About the transversal sclerotic lines of the long bones of the extremities (1972). 3/41. Bernard Knight [University of Newcastle upon Tyne / Welsh National School of Medicine]. Correspondence 1967-70. 3/42. Jonathan Musgrave / University of Bristol. Correspondence 1972-76. 3/43. Derek Renn. Correspondence 1963-73. 3/44. Richard Jones [University of Manchester]. Correspondence 1972-73, with manuscript and typescript report on cremated bone from Orton Waterville, Lincs. 3/45. William Sharpe [New Jersey College of Medicine]. Correspondence 196566. 3/46. Robin Watt [Institute of Archaeology]. Correspondence 1975-76. Includes mortality graphs and summary of cranial lengths of Ancaster remains. 3/47. E.L. Margetts [University of British Columbia / World Health Organization]. Correspondence 1968-71. . 3/48. Vilh. Moller-Christensen [Copenhagen University Museum of Medical History]. Correspondence 1962-75. 3/49. Festschrift for Ted Ellis (Norfolk Research Committee). Correspondence 1975. 3/50. Tony Duggan [Wellcome Museum]. Correspondence 1962-70. 3/51. F.N.L. Poynter [Wellcome Institute]. Correspondence 1964-72. 3/52. Ellen Ettlinger. Correspondence 1972, on stained-glass window portraits of Henry VI. 3/53. Geoffrey Parker. Correspondence 1967-70. 3/54. A.R. Edwardson [Moyses Hall Museum, Bury St. Edmunds]. Correspondence 1956-64.
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3/55. Gerry Guest. Correspondence 1965-72. 3/56. Norman Smedley [Ipswich Museum of Natural History]. Correspondence 1959-64. 3/57. Peter Gray. Correspondence 1964-77, principally on Egyptian mummies. 3/58. Glyn Daniel [St. Johns College, Cambridge and editor of Antiquity]. Correspondence 1963-77. 3/59. Helen Cayton [University of Durham]. Correspondence May-July 1978. 3/60. C.C. Hentschel. Letter 1966.
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4/30. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum : Medicine and health in Shakespeares England (Exhibition catalogue, 1964). 4/31. Loukides, N.E. et al. [Title not known]. Stencil typescript, pp. 61-93. 4/32. La Reine Pedauque. Memoires de la Commission des Antiquites du Departement de la Cote-dOr, 1959-1962, pp.56-59. 4/33. Anatomical illustrations. Folder labelled Mrs P.D. Walker. 4/34. Carpenter, W.B. : On the Fossil Human Jawbone recently discovered in the Gravel near Abbeville (probably from proceedings of the Royal Society, April 1863). Marked, The Moulin-Quignon fake. 4/35. Opening of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Museum : London Medical Gazette, Vol. 1, 1845, p.953. Photocopy, dedicated by Saul Jarcho 1970. 4/36. Garrison, F.H. : Notes on the history of military medicine (s.n., 1922). Photocopied sections.
7 - Objects
7/1. Printing plates of illustrations to Calvin Wells works. 7/2. Prinz Bellowscope (camera fitting).
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