Sherrington (Charles Scott) Autograph letter signed ('Ch.S. Sherrington') to Italian cardiologist Luigi Luciani, reading "Accept my cordial thanks for the portrait of yourself and the signature: I shall after having it set in a frame, place it on the wall beside Ludwig and Foster, as it well merits. It was a wish in me to have with you more conversation than I actually got opportunity for during the delightful visit to Italy. All the English members of the Congress were so delighted with the intimate kindness and hospitality of our Italian hists. The activity and enthusiasm of Italy in physiology has made a wide-spread impression upon all English workers in the last quarter of a century. I pray you to send me the works of yourself and your pupils as they appear, because our University in Liverpool is new and does not possess so good a library as is needful. Accept my hearty wishes - i piu' sinceri auguri per il Nuovo Anno - vorrei stringere il mano", four pages, light soiling, 8vo, 31 December 1907; with another letter from Sherrington to Luciani, saying "the chair of Physiology in the University of Oxford is now vacant, owing to the lamented death of Francis Gotch. I am a candidate to this Chair. I write to ask whether you will be so kind as to give me your support. Would you allow me to make use on this occasion of the kind letter of testimony which you wrote for me six years ago, when I thought to go to Glasgow but did not because Liverpool retained me", two pages, folding marks, 4to, 20 September 1913; with another note by Sherrington and a card to Luciani from William Stirling (4)