The Oswald T. Avery Collection

Title:

Letter from Oswald T. Avery to Roy Avery (partial transcription)

Description:

In this partial transcript of a rather lengthy letter to his brother, Oswald Avery explains that his retirement plans have been placed on hold due to the war and the recent developments of his research on pneumococcal transformation. This excerpt includes the second part of the original letter in which Avery provided a rather thorough introduction to the history of research on the transforming principle and describes the results of experiments conducted by Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty and the role of DNA as carrier of genetic information.

Item is a photocopy.

Number of Image Pages:

2 (321,798 Bytes)

Date Supplied:

13, 26 May 1943

Creator:

Avery, Oswald T.

Recipient:

Avery, Roy

Source:

Original Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Oswald T. Avery Papers

Rights:

Courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives.

URL: http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/

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