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Spilsbury, Sir Bernard. ARCHIVE RELATING TO FORENSIC PATHOLOGY, COMPRISING: i) 15 notebooks labelled 'Post-Mortem Records' containing detailed autograph notes of post-mortem examinations, recording date, time, and location of autopsy, personal details of the subject, and the results of internal and external examination, each volume containing c.50-60 post-mortems, many with incomplete index cards, typed case histories, or hand-written memoranda loosely inserted, each volume numbered and dated as follows: 26 August to 7 December 1941 (volumes XVIII-XXII for 1941), 12 June to 17 August 1944 (volume VI), 4 December 1944 to 23 November 1945 (volume X/I-VII), 13 February to 9 May 1947 (volume I), 27 August to [12 November] 1947 (volume III), c.3500 pages, 8vo, all but the final two volumes in uniform green boards, all but two volumes having suffered at least some fire damage to bindings, with loss to some spines, smoke staining, and occasionally damage to boards, but not affecting text ii) 3 other notebooks: notebook labelled 'Experimental Methods', mostly detailing decalcification experiments, in two hands (one being Spilsbury's), 31 pages, plus blanks, 6 additional leaves loosely inserted, 8vo, 1920s; notebook labelled 'Thymus Cases', autograph summary notes on 90 post-mortems conducted between 1907 and 1918, 28 pages, plus blanks, 4to; 'The Longfellow Birthday Book', 18 autograph entries, mostly family members iii) Loose papers on forensic pathology: c.185 pages in Spilsbury's autograph, case reports (two with exhibit photographs), including his controversial 1936 report for "Rex v Linford Derrick" (3 pages), several reports on unusual cases such as a 1931 self-asphyxiation in a Cambridge College (6 pages), memoranda and notes on forms of death and related issues, drafts of lectures mostly on types of wounds and methods of violent and unnatural death (e.g. 'Death from Throttling', 13 pages); c.15 typescript lectures and draft articles by Spilsbury, some with corrections, including 'The Application of Physiological Principles to Medico-Legal Problems' (three copies) and 'Death in the Bathroom' (20 pages); notes on lecture exhibits (a bowler hat, skulls, and a shrunken head); memoranda and reports, typed and handwritten (not in Spilsbury's autograph), on subjects including unsolved murders, deaths caused by masochistic sexual practices, leather made from human skin, the effects of various poisons, and deaths from Tuberculosis among employees of a factory; c.13 letters received by Spilsbury either asking his opinion on cases or providing information (notably from chemical manufacturers on poisons), one enclosing two photographs of a cast of the mummified head of the 4th Earl of Bothwell; off-prints of articles, and newspaper cuttings, with a small number of later items relating to the collection; all housed in five folders, chiefly 1920s-40s, some leaves brittle with loss at edges, some fire damage with loss of text to a few pages, dust staining iv) 31 printed books, pamphlets, journals, and off-prints from Spilsbury's library, on topics relating to forensic pathology, some with authorial inscriptions to Spilsbury, some with ownership inscriptions by Spilsbury