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:

9 April 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, he summarized the work that Don Caspar had done on TMV, which indicated that the protein was organized around a central hole. Caspar would go to work with Franklin later that year, and help elaborate the TMV structure further.

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:

KRBBBR

NLM ID:

101584586X14

Profiles Collection:

The Rosalind Franklin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X14

Story Section:

Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958