Francis Crick Personal Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2007, 2016
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Francis Crick Personal Papers
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0660
Physical Description:
14.6 Linear feet
(32 archives boxes, 4 card file boxes, 2 oversize folders, 4 map case folders, and digital files)
Physical Description:
2.04 Gigabytes
Date (inclusive): 1935-2007
Abstract: Personal papers of British scientist and Nobel Prize winner Francis Harry Compton Crick, who co-discovered the helical structure
of DNA with James D. Watson. The papers document Crick's family, social and personal life from 1938 until his death in 2004,
and include letters from friends and professional colleagues, family members and organizations. The papers also contain photographs
of Crick and his circle; notebooks and numerous appointment books (1946-2004); writings of Crick and others; film and television
projects; miscellaneous certificates and awards; materials relating to his wife, Odile Crick; and collected memorabilia.
Scope and Content of Collection
Personal papers of Francis Crick, the British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize winner who
co-discovered the helical structure of DNA with James D. Watson. The papers provide a glimpse of his social life and relationships
with family, friends and colleagues. Largely a collection of correspondence dating from 1947 to 2005, the papers also contain
personal documents, especially certificates and awards; notebooks and appointment books (1946-2004); photographs of Francis
and Odile, his wife, as well as friends and scientific colleagues; personal business files related to property and projects;
film and television projects; writings of Crick and of others; and memorabilia such as announcements and invitations, poems,
portraits, newspaper clippings, receipts, wine lists, menus, and programs from scientific and theatrical events.
The accessions processed in 2007 and 2016 add correspondence to the collection, primarily from family members and friends,
in addition to a small amount of condolence correspondence received by Odile Crick after Dr. Crick's death on July 28, 2004.
Also included are sound and video recordings, and miscellaneous materials related to Odile Crick, who died on July 5, 2007.
Accession processed in 2006
Arranged in ten series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 3) APPOINTMENT BOOKS, 4) NOTEBOOKS, 5) PHOTOGRAPHS,
6) SUBJECT FILES, 7) FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS, 8) WRITINGS, 9) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, and 10) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION
PHOTOCOPIES.
Accession processed in 2007
Arranged in four series: 11) CORRESPONDENCE, 12) CONDOLENCE CORRESPONDENCE, 13) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS, and 14) ODILE CRICK
MATERIALS.
Accessions processed in 2016
Arranged in eight series: 15) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 16) CORRESPONDENCE, 17) SUBJECT FILES, 18) WRITINGS, 19) WRITINGS OF
OTHERS, 20) PHOTOGRAPHS, 21) SOUND RECORDINGS, and 22) VIDEO RECORDINGS.
Biography
Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8, 1916 in Weston Favell, a district of Northampton, in central England. Crick
was the eldest of the two sons of Harry Crick (1878-1948) and Anne Elizabeth Crick (née Wilkins) (1879-1955). His father and
uncle ran the leather boot and shoe factory founded by their father, Walter D. Crick, an amateur naturalist. The elder Crick
wrote a survey of local foraminifera (single-celled protists with shells), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods
(snails or slugs) named after him.
Crick attended Northampton Grammar School and the non-conformist Protestant Congregational Church. At age 14, he won a scholarship
to the Mill Hill School, a private boarding school in North London that his father and three uncles had also attended.
At age 18, Crick attended University College in London (UCL). In 1937, he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree, second
honors, in Physics with a minor in mathematics. With family financial aid, Crick began graduate study at UCL until the outbreak
of World War II interrupted his studies. Crick's war work involved research on magnetic and acoustic mines for the British
Admiralty. Briefly, he worked for Naval Intelligence at Whitehall in London. In 1940, he married Ruth Doreen Dodd, a UCL English
Literature undergrad, and their son, Michael, was born during an air raid on November 25, 1940.
After the war, Crick decided to move from physics to study "the division between the living and the non-living,'' choosing
the field of study today termed molecular biology. In 1947, he accepted work at the Strangeways Laboratory that he later described
as his "apprenticeship in biology." In 1949, Crick joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) as a Cavendish Laboratory scientist
and, at age 33, once again became a graduate student. Four years later, he obtained his PhD from Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge.
In 1949, Crick married Odile Speed (born 8-11-1920 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, daughter of a British jeweler, Alfred Valentine
Speed, and a French mother, Marie-Therese Josephine Speed (nee Jaeger)). Odile was an art student at St. Martin's School of
Art in London, in Paris, and was studying in Vienna when German troops entered that city. She served as a WREN (Women's Royal
Naval Service) officer whose activities included driving trucks, code-breaking, and translating German documents. She met
Francis in 1945 at the Admiralty. The Cricks lived in a small flat called the Green Door above a tobacconist shop in Cambridge.
Their first daughter, Gabrielle, was born in 1951, followed by Jacqueline in 1954.
In 1952, Crick began his collaboration with James Watson that resulted in establishing the structure and function of deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA). Later, both would share the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Maurice Wilkins for these discoveries.
The Cricks traveled frequently around the globe to symposiums and to give lectures. He was a visiting lecturer at the Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute, Harvard University, UC Berkeley's virus laboratory, the University of Rochester, and the Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine. Crick was also, from almost its inception, a visiting fellow at the Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
in La Jolla, CA each February. In 1960, funded partly by the Lasker Foundation Prize, the Crick's visited Mont Blanc and enjoyed
a month-long stay in a Tangier villa. Often Crick would then travel on alone to a scientific meeting. Later, the Cricks would
travel on speaking tours to Japan, Thailand, India, and vacation in Geneva, Zurich, Paris and French Polynesia. The family
took up boating when Crick bought first a half-share of a 47-foot Sparkman & Stephens yacht, then later a Bertram power boat
named the
Eye of Heaven. Vacations then regularly included the Greek Islands.
The year 1962 brought honors and promotions. Crick received the Nobel Prize and the family traveled to Stockholm, Sweden
to attend the festivities including dinner with King Gustaf VI. At the MRC, Crick became a joint head of the newly founded
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
In the 1960s, Crick, along with Paul McCartney, Graham Greene and others collaborated to urge cannabis legal reform. Unafraid
of controversy, Crick, an outspoken atheist and associated with various humanist organizations, sponsored an essay contest
on what might be done with the Cambridge College chapels.
Nobel fame brought television, movie and book offers. In 1968, Watson published his best seller,
The Double Helix. In the 1970s, Crick and Watson agreed to participate in the making of the documentary,
DNA Story. In 1987, the BBC released
Life Story, a 106-minute dramatic television program which was well-received in Britain and in America. In 1971, Crick and Leslie Orgel
created the hypothesis of "directed Panspermia" (the idea that genetic materials may have been purposely spread by an advanced
extraterrestrial civilization). This led to one of Crick's four books:
Life Itself: Its Origin And Nature (1981). Crick wrote 130 published papers as well as three other books:
Of Molecules And Men (1966),
What Mad Pursuit (1988), and
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search For The Soul (1994).
1976 marked the beginning of the family's transition to California. First, Crick visited during an eight-month sabbatical
and then accepted Salk's offer to become the Kieckhefer Professor at the Institute. The Cricks moved to coastal California
and later bought land eighty-five miles east in the desert town of Borrego Springs where he built a house and enjoyed desert
gardening.
