Correspondence and Papers
Location: Royal Institution of Great Britain
Address: 21 Albemarle Street, London W1X 4BS, England
Phone: 020-7670-2924 Fax: 020-7629-3569
Email: ri@ri.ac.uk Web: http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/frames/browse1?inst_id=17
Papers, 1914-1918
Location: Royal Artillery Historical Research Centre, Firepower - The Royal Artillery Museum
Address: Clavell Library, Old Laboratory Office, Royal Arsenal (West), London SE18 6ST, England
Phone: 020 8316 7393 Fax: 020 8855 7100
Email: info@firepower.org.uk Web: http://firepower.org.uk
Papers relating to Society for Protection of Science and Learning, 1933-1947
Location: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts
Address: Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, England
Phone: 01865 277158 Fax: 01865 277187
Email: western.manuscripts@bodley.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Location: Medical Research Council
Address: 20 Park Crescent, London W1N 4AL, England
Phone: 020 7636 5422
Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard, 1938-1949
Location: Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
Address: Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS, England
Finding Aid: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/full.php#BULLARD
Phone: 01223 336087 Fax: 01223 336135
Email: archives@chu.cam.ac.uk Web: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives
Correspondence with Sir James Chadwick, 1942-1946
Location: Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
Address: Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS, England
Finding Aid: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/full.php#CHADWICK
Phone: 01223 336087 Fax: 01223 336135
Email: archives@chu.cam.ac.uk Web: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives
Correspondence with Lord Cherwell, 1919-1954
Location: Oxford University: Nuffield College Library
Address: Oxford OX1 1NF, England
Phone: 01865 278550 Fax: 01865 278621
Email: library-archives@nuf.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/library/archives-information.asp
Correspondence with Ulick Richardson Evans, 1968
Location: Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Address: West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, England
Phone: 01223 333000 Fax: 01223 333160
Email: mss@ula.cam.ac.uk Web: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/
Correspondence with A. V. Hill, 1919-1952
Location: Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
Address: Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS, England
Finding Aid: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/full.php#HILL
Phone: 01223 336087 Fax: 01223 336135
Email: archives@chu.cam.ac.uk Web: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives
Correspondence with Dorothy Hodgkin, 1942-1976
Location: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts
Address: Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, England
Phone: 01865 277158 Fax: 01865 277187
Email: western.manuscripts@bodley.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/
Correspondence with Sir Julian Huxley, 1951-1965
Location: Rice University: Woodson Research Center
Address: Fondren Library, 6100 South Main Street, Houston, TX 77001, United States
Size: 19 items
Phone: 713 527-8101 ext 2586 Web: http://riceinfo.rice.edu/Fondren/Woodson/mss.html
Correspondence with Sir David Phillips, 1960-1971
Location: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts
Address: Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, England
Phone: 01865 277158 Fax: 01865 277187
Email: western.manuscripts@bodley.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/
Correspondence with Francis John Worsley Roughton, 1941, no date
Location: Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Address: West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, England
Phone: 01223 333000 Fax: 01223 333160
Email: mss@ula.cam.ac.uk Web: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/
Correspondence with Edmund Stoner, 1932-1964
Location: Leeds University, Brotherton Library, Special Collections Division
Address: Leeds LS2 9JT, England
Phone: 0113 233 5518 Fax: 0113 233 5561
Email: special-collections@library.leeds.ac.uk Web: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll
Correspondence with Sir Henry Tizard, 1939-1942
Location: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents
Address: Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ, England
Phone: 020 7416 5221 Fax: 020 7416 5374
Email: docs@iwm.org.uk Web: http://www.iwm.org.uk
Correspondence relating to Cavendish Laboratory
Location: Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University Library
Address: West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, England
Phone: 01223 333000 Web: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/
"We felt we could hardly omit any mention of your structure nor did we feel it reasonable
to suppress our doubts about it."
James Watson Francis Crick. Letter to Linus Pauling. March 21, 1953.
"So much good work has come from the Medical Research Council unit in Cambridge under
Perutz and Kendrew that I think it deserves the recognition of a Nobel Prize. I have
drafted a form of recommendation and I am enclosing the draft for your comments. I
need hardly say how much strength would be lent to it if you felt able to give your
support.
The two main things are the body of work by Perutz and Kendrew which may now be fairly
claimed to have succeeded in getting out the structure of two protein molecules, and
incidentally shows how large a part of your d helix plays in it; and in the second
place there is the work on nucleic acid by Watson and Crick. Each of these, it seems
to me, is of Nobel Prize standard.
One must also take into consideration a number of other important contributions from
the laboratory, such as the work on virus, on sickle-cell anaemia, the beginning of
Huxley's work on muscle, and the work on collagen; it is an impressive record. As
an alternative I thought it might be well to suggest that the work of the unit as
a whole should be recognized by dividing a prize between its four leaders, Perutz,
Kendrew, Watson and Crick. Here I should be especially glad to have your views."
W.L. Bragg. Letter from Sir Lawrence Bragg to Linus Pauling. December 9, 1959.
"I thank your for your letter and the two new paragraphs of your preface to Watson's
book. I must say that I was shocked to read [The Double Helix], perhaps one of the
earlier drafts, after I had read your preface. I was indignant about the insinuation
about my wife and the statements about other people, but also indignant about Watson's
treatment of you. I do not think that you should give the book the support and validation
that would be implied by your having written a preface, even despite your disclaimer."
Linus Pauling. Letter from Linus Pauling to Sir Lawrence Bragg (The Royal Institution). May 17, 1967.
"And, as I recount in The Double Helix, I thought Bragg was just a stuffy old man when I met him. But he was a fine man.
He had a really keen interest in science, and he was certainly Francis's only competition
at the time, in the sense that he was a theoretician. And he had a difficult time,
because most people thought that it was his father who had been the clever one, whereas
it was the younger Bragg who'd made the running."
James Watson. Nature, 302: 652. April 1983.
