Janus: The Papers of Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Manuscripts/MS Add.7620 contains:
1	Material generated or accumulated as an academic post holder
2	Notebooks and loose notes
3	Material relating to consultancies
4	Material generated by honorific positions and associated activities
5	Biographical studies, obituaries, and memorial publications
6	Material generated by personal and family matters
7	Miscellaneous newspaper cutting of a letter to the editor of an unspecified paper from A[rthur] H[eygate] Mackmurdo re Professor Elliot Smith and natural selection
8 (N)	Photographs and ephemera

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The Papers of Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Title	Material generated or accumulated as an academic post holder
Reference	MS Add.7620/1
Covering Dates	1875–1947
Extent and Medium	1.5 boxes; paper; cloth; wood; photograph

Further information

See also section MS Add.7620/ (8) N2 or MS Add.7620/N2 which contains photographs of various colleagues.

Manuscripts/MS Add.7620/1 contains:

Printed map of the Borough/Bermondsey area marked up with the boundary of the Guy's Hospital Charity. Printed by Standfords Geo[graphical] Estab[lishment] for the Guy's Hospital Gazette.
1 linen lined sheet; paper; linen.

1890–1895

Letter of reference from Thomas Stevenson (Guy's Hospital) re Frederick Gowland Hopkins' suitability for the Sir William Gull Memorial Scholarship. The original envelope is annotated ''The only testimonial for a post that I ever had to ask for''. A transcript is enclosed.
2 sheets and 1 envelope; paper.

11 Mar. 1891

Guy's hospital certificate of honours for second year examination.
1 sheet; paper.

1891–1893

Menu card, toast list and attendees list for a Thanksgiving Day Dinner at Trinity College, Cambridge.
12 sheets; paper.

26 Nov. 1936

4.1

Photograph of the chemical laboratory at Guy's Hospital. The image shows work benches, sinks, bottles of chemicals and black boards.
1 photographic print on a mount board (117 x 162 mm); photograph; The surface of the print is scratched and dirty. The mount has suffered some minor losses..

12 Sep. 1895

4.2

Photograph of the ''Old Chemical Laboratory, Guy's Hospital''. The image is of a fire burning in grate with classical marble surround. A workbench and bottles can just be made out. Caption in handwriting.
Creator: [Palmer Clarke of Cambridge].
1 sepia photographic print on a mount board (91 x 72mm); photograph.

1890–1899

4.3

Photograph of ''Old Lecture Theatre, Guy's Hospital''. The image shows steeply tiered wooden seating, with metal railings between rows. Podium in foreground.
Creator: Messrs Pal[mer Clarke].
1 sepia photographic print on a mount board (80 x 72mm); photograph.

1890–1899

Supplement to the Guy's Hospital Gazette reproducing photographs of staff both in the Anatomy and Physiology department, and in the Chemistry, Biology and Maeteria Medica department.
1 sheet; paper.

25 Sep. 1897

Offprint of Frederick Gowland Hopkins' article ''The Pigments of the Pieridae; a contribution to the study of excretory substances which function in ornament'' published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 57.
16 sheets; paper.

1895

Photograph of Sidney Cole and Frederick Gowland Hopkins with the first specimen of tryptophan. Image shows two men standing between benches and in front of laboratory shelves. Frederick Gowland Hopkins is holding an object.
1 photographic print (81 x 106mm); photograph; There are drawing pin perforations and minor loss..

1901

Poetic address from ''C.A.K.'' to Frederick Gowland Hopkins on the occasion of his becoming a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
1 sheet; paper.

1907

Table plan from the Charles Darwin Commemoration banquet.
1 sheet; paper.

23 June 1909

Letter from T.R. Elliott (University College Hospital) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re his acquiring a praelectorship at Trinity College, Cambridge.
1 sheet; paper.

23 May 1910

Letter from Henry Montagu Butler (Trinity College, Cambridge) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re the praelectorship and his health.
1 sheet; paper.

2 June 1910

Letter from G. Barger (Goldsmiths' College) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins congratulating him on the Trinity College praelectorship.
1 sheet; paper.

6 June 1910

Letter from J. Ellis McTaggert (Trinity College, Cambridge) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins welcoming his appointment to the college.
1 sheet; paper.

24 Aug. 1910

Circular from Trinity College, Cambridge announcing a meeting of Council to elect and admit a fellow.
1 sheet; paper.

5 Oct. 1910

Letter from J.B. Peace (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re full membership of parlour.
1 sheet; paper.

8 Oct. 1910

Letter from Henry Montagu Butler (Trinity College, Cambridge) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins enclosing statutes (not extant).
1 sheet; paper.

12 Oct. 1910

Letter from P. Giles (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re election to a fellowship of Emmanuel and the Trinity fellowship.
1 sheet; paper.

28 Oct. 1911

Photocopies of letters between Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Thomas Burr Osborne and Lafayette Benedict Mendel re experimental work; together with later letters relating to an honorary degree from Yale University.
12 items; paper.

1912–1930

18B

Copies of plates from the United States Department of Agriculture Circular No. 84 showing the results of experiments related to vitamins A and B.
2 negative transparencies; photograph.