In 1994-1995, Crick served as President of the Salk Institute but resigned after having heart surgery in 1995. In 2001, Crick
was diagnosed with colon cancer. He continued to work and was able to attend many of the functions associated with the 50th
anniversary of the double helix discovery. He died at age 88 on July 28, 2004.
Among the many honors beyond the Nobel Prize, Crick was awarded the Prix Charles Leopold Meyer, the Gairdner Foundation's
Award of Merit, the Warren Triennial Prize Lecture, Foreign Honorary Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
fellowships from UCL, Churchill College, Gonville and Caius College, and U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society,
French Academy of Sciences and Irish Academy memberships.
Biographies include: M. Ridley,
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (2006); P. Strathern,
Crick, Watson, and DNA (1999); H.F. Judson,
The Eighth Day of Creation (expanded ed. 1996); J.D. Watson,
The Double Helix (1968); and Robert Olby,
Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets (2009).
Acquisition Information
Acquired 2003-2013.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Francis Crick Personal Papers, MSS 660. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Restrictions
In accordance with state and federal laws, the following restrictions apply: Box 13, Folder 12 until 2026; and Box 13, Folder
17 until 2054. Original media formats are restricted; researchers may request user copies in advance of their visit.
Digital Content
The collection contains digital video, described in the container list. Researchers may contact Special Collections & Archives
to inquire about access to digital content.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
DNA -- Structure
Orgel, Leslie E. -- Correspondence
McClure, Michael -- Correspondence
Perutz, Max F. -- Correspondence
Kreisel, Georg -- Correspondence
Gamow, George -- Correspondence
Crick, Francis -- Archives
Pauling, Linus -- Correspondence
Watson, James D. -- Correspondence
Wilkins, Maurice -- Correspondence
Accession processed in 2006
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Crick’s personal correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues, and condolence correspondence
sent to Odile Crick after his death. Arranged in the following subseries: A) General, B) Unidentified, and C) Letters of Condolence.
A) General: Letters and greeting cards that date from 1947 to 2005. Family correspondence includes letters from his children,
Michael, Gabrielle and Jacqueline; his wife Odile; as well as other relatives. The series includes a photocopy of Crick's
March 19, 1953 letter to his son that explained the DNA discovery prior to Crick and Watson's publication in NATURE magazine
in April of 1953. Other correspondence documents Crick's involvement with various humanist associations and fellow humanists
such as C.P. Snow and a letter from Winston Churchill puzzling over Crick's stance regarding the building of a chapel at Churchill
College, Cambridge. Included is correspondence with Crick's friend, mathematician Georg Kreisel, poet Michael McClure, historian
Robert Olby, and scientists Max Perutz and Peter Pauling. Also included are letters from Edward C. Collingwood, a Royal Society
fellow and mathematician, who was Crick's naval superior during the war years, and later a mentor; and artist Howard J. Morgan
who drew Crick's portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in London. Arranged alphabetically.
B) Unidentified: Letters that lack a surname and are filed by first name.
C) Letters of Condolence: Letters and condolence cards received after Crick's death in 2004. Condolences were received from
scientists around the globe, from other Nobel Prize recipients, as well as friends, neighbors, family, and dignitaries. Arranged
alphabetically
Box 1, Folder 4
American Public Health Association, Inc.
1960
Box 1, Folder 5
Andrade, E.N. da C.
1950 - 1968
General note
Former professor.
Box 1, Folder 9
Bachmann, Lawrence P.
1988 - 2002
Box 1, Folder 10
Barnett, Leslie M.
1983 - 2002
Box 1, Folder 11
Bates, David R.
1972 - 1975
Box 1, Folder 13
Beatty, Countess Diane
1969 - 1970
Box 1, Folder 14
Bendell, Alfred G.
1990 - 2002
Box 1, Folder 15
Benirschke, Kurt
1994 - 1995
General note
[See also First Thursday Club correspondence.]
Box 1, Folder 17
Bogen, Joseph
1995 - 1996
Box 1, Folder 18
Bonnaud, Evelyne
1988 - 1998
Box 1, Folder 20
Bouratinos, E.
1974 - 1992
Box 1, Folder 22
Braitenberg, Carla and Zeno
1971
Box 1, Folder 23
Braxton, Maria Lang
1972 - 2001
Box 1, Folder 24
British Broadcasting Corporation
1953 - 1975
General note
Includes outline of the program
Genetics with Crick.
Box 1, Folder 25
British Humanist Association
1963 - 1969
General note
Contains correspondence regarding essay prize sponsored by Crick on the subject, "What can be done with College Chapels."
Includes correspondence from E.M. Forster, who consented to be a judge and urged that Crick's sponsorship not be anonymous,
a typescript of the winning essay, and newspaper photographs of the winner, P.J. Lewis.
Box 1, Folder 26
Bronowski, Jacob
1964 - 1974
Box 1, Folder 31
Cambridge Humanists
1955 - 1974
Box 1, Folder 32
Cambridge Philosophical Society
1948 - 1954
Box 1, Folder 33
Cambridge Review
1966 - 1974
Box 1, Folder 34
Cambridge Sports Hall Appeal
1971 - 1972
Box 1, Folder 35
Cambridge University Jewish Society
1967
Box 1, Folder 37
Chen, Carton W.
1976 - 1977
General note
Contains typescript manuscript of Chen's "A Quadruplex DNA Model and its Biological Significance," an inscribed copy of a
revised version entitled, "Quadruplex Models for Palindromic DNA and Recombining DNA," correspondence, and a photocopy reprint
of Stewart McGavin's "Models of Specifically Paired Like (Homologous) Nucleic Acid Structures."
Box 2, Folder 1
Churchill College, Cambridge
1960 - 1976
General note
Contains letter dated October 9, 1961 from Winston Churchill questioning Crick's objection to the building of a chapel at
the college.
Box 2, Folder 2
Churchland, Patricia and Paul
1991 - 2004
Box 2, Folder 5
Colinvaux, Raoul
1948 - 1962
General note
Legal correspondent of
The Times (London) and school friend (Mill Hill).
Box 2, Folder 6
Collingwood, Edward
1947 - 1966
Box 2, Folder 8
Cornish, Elizabeth
1947 - 1977
Box 2, Folder 9
Cornish, Peter J.
1955 - 1989
Box 2, Folder 11
Cowan, Pauline
1948 - 1984
Box 2, Folder 12
Crick, Annie Elizabeth (mother)
General note
Contains last will and testament and newspaper death notice.
Box 2, Folder 13
Crick, Anthony Foster (brother)
1949 - 1959
Box 2, Folder 14
Crick, Anthony Foster - Estate
1963 - 1971
General note
Includes correspondence and deed of settlement.
Box 2, Folder 15
Crick, Anthony Frederick
1978
General note
Contains correspondence from doctor who inadvertently received correspondence meant for Crick's brother.
