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Reprinted ‘Proceedings of the first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, 7-10 July 1957’, published as a 25th anniversary commemoration, edited by Sir Joseph Rotblat

Detailed circular mandalas and other designs drawn by Wilkins

Papers of M H F Wilkins: typescript account of Wilkins’ paternal ancestors, aspects of which were used in chapter 1, ‘Distant shores’, of Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003)

Typescript accounts of the life of Mary Hutton Wilkins (Wilkins’ paternal grandmother) and the ancestry of the Hutton family, aspects of which were used in chapter 1, ‘Distant Shores’, of Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003), with related manuscript research notes.

Typescript accounts of Wilkins’ ancestry, aspects of which are used in chapter 1, ‘Distant shores’, in his autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003). Also related manuscript research notes and correspondence

Typescript annotated accounts of the lives of Wilkins’ ancestors, including William Mortimer Wilkins (Wilkins’ great-grandfather), William Wilkins (Wilkins’ grandfather), Eliza Wilkins (Wilkins’ great-aunt), Mary Hutton Wilkins (Wilkins’ grandmother) and Edgar Henry Wilkins (Wilkins’ father). Aspects of these accounts were used in chapter 1, ‘DistantShores’, in Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003)

Typescript accounts of Maurice Wilkins’ early childhood in New Zealand, 1916-1923, move to UK, 1923, and childhood in Birmingham. Aspects of these accounts were used in chapter 1, ‘Distant shores’, The third man of the double helix by Maurice Wilkins. Also published booklet, ‘A city at war: Birmingham, 1939-1945’ (Birmingham Museums and City Art Gallery, 1985), with a photograph of Wilkins’ parents during their service as Fire Guards, World War Two

Typescript annotated accounts of Wilkins’ childhood, specifically relating to his early interest in science and technology. Aspects of these accounts were used in chapter 1, ‘DistantShores’, in his autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003)

Two manuscript accounts of Maurice Wilkins’ childhood in New Zealand. Aspects of these accounts were used in chapter 1, ‘Distant shores’ of Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003)

Acetate x-ray diffraction photographs relating to Wilkins’ research on nerve membranes, including images of frog sciatic nerve and retina. Original title ‘Membrane x-ray patterns’. CLOSED for conservation

See KDBP/4/60 for offprint article by Allen Blaurock and Wilkins, ‘Structure of frog photoreceptor membranes’, published in Nature, vol 223, 30 Aug 1969

Acetate x-ray photographs, with related index cards and coding, relating to nerve membrane research on samples including frog and pig sciatic nerves. Index cards include date, film number, type, sample, temperature, and duration and power of x-ray exposure for each image. The samples include frog and pig sciatic nerve, and are likely to relate to experimental research by the nerve membrane team, led by Wilkins. Original box titles ‘X-ray films (rubbishy)’ and ‘X-ray 1. Poly X-M (x-m), Myelin (m), phospholipid vesicles (v), amoeba plasmalemma’

Scientific articles written or co-written by Wilkins, bound in two volumes, 1945-1962, and 1963-1972, formerly held in Wilkins’ personal library

Additional stapled set of photocopies of Wilkins’ letters to Francis Crick, 1952-1953, concerning the progress of DNA research in the Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit, King’s College London, and Crick and James Watson’s work in the Cavendish Laboratory,Cambridge, with later annotations by Wilkins

General administrative files, chiefly relating to the running of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biophysics Research Unit, King’s College London (from 1964, the Department of Biophysics), 1951-1991

Incomplete photocopies of Rosalind Elsie Franklin’s laboratory notebooks concerning her DNA research, Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit, King’s College London, 1951-1953, with additional later annotations by Wilkins. Also covering letter from Jennifer Ashton, secretary to Aaron Klug, Laboratory of Molecular Biology,Cambridge, May 1976, and photocopied background information on crystallography, with brief covering note, 1992

Week-at-a-view appointment diaries, including meetings, lunches and personal appointments.  Only individual pages, Sep-Nov, remain of the 1964 diary.  Two diaries were kept simultaneously for the years 1970-1972, at home and at work, with the same data entered in both

Appointments diaries for 1982, one kept at home, one in Wilkins’ office at work, containing predominantly the same appointments, chiefly meetings and travel arrangements. Also appointments diary for 1985, also chiefly relating to meetings and travel

Article, ‘Physical studies of nucleic acid. Nucleic acid: an extensible molecule?’ by Wilkins, Raymond Gosling and William Etienne Seeds, offprint from Nature, vol 167, 12 May 1951.

Electron microscope photographs of fibres of sodium thymonucleate (4 copies of two side-by-side prints), used in the article