79-1
AB/G January 10th 1979
Professor Koki Kawamura
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
Iwate Medical University
Morioka 020
JAPAN
Dear Koki,
Thank you for your letter of December 26th, 1978, and your good wishes for the
New Year, which I reciprocate. I am of course not sure, I rather doubt it, that
I will be finished with the book on March 1st, but I understand that you can
scarcely postpone your visit longer than to this date. We will see what we can
achieve during three months! We are trying to secure accommodation for you (cfr.
Letter from Fred). I hope this will be possible.
With kind regards to you, Takako and Yoko, also from Inger,
Yours,
Alf
A. Brodal
79-2
KK/yk
Professor Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway 3 February 1979
Dear Alf,
Thank you for your kind letter of January 10th. I am grateful to you for
accepting me to Oslo, in the institute and for reserving a room for me. I have
just received a definite answer from the Society (JSPS) to support my travel and
staying expenses for three months from the 1st of March. Dr. Uchizono helped me
very much, who asked me to send his very best wishes to you.
I am writing this in a hurry, as soon as I decide the exact time and date of my
visit, I will let you know.
With my best regards to Inger.
Yours,
(Koki Kawamura)
79-3
KK/yk
Professor Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway 17 February 1979
Dear Alf,
I am scheduled to arrive at Forneby at 10:00 a.m., 3rd of March (Saturday) by
SU-211 flight. This time I don’t think I need your kind help at the airport.
Rest of the days in Japan I will devote myself to the olive and the cerebellum.
Recently I have had to take much of my time working with my young colleagues in
the cerebral cortex, and relatively little in the cerebellum.
As concerns the olivocerebellar paper of autoradiography, we will send it soon
to Neuroscience after revision of Prof. M. Ito. He suggested me to rewrite the
Summary and Introduction on reading our final manuscript.
Takako joins me in sending our best wishes to Inger and yourself.
Yours,
(Koki Kawamura)
79-4
February 9th 1979
AB/G
Professor Koki Kawamura
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
Iwate Medical University
Morioka 020
JAPAN
Dear Koki,
Thank you for your note of February 3rd. I am looking forward to meet you and to
resume our attempts to synthetize present knowledge on the olivocerebellar
projection. There are indeed some new publications that have appeared during the
last year. I have noted some, but I suppose you have made a more systematic
collection.
When we know your exact arrival time, we will make sure that somebody will meet
you at the airport when you land. In case this will be on a Saturday, we will
have to take precautions to prevent the trouble you had last time!
Best regards to all of you,
Yours,
Alf
A. Brodal
79-5
20/Feb. ‘79
Dear Alf,
Thank you very much for your kind letter of 9th.
As soon as I get a letter from Prof. M. Ito, and hopefully some corrections in
the Summary and Introduction of our olivocerebellar paper with Hashikawa, I will
send you a copy ready for submitting. Since it has become so late I am thinking
to send the manuscript from Oslo, after your kind reading.
Enclosed you will find two figures of cells of origin of olivary afferents at
the levels of the pretectum - inf. cell recently obtained in our lab with the
HRP method.
There are only preliminary, unpublished observation, but I hope they will help
us in our writing.
Best wishes,
Looking very much forward to seeing you and Inger.
From
Koki
79-6
23 June, 1979
(Saturday morning)
Dear Inger and Alf,
After Athens and Bangkok, I returned home, and two weeks have passed already. I
suppose you enjoyed your holidays in the beginning of June, and recollected
fresh spirits and energy. So did I. I am very grateful to you for your warm
hospitality and kindness. I cannot fully express my deep gratitude by words,
always felt I comfortably and relaxed at your lovely home after hard and
fruitful work. Promenade in Sandvika and a short walk from the institute to the
Veststation, still I feel now the pleasant and happy feeling. Takako and Yoko
are extremely glad to receive warm gifts from you and love to hear stories of
Oslo, particularly related to you.
Everyday, in the afternoon (1-4 pm), I am now busy with students in the
dissection-room. In the evening, I am trying to spend many of my hours leisurely
at home chattering with my two girls and often sitting beside Yoko who studies
school-lessons. We are all healthy.
Since all the papers that I sent from Oslo safely arrived, and since almost all
horrible business (talks, writing reports, meetings, greetings etc) which had
waited for me have finished, I will start my ordinary work from next Monday with
new rhythm.