Box 2, Folder 16
Crick, Arthur (uncle)
1951 - 1955
Box 2, Folder 18
Crick, David (nephew)
1972 - 1973
Box 2, Folder 19
Crick, Francis
General note
Drafts of letters.
Box 2, Folder 20
Crick, Gabrielle (daughter)
1963 - 2004
Box 2, Folder 21
Crick, Harry
General note
Includes funeral program, obituary note and eulogy by Rev. Owen Butler.
Box 2, Folder 22
Crick, Jacqueline (daughter)
1967 - 2003
Box 2, Folder 23
Crick, Kindra (granddaughter)
2004
General note
Contains photograph of Francis and Kindra.
Box 2, Folder 24
Crick, Michael Francis Compton (son)
1951 - 1984
General note
Contains photocopies of letters from father to son explaining DNA double helix discovery prior to its publication in
Nature.
Box 3, Folder 3
Crick, Walter Drawbridge (grandfather) (1857-1903)
General note
Obituary note.
Box 3, Folder 6
Crosfield, John F.
1994 - 1997
Box 3, Folder 10
De Sanctis, Rodolfo
1965 - 1973
Box 3, Folder 13
Dickins, Winifred (paternal aunt)
1949 - 1985
Box 3, Folder 14
Dodd, Ruth Doreen (first wife)
1959 - 1996
Box 3, Folder 15
Dougall, Bob
1948 - 1973
General note
BBC radio and television reporter.
Box 3, Folder 16
January, Douglas L.
1952 - 1959
General note
Cambridge real estate agent for the purchase and sale of the Portugal Place residence and regarding land at Barton Road. [See
also Residence file in Series 6 SUBJECT FILES].
Box 3, Folder 18
Duncan, Ronald
1968 - 1978
General note
Contains manuscript of poem entitled, "Man (Chapter 2)," dedicated to Francis Crick. Includes correspondence with Miranda
Weston-Smith, Duncan's collaborator and editor of Duncan's letters and an annotated typescript of Crick's contribution to
The Encyclopedia of Ignorance entitled, "Developmental Biology."
Box 3, Folder 21
Eckhart, Walter
ca. 1970s
General note
Contains photocopies of reprints of Harumi Kasamatsu, Donald L. Robertson and Jerome Vinogard on mitochondrial DNA.
Box 3, Folder 26
Eshag, Eprime
1956 - 1998
Box 3, Folder 28
Faber and Faber, Ltd.
1960
Box 3, Folder 32
Few and Kester, Solicitors
1959
Box 3, Folder 33
Finbow, Pauline
1968 - 2003
Box 3, Folder 34
First Thursday Club
1989 - 2004
General note
Contains correspondence regarding dinner and discussion group of which Crick was a founding member along with S. Lakoff, L.
Orgel, E. Schneour and C. Thomas. [See also Charles A. Thomas correspondence.]
Box 3, Folder 35
Carlo Erba Fondazione
1974 - 1976
Box 3, Folder 36
Fost, Harold and family
1988 - 2002
Box 3, Folder 37
Fouracre, Ronald
1947 - 1973
General note
[See also
DNA Story under Series 7 - FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS.]
Box 3, Folder 39
Fraser of Lonsdale, Lord
1971 - 1973
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
Gaynor, Christopher
1976 - 1977
General note
Contains photocopy of musical score entitled, "Ancestors" with inscription to Crick, dated 1977. Includes photocopy of a song
entitled, "Ear-Songs" also inscribed to Crick, dated 1976.
Box 3, Folder 47
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
1950 - 1976
Box 4, Folder 4
Green, Alfred Rozelaar
2002
Box 4, Folder 7
Guppy, Shusha
1967 - 1969
General note
Contains program of the Molecule Club's performance of "Why What Now" performed at the Mermaid Theatre, ca. 1968. The Club's
aim was to stage performances "to awaken the interest of children" to science.
Box 4, Folder 8
Gutfreund, Herbert
1951 - 1989
Box 4, Folder 10
Haitinger, Anne Marie
1956 - 1958
General note
"Former au pair girl to the Crick family in Cambridge, probably 1955-1956" [supplied by Robert Olby].
Box 4, Folder 12
Hamilton, Leonard D.
1967 - 1972
Box 4, Folder 14
Henderson, Judith
1966 - 1967
Box 4, Folder 15
Hendler, Sheldon Saul
1988
Box 4, Folder 16
Hensman, Jackson, and Chamberlain
1949
Box 4, Folder 19
Hollander, John
1968
General note
Contains reprint of poem entitled "Five Shaped Poems," a signed and autographed typescript of "Midwinter Leaves," and "A Shape
of Life" inscribed "for Francis Crick."
Box 4, Folder 20
Houser, John
1998 - 2000
General note
American painter and sculptor who sculpted bust of Crick.
Box 4, Folder 21
Hughes, Arthur and Shirley
1949 - 1952
Box 4, Folder 25
Huxley, Hugh
2000 - 2001
General note
Contains photocopy of newspaper article about the sale of Crick papers from the
Daily Telegraph dated December 6, 2001.
Box 4, Folder 27
Institut Pasteur
1958
General note
Contains program listing Crick as a presenter on "Relations entre prophage et chromosome bacterien. Transduction." In French.
Box 4, Folder 28
International Committee for the Liberation of Dr. M. Stern
Box 4, Folder 30
JBS Associates Limited
1974
Box 4, Folder 31
Jagannathan, Suchitra
1987 - 1988
Box 4, Folder 34
Jukes, Thomas H.
1971 - 1996
Box 4, Folder 35
Jumsai, Sumet
1985 - 2000
Box 4, Folder 38
Karstens, Renee
1960 - 1963
General note
"French au pair for the Cricks in Cambridge." [supplied by Odile Crick].
Box 4, Folder 39
Kendrew, John
1951 - 1977
Box 4, Folder 41
Khorana, Har Gobind
1989 - 1995
Box 4, Folder 42
Kings College, Cambridge
1961 - 1974
Box 4, Folder 43
Kingscote-Billinge, L.
1974
Box 4, Folder 45
Kirsti-Simomsuuri, Kiti
1981 - 2004
Box 4, Folder 46
Klima, Ed and Ursula Bellugi-Klima
1982
Box 4, Folder 47
Klug, Aaron
1976 - 1977
General note
Includes correspondence, handwritten notes, memorandum, diagrams, and photographs regarding the structure of chromatin (a
complex of DNA and protein found inside the nuclei of eukaryotic cells.)
Box 5, Folder 1
Klug, Aaron
1977 - 2004
General note
Contains correspondence, photographs, memorandum, and reprint photocopies. Includes Klug's Heineken Prize Lecture dated April
28, 1979 and reprint of Klug's "The Discovery of the DNA Double Helix," published in the
Journal of Molecular Biology, January 2004, with Crick's typescript comments.
Box 5, Folder 3-10
Kreisel, Georg
1947 - 1994
Box 6, Folder 1-7
Kreisel, Georg
1995 - 2003, undated
Box 6, Folder 9
La Jolla Country Day School
1982 - 1983
General note
Contains photocopy of newspaper article regarding Crick's appearance at the school.
