[Letters to Crick from James Watson]

Date:
1953-1954
Reference:
PP/CRI/H/1/42/3
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[Letters to Crick from James Watson]. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Five letters (holograph, colour photocopies) from James Watson to Crick, as follows:

1. Watson to Crick (13 February, 1954)

2. Watson to Crick (16 December, 1953)

3. Watson to Crick (12 November, 1953)

4. Watson to Crick (9 October, 1953)

5. Watson to Crick (11 August, [1952])

In addition, the file contains a typed notice (colour photocopy) of a meeting of the Hardy Club "in Dr Kendrew's rooms" on 1 May, 1953, at which "J Watson will read a paper entitled 'Some remarks on desoxyribonucleic acid.'"

For thirteen copy letters from Crick to James Watson, written during Crick's fellowship at Brooklyn Polytechnic in 1953-1954, see PP/CRI/D/4/4.

Publication/Creation

1953-1954

Physical description

1 file

Location of duplicates

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

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