Scope and Contents This series includes materials that document Philip Randolph Lee's career until his employment with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1963. It consists primarily of speeches and articles written by Lee during this period and is divided into three subseries: Speeches, Articles, and Miscellaneous. There is no separate correspondence subseries though correspondence dealing with specific speeches or events appear in many of the speech and miscellaneous folders....

Scope and Contents Of special interest is the diary of his 1961 Medical Ecology Mission to the USSR. This group diary/report was written by various members of the mission. Lee's article on this trip, "The Organization of Health Services in the Soviet Union" published in Stanford Medical Bulletin, can be found in the Articles Subseries. It also includes a copy of Lee's 1955 master's thesis: The Influence of Varying Concentrations of Sodium Chloride on the Rate of Water Absorption form the Upper Part of the...