Box 6, Folder 11
Lappi, Darlene and Doug
1984 - 1995
Box 6, Folder 12
Lawrence, Peter and Birgitta Haraldson
1985 - 1995
Box 6, Folder 13
Leicester Secular Society
1972 - 1973
Box 6, Folder 15
Levitt, Michael
1977
General note
Contains correspondence regarding Levitt's computational work on the structure of DNA including graphs and tables.
Box 6, Folder 18
Logothetis, Nikos and Yanna
ca. 1990s
Box 7, Folder 2
Luskin, Marla B.
1986 - 1999
Box 7, Folder 6
Marr, David
1978 - 1979
General note
Contains handwritten and carbon copy typescripts of Crick replies.
Box 7, Folder 8
Marris, Robin
1991 - 1994
Box 7, Folder 9
Maskell, Jennifer
1968 - 1970
General note
Former secretary at MRC Laboratory, Cambridge [supplied by Odile Crick].
Box 7, Folder 12
Contains "Dream Table"
1965
Box 7, Folder 13
Contains a poem entitled "The Surge," a bound book signed for Francis Crick
1969
Box 7, Folder 14
Includes a photocopy of the poem "Xes" with the first page inscribed to Crick
1970 - 1971
Box 7, Folder 15
Contains correspondence regarding a symposium on McClure, a handwritten and typewritten paper by Crick on McClure entitled,
"The Poetry of Michael McClure: A Scientist's View" and a copy of
Margins which contains the symposium papers
1974
Box 7, Folder 16
Includes photocopy of the poem "We"
undated
Box 7, Folder 17
Includes broadside poem entitled, "Oh Accident"
undated
Box 7, Folder 18
Includes photocopy of the poem "Listen, Lawrence, It's Time to Re-Figure"
undated
Box 7, Folder 19
Contains typescript of "Antechamber" inscribed to Francis Crick
1978 - 2005
Box 7, Folder 20
Contains pamphlet poem entitled, "Letter"
1978
Box 7, Folder 21
Contains correspondence and announcements of poetry readings
1979 - 1980
Box 7, Folder 22
Contains broadside poem entitled, "Little Ode"
1980
Box 7, Folder 23
Contains printed copy of
Poetry Flash, No. 94, featuring a photograph of Gregory Corso and Michael McClure from the Bandaged Poet Series
1981
Box 7, Folder 24
Contains photocopy of broadside entitled, "Miracle or Crime: The Whole Man Swears, 'I'm here and Born of Fear that Wears the
Teeth of Bravery'"
1986 - 1987
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
Oversized material. Contains broadside entitled, "Berkeley Song" with inscription to Francis and Odile Crick
1988
Box 7, Folder 26
Contains a flyer announcement of a McClure and Ray Manzarek poetry reading
undated
Box 7, Folder 27
Contains pamphlet poem entitled, "Rain Haiku" with an additional handwritten poem and McClure's signature
1992
Box 7, Folder 28
Contains announcement of reading at La Jolla Cultural Society
2000
Box 7, Folder 29
Contains correspondence and copy of poem entitled, "Double Moire: for Francis Crick," and broadside of poem, "November Hillside"
2003 - 2005
Oversize MC-006-02
Oversized materials. Contains broadside of "Peyote Poem," photocopy of article "Moments Freed from Time," published in
Perspectives (1998), a poetry reading announcement for "Polymorphous Pirates" at the Magic Theatre in Berkeley, and a broadside poem entitled,
"A Canon for Francis Crick," authored and signed by Michael C. Ford
1958 - 1972
Box 7, Folder 30
McQuillen, Kenneth
1962 - 1974
Box 7, Folder 32
Medical Research Council
1951 - 1995
Box 7, Folder 34
Mitchison, Graeme
2003 - 2004
General note
Contains article reprint entitled, "Theory in Biology: Happy days here again?" for
Current Biology by Mitchison, as well as Crick's reply.
Box 7, Folder 35
Mitchison, Murdoch
1950 - 1953
Box 7, Folder 38
Morgan, Howard
1980 - 1999
General note
Contains correspondence regarding Morgan's portrait of Crick, a gallery exhibition program, invitations, and brochures.
Box 8, Folder 4
National Human Genome Research Institute
2003
General note
Contains email and agendas regarding Crick's involvement in "Scientific Symposium: From Double Helix to Human Sequence - and
Beyond," and "Bringing the Genome to You."
Box 8, Folder 5
Neville, Helen
1988 - 1993
Box 8, Folder 6
Nobel Prize Committees. Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
1967
Box 8, Folder 7
Noll, Christopher J.
1972
Box 8, Folder 9
Nottingham and Notts Humanist Group
1967
Box 8, Folder 11
Olby, Robert
1970 - 2003
General note
Contains photocopy of a June 23, 1970 letter from Linus Pauling commenting on facts in an Olby article draft and two photographic
prints of the "198A repeat" by Zalin and Spei [?].
Box 8, Folder 14
Orgel, Leslie
1963 - 1971
Box 8, Folder 17
Oster, Gerald
1986 - 1992
Box 8, Folder 18
O'Sullivan, Valerie
1991 - 1998
Box 8, Folder 22
Pauling, Linus
1954 - 1961
Box 8, Folder 23
Pauling, Peter
1993 - 2000
Box 8, Folder 24
Perham, Richard
1967 - 1974
Box 8, Folder 25
Perutz, Max and family
1958 - 2003
General note
Contains reprint from the
New Yorker dated October 7, 1993 of Perutz' review of book on Leo Szilard and correspondence from Perutz' daughter, Vivien, and son,
Robin, after his death.
Box 8, Folder 26
Petitto, Laura
1987 - 1990
Box 8, Folder 29
Playboy Magazine
1968 - 1971
Box 8, Folder 31
Pohl, William
1977 - 1981
Box 8, Folder 33
Pontecorvo, G.
1957 - 1971
Box 8, Folder 40
Raacke, I.D.
1977
General note
Contains photocopied typescript entitled, "Protein Hormones and the Eukaryotic Genome," and a reprint of "The Die is Cast:
I am Going Home: The Appointment of Herbert McLean Evans as Head of Anatomy at Berkeley."
Box 8, Folder 41
RELEASE
1972
General note
Cannabis law reform organization.
Box 8, Folder 43
Ridley, Matt and Anya
1994 - 2002
General note
Crick biographer.
Box 8, Folder 44
Rinaldini, Luis M.
1950 - 1999
Box 9, Folder 1
Roller-Massar, Ann
1957 - 1974
Box 9, Folder 2
Rosenblith, Walter
1960 - 1971
Box 9, Folder 3
Roskies, Adina
1989 - 1995
Box 9, Folder 5
Royal Society
1972 - 1978
Box 9, Folder 7
Saint Phalle, Niki de
1997 - 2001
Box 9, Folder 8
Salk, Jonas
1964
General note
Contains telegram advising Crick of Leo Szilard's death.
Box 9, Folder 9
Sanderson, Ruth and Barbara
1947 - 1948
Box 9, Folder 10
Savidis, George
1951 - 1954
Box 9, Folder 13
Sejnowski, Beatrice and Terry
1990
General note
Includes manuscript draft prayer for wedding service by Crick.
