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- 1956 - 1974 (Creation)
- 1938 (Creation)
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1 file
Scope and content
Manuscript letters from Una Wilkins (Wilkins’ aunt) and Maurice Wilkins senior (Wilkins’ uncle) to Eithne Kaiser (née Wilkins, Maurice Wilkins’ sister), chiefly domestic and personal, also including comment on Wilkins’ Nobel Prize, 1962. Also letter from Eithne, 1938, to unknown recipient, detailing her life in Paris, working as a journalist and translator. Photocopy extract (probably from Frederic Warburg, All authors are equal: the publishing life of Frederic Warburg, Hutchinson, London, 1973) relating to Eithne and Ernst Kaiser’s work translating the fiction of German author Robert Musil, with related correspondence, 1972, between Eithne Kaiser and Warburg
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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.