1913

Letter from [?James McKenzie] to ''George'' re information for Frederick Gowland Hopkins on ''ulceration'' of eyes.
1 sheet; paper.

10 Mar. 1913

Notification from the University of Oxford Registry of Frederick Gowland Hopkins nomination as an examiner in animal physiology.
1 sheet; paper.

16 June 1914

Letter from Sydney W. Cole to Frederick Gowland Hopkins congratulating him on the establishment of a professorship in biochemistry.
1 sheet; paper.

6 Nov. 1914

Letter from M.R. James (Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re his election to the professorship of biochemistry, associated regulations and admission procedure.
1 sheet; paper.

16 Dec. 1914

Draft plan for the layout of a laboratory. The drawing is made on Biochemical Laboratory headed note paper. The original envelope is annotated ''Conversion of the Balfour Lab. Downing Place for the Dept. of Biochemistry''. There are rough notes on the reverse.
1 sheet; 1 envelope; paper.

1914

Letters from Elisabeth Quicoureux to [Jessie Ann] Hopkins. /1. Letter of from hotel in Maastricht (Belgium), 20 September 1914. /2. Letter from Middlekerke (Belgium) written while fleeing German advance, [autumn 1914]. /3. Letter card from Marche (Belgium), 1930. /4. Card from Marche, 1931.
Creator: Elisabeth Quicoureux.
4 items; paper; Letter /1. has considerable edge tears..

1914–1931

First page of a letter from an unknown Japanese ex-student or junior colleague (Kurashiki, Japan) to [Frederick Gowland Hopkins] thanking him for hosting him in Cambridge. Together with envelope printed with Japanese script; photograph of snow on trees.
1 sheet; 1 envelope; 1 photographic print; paper; photograph; The letter is torn along its folds..

27 Mar. 1915

Studio group portrait of Frederick Gowland Hopkins with [?departmental staff]. The sitters are named on an enclosed label.
Creator: J. Palmer Clarke, Cambridge.
1 photographic print (230 x 281mm); photograph; There are surface cracks, minor losses and silver deterioration..

1915–1916

Letter from Frederick Gowland Hopkins to Frances Hammer re an offer of a position in biochemistry; together with annotated envelope.
1 sheet and 1 envelope; paper.

16 June 1917

Letter from Chuai Asayama (Kioto, Japan) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re past work in Cambridge and current work in Japan.
1 sheet; paper.

31 Dec. 1917

Letter from Donald Macalister ( University of Glasgow) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re election to the General Medical Council.
1 sheet; paper.

16 May 1918

Letter from [?J.K.] Fowler to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re money for the fitting of the Balfour Laboratories.
1 sheet; paper.

23 Nov. 1919

Group photographs of academics including Frederick Gowland Hopkins. Items 35 and 6 are annotated ''taken at the Nutrition Laboratory, Boston, Mass., in Dr. [Lafayette] Benedict [Mendel]'s Office''. There are British and American national flags in the background of item 37.
3 photographs (2 items at 152 x 199mm; 1 item at 161 x 236mm); photograph.

Apr. 1921

32A

Letter from Jeremiah Colman to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re the cost of building and his appointment as [William Dunn] professor.
1 sheet; paper.

7 May 1921

32B

Photograph of Frederick Gowland Hopkins talking to a gentleman in front of the Vienna Children's Hospital.
1 photographic print (52 x 74mm); photograph.

9 Oct. 1921

Letter from Baron Stamfordham to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re postponing the visit of George V and Queen Mary to the School of Biochemistry.
1 sheet and 1 envelope; paper.

28 Jan. 1924

Invitation to Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Hardy to the opening of the Sir William Dunn Laboratories, School of Biochemistry.
1 card; paper.

9 May 1924

Photograph of Lord Balfour opening the Sir William Dunn Laboratories, School of Biochemistry. Lord Balfour, in academic dress, delivering an address to assembled academics and guests in a laboratory. Frederick Gowland Hopkins is seated to his left.
1 photographic print (168 x 216mm); photograph.

9 May 1924

Issues 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 of the publication ''Brighter Biochemistry: being the illustrated journal of the Biochemical Laboratory, Cambridge''.
5 pamphlets; paper.

1924–1931

37a-b

Photographs of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, [?Lady Hopkins] and a terrier dog (Scamper) on the steps of the School of Biochemistry building from Tennis Court Road, Cambridge.
2 photographic prints (63 x 88mm); photograph.

1924–1935

Menu card and toast list for a ''Biochemical Laboratory Dinner in Celebration of the Knighthood of Professor Hopkins'', held at Trinity College, Cambridge. The card has been signed by the dinner attendees.
1 item; paper.

14 Feb. 1925

Notes of references for ''Outstanding early papers of immediate students'', 1913-25. Each reference is on an individual slip of paper.
1 envelope; paper.

1925

Menu card and toast list for a dinner ''on the occasion of the presentation of Professor Sir Frederick] Gowland Hopkins' portrait to the Dunn Institute of Biochemistry'', held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
1 item; paper.

