Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Watson, James D., 1928-

Date:

19 November 1956

Description:

In this letter Crick mentioned Rosalind Franklin, the X-ray crystallographer on whose images he and Watson drew in uncovering the double helix. Franklin stayed with the Cricks in October and November of 1956, after undergoing a hysterectomy. Crick never asked Franklin about the nature of her "mysterious" illness. She would die of ovarian cancer on April 16, 1958.

Original Repository:

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

Location:

Box: 26. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/45

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. and http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Crystallography, X-Ray

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers. 11646. URL. http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/

Legacy ID:

SCBBJG

NLM ID:

101584582X114

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X114

Story Section:

Defining the Genetic Coding Problem, 1954-1957