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Professor emeritus Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway 6 January 1982


Dear Alf,

Thank you very much for your kind letters of November 25th and December 6th of 1981, which contained your useful comments on our cerebellotectal paper and upon my writing a text-book, respectively. I am very grateful for your kind considerations. I deeply apologize for my delayed response, even though it took some time for me before I feel myself to answer you.
During winter holidays, we stayed three days in a mountain hot-spring resort and enjoyed swimming and tobogganing. Yoko was especially very happy both inside and outdoors. Takako was also relaxed, so did I. There, your kind remarks were always in my mind and considered seriously and decided to spend some time (you said in sum about half a year) in preparing a text-book. Since I will have many duty-businesses in this year, I have to think in a concrete and effective manner how to spend my time. Your advice and story of writing and revising your Norwegian and English text-books have helped me very much. I am very grateful.
Concerning our cerebellotectal paper, we have revised, paying due tribute to Roldan and Reinoso-Suarezfs paper, as suggested by you, and sent to Exp. Brain Res. last year. I still regret, however, that I could not have enough time in this work.
This evening, I will check again some other mis-printings in the new edition of your Neurological Anatomy, and enclose a list herewith.
With my best wishes and warm greetings at the beginning of the year to Inger and you from Takako, Yoko and myself.

Yours,

(Koki Kawamura)

P.S. We do also wish to read your memories from your childhood!
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AB/G June 11, 1982

Professor Koki Kawamura, M.D.
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
Iwate Medical University
Morioka 020
Japan


Dear Koki,

You may not know that your friend Masahiko Inadomi died a few days ago. I enclose a very appreciative obituary that appeared in gAftenpostenh. You and Takako may probably be able to understand part of it.

We hope all is well with you. Here we have for a few weeks had very nice summer weather, and have tried to make use of it, i.a. in the garden. In a few days we are going to Trondheim, where I am giving a lecture on Neuroanatomy for neurosurgeons and to visit Jan Egil and his family. My scientific activity at present is very moderate, looking at the perihypoglossal projections to the cerebellum in the monkey. As summer approaches, activity at the institute is gradually slowing down in general.

With kind regards to you all from both of us,

yours,
Alf
(A. Brodal)

P.S. It was indeed kind of you and Karen to call me from Lausanne some time ago!

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Professor emeritus Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway 24 June 1982

Dear Alf,

Thank you for your letter of June 11th and an enclosed sad news of our friend, Inadomi. Takako knows him well and was introduced to read some books by him while we were in Oslo. Life is indeed short, while much has to be done.
I am happy to hear that you are fine and planning the lecture visit to Tronheim. Is Jan-Egil working there as an anatomist? Could you please ask him if I could have a copy of his thesis-book that contains his articles?
We are all fine. I enclose a picture of my family taken on the sports-day of Yokofs school last month. We miss you very much.
As for me, April-July is a very busy season for teaching and dissection. Writing of the text-book has not yet started, but I will try this year. We have injected D-[3H] aspartate into the mice, normal as well as mutant, cerebellar cortex, as a preliminary experiment, in order to re-examine gselectiveh retrograde transport of the material will occur in the cerebellar afferent system. I hope we can see the autoradiographic sections in the end of August, and then discuss, think how to proceed further. Concerning this topic, please see Science Vol. 216, 2 April, 1982, 78-80, written by Winklund, Toggenburger and Cuenod. If you could give me your opinion or advice, I would be very, very grateful.
Hashikawa is about to finish writing a paper of the inferior collicular pontine projection with the HRP method. He has obtained good results showing that most of the cells are labeled in the external and pericentral nuclei which certainly revise my previous data of the IC-pontine projection (1975) done by degeneration methods under your guidance.
Under separate cover, I am sending you some of my recent publications.
It was unfortunate that I could not talk with you in the telephone last Tuesday when I called Jon Storm-Mathisen asking some technical problems of autoradiography.
We wish Inger and you are always happy and healthy, and ask you sincerely further support and advice in future. Looking forward to seeing you again.
With best wishes from Takako, Yoko and myself.
Yours,

a picture enclosed (Koki Kawamura)
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AB/G October 15th 1982

Professor Koki Kawamura, M.D.
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
Iwate Medical University
Morioka 020
JAPAN


Dear Koki,

I am afraid that I have not replied to your letter of June 24th (!) since I do not keep copies of my hand written letters. I do not clearly remember that I have written you, but I feel I have not. I hope you will apologize (misprint). Your letter has been on my desk for quite a time.

