The Francis Crick Papers

Title:

Letter from Maurice Wilkins to Francis Crick

Description:

Item is handwritten. Item is a photocopy.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (138,813 Bytes)

Date Supplied:

ca. 1948-1953 (Saturday)

Creator:

Wilkins, Maurice H. F.

Recipient:

Crick, Francis

Source:

Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

URL: http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Maurice Wilkins.

Exhibit Category:

The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953

Box Number: 72

Folder Number: PP/CRI/H/1/42/4

Unique Identifier:

SCBBWW

Document Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Series: Notes and Drafts

SubSeries: Notes and Drafts 1950-1955

SubSubSeries: [Miscellaneous Papers Photocopied by Aaron Klug]

Folder: [Letters to Crick from Maurice Wilkins]

Transcript:

Sat.

My dear Francis,

Thank you for your letter on the polypeptides.

I think you will be interested to know that our dark lady leaves us next week and much of the 3 dimensional data is already in our hands. I am now reasonably clear of other committments [sic] and have started up a general offensive on Nature's secret stronghold on all fronts: models, theoretical chemistry, and interpretation of data [ . . . ]line and comparative. At last the decks are clear and we can put all hands to the pumps!

It won't be long now.

Regards to all

yours ever

P.S. may be in Cambridge next week.

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2006-08-21

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