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Published lecture text by Wilkins, ‘I. Ultraviolet dichroism and molecular structure in living cells. II. Electron microscopy of nuclear membranes’, given at the Symposium on Submicroscopical Structure of Protoplasm, Naples Zoological Station, 22-25 May 1951. Also electron microscope photographs of locust sperm heads, used as illustrations in the text. Original file title ‘Locust prints’

Published articles and press cuttings relating chiefly to DNA history, including: photocopied chapter, ‘Processing arterial Doppler signals for clinical data’ by Raymond Gosling and D H King, published in Handbook of Clinical Ultrasound, 1978; Mansel Davies, ‘Notes and discussion: W T Ashbury, Rosie Franklin and DNA’, published in Annals of Science, 1990; John Maddox, ‘Watson, Crick and the future of DNA’, published in Nature, 11 Mar 1993. Also press cuttings, including: Max Perutz’ New Scientist review, Mar 1981, of The double helix, edited by Gunther Stent (Weidenfeld, London, 1981) (outlining the history of the discovery of the structure of DNA, but omitting Wilkins’ name); Sunday Times review of In search of the double helix by John Gribbin (Wildwood, London, 1985), Nov 1985; Charles Siebert, ‘The DNA we’ve been dealt’, Guardian, Nov 1995; interview with Wilkins, ‘Telling the story of life’, printed in King’s College London Report, 2000; Tim Radford, ‘Nobel Prize for cancer pioneers’, Guardian, Oct 2001; reviews of Rosalind Franklin: the dark lady of DNA (Harper Collins, 2002), published in The New Yorker, and New Scientist; Roger Highfield and Matt Ridley, ‘DNA: three letters that spell out a discovery made 50 years ago today’, The Telegraph, 2003, with earlier draft text, annotated by Wilkins

Copy published articles relating to symmetry in biology, including: ‘Pollenkörner, Punktverteilungen auf der Kugel und Informationstheorie’ by Von B L Van Der Waerden, published in Naturwissenshaften, 1961; ‘The genetic control of the shape of a virus’ by Edouard Kellenberger, offprint from Scientific American, Dec 1966; ‘Building a bacterial virus’ by William Wood and R S Edgar, offprint from Scientific American, Jul 1967; Ilse Walker, ‘The pattern of expressivity with special reference to symmetry in a scutellar bristle mutant of an East African zaprionus species’, offprint from Revue Suisse de Zoologie, May 1972; ‘Yarn’ by Stanley Backer, published in Scientific American, Dec 1972; Stephen Mason, ‘The left hand of nature’, published in New Scientist, 1984

Offprints and photocopied published articles on nutrition and world food supply collected as background information, including: conference paper by Leonard Joy, Philip Payne and P V Sukhatme, ‘Three papers on food and nutrition: the problem and the means of its solution’, published by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, 1971; Leonard Joy, ‘Food and nutrition planning’, offprint from The Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1973; critical articles on the UK bread industry by Harry Rothman and David Radford, New Scientist, 1974; report, ‘Food and nutrition planning’, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1975; J C Waterlow and Philip Payne, ‘The protein gap’, offprint from Nature, 1975; draft text by Philip Payne, ‘Proteins in human nutrition: nutritional requirements and social needs’ [1976]; photocopy articles from Nature on nutrition and world food production, 1976-1979

Photocopy press articles by molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg, chiefly from The Washington Post, on the ethical issues involved in molecular biology research.  Offprint articles by Lederberg, ‘Experimental genetics and human evolution’, from Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Oct 1966, and ‘Health in the world of tomorrow’, a Pan American Health Organization lecture, 1968.  Also letter from Wilkins to Lederberg, Feb 1970, asking Lederberg’s opinion of the ethical issues involved in molecular biology research, and Lederberg’s detailed response, Feb 1970

Off print articles and publications, chiefly produced by The New Alchemy Group, aUSecological research centre, on topics including solar power, wind farms, fish farming and methane digesters

Study papers and reprinted articles produced by the Hastings Center Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA, as teaching aids on topics including the treatment of terminal illness, genetic research and informed consent

Editions of Towards the nuclear holocaust (Menard Press, London, 1981) and Martin Ryle’s letter (Menard Press, London, 1985) by Martin Ryle, both inscribed ‘For Mikhail Gorbachev’, Cambridge, Apr 1987, by Rowena Ryle, widow of Sir Martin.  Also covering letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, from Rowena Ryle, Apr 1987, and photograph of Sir Martin Ryle

Copies of the printed programme for the conference, ‘The social impact of modern biology’, held by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS), 26-28 Nov 1970, including abstracts for the conference papers. Also poster for the conference, listing the speakers

