Mary Agnes Burniston Brazier Papers - Supplement, 1941-1995, bulk 1988-1995
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Mary Agnes Burniston Brazier Papers. Supplement.
Date (inclusive): 1941-1995, bulk 1988-1995
Collection number: 42A
Creator:
Brazier, Mary A. B. (Mary Agnes Burniston), 1904-1995.
Extent:
1 carton,
(1.5 linear feet)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections
for the Sciences
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: This carton of documents augments the previously
donated papers of Mary A. B. Brazier (UCLA Biomedical Library, Manuscript
Collection number 42), who was internationally respected as a neurophysiologist,
historian, author, and editor. It contains correspondence of her retirement
years with former colleagues and lasting friends, and adds some biographical
details of her youth and formative years to the information in the main
collection. There are numerous photographs of persons and places tied to her
professional travel. The collection also contains documentation of financial
grants from the National Institutes of Health awarded or continued during the
period covered. [Note: Box 1 of this collection, #42A, comprises and is labeled
as Box 28 of collection #42.]
Physical location: History and Special Collections for the
Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los
Angeles
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
Access
Collection is open for research.
"Manuscript Collection no. 42A" Box 1 comprises and is labeled as Box 28 of Collection 42.
Publication Rights
Property rights in the physical objects belong to the UCLA Biomedical
Library. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and
their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission
to publish if the Biomedical Library does not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Mary Agnes Burniston Brazier Papers. Supplement. (Manuscript collection 42A). Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences , University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Acquisition Information
The materials were donated by Dr. Brazier's heirs in 2010.
Scope and Content
The bulk of the materials consists of correspondence from Dr. Brazier's
retirement years, and photographs of her and her scientific colleagues and
friends. There are also short autobiographical reminiscences.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Neurophysiology and Neurophysiologists., 1947-1995. 52 folders
- Series 2. Professional and Personal Materials, 1941-1995. 21 folders
Related Material
UCLA BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY HISTORY AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS FOR THE SCIENCES. Manuscript Collection #42: Mary Agnes Burniston
Brazier Papers.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Brazier, Mary A. B. (Mary Agnes Burniston), 1904-1995.
Electroencephalography--history.
Neurophysiology--history.
Series 1.
Neurophysiology and Neurophysiologists.
1947-1995
Physical Description: 52 folders
Arrangement
chronological within folders
Subseries 1.
Individuals
1947-1995
Physical Description: 50 folders
Box 1, Folder 1
Adey, William Ross (W. Ross Adey), 1922–2004.
Scope and Content Note
correspondence (1988-1995); Adey reprints (1960-1993); various reprints on
possible biological effects of electromagnetic fields (1992); photographs
Box 1, Folder 2
A - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1994-1995
Scope and Content Note
Lord Addison (some information about Brazier's London addresses as a student
and a newly-wed); John James Abbott (obituary)
Box 1, Folder 3
Barlow, John S., 1925- .
1988-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; "The Electroencephalogram: its Patterns and Origins" by John
S. Barlow: pre-publication reviews, printed post-publication reviews, some
chapter drafts; "A Chinese-Russian-English Dictionary" by John S. Barlow:
announcement and sample pages
Box 1, Folder 4
Bates, John A.V., 1918-1993.
1990-1993
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; "The Times" obituary
Box 1, Folder 5
Bekhtereva, N. P. (Natalia Petrovna), (Bechtereva, Natasha),
1924-2008.
1990-1994
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; 8x10" portrait
Box 1, Folder 6
B - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1988-1994
Scope and Content Note
Reginald Bickford; Dietmar Biesold; Colin Blakemore; Nathaniel Buchwald; UCLA
Brain Research Institute (miscellaneous memos and announcements); Theodore
Bullock; Pierre Buser; Arlette Buser
Box 1, Folder 7
Cobb, Stanley, 1887-1968.