8 Oct. 1926

Menu card and table plan for a luncheon ''on the occasion of the visit of members of the Imperial Education Conference'' held at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
3 sheets; paper.

18 July 1927

Caricature of Frederick Gowland Hopkins by Michael Perkins entitled ''Sir William Dunn Institute Academy. First Depression. I do wish authors would quote their references correctly.''. There is a gift label on the reverse.
1 sheet and 2 part mount; paper; wood.

1927

Letter from J. Guard to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re School of Biochemistry office matters.
1 sheet; paper.

25 Mar. 1931

Letter from Will Spens (Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re an honorary doctorate.
1 sheet; paper.

13 Mar. 1933

Photocopy of a letter from Frederick Gowland Hopkins to Hans Adolf Krebs re financial assistance and place for in the laboratory at Cambridge.
1 sheet; paper.

28 Apr. 1933

Letter from the Cambridge University [?Natural] Science Club to Frederick Gowland Hopkins congratulating him on the Cambridge honorary doctorate.
1 sheet; paper.

23 May 1933

Printed text of an oration for an Honorary Degree ceremony; together with a notice of the ceremony procedure and a table plan for the following luncheon at Corpus Christi College.
4 sheets; paper.

8 June 1933

Invitation to a dinner of the Guy's Eaters Club at which Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was to be the guest.
1 card; paper.

11 Sep. 1934

Newspaper cutting from the Times re agricultural policy and the provision of food.
1 sheet; paper.

3 Dec. 1934

Greetings from the '''Hoppie Society'' or ''Hoppy Club'' to Frederick Gowland Hopkins. These items are notes on cocktail menus etc signed by groups of previous students of Frederick Gowland Hopkins when gathered together for conferences e.g. the Biochemical Society, Chicago, 1941. Most are from the USA, but 1935 is from Saint Petersburg, and 1937 from the Netherlands.
8 items; paper.

1934–1942

Newspaper cutting from the Daily Herald showing Professor Abraham and Frederick Gowland Hopkins at the International Conference on Physics, London.
1 sheet; paper.

1934

Letters from Frederick Gowland Hopkins to Stanislaw K. Kon (National Institute for Dairy Research, Reading) re the reproduction of earlier experiments, vitamin B, refection and publication of articles.
5 items, comprising 7 sheets; paper.

1934–1945

Photocopy of a letter from Frederick Gowland Hopkins to H.A. Krebs offering him another appointment in the department.
2 sheets; paper.

12 Jan. 1936

Address to Joseph John Thomson, physicist, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
1 sheet; paper.

18 Dec. 1936

Letter from A. Desna to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re ''Albi [?Albert Szent-Györgyi]'s'' work and Hopkins's birthday.
1 sheet; paper.

7 Nov. 1937

Typescripts of book forewords.
1 folder; paper.

1937–1940

Reprint of A.L. Bacharach's review of ''Perspectives in Biochemistry. Thirty-One Essays Presented to Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins By Past and Present Members of His Laboratory'' from The Analyst, January 1938, Vol. 63.
1 sheets; paper.

Mar. 1938

Letter from Elizabeth de Waal to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re the [?relocation of continental scientists to the United Kingdom].
1 sheet; paper.

21 June 1938

Personal correspondence with American colleagues.
12 items; paper.

1875–1947

Letters from Frederick Gowland Hopkins to Denis L. Fox (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California) re work on the pigmentation of marine animals; together with explanatory notes by Fox.
6 items comprising 8 sheets and 2 envelops; paper.

1939–1945

Letter to [?Henry Drysdale Dakin] from Frederick Gowland Hopkins re his health, his work, the war and its affect on the work of the laboratory.
2 sheets and 1 envelope; paper; The sheets have split down fold lines. A censor has razored out small sections..

18 May 1941

Photographs of letters from Frederick Gowland Hopkins to N[orman] W. Pirie (Rothamstead Experimental Station, Harpenden). /1. re Pirie's birthday telegram and his ability to visit the [?Harpenden] laboratory. /2. re Pirie's biography of Hopkins for the Central Office of Information.
3 photographic prints; photograph.

15 June 1941–30 Oct. 1942

Photograph of Frederick Gowland Hopkins with E.F. Gale and other workers in the laboratory. This is an informal photograph of a group in conversation. Some participants are wearing lab coats.
1 photographic print (180 x 253mm); photograph.

1941

Photograph of Barbara Elizabeth Holmes heating a florence flask observed by Frederick Gowland Hopkins.
Creator: Hulton Press Ltd, Picture Post.
2 photographic prints (184 x 253mm); photograph; Both prints have been retained because they have sustained minor damage in different areas..

1941

Correspondence about Dr. Parnas, German scientist in Cambridge, 1914. /1. Letter from Chief Constable of Cambridge, 28 August 1914. /2. Letter from Dr Parnas at ''Melrose'' [School], Grange Road, Cambridge, to [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins. /3. Letter from E Troup at Home Office, 30 October 1914. /4. Telegram from Commandant at Lofthouse, 8 November 1914.
4 items; paper.

1914

Reference code not used.