Watson here congratulated Crick on his election as a fellow of newly-founded Churchill College at Cambridge, an honor Crick
disavowed in protest a year later when thirty thousand pounds were given to the college for the construction of a chapel,
which Crick opposed as a violation of his atheistic principles.
Item is handwritten.
Number of Image Pages:
1 (322,228 Bytes)
Date:
1960-05-27 (May 27, 1960)
Creator:
Watson, James D.
Recipient:
Crick, Francis
Source:
Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Thanks for your note. Also my congratulations concerning Churchill -- All of us are quite pleased that again you will be near
students!! Now I am reading exams and find frequent quotations from your lectures about the Dogma. Francois Gros is here and
we are quite busy with ribosomes. both A.A. incorporation and RNA synthesis as revealed by pulse experiments -- also hopes
of understanding T2 RNA. All of us will be here the week before the Gordon Conf. and look forward to your visit
see you soon
Jim [written next to in different handwriting, Watson]
