1st November 1966.

Dr LID, Watson,
Harvard University,
Biological Laboratories,
j 16 .Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge9
Eass. 02139,
u rd.
   cI A,

Dear Jim,

   I see Ixmust write more plainly,  I do not wish a highly personal
account of our collaboration together to be made available to the general
public+   I consider it a gross invasion of my privacy and a breaclh of
confidence on your part.  The letter you sent me from Gordon N. Ray
Ulustrates my point exactly,   Es writes nThough my Ignorance of the
scientific matters about which you write is abysmal, I still found your
narrative absorbing in human terms?.
diSlikC+                   This is precisely what I most

  You seem to forget that I have always avoided all personal publicity,
I refused to let the NOW York Times do a profile of me.   I have not
appeared on British television except on two occasions when my friends
have made it impossible for me to refuse.   SC never give permission for
my photo to appear in textbooks.   The publio has every right to know about
the structure of DMA.   They have no FW+$tn to know the intimate details
of how it was discovered if they cannot follow the technical points
involved and mere&y want to be entertained by the #'human side%   Ican
assure you that if X had known you were going to write the gj0r-t of book
you have written I would never have collaborated with you.

with

Eay I suggest that you @ve your book to Jo& Edsall to read, together
my various comments on it* and ask him for his c~ition.   I would be

Continued....*....


Dr J.D. Watson.

1st November 1966.

surprised if he felt you should publish it when Maurice and I object
to it so strongly.

Yours sincerely,

F.H.C. Crick.

Copies to Prof. M.H.F. Wilkins.
      Sir Lawrence Bragg.
      Gordon N. Ray.
       Dr John T. Edsallr