"F.D. Personal"

File containing material of biographical significance including:

Letter from G.H.Giles, Registrar of Joint Council of Qualified Opticians, dated 7.7.42, appointing FD as Senior Refractionist at Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley

Letter from Jack Raphael, dated 19.7.45, inviting FD to visit Johannesburg

Letter from G.H.Giles, Secretary of the British Optical Association, dated 13.2.48 with Honorary Contact Lens Diploma awarded by the Council. FD reply on back

Letter from BBC 5.10.50 acknowledging three scripts, with one attached starting: 'Who is that tall man with specs…'

Motoring Recollections of Pre-war Berlin [1938]

Impressions of Malta: Lytham Rotary talk 13.3.59

Diplopia ex Dentalopsia [Optician 16.12.60]

The Foundation of a Fellow [In Rotary March 1961: about son Peter's Fellowship to USA]

The Rotary Club of St Annes-on-Sea [history 'for Rotary in the North-West, sent May 13 1959']

Scripts on South Africa: 'Two recent events have added emphasis…' [death of Smuts; broadcast of Uncle Tom's Cabin]; Experiences in South Africa: talk 'Accrington 10.11.52'; Barnstorming - to Africa; 'Among the six hundred passengers…'; African Safari [1965 added: covers excursion during congress]

War Anecdote for Submission to Post [+FD letter to editor of Courier]

'Operation Christmas Eve' [Optician 19.12.47] carbon

Page from Ophthalmic Optician, 15.3.80: opening of D&A Clinic at UMIST

Letter from Peter Dickinson to BOA with list of FD properties donated

Book review 'Spex Appeal' [Optician 29.8.75]

'English - as she is spoke!' [Optician 10.12.76]

Letter from VC of Bradford University offering Hon MSc 7.3.72

Various obituaries, including the national press

FD's own biographical notes

FD's lists of published articles, used as basis for Bibliography

Northern Optical Congress, 13.9.83 - invitation to banquet with presentation in memory of FD, attended by Mrs Dickinson & son Peter.

Cuttings about Leslie Evershed-Martin, colleague of FD on Board of Dollond and Aitchison. Letter from him approving of the Bibliography.

Collection of newspaper cuttings containing reports on FD's wedding and wide range of activities

Photocopy of editorial comment about FD from The Optician, 1940

1940s-1980s

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Description based on handlist by Peter Dickinson, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.