1947-1948
Scope and Content Note
memo from Cobb concerning Brazier's salary; group photograph of Dr. Cobb's
department personnel, Massachusetts General Hospital
Box 1, Folder 8
Cobb, W. A. (William Albert), 1913-1999.
1988-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; photographs and realtor brochure of Blackwater House, Dr.
Cobb's home
Box 1, Folder 9
Crandall, Paul H., 1923- .
1989-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; Crandall reprint "The UCLA Epilepsy Program: historical
review, 1960-1992"
Box 1, Folder 10
C - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1988-1995
Scope and Content Note
Gastone G. Celesia (includes information on a 1994 Citizen Ambassador Program
Clinical Neurophysiology Delegation to China, to which Brazier was invited);
Robert C. Collins; Thomas F. Collura; Mary Conley; Richard Creese (includes
snapshot of Dr. and Mrs. Creese); funeral notice for Otto Detlef Creutzfeld
Box 1, Folder 11
D - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1984
Scope and Content Note
A tribute, Max Dondey, 1924-1983
Note
for snapshot of Dondey, see folder #59
Box 1, Folder 12
Ellingson, Robert J.
1989-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Box 1, Folder 13
E - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1989
Scope and Content Note
Jerome Engel (Pete)
Box 1, Folder 14
Flanigin, Herman F., 1895-1988.
1990
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; typescript for a chapter on "The history of surgical
treatment of epilepsy in North America", by H. Flanigin et al.
Box 1, Folder 15
F - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1988-1990
Scope and Content Note
Sally Field; Stanley Finger; Kathryn Ferguson Fink ("in Memoriam"); Alex
Forbes (photograph); Marion Fremont-Smith (Mrs. Paul...); Joyce M. Fried
Box 1, Folder 16
G - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1990-1993
Scope and Content Note
Thomas A. Gibbons; Roger W. Gillian ("In memoriam"); Geoffrey H. Gold; Eli S.
Goldensohn; Murray Goldstein; F. Golla; Ellen Grass
Box 1, Folder 17
Herrmann, Christian, Jr.
1989-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; newspaper clippings
Box 1, Folder 18
H - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1990-1994
Scope and Content Note
Diane E. Haines; Richard N. Harner; Charles E. Henry (Chuck); Thomas
Hutton
Box 1, Folder 19
Ingvar, David H., 1924-2000.
1988
Scope and Content Note
one letter, and reply
Box 1, Folder 20
Jasper, Herbert Henri, 1906-1999.
1990-1993
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; meeting announcements
Box 1, Folder 21
J - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1989-1994
Scope and Content Note
Ian Jeffers; Bernice Jeffrey (Wenzel); Russell A. Johnson
Box 1, Folder 22
Koestler, Arthur, 1905–1983.
1988-1994
Scope and Content Note
correspondence re. letters and a Koestler manuscript that Brazier deposited
with the Koestler Archive at Edinburgh University; checklist of Koestler Archive
at Edinburgh Univ. Library, 1987
Note
Koestler planned to write about the brain physiology that lies behind
psychological behavior (see 9 May '88 letter) in his second volume of "Insight
and Outlook", and asked Dr. Brazier, whom he had met at a Cambridge dinner
party, to comment on his manuscript
Box 1, Folder 23
K - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1990-1995
Scope and Content Note
Dan W. Kass; Peter Kellaway; John Russell Knott ("In memoriam")
Box 1, Folder 24
Lindsley, Donald Benjamin, 1907-2003.
1989-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; Lindsley c.v.
Box 1, Folder 25
L - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1990-1991
Scope and Content Note
Denis Leigh; Robert B. Livingston; Liliana Lubinska (Lubinska)
Box 1, Folder 26
MacLean, Paul D., 1913-2007.
1989-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Box 1, Folder 27
Magnus, Otto.
1991-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Box 1, Folder 28
Magoun, Horace Winchell, 1907-1991.
