Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Watson, James D., 1928-
- Date:
- 13 April 1967
- Description:
- In this letter, Crick detailed his objections to the revised draft of Watson's account of their discovery of the double helix. The working title was still Honest Jim, an ironic and self-deprecating title Watson chose to meet criticism of his and Crick's insufficiently acknowledged use of experimental evidence by other researchers, particularly Rosalind Franklin. Crick decried Watson's manuscript as a betrayal of their friendship and a distortion of the scientific methods they used in their discovery.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 75. Folder: PP/CRI/I/3/8/4
- 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:
- DNA, Writing, and Ethics, Professional
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 6 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Linus Pauling to Francis Crick, 1967 Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick, 1967
- 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:
- SCBBKN
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X137
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X137
- Story Section:
- The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953