Press cuttings and photocopy journal articles relating chiefly to the history of philosophy, collected by Wilkins as background information for his lecture series, ‘Science and the divine’, given as the Eddington memorial lectures, Cambridge, Apr-May 1978, and the planned subsequent book

Newspaper cuttings relating chiefly relating to Wilkins, including: ‘Genetic ‘bomb’ fears grow’, Evening Standard, 24 Nov 1969; ‘From molecules to man’, interview with Wilkins, New Scientist, 9 Aug 1973, with additional photocopies; ‘Third man of peace, The Times, 1987; Interview with Maurice and Emily Wilkins (daughter) in ‘Relative Values’, The Sunday Times Magazine, [1987]; ‘Fortunate failures I don’t regret’ by Wilkins, The Scientist, 8 Feb 1988; ‘Gas bomb killed 20000’, Morning Star, 25 Mar 1988; ‘Science Fact, Science Fiction’, Science for People, Spring 1989; ‘Great minds on the burning questions’, The Daily Telegraph, 11 Sep 1989; ‘Science, the Gulf war and the WTSW’, Scientific World, Jan 1991; ‘Cracking the code’, Sunday Express, 19 Dec 1993; ‘Forty years of the Double Helix’, The News (King’s College London Newsletter), Jan 1994; letters by Wilkins published in The Times, 8 Jul 1981 and 1 May 1986, and The Guardian, Apr 1987. Also miscellaneous press cuttings, 1989-1991, chiefly from The Guardian and Observer, relating to topics including world peace and broadly cultural issues

Press cuttings relating to news reports on the progress of DNA research, 1953-1960, and to the award of the Nobel Prize to Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson, 1962, including; ‘Nearer secret of life’, News Chronicle, [1953], reporting on the recent work at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and at King’s College London; ‘Hopes of way to understanding of cancer’, Manchester Guardian, 1955; ‘Deoxyribonucleic acid – twenty ordinary letters but together they spell out the ultimate secret’, News Chronicle, 1957; ‘A Nobel Winner’s Regret: Helped Build Atom Bomb’, New York News, 1962; ‘Biology’s ‘Rosetta Stone’’, Newsweek, 1962; ‘Importance of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is Examined’, New York Times, 1962; ‘He probed life’s secrets’, New York Herald Tribune, 1962; ‘Nobel Prize Awarded to Harvard Chemist’, New York Journal American, 1962. Also ‘Nucleic acids: master molecules’, in issue 118, Understanding science, 1964, and parts 1-3 of a factual strip cartoon, ‘Man-made viruses’, in the ‘Frontiers of science’ series, published in The Sun, c 1966

Press cuttings relating to Miss Jane Elizabeth Bruce (1832-1933), a distant relative of Wilkins’ (possibly a great-great aunt)

Cuttings from UK newspapers relating to world hunger and famine relief

Cuttings from Swedish newspapers with photographs of Nobel Prize winners, 1962, showing Wilkins and family, Francis Crick and family, James Watson, John Steinbeck, and members of the Swedish royal family.  Also seating plan for the Nobel Prize banquet, 11 Dec 1962

Press cuttings relating chiefly to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), including reports from North Western Evening Mail on a CND anti-Trident missile rally, Barrow-in-Furness, Oct 1984. Also cuttings from The Guardian relating to a mass demonstration, London, Sep 2002, against the threatened invasion of Iraq

Cuttings from The Times, 26 and 28 Nov 1970, reporting on the conference, ‘The social impact of modern biology’, held by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS), 26-28 Nov 1970. Also review of Watson Fuller (editor), The social impact of modern biology (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1971), published in The Times Literary Supplement, Aug 1971

Picture postcards from Francis Crick and Odile Crick to Wilkins, mostly sent fromParis,France, orCambridge, and chiefly personal, but with brief reference to DNA research work. Also later note by Wilkins, listing some of the postcards, and postcard from Crick to Cyril Domb (Professor of Theoretical Physics, King’s College London, 1954-1981), no date, with brief reference to Crick’s mislaid umbrella

Manuscript notes by Wilkins relating chiefly to the structure of his autobiography, including chapter plans and summaries, and assessments of further information required. Also two 3 1/2” computer disks, dated 1991-1994, of early drafts of the autobiography, original title ‘Autobiography discs copies’

Photomicrographs of organic cells, including muscle cells, chromosomes of bean roots, kidney tubules, yeast cells, and ultraviolet dichroism of oriented nucleic acid in locust sperm heads, taken using a reflecting microscope provided by R & J Beck Ltd,London. Original file title ‘Beck prints’