Box 9, Folder 16
Siegelmann, Hava
1996 - 2000
Box 9, Folder 17-18
Simonsuuri, Kirsti
1973 - 2003
Box 9, Folder 19
Sirtori, Carlo
1986 - 1991
Box 9, Folder 20
Snow, Charles P. (Lord and Lady)
1959 - 1973
General note
Contains annotated carbon copy typescript of Snow's "The Two Cultures: Another Look," dated August 15, 1963 and the 1959 reprint
of "The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution."
Box 9, Folder 22
Society for Visiting Scientists
1948 - 1949
Box 9, Folder 23
Southwell, Corinna Clover Felicity
1959
Box 9, Folder 24
Speed, Marie-Therese (Odile's mother)
1949 - 1951
Box 9, Folder 25
Speed, Philippe and Marguerite (Odile's brother)
1993
Box 9, Folder 26
St. Catharine's Cumberland Lodge
1961 - 1967
Box 9, Folder 27
Starr, Chuck M.
1971 - 1972
Box 9, Folder 28
Stein, Jean
1994
General note
Editor of
Grand Street, poetry magazine founded in 1981 by Ben Sonnenberg and ceased publication in 2004.
Box 9, Folder 29
Steiner, Ursula and Ted
1974
Box 9, Folder 30
Stent, Gunther Siegmund
1959 - 1998
Box 9, Folder 32
Stoker, Michael G.P.
1971
Box 10, Folder 1
Stranton, Betty
1978 - 1990
Box 10, Folder 6
Thomas, Charles A.
1985 - 1995
General note
[See also First Thursday Club correspondence].
Box 10, Folder 8
Thornton, Helene
1987 - 1994
General note
Contains photographs of her artwork.
Box 10, Folder 9
The Times
1973 - 1976
General note
Contains correspondence from various journalists and article photocopies in regard to a future obituary of Maurice Wilkins
for which Crick comments were solicited.
Box 10, Folder 13
Tonegawa, Mayumi Yoshinari
1995 - 1996
Box 10, Folder 14
Trudgian, Jenny
1967 - 1972
Box 10, Folder 18
Union Society, Cambridge
1967 - 1975
Box 10, Folder 19
University College London
1949 - 1968
Box 10, Folder 20
University of Cambridge
1953 - 1976
Box 10, Folder 21
University of Leicester
1972
Box 10, Folder 25
Vick, Elizabeth
1957 - 1975
Box 10, Folder 27
Vokes, Rachel
1992 - 1994
Box 10, Folder 32
Watson, James D.
1953 - 2003
General note
Includes typescript photocopy of nominations of Seymour Benzer, Sidney Brenner, and Charles Yanofsky for the Nobel Prize written
by Watson and a March 12, 1970 typescript nominating Sydney Brenner for the Gregor Mendel Medal, possibly written by Crick.
Box 10, Folder 33
Webb, Sarah Mae
1971 - 1972
Box 10, Folder 35
Wilkins and Darking, Ltd.
1968
Box 10, Folder 36
Wilkins, Ethel M. (aunt)
1949 - 1971
Box 10, Folder 38
Wilkins, Maurice H.F.
1954 - 2004
Box 10, Folder 39
Wilkins, Michael
1951 - 1956
Box 10, Folder 40
Wilkins, Philip (cousin)
1969
Box 10, Folder 43
Williams, Ronald
1971 - 1994
Box 10, Folder 45
Wittet, Peggy
1948 - 1994
Box 10, Folder 50
Wulff, Erich
1964
General note
Contains correspondence from doctor who was a member of West German medical mission in Vietnam.
Box 10, Folder 53
Yoon, Myong G.
1977
General note
Includes curriculum vitae and research plans.
Box 11, Folder 3
Zhang, Shuguang
2003 - 2004
Box 11, Folder 23
Condolence letter list
2004
General note
Contains list used by Odile Crick to respond to condolences.
Box 11, Folder 24
A - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences; John Allman, California Institute of
Technology neuroscientist; Gustaf Arrhenius, Scripps Institution of Oceanography oceanographer; and Professor Jan Atkinson,
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London.
Box 11, Folder 25
B - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Horace Barlow, British visual neuroscientist; Seymour Benzer, neuroscientist, California Institute
of Technology; May Brenner (wife of longtime friend and scientific collaborator, Sydney Brenner); and Mark Bretscher, cell
biologist, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.
Box 11, Folder 26
C - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Melvin Cohn, Salk Institute founding and resident Fellow; Edythe Crosfield (widow of John); and
John Cairns, physician, molecular biologist and director of the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory (1963 - 1968).
Box 11, Folder 27
D - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Derek Denton, physiologist, educator and research director of the Howard Florey Institute of
Experimental Physiology and Medicine; Paul Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Harvard; and William F. Dove, George
Streisinger Professor of Experimental Biology, University of Wisconsin, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research.
Box 11, Folder 28
E - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Gerald Edelman, 1972 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the immune system.
Box 11, Folder 29
F - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from United States Senator Diane Feinstein of California.
Box 11, Folder 30
G - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from the Gairdner Foundation; Francoise Gilot-Salk; Richard Gregory, Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology
at the University of Bristol; and Roger Guillemin, 1977 Nobel Prize for Medicine for discoveries concerning hormone peptide
production in the brain.
Box 11, Folder 31
H - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Dr. Leonard D. Hamilton; Robert Haselkorn, Chemistry, University of Chicago; neuroscientist Stephen
Heineman; Mahlon Hoagland, molecular biologist and co-discoverer of transfer RNA; Robin Holliday, discoverer of the RNA-related
Holliday Junction; David H. Hubel, 1981 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the visual system; and Hugh Huxley, British
biologist and humanist.
Box 11, Folder 32
I - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Vernon M. Ingram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known as the "father of molecular medicine."
Box 11, Folder 33
J - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Francois Jacob, 1965 Nobel Prize for discoveries of the genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis;
and Sumet Jumsai, Thai architect and author. Includes photocopies of photographs of Crick and film director Roman Polanski
at a dinner party in Thailand, ca. 1981.
Box 11, Folder 34
K - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Dr. Harvey J. Karten; Jerome Kohlberg, Chairman, Salk Institute; Arthur Kornberg, 1959 Nobel
Prize for discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of DNA and RNA; Crick's longtime friend and mathematician
Georg Kreisel; and Samuel Krimm, Department of Physics and Biophysics, University of Michigan.
Box 11, Folder 35
L - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Doug Lappi, University of California, San Diego biologist; Peter A. Lawrence, Medical Research
Council, Cambridge; E.S. Lennox, Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research; and Richard Lerner, President, Scripps Research Institute.
Box 12, Folder 1
M - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from author Brenda Maddox; Dr. Nina V. and Dominic Michaelis; mathematician Graeme Mitchison with
typescript of article, "Francis Crick (1916-2004): Recollections by Graeme Mitchison," published in the JOURNAL OF GENETICS,
2005; and artist Howard J. Morgan.
