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K/PP178/6/2/20
Title
Accounts, 1990-1993, of the lives of Wilkins’ ancestors
Date(s)
- 1990 - 1993 (Creation)
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Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Typescript annotated accounts of the lives of Wilkins’ ancestors, including William Mortimer Wilkins (Wilkins’ great-grandfather), William Wilkins (Wilkins’ grandfather), Eliza Wilkins (Wilkins’ great-aunt), Mary Hutton Wilkins (Wilkins’ grandmother) and Edgar Henry Wilkins (Wilkins’ father). Aspects of these accounts were used in chapter 1, ‘DistantShores’, in Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003)
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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.