Inger and I enjoyed to have a picture of your family. We hope you had nice summer. As to ourselves we had a very fine July this year, and we are both in good shape. Our trip to Trondheim was a very nice experience (apart from our luggage going to Tromso). The neurosurgeons were very interested in my lecture, as far as I did understand. After some fine days in Trondheim, going sightseeing and visiting one of my cousins, a now 80 years old lively lady, we took the train to Steinkjer, where Jan Egil met us. We spent three days with him, Elisabeth and their three children on their farm which is quite big, with several cows and wide areas of cultivated earth. Beautiful landscape. We visited also the Psychiatric Department of Levanger, where Jan Egil at present is working, in addition to working at the farm. He has only two young persons to help him. Elisabeth has a private practice not far from their farm and takes care of most of the housekeeping. We were shown much of the culturally interesting things in Nord-Trondelag and had indeed a nice time with our friends.

Most of July we stayed at home, enjoying the garden and making smaller excursions by car or on foot. In the first week of August we spent some days at Hovringen Hoyfjellshotell, in the mountain district of Rondane. Perfect whether, until the day we left. I enclose a picture that may give you an impression of the mountains and a person who has to protect himself against the strong sunshine!

As you may guess from this, my scientific activity has been rather modest this summer. At present I am making a study of the normal perihypoglossal nuclei in the monkey and the chimpanzee, and Per and I are studying the cerebellar projection of these nuclei in the material he has of HRP injections in the monkey cerebellum.

I understand that you and your collaborators are active as usual, and am very grateful for your sending me reprints. It is again and again apparent how much new information can be got by the use of the tracer techniques. ? As you know, I am myself no expert in these matters, and I regret that I am not able to give you any advice on the question you mention with regard to the paper by Wiklund et al. (1982).

We hope you are well, and I finish this short report by sending you, Takako and Yoko our best wishes,

yours,
Inger and Alf
(A. Brodal)
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Professor emeritus Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway 29 October 1982


Dear Alf,

Thank you for your kind letter of October 15th and your picture in the mountain at Hovringen. Takako, Yoko and I enjoyed the figure very much. We are also happy to hear that Inger and you enjoyed a nice summer up in the northern district. I am glad to know that Jan-Egil is so big a person to have two professions: farmer and psychiatrist. I guess he is still interested in the hens and chickens.
You will be surprised to know that I will go to Africa, Ghana Medical University (Accra City) to give a series of neuroanatomical lectures for three weeks in November until 27th/Nov. I had to accept it, because I have been asked by our government. I remember that I was moved, in my student days, by reading Zwischen Wasser and Urwald written by Albert Schweitzer. Hidoyo Noguchi, who discovered syphilis spirochetes in the brain of progressive paralysis, is our great scientist who died at Accra in 1928, while he was working on the yellow fever.
I hope I can do some work in the meantime in Ghana of the writing of research papers and chapters of my textbook which is not in reality yet started, unfortunately.
I will write you from there and send you a bit of hot air, and would certainly be grateful if you could dispatch me a puff of cold wind from Oslo.
We all send Inger and you our warmest greetings.

Yours,

(Koki Kawamura)

P.S. Correspondence in Ghana
Dr. Koki Kawamura
c/o Embassy of Japan
P.O.Box 1637
Accra, Ghana
(until 27th of November)
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Nov. 21, 1982

Dear Koki,

Thank you for your letter of Oct. 29. As you mention, I was really surprised that you were going to Ghana. I hope you get this letter before you are leaving. I send it in the belief that every sign from gouter worldh may be particularly welcome in a situation like yours now.
It has probably been somewhat of an unique experience to give lectures in Neuroanatomy in Ghana, I suppose the students have been very grateful to have some expert teaching in the field. And we seriously hope you have stood the hot climate satisfactorily and are in good health. We are sure that Takako and Yoko eagerly wait your return.
Here we have just got the first snow. Probably it will vanish again. Everything is well here. Today we leave celebrated Ingerfs 72 years birthday at Anne Britfs house, with a very nice party. Christmas preparations are starting. As to Inger and myself we have already finished the purchase of our Christmas gifts, what I always find is somewhat of a job!
With our best wishes from
yours
Inger and Alf
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Dec. 15. 1982

Dear Takako and Koki,

At this time we are busy writing Christmas greetings to friends at home and abroad and we feel inclined to send you our best wishes for a happy 1983! And of course, also for Yoko!
For Christmas Eve Anne Brit, Kari and Per and their children will be here, while Inger Helene and Bodvar and their three children are celebrating it in their home. On Christmas day, the entire family will gather in their place for gbreakfasth, i.e. a very late one.
All is well here, and we hope this is the case also with you and that your stay in the tropics, Koki, has not had any undesirable aftermaths.

All good wishes from yours
Inger and Alf


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