Box 12, Folder 2
N - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Peter M. Narins, University of California, Los Angeles Auditory Science Lab; and psychoanalyst
Dr. Maryam Razavi and husband Howard Newman.
Box 12, Folder 3
O - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from George A. Ojemann, Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine;
and Steven B. Oppenheimer, Center for Cancer and Experimental Biology, California State University, Northridge.
Box 12, Folder 4
P - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Richard Perham, Master, St. John's College, Cambridge; Robin and Vivien Perutz, son and daughter
of Max Perutz; and Salk Institute fellow, Tony Hunter, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory.
Box 12, Folder 5
R - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from ecological artist, Aviva Rahmani; Dr. Joe W. Ramsdell, Professor of Medicine, University of California,
San Diego School of Medicine and Crick personal physician; Matt Ridley, Crick biographer; Professor Judy Rosenblith (widow
of Massachusetts Institute of Technology provost and brain researcher Walter A. Rosenblith); and Dr. Adina Roskies, Dartmouth
neurophilosopher.
Box 12, Folder 6
S - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from mathematician and photographer Gunter Sachs; author and neurologist Oliver Sacks; Jonathan and
Peter Salk (sons of Jonas); brain theorist Gordon Shaw; Elie A. Shneour, President, Biosystems Research Institute; and Salk
Institute senior member Larry Swanson, and wife, Neely, romance language scholar and translator.
Box 12, Folder 7
T - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Dr. Charles A. Thomas, Jr., Mayo Clinic; Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini, Institute of Cell Biology,
National Research Council of Italy; and artist Millicent Tomkins.
Box 12, Folder 9
W - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from Geoffrey M. Wahl, Salk Institute's Gene Expression Laboratory with Dr. Barbara Parker, Professor
of Clinical Medicine, Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego; and author Gina Wright.
Box 12, Folder 10
Z - Miscellaneous
General note
Contains correspondence from neurobiologist Semir Zeki, University College, London; and Shuguang Zhang, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Center of Biomedical Engineering.
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 2) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS: Early student correspondence with Cambridge University regarding Crick's acceptance into
a Ph.D. program, passports (1945 - 2008), award certificates and membership cards, Oxford pince-nez style eyeglasses and a
wallet, announcements of Crick lectures and symposia participation, visa applications, and newspaper clippings about Crick.
Personally identifiable materials in Box 13 have been restricted according to state and federal law.
Box 12, Folder 11
80th Birthday Celebration
1996
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
Announcement, Brain Sciences
1983
General note
Oversized material. Printed announcement of Crick lecture entitled, "Thinking About the Brain" as part of the Distinguished
Lecture Series in the Brain Sciences offered by Whitaker College of Health Sciences, Technology and Management, held at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on September 22, 1983.
Announcements and invitations
Box 12, Folder 12
1948 - 1989. Contains announcement for a Cambridge speech Crick gave in the 1950s (prior to receiving his Ph.D.) and a memorial
program for Alfred Valentine Speed (Odile Crick's father)
Box 12, Folder 13
1990 - 2003. Contains memorial program for Jonas Salk
Box 12, Folder 14
Cambridge College
1948 - 1952
General note
Contains applications, library card, and Ph.D. program and thesis acceptance. [See also C - Miscellaneous in CORRESPONDENCE
(Series 1A) regarding various Cambridge-related organizations].
Box 12, Folder 15
Certificates and identity, admission and membership cards
1939 - 1974
Box 12, Folder 16
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1963
General note
Contains correspondence regarding Prime Minister Harold MacMillan's offer to submit Crick's name for appointment and Crick's
handwritten draft of his refusal.
Box 12, Folder 17
Curriculum vitae and publication list
Box 12, Folder 18
Driving license, Great Britain
1973 - 1976
Box 12, Folder 19
Eyeglasses - Oxford pince-nez style with case
undated
Institut de France, Academie des Sciences
1962
Box 12, Folder 20
Correspondence regarding Crick's receipt of the Charles Leopold Mayer prize. In French
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
Contains Charles Leopold Mayer prize certificate evidencing Crick's receipt of the Mayer prize. In French
Box 12, Folder 21
Memorial program
2004
General note
Includes a list of speakers and a short biography of Crick. Program was distributed at the Salk Institute memorial held on
August 3, 2004.
Box 12, Folder 22
Newspaper clippings - Contains articles about Crick and his work
Oversize MC-006-01
Newspaper clippings - Contains articles about Crick and his work
Box 13, Folder 1
Order of Merit Award (Buckingham Palace)
1991 - 2003
General note
Contains correspondence regarding Crick's acceptance and participation in the prestigious British Order of Merit (O.M.) recognizing
achievement in the arts, sciences and literature.
Box 13, Folder 2
1945 - 1955. Includes photocopy of laid-in
New York Times article regarding DNA discovery
General note
Includes photocopy of laid-in newspaper article regarding DNA discovery from the NEW YORK TIMES, dated June 13, 1953.
Box 13, Folder 3
1953 - 1963. Includes health vaccination certificate booklet
Box 13, Folder 8
Passport, European Union
1998 - 2008
Box 13, Folder 9
Questions in the Air
1956
General note
Program for a radio broadcast.
Box 13, Folder 10
Salk Institute
1975 - 1981
General note
Correspondence regarding decision to accept Kieckhefer Professorship, contract negotiations, press releases, resignation from
the MRC and handwritten notes. Includes official offer to extend contract for additional three years dated January 21, 1981.
Box 13, Folder 11
Salk Institute Fellowship
1961 - 1966
General note
Contains correspondence, expense notes, air tickets and honorarium information.
Box 13, Folder 12
Social Security card and brochure
1954
General note
Contains original card, government brochure and 1976 application completed upon move to the United States.
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 13, Folder 13
United States visa and alien registration material
1976
General note
Contains photocopies of applications, correspondence with the United States Embassy in London, handwritten notes and an application
for a social security card for Odile. Also includes telex from Crick stating he had lived continuously in the United States
since September 10, 1976.
Box 13, Folder 14
University of California, Berkeley
1959
General note
Contains employment form for Crick's visit to the virus laboratory.
Box 13, Folder 16
Wedding announcement
1949
General note
Contains printed invitation from Odile's parents to Francis Crick, the "bridegroom."
APPOINTMENT BOOKS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 3) APPOINTMENT BOOKS: Forty-nine small pocket-sized appointment books with names, addresses, telephone numbers, appointment
notations, miscellaneous laid-in notes, receipts and mailing paraphernalia.
Box 13, Folder 17
Pages removed from appointment books due to restriction of social security numbers of Crick and others
1981 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 14, Folder 1
1946 - Bound notebook with handwritten notes
Box 14, Folder 2
1949 - Loose pages with handwritten notes
Box 14, Folder 3
1952-1953 - Bound notebook with handwritten notes
Box 14, Folder 4
1954-1955 - Bound notebook with handwritten notes
Box 14, Folder 5
1955-1956 - Bound notebook with handwritten notes
Box 14, Folder 6
1956-1957 - Bound notebook with handwritten notes and laid-in receipt
Box 14, Folder 7
Appointment Book
1957 - 1958
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 8
Appointment Book
1959
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 9
Appointment Book
1959 - 1960
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 10
Appointment Book
1960 - 1961
General note
Copy 1. Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 11
Appointment Book
1960 - 1961
General note
Copy 2. Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes and laid-in receipts.
