Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. The Moran papers.

The Moran collection, which has been catalogued over the last two years, has presented the archivist with a number of interesting problems, besides those normally associated with a collection of personal papers. The extensive collection' had been used by Professor Lovell for his biography of Lord Moran while it was still at the family homes and it was following an approach by the archivist of the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre that the papers were deposited with the Wellcome Institute. The bulk of the collection came in 1984 from the home of the present Lord Moran in Wales, but many of the documents had been at Newton Valence, the home ofthe Hon. G. H. Wilson, the younger son of Lord Moran, when used by Professor Lovell and in the transfer certain items had been left there. Several bags of material came direct to the Wellcome from Newton Valence during the course of cataloguing, as well as a few items from Lord Moran's home. In addition some parcels of documents, mostly drafts of Winston Churchill: the struggle for survival, had been deposited with Williams and Glyn's bank for safe-keeping, while manuscripts were being sent across to the USA for editing, in the early 1 960s. There are some secretary's2 lists of which book manuscripts were with different readers, and on one occasion Henry Laughlin, of Houghton Mifflin, the American publishers, left some copies of the manuscript in his home in Ireland and had to arrange for their return to the USA via the Washington diplomatic bag (John Wilson, the present Lord Moran, was at that time in the Washington Embassy). This generated some anxious correspondence,3 but despite these mishaps, the Laughlins and the Morans, who had first met in 1952, remained on friendly terms and visited each others homes. There is a