Takako, Yoko and I ask you to take the best care of yourself, and we all send
you very best wishes and warmest greetings.
Yours,
Koki
79-6a
KK/yk
Professor Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway
28 June 1979
Dear Alf,
I started to make the reference list of our review article to be typed, after I
have received and made in order all necessary papers that I had sent and carried
with me. I have one thing to ask you to give me a favour: could you please send
me copies of, if available, series of your HRP-papers on the olivocerebellar
projections? They are
1. Exp. Brain Res. 24 (1976) 383-401 (methodology)
2. J. C. N. 164 (1975) 449-470 (Ⅰ. paramedian lobule)
3. J. C. N. 166 (1976) 417-426 (Ⅱ. uvula）
4. J. C. N. 169 (1976) 155-170 (Ⅲ. mid-vermis)
5. J. C. N. 172 (1977) 85-108 （Ⅳ. anterior lobe）
6. J. C. N. 176 (1977) 269-280 （Ⅴ. flocc. and paraflocc.）
7. J. C. N. 176 (1977) 281-294 (Ⅵ. paramed.）
8. J. C. N. 182 (1978) 293-314 (Ⅶ. hemisphere)
9. Brain Res. 161 (1979) 389-398 (cat flocc. and paraflocc)
It is strange that these articles, the most important papers, could not be found
in my luggage nor in parcels. It appears that I lost in my journey or I
carelessly forgot to put them in my suit-case: This may mean that I left them in
Oslo (in my previous office or in your office).
Takako noticed a small pigmentation in the skin of her leg in the very end of
May and we have been worried these days, although my colleague, professor of
dermatology, diagnosed as benign melano-epithelioma, absolutely not melanoma. We
are now very glad that it was histologically verified as normal pigmented
epithelia. Takako is fine, bodily as well as mentally, and working as
psychiatrist normally; we will spend this week-end in a hot-spring resort in the
mountain. She felt very uneasy, since my last letter containing my changed
itinerary took longer days as usual and reached her late.
Takako feels happy now and she says that she will write a letter to Inger to
thank for the kind gifts.
I will be free from dissection (macro-anatomy) from the middle of July. I plan
to finish the work (bibliography and sketch of items 2 and 3) by the middle of
August, at the latest. Could you please tell me when you take your holidays?
With our very best wishes,
Yours,
(Koki Kawamura)
79-7
KK/yk
Professor Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway
18 July 1979
Dear Alf,
Thank you very much for having sent me the reprints of olivocerebellar
projections. I have made a preliminary reference list which contained
literatures cited in chapters 1-4. A few days ago I sent its copy to you
together with a copy of my corticopontine paper (HRP). I have made small
corrections of literatures (authors names and years etc) in our manuscript. I am
sending you a copy of this, under separate cover, since I thought it may help
you in your final reading and correction of the manuscript.
I was so silly that I had to accept a request of Mizuno to help him to write a
part (cerebral cortex and projection systems from the cortex) of an anatomical
lexicon. Therefore, at present, I have to use a small part of my precious time
for this, while I am working on the olivocerebellar projection.
Three of us are fine. We are planning to spend a few days in a private home at
the seaside in the beginning of next month. In addition, there are two meetings
at home in the end of August which I should attend.
I will do my best. Is your textbook finished? Enclosed you will find some
pictures.
Best wishes to Inger and yourself from Takako, Yoko and me.
Yours,
(Koki Kawamura)
79-8
July 23, 1979
Dear Koki,
Thank you for your letters and for the photos you sent.
We were downed hearing from Lisa about the naevus that Takako discovered, and
are indeed happy to hear now that it is innocuous. I hope you have had nice
summer holidays this year. You are probably back in the department in the
beginning of August?
Concerning the olivocerebellar reviews I have received your reference list. I
understand that you have included all that we have referred to? There will
certainly be some more. I received a copy from St-Cyr and Courville on
mesencephalic projections to the olive that contains some points which we will
have to mention. The paper (autoradiography) was not very good in my opinion.
I have read though the chapters of our review which are finished and on some
points I have made minor changes. These days I am about to finish my main work
on the book, and when I return from our holidays in Tuddal in the end of August
I suppose I will be able to get back to the review and the difficult job of
formulating some sensible thoughts about general principles of the organization
of the olive.
