Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1920-1941.

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Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1920-1941.

Alfred Cox's letters to Roberts reflect a friendly relationship over time. In 1920 he comments favorably on Robert's writing on medical topics, evidently in regard to Roberts's book Warfare in the human body (or one of the essays in it). In the remaining correspondence, which is from a later period (1938, 1941), he comments extensively on Roberts's books Bio-politics, and the Behaviour of Nations. He also states at one point that his primary reading interests are literary and expresses high regard for Roberts's novel Time and Thomas Waring, highlighting a descriptive passage about sensations under anaesthesia. His last letter, in May 1941, includes a passage in which, in response to a suggestion from Roberts that he write an autobiography, he mentions his work on his book Among the Doctors, and reflects on his work in the British Medical Association.

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Cox, Alfred, 1866-1954

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Physician (MB) and primarily a medical administrator. After various work within the British Medical Association, became deputy medical secretary in 1908 and was formally appointed medical secretary in 1912, serving in that post until his retirement in 1932. After that, administrative or advisory work with other medical bodies, including part-time general secretary of the British Health Resorts Association, from 1933 to 1938; and acting secretary to the National Opthalmic Treatment Board, from 19...