Comprises: File 1: 'The first report of the thalassaemia-mental research syndrome', 1978-1981. File 2: 'First description of an elongated and global variant due to a mutation at the termination codon', 1970-1974. File 3: 'Background to the discovery of a gene deletion as the cause of thalassaemia – collaboration of Oxford/Beatson Institute Glasgow' 1973-1978. File 4: Correspondence regarding the Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme based at Mahidol University, Bangkok, 1978-1980.…