We are having fairly good weather now. Inger Helene and Bodvar went to San
Francisco for 1/2 year on July 1st. They bring their three children and it
appears that they have found (rented) a nice house (including gardener, a car
and two dogs). Also the other children and grandchildren are well and at present
enjoying their summer holidays.
Please give Inger’s and my best wishes also to Takako and Yoko.
Yours
Alf
79-9
KK/yk
Professor Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway
17 August 1979
Dear Alf,
Thank you for your kind letter of July 23rd. I have a very bad conscience for
not having finished yet writing the sketch of items 2 and 3 in our
olivocerebellar review article as planned. Although it is not satisfactory, I am
sending it, under separate cover, what I have written. I also enclose an
Abstract and a figure (however, the figure is not appear in the journal,) of our
present study on cells of origin of olivary afferents. Also you will find a
summarizing diagram of olivocerebellar projection, revised and slightly detailed
our colour picture (Fig.8, to appear in Neuroscience, 1979). I thought we can
use this diagram in the final chapter of our review article.
We have very hot summer, over 26 ? 30oC for these two weeks. I will leave
Morioka tomorrow for business and will return home 26th of August.
I am sorry that I am writing this rather in haste.
Best wishes to Inger and yourself from all of us.
Yours,
(Koki Kawamura)
79-10
p. t. Tuddal
16 August, 1979
Dear Koki,
I have thought of writing you for some time but I have postponed it until we
started our holidays up in the mountains. We have been here now here almost 2
weeks, but unfortunately the weather has been very rainy, so the outdoor
activities have been rather modest. As you will see from the enclosed print,
taken when we were up here for a few days just after you had left, the weather
was nice then. If you look closely at the picture you will see to the left on
our outdoor breakfast table a beautiful bunch of roses: those you gave Inger
when we were up at Holmenkollen. Today it is about as foggy here as it was then!
I have received the reference list which you sent. There will presumably be some
references to add later. Just before we left for Tuddal I managed to complete
the writing of Chapter 4, which is the last one, apart from Chapter 2. This is
revised by Per and Eric and I hope they have finished it when I am back. This
means that I will then be able to use most of my working hours on our review. I
hope it will be possible to say something reasonable about the general aspects
in the Discussion, and I am eagerly awaiting the parts you were going to write,
and hope that it will be possible to integrate them. I hope also that you will
now give the conclusion of our review highest priority. It should be possible to
send it say in October this year. Let us hope so.
We are both in reasonably good health. Inger Helene and Bodvar and their 3
children are since July 1st in San Francisco for 1/2 a year and it appears that
they have been lucky both with the house they have rented and the working
situation. For the children it is a great experience.
I do not have your last letter here, I have planned to bring it with me but I
forgot both this and other letters I have planned to reply to. However, I
remember now that you sent me three pictures and want to thank you for these. It
is nice to have pictures to refresh one’s memories! Yoko has indeed grown since
we saw her.
We were alarmed when we heard of Takako’s melanotic growth and we are very happy
that it has turned out to be innocent. You have probably enjoyed your summer
vacation especially this year.
Inger sends her very best regards to you all three. She tells me to mention that
we have here this year large masses of fine blue-berries to pick. Likewise there
are mushrooms, so Inger prepares delicate mushroom-dishes almost every day. Two
days a red fox has visited us, and it has been interesting to watch its fight
with a magpie for a bit of flesh which was thrown away.
With all good wishes to Takako, Yoko and yourself
Yours
Alf
79-11
KK/yk
Professor Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway
31 August 1979
Dear Alf,
Thank you very much for your kind letter of August 16th and a picture of Inger
from Tuddal. I am grateful to you for that you kindly brought with you the roses
which contain my deepest gratitude. I am also glad to learn that Inger and you
have both been healthy and that you have completed the writing of your textbook.
All neuroscientists, I am sure, are looking forward to the publication.
Enclosed herewith you will find a list of bibliography of the sketch (for intems
2 and 3 of the last chapter) of our review article that I sent to you half a
month ago together with a figure (summarizing diagram of the olivocerebellar
projection) and a summary of our recent findings. I am very sorry, but I would
ask you to write, and revise the last chapter and please give me your comments
on what I should do. I know myself that it is poorly written and that I should
make much more effort in reformulation. For me, it really takes time here and is
difficult. I sincerely apologize as your “coworker”.