1991-1993
Scope and Content Note
reprints of two memorial articles; three portraits; note to Brazier from Dr.
Magoun's daughter, Elizabeth Provenzano
Box 1, Folder 29
McIlwain, Henry, 1912-1992.
1988
Scope and Content Note
one short note from Dr. McIlwain
Box 1, Folder 30
Melnechuk, Theodore.
1995
Scope and Content Note
one letter from Melnechuk, plus photocopies of short publications
Box 1, Folder 31
Naquet, Robert, 1923-2005.
1988-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Box 1, Folder 32
N - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1991-1993
Scope and Content Note
Neuroscience Abstracts; Marc R. Nuwer; E. Niedermeyer
Box 1, Folder 33
Ormerod, W. E.
1990-1992
Scope and Content Note
correspondence, centered on a bust of Richard Caton
Note
Dr. Ormerod is Caton's grandson
Box 1, Folder 34
O - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
Ynez O'Neill; David Ottoson
Box 1, Folder 35
P - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1989-1994
Scope and Content Note
Terry Picton; Ladd Prosser; Dominick P. Purpura
Box 1, Folder 36
Remond, Antoine (Tony Rémond), 1917-1998.
1989-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Box 1, Folder 37
Rosenblith, Walter A., 1913-2002.
1993-1994
Scope and Content Note
one letter; reprint of Rosenblith foreword to "So human a brain", ed. by Anne
Harrington
Box 1, Folder 38
Sawyer, Charles H., 1915-2006.
1990-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; newspaper clippings
Box 1, Folder 39
Scheibel, Arnold B.
1989-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Box 1, Folder 40
Sonnenschein, Ralph R.
1989-1994
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Box 1, Folder 41
Storm van Leeuwen, W.
1989-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; photo of Storm van Leeuwen's house in Holland
Note
Storm van Leeuwen's nickname, Ims, is found often throughout Brazier's
letters
Box 1, Folder 42
S - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1966, 1986-1995
Scope and Content Note
Sasha (1966); Edward Schwarzschild; Pepe Segundo (Jose Pedro Segundo);
Ernst-August Seyfarth regarding Ernst Theodor von Bruecke (Brücke);
Harold W. Shipton; Oliver Sacks ("New Yorker" article "To see and not to see",
1993)
Note
Sasha was a student who acted as simultaneous translator for a Brazier
lecture in Leningrad
Box 1, Folder 43
Tower, Donald Bayley, 1920-2007.
1987-1994
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; five Tower reprints
Box 1, Folder 44
T - Miscellaneous correspondence.
1988-1994
Scope and Content Note
Helen M. Tepperman; Barry R. Tharp; Bernard Towers; Jan Trabka
Box 1, Folder 45
Ukhtomskii (Uchtomsky), A. A. (Aleksei? Alekseevich),
1875-1942.
1960, 1972-1975
Scope and Content Note
typed list "Selected writings of Alexie Alexeevich Uchtomsky, 1903-1951";
correspondence; a few typed pages of a biography of Uchtomsky; newspaper review
of the "Dictionary of Scientific Biography" from the "Times Literary
Supplement", 1970; two 5x7" portraits, and snapshot of Uchtomsky and
Shaternikov, with negatives
Note
Brazier was invited to write a biography of Uchtomsky for the
DSB
Box 1, Folder 46
van Duijn, Hans.
1989-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; snapshots of Brazier and van Duijn
Box 1, Folder 47
Verzeano, Michael.
1990-1994
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Box 1, Folder 48
Welch, John B.
1989-1993
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; newspaper clippings with portraits
Box 1, Folder 49
W - Miscellaneous.
1965, 1991-1994
Scope and Content Note
Norbert Wiener: "in memoriam", 1965, and book reviews by John Barlow and by
Alex Andrew of "Norbert Wiener" by Pesi R. Masani; Jerome B. Wiesner,
obituary
Box 1, Folder 50
Zottoli, Steven J.
