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Includes:
 A humorous poem written by Renwick about Professor Cedric Austen Bardell Smith's work on linkage titled "The Chance of a Recombinant";
 Letter from Renwick to Professor John Hilton Edwards concerning a letter published by Professor Edwards in the Lancet on 6 July 1985 which mentions the theories of the French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, 29 Aug 1986;
 Letter to Renwick from Professor Cedric Austen Bardell Smith, of the Galton Laboratory at the Department of Genetics and Biometry at University College London, discussing calculations and Renwick's paper titled 'Renwick and Bolling,' Feb 1987;
 Letter from Assistant Editor of the Annals of Human Geneticsstating that Renwick's paper has gone to press and will appear in the October 1990 edition of the journal, 18 Jun 1990.

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