Typescript draft of Copeland's autobiography entitled 'I was brought up!' and other drafts including 'Going ashore with the Dog'.

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Administrative / biographical background
Copeland was the son of Walter Charles Copeland, journalist and barrister, and Frances Ann Copeland nee Bottrill. He was born in the Paddington area of London in 1894. He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge before serving in the Royal Navy with the rank of temporary surgeon lieutenant circa 1917-1920. He was later appointed assistant to the Downing Professor of Medicine at Cambridge and researched the clinical use of psicaine and borocaines, see his articles published in the ‘British Medical Journal’ in 1925-1926. Copeland was a government district surgeon in North Borneo and wrote a related paper on the decline of the population of Muruts due to malaria for ‘The Lancet’ in 1935. During his career as a physician he also worked at St. Bart’s Hospital and Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in London. On his retirement as a physician in 1953, he signed on as a surgeon on merchant vessels, revisiting the Far East and circumnavigating the globe. He died in the Chatham registration area in Kent in 1966. A commission in the Royal Navy in 1918 was cancelled, see ADM 339/3/408 at The National Archives.