Papers of M H F Wilkins: drafts of James Watson’s book, ‘Honest Jim’, subsequently published as 'The double helix'

  • Watson, James D., b.1928
Date:
1966-1967
Reference:
K/PP178/3/39/2/1
Part of:
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
  • Archives and manuscripts
  • Online

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: drafts of James Watson’s book, ‘Honest Jim’, subsequently published as 'The double helix'. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Two photocopies of the typescript draft text of James Watson’s book ‘Honest Jim’, subsequently published as The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1968), dated Aug 1966. Bound copy of the typescript draft text of the amended version, dated 1967.

Publication/Creation

1966-1967

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1 file

Contributors

Copyright note

Watson, James D.

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Available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Location of original

The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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