Box 14, Folder 12
Appointment Book
1961 - 1962
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes. Includes laid-in card and note with addresses.
Box 14, Folder 13
Appointment Book
1962 - 1963
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 14
Appointment Book
1963 - 1964
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 15
Appointment Book
1964 - 1965
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 16
Appointment Book
1965 - 1966
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 17
Appointment Book
1966 - 1967
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 18
Appointment Book
1967 - 1968
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 19
Appointment Book
1972 - 1973
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 20
Appointment Book
1973 - 1974
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 21
Appointment Book
1974 - 1975
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 22
Appointment Book
1975 - 1976
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 23
Appointment Book
1979
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 24
Appointment Book
1980
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 14, Folder 25
Appointment Book
1981
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes and laid-in note.
Box 14, Folder 26
Appointment Book
1982
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes and laid-in note.
Box 14, Folder 27
Appointment Book
1983
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes and laid-in notes.
Box 14, Folder 28
Appointment Book
1984
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes for July through December only.
Box 14, Folder 29
Appointment Book
1985
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes and laid-in note.
Box 14, Folder 30
Appointment Book
1986
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes. Includes laid-in contact information, lists, stamps and mailing paraphernalia.
Box 14, Folder 31
Appointment Book
1987
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes and laid-in notes and receipt.
Box 14, Folder 32
Appointment Book
1988
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten and laid-in notes.
Box 14, Folder 33
Appointment Book
1989
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 15, Folder 1
Appointment Book
1990
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten and laid-in notes.
Box 15, Folder 2
Appointment Book
1991
General note
Copy 1. Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes and laid-in ticket stub.
Box 15, Folder 3
Appointment Book
1991
General note
Copy 2. Contains bound notebook with handwritten and laid-in notes.
Box 15, Folder 4
Appointment Book
1992
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes. Includes laid-in business card and handwritten notes.
Box 15, Folder 5
Appointment Book
1993
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes. Includes laid-in business cards.
Box 15, Folder 6
Appointment Book
1994
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten and laid-in notes.
Box 15, Folder 7
Appointment Book
1995
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten and laid-in notes.
Box 15, Folder 8
Appointment Book
1996
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten and laid-in notes.
Box 15, Folder 9
Appointment Book
1997
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten and laid-in notes.
Box 15, Folder 10
Appointment Book
1998
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 15, Folder 11
Appointment Book
1999
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten and laid-in notes.
Box 15, Folder 12
Appointment Book
2000
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 15, Folder 13
Appointment Book
2001
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 15, Folder 14
Appointment Book
2002
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 15, Folder 15
Appointment Book
2003
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
Box 15, Folder 16
Appointment Book
2004
General note
Contains bound notebook with handwritten notes.
NOTEBOOKS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 4: NOTEBOOKS: A small collection of pocket-sized notebooks with jottings, addresses and notes.
Box 16, Folder 1
Notebook
1945 - 1946
General note
Contains a bound notebook with handwritten notes, including a list of Russian words, addresses, poem drafts, and notes on
a lecture.
Box 16, Folder 2
Notebook
1953 - 1955
General note
Contains three pages with addresses and loose pages with handwritten notes mentioning RNA and DNA and refers to published
works of various scientists.
Box 16, Folder 3
Notebook
1956 - 1958
General note
Contains loose pages with handwritten notes on DNA and RNA.
Box 16, Folder 5
Weekly Organizer
1948
General note
May - November.
Box 16, Folder 6
Weekly Organizer
1969 - 1971
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 5) PHOTOGRAPHS: Images of Francis and Odile Crick, studio portrait photographs of Francis' mother, father and uncle,
and group photographs with family and friends. Also included is a photograph of the RNA Tie Club, an informal group founded
in 1954 by George Gamow. The club included Watson and Crick among its earliest members who engaged in informal conversation
about the mystery of RNA. The series also includes a print of one of the now famous A.C. Barrington Brown photographs of Watson
and Crick in 1953 with their double helix model.
Box 16, Folder 7
Bernal, John Desmond (J.D.)
Box 16, Folder 8
Crick, Anne Elizabeth (née Wilkins) (mother)
1938
Box 16, Folder 9
Crick, Arthur (paternal uncle)
Box 16, Folder 10
Crick, Francis
General note
ca. 1935-1937. At Trelawn Park, Mill Hill, London.
Box 16, Folder 11
Crick, Francis
1953
General note
With James Watson and DNA double helix model. Photograph by A. C. Barrington Brown.
Box 16, Folder 12
Crick, Francis
1986
General note
With Linus Pauling at the Caltech celebration of Pauling's 85th birthday.
Box 16, Folder 13
Crick, Francis
1955
General note
With members of the RNA Tie Club including Alex Rich, Leslie Orgel and Jim Watson.
Box 16, Folder 14
Crick, Francis
General note
ca. 1960s. At home of John Mosely and with Elizabeth Mosley.
Box 16, Folder 15
Crick, Francis
1977
General note
With miscellaneous unidentified groups, one at the Salk Institute.
Box 16, Folder 16
Crick, Francis
General note
ca. 1990s. With Odile at a wedding party.
Box 16, Folder 17
Crick, Francis
General note
Undated. Contains photographs and slides of Crick.
Box 16, Folder 18
Crick, Harry (father)
General note
Studio portrait of Crick's father as a young man.
Box 16, Folder 19
Crick, Odile (née Speed) (wife)
General note
ca. 1944-1945. Wearing a Women's Royal Naval Service (WREN) uniform.
Box 16, Folder 21
Miscellaneous photographs
1939
General note
Contains photographs of Crick's laboratory at University College London.
Box 16, Folder 22
Perutz, Max and Sydney Brenner
1979
General note
Upon Perutz's (right) handing over the Medical Research Council (MRC) laboratory directorship to Brenner.
Box 16, Folder 23
Watson, James D.
1954
General note
Photographic print originally published in VOGUE magazine's August issue.
Box 16, Folder 24
Wilkins, Maurice H.F
General note
ca. 1955. With scientific apparatus.
Box 16, Folder 25
Unidentified friends and family members
SUBJECT FILES
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 6) SUBJECT FILES: Files that document property, projects and vacations. The files document Crick's decision to come
to the Salk Institute; residence property transactions in both the United Kingdom and the United States; family vacations
and speaking tours; Crick's participation as director, scientific advisory board member and stock option owner of SIBIA Neurosciences,
Inc., a corporation established in 1981 by the Salk Institute. Also included are collected memorabilia such as invitations
to attend events and Crick theme parties, menus and wine lists, newspaper clippings and magazine articles of interest to Crick,
receipts, as well as advertisements in which Crick was a participant, poems, mathematical examinations, and theatrical and
other event programs.
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
Advertisement
General note
ca. 1986. Oversized printed advertisement captioned, "Look What 350 Days of Sunshine Has Done to Our Brains" featuring Crick
and others, to promote the City of San Diego.
