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Correspondence: Olby, Robert

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Correspondence, largely concerning the research progress of Olby's volume The Path to the Double Helix (1974). The file includes Olby, "DNA before Watson-Crick" (1974, typescript, with holograph amendments).

Also included is a small group of letters and postcards to Crick (c. 1948-53, photocopied), mostly from Maurice Wilkins, but also from Rosalind Franklin, John Griffith, and James Watson. "I was going through some papers in my attic at the weekend ... and I found the enclosed letters" (Crick to Olby, 20 August, 1968).

These latter items include a b/w photocopy of the opening section of the famous letter of 18 March 1953 from Maurice Wilkins to Crick which begins: “I think you’re a couple of old rogues but you may well have something.” For a colour photocopy of the second section of this letter (headed "Suggested modification to your MSS") see file PP/CRI/H/1/42/4).

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