E.23-E.25: 'ONR' Lecture (banquet speech) by Abraham at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, 19-24 August 1973. The title of the speech was 'Some Aspects of the Development of the Penicillins and Cephalosporins'. E.23 contains correspondence regarding arrangements and arising, May-February 1974. E.24 contains a 29pp typescript draft of the lecture with manuscript revisions and a 22pp copy of the typescript of the lecture. The lecture was published in Developments in Industrial Microbiology, Volume 15. E.25 contains a copy of the Society of Industrial Microbiology Newsletter, July 1973, containing the programme etc., for the Annual Meeting in 1973 and a short biography of Abraham.

E.26-E.28: Lecture by Abraham given at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, 4 June 1982. The lecture was within the framework of the University's research branch 'Structure, Function and Biosynthesis of Peptides and Proteins'. E.26 contains correspondence, etc., regarding arrangements and arising, March-June 1982. E.27 an 18pp typescript draft of the lecture, with manuscript corrections, headed 'Berlin' and 2pp of typescript and manuscript notes. E.28 contains other correspondence arising from Abraham's association with the Technische Universität, January-November 1982.

E.29-E.30: Squibb lecture, University of Nottingham, 12 May 1983. E.29 contains correspondence regarding arrangements and arising, July 1982-May 1983. E.30 contains a 2pp incomplete manuscript draft of Abraham's lecture 'The Cephalosporins - origins and future'.

E.31-E.33: Lecture by Abraham given at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, 24 June 1983. The lecture was in the framework of the University's research branch 'Structure, Function and Biosynthesis of Peptides and Proteins' E.31 contains correspondence, etc., regarding arrangements and arising, March-November 1983. E.32 contains a 20pp typescript draft with manuscript revisions, a 15pp typescript revised version with manuscript annotations, and a 1p manuscript list of slides. E.33 contains 19pp manuscript notes with copies of figures, probably related to the drafts described in E.32.

E.34: Correspondence regarding invitation and arrangements, February-July 1991, for a lecture given to the Southampton Medical Society, (arranged for) 2 October 1991. The lecture was on the origins and developments of penicillins and cephalosporins.

E.35-E.36: Lecture given at the National Portrait Gallery: 'Alexander Fleming and his Remarkable Discoveries', 31 March 1993. E.35 contains correspondence regarding arrangements and arising, October 1992-April 1993. Also included is correspondence regarding a proposed Fleming Museum in St Mary's Hospital, October 1992-February 1993. E.36 contains a 12pp incomplete manuscript draft with revisions, an incomplete typescript draft with manuscript revisions, and a revised typescript draft with prints and photocopied material used as slides.

E.37: Includes a 20pp typescript draft, with manuscript revisions, entitled 'Mode of Action of Antibiotics', a 9pp typescript draft, with manuscript revisions, headed 'Canberra', a 19pp copy of a typescript entitled 'The Impact of Antibiotics on Medicine, and a revised version of the latter, probably for publication. From a file inscribed Lectures - Australia'. The lectures were probably given at the International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, Australia, 15-25 August 1960.

E.38: 'Some Aspects of Resistance to Antibiotics', given at a seminar on infectious disease organised by the Oxford Regional Committee for Postgraduate Medical Education and Training, 16 February 1971. Includes correspondence regarding arrangements, August-November 1970, 6pp manuscript notes for thelecture, 17pp typescript draft of lecture, with manuscript revisions, and 4 typescript pages (probably used for slides).

E.39: 3pp incomplete typescript draft, with manuscript revisions, headed 'Orthopaedic Centre March 1st 1975' and 3pp manuscript notes for the remainder of the lecture.

E.40: 'Beta-Lactam Antibiotics: A Brief Modern History', a lecture given at the 9th International Congress of Chemotherapy, Royal Albert Hall, London, 13-19 July 1975. Includes 12pp copy of typescript of the lecture, the programme, etc.

E.41: 25pp typescript of a lecture entitled 'The Cephalosporins', inscribed 'History of Science April 1976', with a 1p manuscript list of slides, and 3pp typescript notes for the lecture with manuscript annotations.

E.42: 21pp copy of typescript of a lecture entitled 'Cephalosporin', inscribed '50th Anniversary April 1977', with 2pp typescript of a speech introducing Abraham.

E.43: 7pp typescript draft with manuscript revisions entitled 'Some British Contributions to Antibiotics and Progress in Chemotherapy', n.d.

E.44: Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript notes and lists of slides etc., with 2 photographs, for unidentified lectures, n.d.

E.45: Miscellaneous correspondence, mostly regarding arrangements and arising, relating to various lectures, 1960-1985; typescript of an article entitled 'The Penicillin Nucleus' and inscribed '14 March 1959', with a letter regarding its publication in the British Medical Journal, 1959.