Title:

Letter from James D. Watson to Rosalind Franklin

Creator:

Watson, James D., 1928-
The California Institute of Technology. Kerckhoff Laboratories of Biology

Recipient:

Franklin, Rosalind

Date:

28 February 1955

Description:

Franklin's relations with both Watson and Crick improved greatly once she moved from King's College to Birkbeck College, and she was in regular contact with both as she worked on the structure of TMV. In this letter, Watson sent Franklin news of recent TMV work at Berkeley, and Don Caspar's calculations of the TMV protein density. Caspar would go to work with Franklin later that year.

Original Repository:

Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin

Location:

Folder: 2/33

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of James D. Watson.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Tobacco Mosaic Virus and RNA

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin. 12313

Legacy ID:

KRBBBQ

NLM ID:

101584586X13

Profiles Collection:

The Rosalind Franklin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X13

Story Section:

Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958