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Synge's visit, between 20 September and 4 October 1952. was supported by the Polish Cultural Institute. During his visit the award of the 1952 Nobel prize for Chemistry to Synge and A.J.P. Martin was announced.

G/15: Correspondence re arrangements, 1952; manuscript rough draft of lecture on 'Principles of chromatography', Warsaw, 26 September 1952.
G/16: Correspondence arising, 1952-1954; typescript note on work of the Polish botanist M.S. Tsvet, 1953; etc.

F/198: Copy of Russian paperback edition, inscribed by the author. 1973.
F/199: Photocopy typescript translations of passages. 1970s.
F/200: Manuscript pages of translation. 1970s.
F/201: Copy of Russian paperback edition of The Birth of the Idea and Method of Adsorption Chromatography by E. M. Senchenkova. 1991.

Correspondence re publication, 1953; typescript.

Synge was approached by Senchenkova in 1975. She asked Synge to comment on her biography of Tsvet which had been published (in Russian) by Nauka, Moscow, in 1973. Synge was impressed by the work and suggested an English-language translation, offering to translate it himself.

F/82-84: Correspondence with Senchenkova [in Russian], publishers and others 1975-1977 (3 folders).
F/85: Manuscript and typescript lists of contents of Senchenkova's book; 12pp typescript 'specimen translations of passages'.
F/86-87: Typescript draft of 'Mikhail Semenovich Tsvet 1872-1919' (in Russian) with manuscript corrections, sent to Synge 4 April 1978
F/88-89: Unbound copy of 'Mikhail Semenovich Tsvet 1872-1919' (in Russian) with manuscript alterations.
F/90: Off-prints (in Russian) found with preceding.

1952, 1954-1955, 1991
1954-1955 material is request to write book review (declined); 1991 material includes correspondence re possible translation of E.M. Senchenkova's biography of M.S. Tsvet

Correspondence, 1978, 1992-1994. Correspondence from 1992-1994 relates to history of science interests, especially the Russian scientist M.S. Tsvet.