Item K/PP178/3/5/11 - Transcripts of letters to Crick, 1952-1953, and copies of letters to Roy Markham, 1950-1951, supplied by Robert Olby

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K/PP178/3/5/11

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Transcripts of letters to Crick, 1952-1953, and copies of letters to Roy Markham, 1950-1951, supplied by Robert Olby

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  • [2000] (Creation)
  • 1976 Dec 6 (Creation)
  • 1950 - 1953 (Creation)

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Photocopies of typed transcripts of Wilkins’ personal letters to Francis Crick, 1952-1953; photocopy letter from John Randall, Oct 1950, inviting Roy Markham, Plant Virus Research Unit, Molteno Institute for Bacteriology and Parasitology, Cambridge, to give a talk to the Biophysics Group, King’s College London; photocopies of letters from Wilkins to Markham, 1950-1951, concerning the progress of DNA research at King’s; covering letter from Robert Olby to Wilkins, 6 Dec 1976, enclosing the Markham and Crick photocopies, and explaining that he has asked Crick’s secretary for copies of Wilkins’ original letters to Crick

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A significant portion of the collection items are available online in the Maurice Wilkins and Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit archive hosted by the Wellcome Library.

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