If I could have time this autumn, I would like to visit you in Oslo. However, it
seems to me that it is hardly possible. From 1st of September to 20th of
October, I have teaching duties of 4 days in every week, and some other
commitments. After that I will be free again.
Three of us are fine. We often recall delicious dishes of mushrooms and
blue-berries with Inger’s hospitality. We send Inger and you our warm greetings.
Please accept this letter with your kind generosity.
Best wishes,
Yours,
(Koki Kawamura)
79-12
AB/G October 18, 1979
Professor Koki Kawamura
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
Iwate Medical University
Morioka 020
JAPAN
Dear Koki,
Finally I have got time to start serious work on the olive-review. I have gone
through all what we have written one more, and in some places I have made
additions or small changes. Copies of these pages are sent you, so you may
insert them in the proper places.
I am now starting to write more specifically on the section of general
principles. This will not be easy. I have received your two parts. I find that
the part on the branching is somewhat too sketchy and suggest a more complete
account. I will send it to you later. I am not sure of whether you think we
should include reference to Onodera, Hashikawa and Kawamura. Will the main paper
be published in Japanese? We may do as I have done with references to the recent
study of Saint-Cyr and Courville (to appear in the olive-symposium book) or the
review of Barbara Brown Gould (to appear in Advances), just refer very briefly.
If you think we should make reference to the paper, will you do as I have done
with additions: write a few lines for insertion with clear indications of where
they are to be?
I hope I shall be able to finish this job fairly soon, so that we can submit the
review before X-mas.
Best wishes to Takako, Yoko and yourself,
Yours,
Alf
A. Brodal
Some slight changes in the figures have been necessary. I will send copies
later.
79-13
5 November 1979
Dear Alf,
Thank you for your letter of October 18th and copies of pages of revisions and
changes. I agree all these changes, relying upon you for the final revision and
improvement. I only regret that I am away from you and that some papers you
referred, e.g. Saint-Cyr and Couville (1980), are not available here.
We will not publish our findings (olivary afferents, HRP method mainly) in
Japanese. Personally, I have not had enough time to write a paper, particularly
a projection from the Darkshewitsh nucleus to rostral half only of the
ipsilateral medial accessory olive. This is confirmed autoradiographically. A
summary (Abstract in Acta anat jap.) has been sent to you.
I agree that the part of the branching is too sketchy and that I will have to
think it over again, as you suggest. In your letter, it says, “I will send it to
you”. I am looking forward to this! I will take time for this problem after 19th
of November. On academic as well as other business, I am away from Morioka from
this (Nov. 5) afternoon to 17th of Nov. It’s in Japan. I will take necessary
papers of the olive with me during this period.
Best wishes to Inger and yourself.
Yours,
Koki
79-14
AB/G November 26, 1979
Professor Koki Kawamura, M.D.
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
Iwate Medical University
Morioka 020
Japan
Dear Koki,
Thank you for your last letter. As concerns your latest observations on
afferents to the olive from Darkschewitsch etc., I find it difficult to include
reference to them now, after practically the entire text I finished.
I suppose you will now have received a Xerox-copy of what I hope will be the
final version of Chapter 5, section 1. It is rather lengthy, and some
repetitions from Ch. 3 are purposely included. Will you please read through it
very carefully and let me have your comments.
Today I am sending you a copy of my suggestion for section 5.2. As you will see,
I have extended it from what you included in your version. Likewise, section 5.3
on free zones is sent. As you will see, I have used to some extent the
disposition you suggested, but also here I have extended the considerations
somewhat, and, on the other hand, deleted some reference. Copies of a few
sheeths with new references etc. are also enclosed.
I am at present trying to compose sensible draft for section 5.4 on functional
correlations. This, I am afraid, will be no easy task! I hope to be able to send
you a copy rather soon. Then there remain only the summary and the index. The
latter may probably be prepared later, if Professor Schiebler is willing to take
this very long paper in the “Advances”.
