Papers of M H F Wilkins: personal Wilkins’ family letters

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.

1938-1974

1 file

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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.