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Correspondence: Watson, James D

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Correspondence with James D Watson, comprising 91 letters.

(For five additional letters, see PP/CRI/H/1/42/3; for thirteen copy letters from Crick to James Watson, written during Crick's fellowship at Brooklyn Polytechnic in 1953-1954, see PP/CRI/D/4/4)

1. Crick to Watson, 16 July, 1975 (carbon). 
2. Watson to Crick, 1 July, 1975 (signed). 
3. Crick to Watson, 4 November, 1974 (carbon). 
4. Crick to Watson, 24 July, 1974 (carbon). 
5. Crick to Watson, 4 June, 1974 (carbon). 
6. Watson to Crick, 20 May, 1974 (signed). 
7. Crick to Watson, 6 May, 1974 (carbon). 
8. Watson (secretary) to Crick, 28 September, 1973 (enclosing picture-cutting of 'Watson Crick', Northern Illinois University). 
9. Crick to Watson, 29 May, 1973 (carbon). 
10. Crick to Watson, 29 March, 1973 (carbon). 
11. Crick to Watson, 10 October, 1972 (carbon). 
12. Watson to Crick, 2 November, 1971 (signed). 
13. Crick to Watson, 5 February, 1971 (carbon). 
14. Crick to Watson, 25 January, 1971 (carbon). 
15. J[acob] Bronowski to Watson, 25 January, 1971 (carbon, signed). 
16. Watson to Crick, 19 January, 1971 (signed). 
17. Crick to Watson, 25 November, 1970 (carbon). 
18. Crick to Watson, 11 November, 1970 (carbon). 
19. Watson to Crick, 10 November, 1970 (signed). 
20. Watson to Crick, 6 November, 1970 (signed, with holograph post script). 
21. Crick to Watson, 20 October, 1970 (carbon). 
22. Crick to Watson, 13 February, 1970 (carbon). 
23. Watson to Crick, 15 December, 1969 (signed). 
24. Elizabeth Aldwick to Crick, 27 November, 1967 (holograph). 
25. Crick to Watson, [3 October, 1966], (carbon). 
26. Watson to Crick, 29 September, 1966 (signed). 
27. Crick to Watson, 27th September, 1966 (carbon). 
28. Watson to Crick, 22 September, 1966 (signed). 
29. Watson to Crick, 8 September, 1966 (signed), with an attached photocopy of the first page of Crick, "The computer, the eye, the soul," Saturday Review, 3 September, 1966, 53-55. Note: in this publication, Crick is styled "Sir" Francis Crick (a mistake not uncommon in Crick's papers). Watson's brief letter is mock-congratulatory. Crick's article is excerpted from Of Molecules and Men (1966). 
30. Watson to Crick, 25 May, 1966 (holograph). 
31. Crick to Watson, 5 May, 1966 (carbon, the two enclosed letters referred to are not in the file). 
32. Watson to Crick, 1 November, 1965 (holograph). 
33. Crick to Watson, 25 October, 1965 (carbon). 
34. Watson to Crick, 15 October, 1965 (holograph). 
35. Crick to Watson, 4 June, 1965 (carbon). 
36. Watson to Crick, 24 May, 1965 (signed, with holograph post script). 
37. Crick to Watson, 21 May, 1965 (carbon). 
38. Watson to Crick, 10 May, 1965 (signed). 
39. Crick to Watson and Dr M W Nirenberg, 29 April, 1965 (carbon). Letter extract: "I am writing to you both because you are the two Chairmen of the Informal Exchange Group on Nucleic Acids and the Genetic Code. I want to suggest that at the end of the Gordon Conference on Nucleic Acids a statement be issued on the state of the Genetic Code. As you know I have found myself involved in this, but as a collater of information rather than a producer. I am constantly having to provide copies of my private version of the code to interested people.... This year's Gordon Conference should provide an ideal opportunity, not to present a final version of the code, but the best version of most of it. It will also be of value since it will show what remains to be established." 
40. Crick to Watson, 5 April, 1965 (carbon, 4 sheets, cc Brenner and Orgel, detailed letter on "Nirenberg's results"). 
41. Watson to Crick, 31 March, 1965 (signed). An attached sheet shows a table entitled "Genetic Code as of March 30, 1965". 
42. Crick to Watson, 8 January, 1965 (carbon). 
