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Box 4068, Santa Barbara, California 93103
   April 25, 1967

Dr. F. H. C. Crick
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
University Postgraduate Medical School
Hills Road

Cambridge, England

Dear Francis:

1967 I thank you for sending me a copy of your letter of 13 April
   to Jim Watson.

  I read the typescript of Honest Jim once, quite a long while
ago.  I have not seen the revised version. I have written two
rather strong letters to Jim aTbout it, my second letter being in
answer- to his reply to my first one.  I mentioned only the strongest
objections that I had to his book, and the greatest mistakes in it.
Jim hasn't answered my second letter.

  With respect to the points that you make in your letter to Jim,
I may sa,y that I a,gree with you about all of them, to the extent
that I have knowledge about them and to the extent that my memory
of the book is reliable.  I may say that I was especially unhappy,
when I read the book, about the treatment of you and Sir Lawrence
Bragg, and also unhappy about some of his comments about my wife,
my son, myself, Rosalind, and others.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,
b

Linus Pauling

cc: President Pusey
  Sir La,wrence Bragg
   M. H. F. Wilkins
   P. 5. Wilson
  P. Doty
   J. C. Kendrew
   M. F. Perutz
  A. Klug
   J. T. Edsall

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