Title:

Letter from Oswald T. Avery to Roy Avery (partial transcription)

Creator:

Avery, Oswald Theodore, 1877-1955

Recipient:

Avery, Roy C. (Roy Crowdy), 1885-1971

Date:

[13, 26 May 1943]

Description:

In this partial transcript of a rather lengthy letter to his brother, Oswald Avery explains that his retirement plans have been placed on hold due to the war and the recent developments of his research on pneumococcal transformation. This excerpt includes the second part of the original letter in which Avery provided a rather thorough introduction to the history of research on the transforming principle and describes the results of experiments conducted by Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty and the role of DNA as carrier of genetic information.

Original Repository:

Tennessee State Library and Archives. Oswald T. Avery Papers

Location:

Box: 1. Folder: 3

Rights:

Courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. and http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/

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Genre:

Letters (correspondence)
Transcripts

Subject:

Transformation, Genetic and DNA

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Letter from Oswald T. Avery to Roy Avery, 1943
Appendix I: A Letter from Avery to His Brother Roy, Dated May 26, 1943, 1976

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Tennessee State Library and Archives. Oswald T. Avery Papers. 361

Legacy ID:

CCAABV

NLM ID:

101584575X38

Profiles Collection:

The Oswald T. Avery Collection

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X38

Story Section:

DNA as the "Stuff of Genes": The Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1940-1944