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The collection consists of audio recordings of staff at St George's Hospital and Medical School. Each interview is recorded on audio cassette on duplicate and is accompanied by a synopsis of the interview (no transcription). The recordings have been digitised as .wav files.

The accompanying notes state that the collection was established to create 'a picture of a teaching hospital in the westend of London with a small intake and no preclinical department, in transition to a large and complete university hospital and in transposition to a south London suburb - Tooting. No attempt has been made to select those considered by contemporaries to be of distinction since it is not possible to predict who will appear to have been distinguished in the eyes of the future: conversely there has been no avoidance of the contemporarily distinguished. [...] Since two reminiscences go back before WWI and span both wars, this audioarchive will, at the outset, have covered almost the whole of the twentieth century.'

HERBERT MAYO TO DR. J. A. WILSON. Dec 24, 1829. MY DEAR SIR,-- I am told that yourself and Lane have not fixed upon a site for your Anatomical Theatre. Pray has Lane ever thought of taking Windmill St.? It would be a far cheaper bargain than that which he is said to have thought of. It is probable he would have as many pupils there, as if he lectured in the more immediate neighbourhood of St. George's -- and as Lecturer in Windmill St. he would at once stand much higher professionally than as Lecturer in a new theatre of his own. Will you take the trouble of putting this to him? I would with great pleasure, if this suggestion should come to anything, give a part of the lectures with you and Lane next year, and transfer the school fairly to you, and give my entire interest to its support the season. I beg you will consider this communication as confidential, and shall be happy to hear from you in reply. Yours sincerely, HERBERT MAYO.

SAM LANE TO SIR B. BRODIE. 1, Grosvenor Place, March 29, 1830. DEAR SIR, On consulting my friends with regard to the propriety of my joining Windmill St. School as it is now circumstanced I find them decidedly adverse to it. My father particularly, having been induced at a considerable expense to leave one house and place me in another on the representation that a new school was to be formed at St. George's by October next and that Dr. Wilson and myself would probably be concerned in the Anatomical Department of it urges the inconsistency of my relinquishing my former plans I may also add that I feel myself in some degree committed to several medl. friends in and out of the neighbourhood to persist in my former intention. Under these circumstances I thought it right to inform you that I had made up my mind to commence building on my own premises without delay on such a plan that hereafter the building might be converted into stables should it be found inadequate for the number of students, and deemed it necessary on that account to build a larger and more commodious theatre in which I shall be most happy to take a part. With many thanks for in which I shall be most happy to your kind advice ou various occasions. I remain, your much obd, hble, st. S. LANE

S. LANE TO THOMAS TATUM. March 30, 1830 DEAR TATUM, -- I thought it but right and fair to let you know that I have written to Mr. Brodie to inform him that I am advised as the safest plan under the present uncertainty by all my friends to commence building on my own premises without delay. Should it fall in with your views now or after the building is completed to join me, I shall feel most happy. Yours most truly, S. LANE.

HERBERT MAYO TO DR. J. A. WILSON. Aug. 4, 1831. MY DEAR SIR, -- I beg to thank yourself and Mr. Lane through you for the ready and handsome manner in which you have acceded to my proposal. I have no idea of the extent to which I shall have to avail myself of your kind permission to transfer some of my Windmill St. pupils to you. I only hope you will not be put to any inconvenience by those whom I may send to you: I am sure they will not lose by the change, but that they will find your school at St. George's a genuine artery of the old Windmill St. stock. Yours very sincerely, HERBERT MAYO.

S. LANE TO SIR B. BRODIE. Oct. 4 1834. SIR,-- Having been informed that you were under the impression that I had circulated statements which were false and which were detrimental to your character, I waited on you on Thursday, the 2nd inst, for the purpose of removing such impression. I then declared to you, as I do now, that I had no participation, directly or indirectly in any such statements, or in the appearance of any anonymous letters or communications in any journal at any period whatever, and that I had no knowledge whatever of the Authors of any one of them either before or after their publication, and you avowed your disbelief that I had any participation in them. With this assurance Sir as far as you are concerned I should have been perfectly satisfied, but I find that the reports by which you were misled have reached others and that they are still circulating to the serious injury of my character and present professional views and this with some for whose opinion I have the highest regard. I trust Sir you will see that I should be wanting in respect in myself did I not request an early disavowal from you in writing of your belief in such reports, and I should feel further obliged if you would refer me to the authors of these aspersions by which you and others have been misled, but if you think right to decline granting this part of my request I feel assured you will do me the justice to make such persons acquainted with my disavowal and your entire disbelief of these unfounded calumnies. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obt. hble. st., SAML. LANE.

SIR B. BRODIE TO S. LANE. Oct. 5. 1834. DEAR SIR, -- From what you said on Thursday last I am satisfied that certain absurd and calumnious statements respecting some of my friends and myself, which have appeared of late in a periodical publication (or rather which I understand so to have appeared as I have never read, nor even seen them) were not put forth either by yourself or with your concurrence and approbation. I have already thought it but fair to you to express this much to some of my friends: Beyond this I do not see that I can do anything towards contradicting the reports, to which you allude. I have never been concerned in propagating them; and indeed to the very best of my recollection I have never said so much on the subject, as I said to Dr. Wilson and yourself a few days ago, to any other individual. Neither can I refer you to the real authors of these reports; and I much doubt whether it would be possible to trace them to any particular person. Certainly my own notions were founded not on any specific piece of information which I had received, but on the consideration of various circumstances, which, viewed in combination with each other, seemed to me to lead to the conclusion, that in all probability the statements in question had been furnished, if not by yourself, by some of your friends and connections. I am, Dear Sir, Your obedt. servt., B. C. BRODIE.

Photocopy of image of Samuel Lane and two photograph negatives