Correspondence between Wilkins and his colleague Herbert Rees Wilson, chiefly relating to DNA research, including: a photograph of an early wire DNA model, [1953]; explanatory diagrams of DNA x-ray diffraction, dated by Wilson ‘c 1953’; photocopy of notes taken by Wilson at a DNA lecture given by Wilkins, Feb 1953; letter from Wilkins to Wilson, Jan 1957, requesting x-ray diffraction images of ‘TP’ (possibly bacterial DNA derived from Pneumococcus Type III); photocopy and typescript drafts of paper, ‘The double helix and all that’, by Wilson, published in Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Jul 1988; letters from Wilson, 1993-1999, concerning his recollections of DNA research in the 1950s; draft paper by Wilson relating to his recollections of DNA research at King’s College London and other aspects of his career, and accompanying manuscript letter from Wilson to Wilkins, 15 Mar 2001; snapshot photographs of Wilson in formal robes for a National Eisteddfod, Wales, 2004.
Also articles: Dennis Riley and Gerald Oster, ‘An X-ray diffraction investigation of aqueous systems of deoxyribonucleic acid (Na salt)’, offprint from Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1951; Wilkins, William Seeds, Alec Stokes and Herbert Wilson, ‘Helical structure of crystalline deoxypentose nucleic acid’, offprint from Nature, Oct 1953; photocopy of paper, ‘Pf1 Virus Structure: Helical Coat Protein and DNA with Paraxial Phosphates by David J Liu and Loren A Day, Science, Vol 265, Jul 1994; A G Fitzgerald, B E Storey, E J Sturrock, P Tollin, H L L Watton and Herbert Rees Wilson, ‘Electron images from thin silicon films’, offprint from Institute of Physics Conference Series No 147, 1995; photocopy of paper, ‘DNA: An extensible molecule’ by Philippe Cuzel, Science, Vol 271, Feb 1996, with covering letter from Wilson, 11 Feb 1999; photocopy of paper, ‘Stretched and overwound DNA forms a Pauling-like structure with exposed bases’ by J F Allemand et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol 95, Nov 1998; photocopy brief article, ‘A to Z of DNA’ published in Nature, Dec 1998.