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Reference code
K/PP178/3/5/3
Title
Copy letter from Wilkins to Francis Crick, 1950, relating to DNA research at King’s College London
Date(s)
- 1950 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
4 items
Scope and content
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
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Existence and location of originals
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.