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Individual photographs of staff and students on the social impact of the biosciences course, with names

Photographs of Mary Hutton Wilkins (Maurice Wilkins’ paternal grandmother)

Photographs relating to the activities of international non-governmental organisation Food and Disarmament International (FDI), including: Wilkins and other members of the Nobel Laureates Manifesto for Peace group at the Vatican with Pope John Paul II, 1981; an FDI conference, Madrid, Spain, 1986; a demonstration in Paris, France, 1988

Photographs of three different views of an unidentified crystallography camera, with duplicate copies. Photographs labelled ‘H. F. H ver 3’

Copy photographic prints of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biophysics Unit, King’s College London staff, annotated by Wilkins, including Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling (3 copies), Alec Stokes, Wilkins and a group photograph. Also photograph of Signer DNA fibres mounted on wire frame for X-ray diffraction photography

Photographs of an 80th birthday party held for Maurice Wilkins by King’s College London students

Photographs and a manuscript sketch relating to incendiary bomb testing by Maurice Wilkins as a member of the Cambridge Scientists Anti-War Group. Also notes on Wilkins’ early interest in microscope studies of sperm heads

Photographic prints and colour acetate negatives of molecular models of DNA, including photographs of early wire models of DNA, space-filled Courtauld models, and molecular diagrams of DNA structure and of types of base-pairing arrangements

These photographs and illustrations were originally stored separately from his other files by Wilkins. This arrangement has been preserved.

Photographic prints relating to DNA, RNA and nucleoprotein research, Department of Biophysics, King’s College London, including: different x-ray diffraction exposures of DNA (B-form, Na [sodium] DNA, particular layer lines); x-ray diffraction exposures of RNA; electron microscope images of RNA spherulites with printed captions; prints of diagrams showing skeletal formulae and molecular models

Photographic prints and one acetate negative of x-ray diffraction exposures of B form DNA, chiefly duplicates of quarter plate negative numbered ‘5568’, indexed as the ‘Best B pattern of DNA’ (see also KDBP/1/1)

Photographic prints of x-ray diffraction exposures of B form DNA created by Wilkins, later annotated ‘Best B 92% [relative humidity] A4 prints’

Photographic prints, chiefly electron microscope images of RNA spherulites, created in the Department of Biophysics, King’s College London. Also two half-plate glass slides of a blank grid pattern

Rolls of photographic negatives, labelled ‘V sequence’, many additionally labelled A-D, depicting unidentified cellular activity

Rolled photographic negatives of electron microscope images of cellular structures. Original box label ‘V films V 0 upwards (printed)’

Long rolled photographic negative of DNA model, showing arrangement of molecules

Manuscript letters from Una Wilkins (Wilkins’ aunt) and Maurice Wilkins senior (Wilkins’ uncle) to Eithne Kaiser (née Wilkins, Maurice Wilkins’ sister), chiefly domestic and personal, also including comment on Wilkins’ Nobel Prize, 1962. Also letter from Eithne, 1938, to unknown recipient, detailing her life in Paris, working as a journalist and translator. Photocopy extract (probably from Frederic Warburg, All authors are equal: the publishing life of Frederic Warburg, Hutchinson, London, 1973) relating to Eithne and Ernst Kaiser’s work translating the fiction of German author Robert Musil, with related correspondence, 1972, between Eithne Kaiser and Warburg

Brief personal notes from Bruce Kent, General Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), to Wilkins, concerning Wilkins’ anti-nuclear campaigning.  Also letter to Wilkins from Dorothy Hodgkin, May 1985, refusing to sign an unspecified petition, and letter to Wilkins from Sir Nevill Mott, c 1985, detailing his reasons for refusing to attend a peace conference, and his dislike of hard-line CND supporters

Copies of personal and domestic letters from Eliza Hutton, Emily Ferrari and Lilla Hutton to Mary Hutton (later Mary Hutton Wilkins, Wilkins’ paternal grandmother), with related manuscript notes, 1989

Correspondence between Wilkins and Heinz Dieter Middendorf, formerly of the Department of Biophysics, King’s College London, chiefly relating to a grant application to the Science and Engineering Research Council. Also texts of articles by Middendorf: ‘Neutron Spectroscopy and Protein Dynamics’, co-written by John Turton Randall, published in Structure & Motion: Membranes, Nucleic Acids & Proteins (edited by E Clementi, G Corongiu, M H Sarma & R H Sarman, Adenine, New York, 1985); ‘Biophysical applications of quasi-elastic and inelastic neutron scattering’, published in Annual Review of Biophysics and Bioengineering, 1984; ‘Biomolecular applications of neutron spectroscopy: current work and future developments” published in Neutron scattering in the nineties, (International Atomic Energy Agency, 1985). Also copy correspondence between Middendorf and Randall, Oct 1978 and Feb-Aug 1982, written during acrimonious periods in their working relationship, and suggestions by Middendorf, 1993, on how Wilkins’ should write about Randall and Rosalind Franklin in his planned autobiography