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Letter to Dalton from Nick Wikeley, Professor of Law, University of Southampton enclosing the following academic papers on asbestos:

• Peter Bartrip, ‘Too little too late? The Home Office and the Asbestos Industry Regulations, 1931’. Medical History, 1998, 42.
• Nick Wikeley, ‘The first common law claim for asbestosis: Kelly v. Turner & Newall Ltd (1950)’ Journal of Personal Injury Litigation, 1998, Issue 3/98.
• Nick Wikeley, ‘Turner & Newall: Early organizational responses to litigation risk’. Journal of Law and Society, 1997, Vol 24, No 2.

Correspondence with Alex Horne, of Armadale Community Council, on asbestos dumping at Bathville, Armadale, West Lothian.

Correspondence between Dalton and G.C. Ferguson, Consultant Physician, Northampton General Hospital on two cases of domestic exposure to asbestos. Includes article by Ferguson submitted to British Medical Journal.

Letter to Dalton from Robin Rudd, consultant physician, London Chest Hospital, recommending Nancy Tait of SPAID as a contact.

Letters to Dalton from Professor Paul Holt, Department of Chemistry, University of Reading on calcium silicate. Includes summary of study at Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, into toxicology of calcium silicate.

Letter to Dalton from Mark Piney enclosing copy of University of Aston in Birmingham PhD thesis by Piney entitled ‘The development of chemical exposure limits for the workplace’, October 1989.

Correspondence between Dalton and Geoffrey Tweedale, Manchester Metropolitan University. Includes:

• correspondence, February 1999, about Tweedale’s book ‘Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard’ including copy of last two chapters of book annotated by Dalton. Also, explanation by Dalton of what triggered his own interest in asbestos.
• article by Geoffrey Tweedale on the Asbestos Research Council, 2000

Proofs for book on asbestos entitled ‘We Die as Best We Can’ by Jim Burns.

Letter to Dalton from Courtney Davis enclosing draft of University of Southampton PhD thesis by Davis entitled ‘Corporate violence, regulatory agencies and the management and deflection of censure’.

Letter to Dalton from Eva Delgado, Alianza Frente al Asbesto, on asbestos in Peru. Encloses Alianza Frente Al Asbesto bulletins, 1994, and photograph of interior of asbestos fibre factory in Peru.

Letter from N.C. Young, Director of City Special Waste Ltd, on letter from Dalton in the Independent on asbestos removal companies.

Letter to Dalton at the Labour Research Department from Steve Coleman, Senior Orthopaedic Registrar, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia, about power saw hand injuries. Includes photographs of hand injuries.

Correspondence between Dalton and Steve Tombs, sociologist, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, on industrial accidents in the chemical industry. Includes two academic papers, 1990 and 1991, written by Tombs.

Letter to Dalton from Stephen Hughes, MEP, on opinion of European Commission’s Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment with regard to banning chrysotile.

Correspondence between Dalton and Alex Reid, Donisthorpe and Co Ltd, on asbestos and railway workers. Includes correspondence between Dalton and British Railways Board.