43. Watson to Crick, 4 January, 1965 (holograph, date written as 1964 - apparent error). 
44. Crick to Watson, 26 October, 1964 (carbon). 
45. Watson to Crick, 5 February, 1964 (holograph, date perhaps 1963, holograph). 
46. Crick to Watson, 28 October, 1963 (carbon). Attached is a letter (carbon) to S C Smith, Research Corporation, Division of Grants, New York, in which Crick (and Watson) nominate Seymour Benzer for the Research Corporation Award (1963), and a prior letter (23 October) to Watson requesting a nomination. 
47. Watson to Crick, 2 October, 1963 (signed, with holograph post script). 
48. Crick to Watson, 27 September, 1963 (carbon). 
49. Watson to Crick, 25 September, 1963 (signed). Attached is a letter (26 August, 1963) to Watson from the Research Corporation inviting him to join the jury panel for the Research Corporation Award of 1963. 
50. Watson to Crick, 4 June, 1962 (holograph). 
51. Crick to Watson, 6 February 1962 (carbon, two sheets). 
52. Watson to Crick, 2 February, 1962 (holograph). 
53. Watson to Crick, 7 January, 1962 (holograph). 
54. Crick to Watson, 19 December 1961 (carbon). 
55. Crick to Watson, 30 November, 1961 (carbon). 
56. Watson to Crick, 24 November, 1961 (holograph). 
57. Watson to Crick, 5 March, 1961 (holograph). 
58. Crick to Watson, 25 November, 1960 (carbon). 
59. Watson to Crick, 6 September, 1960 (holograph). 
60. Watson to Crick, 2 August, 1960 (holograph). 
61. Watson to Sir John [ ], copy to Crick, 6 July, 1960 (unsigned, regarding an Overseas Fellowship at Churchill College). 
62. Watson to Crick, 27 May, 1960 (holograph). 
63. Crick to Watson, 4 May, 1960 (carbon). Attached is a magazine cutting Chemical & Engineering News (18 April, 1960) containing a brief article on Watson's Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry. 
64. Crick to Dr Elizabeth Woolman, Institut Pasteur, 30 March, 1960. Attached is a letter from Woolman to Crick, 28 November, 1959 (holograph). 
65. Crick to Watson, 30 September, 1958 (carbon). 
66. Watson to Crick, 12 April, 1958 (holograph). 
67. Crick to Watson, 2 April, 1958 (carbon). 
68. Crick to Watson, 5 March, 1958 (carbon, two sheets). 
69. Watson to Crick, 24 November, 1957 (holograph). 
70. Crick to Watson, 14 November, 1957 (carbon). 
71. Watson to Crick, 14 May, 1957 (holograph). 
72. Watson to Crick, 2 May, 1957 (holograph). 
73. Crick to Watson, 8 March, 1957 (carbon). 
74. Crick to Watson, 19 November, 1956 (carbon). Letter extract: "As to personal news, Rosalind [Franklin] has had two mysterious operations, but is now much better. She came to stay with us to convalesce." 
75. Watson to Crick, 23 September, 1956 (holograph). 
76. Watson to Crick, 17 July, 1956 (holograph). 
77. Watson to Crick, 13 July, 1956 (holograph). 
78. Watson to Crick, 3 July, 1956 (holograph). 
79. Watson to Crick, 28 May, 1956 (holograph). 
80. Watson to Crick, 27 May, 1955 (holograph). 
81. Watson to Crick, 16 May, 1955 (holograph). 
82. Crick to Professor John R Raper, Harvard, 11 March, 1955 (holograph, three sheets) re Watson. Attached is a letter from Raper to Crick (3 March, 1955, two sheets). 
83. Watson to Crick, 3 March, 1955 (holograph, two sheets). 
84. Watson to Crick, 10 February, 1955 (holograph, two sheets). Letter extract: "PS The first RNA TIE has been woven." 
85. Watson to Crick, 11 December, 1954 (holograph, two sheets). 
86. Watson to Crick, 22 November, 1954 (holograph, two sheets). 
87. Watson to Crick, 15 October, 1954 (holograph). 
88. Watson to Crick, 28 March, 1954 (holograph). 
89. Watson to Crick, 9 March, 1954 (holograph). 
90. Watson to Crick, 14 January, 1953 (holograph). [NB the year "1953" is a 'new-year oversight' on Watson's part and should read "1954"] 
91. Watson to [Crick], n.d. (holograph fragment, final page of letter, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts headed paper).

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