Correspondence concerning travels in India, Africa, Turkey, birth of son, Simon.

Letters include frequent references to early days at Linacre House (later College), and to severe winter in UK; Hodgkin's portrait by Sheila Fell delivered to Somerville College 15 Feb.

Letter include correspodence regarding an arthritis attack described as 'a silly two days with a bad right hand' 10 Nov.; eulogisitic report by Helen Gardner on visit by Robbins Committee on Education to Soviet Union 14 Nov.; Thomas ill with dengue fever 25 Nov.

Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on 29 October. The last dated letter in the folder is 22 October and there is in consequence no mention of it here.

Comprising: Letters, Jan.-June, to Thomas in Accra: offer to Hodgkin of Order of Merit 14 Mar. and acceptance after telephone call from the Palace 17 Mar. (Ferry pp.294-295); many references to good progress on insulin research; last visit to Oxford by Bernal 23 May; offer to Thomas of newly-created lecturership in Government of African States (later New States) 31 May Letters, Sept,…

Comprises: Letters, Jan.-Feb., includes letters from India (see also MS. Eng. c. 5671/7 in the main Hodgkin papers) Letters, June-July, includes letters from USA (see also MS. Eng. c. 5671/8-10 in the main Hodgkin papers)

Letters written Apr.-June, are from Australia and New Zealand. Includes meetings with Katie and Jimmy Collins (Ferry p.335, see also MS. Eng. c. 7938/8).

One letter only, 20 Feb., from 'Seattle and San Francisco'. Included here is a group of undated or fragmentary letters, all periods.

Includes telegram 1959 from Paul Robeson accepting invitation to visit, on verso is Thomas's shopping list, perhaps for the occasion