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- 1953 Mar (Creation)
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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]
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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.