Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones: letter to a Mr Sheppard

Letter to a Mr Sheppard, who has just published a book, and sending him a paper he, Armstrong-Jones, has just written. Comments on the War, the purpose in evolution, and that he is missing "my old Claybury Hall friends" (he had retired the previous year). Mentions that he has recently published in Nature [6 Sep 1917] a little review on Shell Shock [presumably Shell shock and its lessons by G. Elliot Smith and T. H. Pear], which "the authors have resented and there have been 'wigs on the green' in consequence". Conveys news of family and social activities.

14 Oct 1917

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Purchased from Richard M Ford, Sep 2012

Biographical information on Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones and his distinguished career in psychiatry can be found in obituaries in the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, 6 Feb 1943 and The Times, 1 Feb 1943, and there are entries in Munk's Roll of Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, Vol IV, and in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

In Wellcome: Additional material relating to Armstrong-Jones can be found in the archives of the Eugenics Society, SA/EUG/C.5, and the archives of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, WA/HMM/CO/Ear/2 , WA/HMM/CO/Alp/27