I hope it will be possible to send the whole paper before Christmas. I certainly
wish you could have been here now to help me in checking finally several
details, references to figures, unnecessary repetitions etc. It is quite a
cumbersome job, as you know, to make a paper finally ready for publication. I
suppose I will manage this, but I would appreciate rapid replies from you
concerning the sections I am sending you.
I hope all is well with you, Takako and Yoko. Is there ant news concerning the
professorship in Tokyo? I am now practically finished with the more serious work
on the book and am indeed looking forward to a less a\stressed time in the New
Year.
Inger sends her best regards. Also all good wishes for you all three from
Yours sincerely,
Alf
A. Brodal
79-15
11 Dec. ‘79
Dear Alf,
Thank you for your letter of November 26th and Xerox-copies of the manuscript,
new as well as the revised, new references.
I am happy and very much satisfied with your versions and reformulations in the
entire part of the manuscript. Only I regret and feel very sorry that I am not
working with you in Oslo now at the time you require concentration and do
cumbersome and hard job ? writing final sections and checking of several details
mentioned in you letter.
In these days, since I received a letter form you, I have been seriously
thinking of the possibility of my visiting Oslo again for some days before (or
around) X-mas season to do the work with you that will certainly gives me much
gain with delight. I have made new reference list, having put new refs. at
proper places. As soon as I receive additional refs. that relate to the final
section of Chapter 5, I will include them and send it to you.
I agree that it is difficult to include our latest observations on olivary
afferents from the diencephalo-mesencephalic region. Projection from
Darkschewitsch to only the rostral half of the MAO, including dm. c.c., is
confirmed later with our autoradiographic experiments. But as concerns other
projection, we may need further experiments of autoradiography until we describe
exact sites of their endings.
Recently, a copy of our olivocerebellar paper that contains a diagram of colour
fig. ? indicating non-labeled, free zones, has been sent to you. We have also
made recently, (not published) the diagram in black and white with different
symbols (this has been sent to you, I think. In case you consider that we can
use this black-white drawing in Chapter 5, with minor revisions and some
modifications, I will do it here in the original drawing sheet and send it to
you. Please suggest me.
When I feel that I should like to speak with you, I’ll phone you from Japan
before X-mas. Please allow me to do. Three of us are fine. Best wishes and warm
greetings of Marry Christmas to Inger and to yourself.
Yours,
Koki
79-15a
AB/G December 17th, 1979
Professor Koki Kawamura, M.D.
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
Iwate Medical University
Morioka 020
JAPAN
Dear Koki,
It was nice to have a talk on the telephone with you some days ago. Today I am
dispatching our review to Prof. Schiebler, and I hope he will accept it. I will
let you know when I hear from him.
As I mentioned on the telephone, it would be nice if you could come here some
time in January. However, it would be expensive and time-consuming to come here
for the minor changes we could make. Perhaps it would be just as well that, when
I have heard from Professor Schiebler, and if the review is accepted, I send you
a copy of the complete final version. Then you may go through it in Morioka and
send me your comments or/and suggestions for changes. I believe the review will
be useful for several workers, although properly we should have penetrated the
problems deeper.
I add to this letter Inger’s and my best wishes for a prosperous New Year for
you, Takako and Yoko.
With best regards,
Yours,
Alf
A. Brodal
P.S. I received your letter of Dec. 11th today. I believe we talked these
matters over on
the telephone.
79-16
KK/mk
Professor Alf Brodal
Prestasen 14
1310 Blommenholm
Bearum, Norway
23 December 1979
Dear Alf,
It was nice and I am very happy that I could have a talk with you in the
telephone last day (13th of December). Also I hope my last mail dated 11th of
December reached you by now.
I understand and agree that we will not include a new figure and noted that it
is not necessary to send the final list of references since Miss Gorset is
working on this.
Since you told me that the manuscript will be sent to Professor Shiebler before
Christmas, and also that a copy of the final section 5.4 will be sent to me
soon, I planned to read through the entire manuscript very carefully during X-mas
season and then I will write or call you.
I have at least two commitments in January (9-12th and 25-27th), however, I
don’t want to lose the possibility of having a wonderful chance to sit and talk
in peace beside you. I will try to arrange my time to have a short visit.
Takako and Yoko are also fine and we will spend peaceful days of New Year in the
mountain hotel. We all send you, Inger and Alf, our best wishes and warm
greetings for Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Cordially yours,
(Koki Kawamura)