UNIVERSITY OF LONDON KING'S COLLEGE.

From The Wheatstone Professor of Physics,
    J. T. RANDALL, F.R.S.

STRAND, W.C. 2.

TEMPLE BAR 5653.

Miss R.E. Franklin,
Birkbeck College Research Laboratory,
21 Torrington Square,
London, W.C.1

17th April 1953

Dear Miss Franklin,

You will no doubt remember that when we discussed

the question of your leaving  my laboratory you agreed that it
would be better for you to cease to work on *he nucleic acid
problem and tclbe up something else.  I appreciate that it is
diffioult to stop thinking immediately about a subjeat on which
you have been so deeply engaged, but I ahould be grateful if
you could now clear up, or write up, the work to the appropriate
stage.  A very real point about which I am a little troubled
is that it is obviously not right that Gosling should be super-
vised ky someone not specifically resident in this laboratory.
You will realise that the necessary reorganisation for this
purpose which arises from your departure oannot really proceed
while you remain, in an intellectual sense, a member of the
laboratory.

Yours sincerely,