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Copy private letter from Robertson to Lt Col Clive Wigram, Assistant Private Secretary to HM King George V, expressing his concern regarding the Dardanelles operations, and his opinion that all available resources should be concentrated on Allied activities on the Western Front, and enclosing a paper, unsanctioned by FM Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, expressing his views on the subject (not included). Includes a statement of the total number of rounds of ammunition on the Western Front. 5pp.

Copy of FULLER 2/24, Lt Gen Sir Alfred Godwin-Austen to Fuller. Typed carbon. 1 p

Tennyson D'Eyncourt, Admiralty, to Haig. On the inadvisability of using tanks on unsuitable ground. Copy. Typed carbon. 2 pp

Tennyson D'Eyncourt to Haig. Listing improvements and new developments to tanks. Copy. Typed carbon. 2 pp

Copy for Stern of a letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office proposing that the Tank Board inspect the TOG 2 tank and its records as soon as its trials at the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire were completed. 2pp

Copy of letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern proposing that Stern and the three other unofficial members of the Tank Board should form a Sub-Committee to investigate the organisation and methods of procedure of the Production Department and the Design Department of the Ministry of Supply and the performance of the tanks then in production. 1p

Copy of FULLER 2/10, Lt Gen Sir Kenneth Anderson to Fuller. Typed carbon. 2 pp

Typescript copy of a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply describing the plans for the Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

Typed copy of letter from Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), to Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, General Officer Commanding ANZAC, regarding Birdwood's request for promotion of Maj Cyril Mosley Wagstaff to Brigadier General, General Staff, ANZAC. 2pp

Mr H.A. Gwynne of 'Morning Post', to Mr Donald. Censor's excisions regarding Maurice article and misuse of Official Secrets Act. Copy. Typed 1 p

Copy of official letter from G S Clive, Military Secretary at War Office offering command as Lt Col of battalion in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. 1p

Copy for Stern of a letter from US Col G A Green, Mission of William Averell Harriman, US Special Envoy to the UK to Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply relating to types of gearbox for use in tanks. 1p

Copy of letter from W D Battershill, Chief Secretary of the Government of Palestine, to Brig Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall, concerning the ill-treatment in Gaza of Said Abu Shargh and the refusal of the latter to lodge a complaint. 1p

Photocopies of a personal letter from Wilkins to Francis Crick, enquiring about the Cambridge weather and inviting him to dinner (subsequently dated by Wilkins ‘1948-49?’)

Photocopies of a personal letter from Wilkins to Francis Crick (subsequently dated by Wilkins ‘early 1950?’ ‘Spring 1950’ and ‘mid June 1950), including an invitation to the King’s College London Biophysics Unit laboratory, reference to the A and B forms of DNA, the long hours worked by the staff of the King’s College London Biophysics Unit, and a request that Crick keep the King’s College London research confidential at present

Photocopies of a personal letter from Wilkins on holiday in Switzerland to Francis Crick (one copy subsequently dated by Wilkins ‘Spring 52’, the other dated ‘May June 1952 before nonhelical talk’), detailing Wilkins’ research to date, including a rough sketch of the x-ray diffraction image suggesting the existence of helical layer lines that Wilkins had recently obtained from a DNA sample made from squid sperm. Also reference to strained working relations with Rosalind Franklin, to Crick and James Watson’s difficulties constructing a DNA model, and to rivalry between theCambridgeand King’s College London research teams

Photocopy personal letter from Wilkins to Francis Crick (undated), with suggested modifications to Crick and James Watson’s draft article (‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid’, published in Nature, 25 Apr 1953, Vol 171 No 4356), and reference to difficulties preparing the text of the King’s College London Biophysics Unit article (Wilkins, Alec Stokes and Herbert Wilson, ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids: molecular structure of deoxypentose nucleic acids’, published in the same issue of Nature)

Photocopies of a personal letter from Wilkins to Francis Crick (subsequently dated by Wilkins ‘Feb 1953’), including reference to Wilkins’ recent ill health, his opinion of Rosalind Franklin’s presentation on her research (28 Jan 1953), and a promise to Crick to note down what Wilkins could recall of the talk

Photocopy personal letter from Wilkins to Francis Crick, with rueful congratulations to Crick and James Watson on their breakthrough model of the structure of DNA, a request that Bruce Fraser should have an opportunity to publish his earlier, incorrect, model, notification that Wilkins and his colleagues intend to publish an article on their research in the same edition of Nature as Watson and Crick’s article, and that Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling are also to publish an article, in the same edition (Nature, Vol 171 No 4356, 25 Apr 1953: James Watson and Francis Crick, ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid’; Wilkins, Alec Stokes and Herbert Wilson, ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids: molecular structure of deoxypentose nucleic acids’; Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling, ‘Molecular configuration in sodium thymonucleate’)

Photocopies of a personal letter from Wilkins to Francis Crick (subsequently dated by Wilkins ‘March 1953’), including reference to Rosalind Franklin’s imminent departure from King’s College London and how close the King’s team are to drawing a conclusion from their DNA research. One photocopy stapled to a photocopy of Wilkins’ letter suggesting changes to Crick and Francis Watson’s draft Nature article, later in Mar 1953 (see also K/PP178/3/5/8), a photocopy of Wilkins’ postcard to Crick from Brazil, 1952 (see also K/PP178/3/5/1), and photocopy sketches of DNA base pairings, with related calculations, [1953]