Correspondence with Sinclair family

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1996-2002

Jeannette Valaire Ewin PhD, FRSM (1937-2010) was an American writer with an academic background in nutrition. She studied at the School of Medicine, Maryland, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Nutrition, Harvard University, where she studied under Dr D Mark Hegsted. In 1996 Ewin was given a grant by David Horribin to write a biography of the nutritionist Dr Hugh Macdonald Sinclair. This was published in 2001 by Oxford University Press as 'Fine Wines and Fish Oils: The Life of Hugh Macdonald Sinclair.

Correspondence with members of Hugh Macdonald's Sinclair's family. Largely consists of correspondence with his cousin Patricia Spencer-Silver relating to Sinclair's biography and access to his archive.

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