Correspondence : to Morley Roberts, 1917-1920.

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Moore, Benjamin, 1867?-1922. Correspondence : to Morley Roberts, 1917-1920.

Correspondence : to Morley Roberts, 1917-1920.

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Benjamin Moore's first letter to Morley Roberts, in January 1918, indicates that Roberts initiated contact with him, after Moore had published a letter in the British Medical Journal in response to a letter published there by Roberts. Moore tells Roberts that he had taken him at first to be a medical doctor. Included is a related letter from Moore, dated in December 1917, which he wrote to the editor of the journal, Dawson Williams, in which he expressed his surprise upon learning that Roberts was not a doctor. (The latter letter by Moore is under cover of a letter from Williams to Alfred Cox, secretary of the British Medical Association, to whom Williams subsequently forwarded Moore's letter, with the understanding that Cox might send it on to Roberts.) Several items in 1918 concern arrangements to meet, with Moore twice inviting Roberts to take an interest in his work on photosynthesis. Moore at one point refers to Roberts's idea about rectal injection of sea water forestalling thirst, reporting an experience of a friend whom he hopes to bring along. In 1920 Moore remarks positively on Roberts's article (Malignancy); and he happily receives a copy of Roberts's book (Warfare in the human body), while declining to write a review.

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