1994
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Subseries 2.
Institutions and Societies
1975-1994
Physical Description: 2 folders
Box 1, Folder 51
Burden Neurological Institute, Bristol, England.
1975
Scope and Content Note
"The Burden Neurological Institute Limited, Report, April 1974-March
l975"
Box 1, Folder 52
IBRO (International Brain Research Organization).
1989, 1994
Scope and Content Note
draft copy of "Early history of IBRO: the birth of organized neuroscience",
ed. by Louise Marshall, with photocopies of figures and captions, and
correspondence concerning the manuscript; issue of "IBRO News", v. 17, no. 3,
1989; photocopied pages from "International Brain Research Organization: birth
and development", 1978
Series 2.
Professional and Personal Materials
1941-1995
Physical Description: 21 folders
Subseries 1.
Brazier's Research Publications
1947-1985
Physical Description: 2 folders
Box 1, Folder 53
Brazier reprints and reports.
1947-1980
Scope and Content Note
five reprints or photocopies (some partial); one typed report; one typed
presentation to 4th meeting of Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers
(1946?)
Box 1, Folder 54
Published reviews of "A History of Neurophysiology in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries", by Mary A.B. Brazier.
1985
Scope and Content Note
eighteen reviews; some correspondence with the publisher, and with Edwin
Clarke, one of the reviewers
Subseries 2.
Miscellaneous Professional and Research Materials
1961-1991
Physical Description: 4 folders
Box 1, Folder 55
Career grant award, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and
Blindness: "Computer aided research on the brain".
1961-1966
Scope and Content Note
original proposal with letters of recommendation; correspondence; various
government and university documents
Box 1, Folder 56
Research grant, National Institutes of Health: "Electrophysiological
studies of the epileptic brain".
1977
Scope and Content Note
grant application
Box 1, Folder 57
Research grant, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative
Disorders and Stroke: "The historical development of
neurophysiology".
1980-1991
Scope and Content Note
grant documents; correspondence
Box 1, Folder 58
Publication grant, National Library of Medicine: "The Historical
Development of Neurophysiology".
1979-1982
Scope and Content Note
grant documents; correspondence
Subseries 3.
Honors and Awards
1962-1989
Physical Description: 3 folders
Box 3, Folder 59
Doctorate honoris causa in Medicine, Utrecht University, The
Netherlands, 26 March 1976.
1975-1976
Physical Description: photos mounted on black album sheets
Scope and Content Note
copy of letter announcing the offer of honorary doctorate from the University
of Utrecht; 13 mounted snapshots of the ceremony in the cathedral; additional
snapshots of Storm van Leeuwen's house in Zeeland the day after the ceremony;
negative and 4x6" copy of the diploma
Box 1, Folder 60
Miscellaneous honors.
1962, 1967, 1983, 1989
Scope and Content Note
newspaper interview, with portrait, on the occasion of winning the "Los
Angeles Times" Women of the Year Award (1962); certificate of the inclusion of
Mary A. Brazier in the 5th edition of "Who's Who of American Women" (1967);
newspaper clipping on receiving "Woman of the Year" award from the Muses of the
California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles (1983); announcement of
the establishment of two scientific awards by the International Federation of
Societies for Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology: The M.A.B.
Brazier Young Investigator Award, and The W. A. Cobb Young Investigator Award
(1989)
Box 1, Folder 61
Nomination for Albert Lasker Medical Research Award.
1964
Scope and Content Note
letter to the A. and M. Lasker Foundation, signed by Drs. Sherman M.
Mellinkoff and H. W. Magoun
Subseries 4.
Miscellaneous Personal Materials
1941-1995
Physical Description: 12 folders
Box 1, Folder 62
Curriculum vitae.
1964, probably 1988
Scope and Content Note
short c.v. dated 1964; very complete undated c.v.; various other pages
Box 1, Folder 63
Autobiographical materials.
