Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1884-1930)
Papers c1902-1990

MSS 574.19 R65pa

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Series 3 : Correspondence and personal documents

Correspondence

• Part letter (½ page, p. 3-4) from Robertson [to Dr Stirling?] at University of California, Berkeley (ca mid 1915) re ongoing work on the pituitary extract (Tethelin); also cost of preparing a patent submission; news of Joe Gilbert's death at the Dardanelles and impact at Pewsey Vale; uneasiness at not doing his part in the war but considers his work of more importance with its possible application in field-hospitals; the ill-health of Dr Watson (while serving in military hospital?); thanking Stirling for offer to pay for operation for Jeannie Robertson.
• Letter from Robertson at University of California, Berkeley to Dr Stirling 11/10/1915, re tentative offer of a position at the Mayo Research Foundation associated with the University of Minnesota to be in charge of ‘Experimental Physiology', with Robertson's conditions of acceptance; also complaints about his salary and lack of promotion at Berkeley and the unpleasant possibility of being transferred to San Francisco; the drawing up of the patent specifications for Tethelin; comments on the news of Carew Reynell's and Bragg's second son's death in the War
• Letter from Robertson, University of Toronto, to Stirling 28/1/1919 re Stirling's retirement from the Chair of Physiology at Adelaide and Robertson's possible appointment as his successor; Robertson's keenness to take up the position despite lack of resources for research; complains of lack of exercise and fresh air during the bad weather in Toronto and the effect on the health of his wife and child, the onerous administrative duties of running a large department and describes Jeannie's longing to be near her family; reports H.K. Mulford Co. commenced manufacture of Tethelin and the difficulties experienced
• Copies of references by Frederick P. Gay (Professor of Pathology & Bacteriology, University of California, Berkeley), Jacques Loeb (The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, NY) 27/2/1919 for the position of Director of the Institute for Research in Chemical Pathology & Medicine "to be formed in Melbourne", and J.J.R. Macleod (Professor of Physiology, University of Toronto) 20/2/1919 for the position of Director of a Medical Research institute

University of California, Dept of Physiology and Physiological Chemistry budget for the academic year, 1915-16