1982, 1992
Scope and Content Note
copy of a letter to Oliver Brazier (her son) and his wife, explaining about
Dr. Brazier's vision problem; nine-page typed autobiography, plus additional
notes; correspondence with Christine Gladwin at Sidcot School about a planned
history of the school
Note
Brazier, her brother Guy Burniston Brown, and her husband, Leslie
Giddens Brazier had all attended Sidcot, a coeducational Quaker boarding
school
Box 1, Folder 64
American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
1991
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with Roy C. Selby who, on behalf of the Association's Archives
Committee, wanted to arrange a video or audio interview with Brazier, to record
reminiscences regarding her professional life and career
Note
Brazier firmly declined the invitation
Box 1, Folder 65
Portraits and snapshots of M.A.B. Brazier.
1941-1993
Scope and Content Note
eleven solo photographs, many undated, one negative; includes photograph and
cover portrait used on "Modern Medicine", v. 29, Oct. 30, 1961
Box 1, Folder 66
Photographs of Brazier with colleagues and friends.
1950-1993
Scope and Content Note
snapshots from meetings and travel; some people, places, and times are
identified: Prague; Vienna, with H. Petsche; the Remonds (Rémond), L.A.
and Paris; committee meeting at Holmby St., L.A.; EEG ski meetings; Anokhin in
Moscow; Grey Walter and Asratyan; Paul Simenon at Lake Tahoe
Box 1, Folder 67
Photographs of UCLA Medical Center.
1959-1990
Scope and Content Note
photos of ground breaking for the Brain Research Institute, constrution, and
finished building; aerial view of UCLA Medical Center; group portrait of Anatomy
Department (1970's?)
Box 1, Folder 68
Photographs from Europe.
1976
Physical Description: photos mounted on black album sheets
Scope and Content Note
13 pages of snapshots and maps of: Hellmuth Petsche's family and summer house
at Emmersdorf, Austria; Melk Monastery, and surrounding landscapes of the Danube
valley; some participants of an IBRO symposium in Vienna; scenes of Venice,
during European EEG Congress; scenes from drive from Venice to Paris with Max
Donday and wife, and pictures of their house as St. Ismier.
Box 1, Folder 69
Photographs of colleagues and friends.
Scope and Content Note
named are H. Magoun and Lord Adrian; John Barlow; a rare photograph of V.M.
Bekhterev (Bechterev) when young; and a few unidentified photos and negative
Box 1, Folder 70
Einstein and Eddington.
1950, 1980, 1991
Scope and Content Note
negative and photocopy of a short letter from Albert Einstein to Brazier
(1950); correspondence re. a snapshot of Einstein and Arthur Stanley Eddington,
taken in front of the Cambridge University Astronomical Observatory by Brazier's
father; negative and copy of the snapshot; negative and copy of an Eddington
portrait
Note
Arthur S. Eddington and Dr. Brazier's father were first
cousins
Box 1, Folder 71
Roper, Laura Wood (Mrs. W. Crosby Roper, Jr.).
1990-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Note
Laura Roper was a friend of long standing
Box 1, Folder 72
Other miscellaneous correspondence.
1961-1995
Scope and Content Note
Dorothy Jeakins (1914-1995): correspondence; photographs of Dr. Brazier's
1961 Los Angeles apartment; magazine article and illustrations of Dorothy
Jenkins' Montecito, CA house; Geoffrey A. Wigham: correspondence about Sidcot,
the Quaker boarding school in England that he and Brazier attended; Anna:
letter
Note
Dorothy Jeakins was a three-time Academy Award-winning costume
designer; Anna was Dr. Brazier's longtime secretary at UCLA
Box 1, Folder 73
Correspondence with the UCLA Biomedical Library.
1986-1993
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with Victoria Steele and Katharine E.S. Donahue, successive
heads of the History and Special Collections Division, concerning the various
materials Dr. Brazier had given to the library