Box 16, Folder 26
Advertisement
1988
General note
Glossy brochure featuring Crick endorsing the Weck all-disposable hemoclip applier. In Japanese.
Box 16, Folder 27
Brochures
1980 - 1982
General note
Miscellaneous scientific and charitable.
Box 16, Folder 28
Cavendish Laboratory brochure
1953
Box 16, Folder 29
French Polynesia - Vacation
1984
General note
Contains receipts and brochures.
Box 16, Folder 30
Hot Air Balloon
1992
General note
Contains correspondence and certificate commemorating March 8 flight.
Box 16, Folder 31
International Summer School on Molecular and Cell Biology
1972 - 1974
General note
Contains information regarding Crick's teaching at this school in Spetsai, Greece.
Box 17, Folder 1
Invitations
1970 - 1989
General note
Contains formal and informal invitations to both private and public events.
Box 17, Folder 2
Invitations to Crick parties in Cambridge
General note
ca. 1960s-1970s. Includes invitations to a "South Seas Party" and to a "Flower Party."
Box 17, Folder 3
Japan - India Speaking Tour
1981
General note
Contains itineraries, maps, receipts and correspondence regarding trip that included Thailand and Hong Kong.
Box 17, Folder 4
Kiwi (yacht)
1963 - 1967
General note
Materials related to the purchase of the yacht.
Box 17, Folder 5
Knowles Gallery
1985
General note
Contains postcards and business card regarding exhibition of Odile Crick's watercolor and pastel paintings.
Box 17, Folder 6
"Life and Work of Linus Pauling (1901 - 1994): A Discourse on the Art of Biography"
1995
General note
Program. Includes biography of Crick as keynote speaker and recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award presented by
Oregon State University.
Box 17, Folder 7
London - Geneva - Zurich - Paris - Vacation
1981
General note
Contains itineraries, receipts and correspondence.
Box 17, Folder 9
Menus
1958 - 1989
General note
Includes "40th Anniversary of the Double Helix" menu incorporating Crick residence names into dish titles and a menu from
the "Watson and Crick Cafe" dated September 11-15, 1989.
Box 17, Folder 10
Miscellaneous materials
1948 - 2003
General note
Part 1. Contains reprints, receipts, a Bedales School prospectus (1948), brochures and advertisements.
Box 17, Folder 11
Miscellaneous materials
1948 - 2003
General note
Part 2. Contains photocopy of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" from which Crick garnered his book title, WHAT MAD PURSUIT, photocopies
and printed articles about sound equipment by recording engineer John Mosely, and a reprint of Allama Mashrigi's pamphlet
entitled, "The Human Problem," ca. 1955.
Box 17, Folder 12
Morocco - Vacation
1960 - 1961
Box 17, Folder 13
Morocco - Vacation
1974 - 1975
Box 18, Folder 1
Newspaper clippings
1980
General note
Miscellaneous articles regarding helixes and Nobel prize winners.
Box 18, Folder 2
Nobel Prize Dinner
1962
General note
Mimeograph copy of the order of procession for the Nobel Festival Dinner.
Box 18, Folder 4
Pasadena Conference on the Structure of Proteins - List of participants
1953
General note
September 21-26.
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
Portrait
1995
General note
Oversized material. Pencil drawing of Crick as a patient by unknown artist.
Box 18, Folder 5
Portrait entitled, "Decoding Cannabis Changed my Life"
2001
General note
Pen and crayon portrait by Guillaume de Saint Phalle (relative of artist Niki de Saint Phalle) [supplied by Odile Crick].
Box 18, Folder 7
Programs
1950 - 1977
General note
Part 1. Contains miscellaneous programs for scientific and theatrical events.
Box 18, Folder 8
Programs
1978 - 1981
General note
Part 2. Contains miscellaneous programs for scientific and theatrical events.
Box 18, Folder 9
Programs
1982 - 1983
General note
Part 3. Contains miscellaneous programs for scientific and theatrical events.
Box 18, Folder 10
Programs
1984 - 1997
General note
Part 4. Also contains undated programs.
Box 18, Folder 12
Refusal cards
General note
ca. 1960s. Contains printed cards created by Crick as a joke to respond to the many requests he received. Includes cards sent
back to him with humorous additions to the list of activities Crick declined invitation to.
Box 18, Folder 13
Residence, Borrego Springs, California
General note
ca. 1990. Hand-drawn floor plan and correspondence with Andy Palleson, home construction contractor.
Box 18, Folder 14
Residence, Portugal Place, Cambridge
General note
ca. 1970s. Contains description of residence for purposes of sale by realtors January and Partners. Includes newspaper advertisement
with photograph of residence.
Box 19, Folder 1
SIBIA Neurosciences, Inc.
1996 - 1998
General note
Includes press releases, announcements and correspondence regarding Crick's participation on scientific advisory board and
as a director of corporation originally established by the Salk Institute in 1981. Also includes correspondence regarding
Crick's stock option ownership and SIBIA's initial public offering.
Box 19, Folder 2
SOMA
1967
General note
Contains drafts of advertisement, with handwritten annotations, advocating cannabis legal reform later published in THE TIMES
(London newspaper) on July 24, 1967.
Box 19, Folder 3
Thailand - India trip
1987
General note
Contains itineraries and brochures.
Box 19, Folder 6
Travel reimbursement and receipts
1980 - 1984
General note
Contains correspondence with Salk Institute, original receipts and handwritten notes.
FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 7) FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS: Files regarding Crick's 1970s involvement in the filming of two documentaries (one
for educational use with first year students, one for a lay audience) about DNA entitled,
DNA Story. The lay audience version was later shown in the United States, on a March 7, 1976 NOVA public television broadcast entitled,
The Race For The Double Helix with author Isaac Asimov as narrator. There were discussions of another unrealized film project entitled,
The Genetic Code. Additional files document Crick's participation in the making of and reactions to the 1987 BBC-produced drama
Life Story with Jeff Goldblum as Watson and Tim Pigott-Smith as Crick which was later marketed in the United States as
The Race For The Double Helix . Another project includes a Christopher Wood screenplay and correspondence featuring legal and financial discussions with
Laurence P. Bachmann regarding an unrealized film project entitled,
Double Helix .
Box 19, Folder 9
DNA STORY film project
1970 - 1974
General note
Part 1. Contains correspondence regarding production of two educational films, one for students and one for the public. Includes
correspondence with Ronald Foreacre of Rebel Productions Limited (1970-1971) and VSM Productions Limited which took over the
project in September, 1971.
Box 19, Folder 10
DNA STORY film project
1970 - 1974
General note
Part 2. Contains correspondence, handwritten notes on story outlines and typescript screenplay drafts.
Box 19, Folder 11
DNA STORY film project
1970 - 1974
General note
Part 3. Contains correspondence, reactions of test viewers, draft outlines, and discussions of an unrealized film project
entitled THE GENETIC CODE.
Box 19, Folder 12
DOUBLE HELIX film project
1981 - 1983
General note
Part 1. Contains correspondence with producer Laurence P. Backman of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co., Crick and Watson's theatrical
agent, Lee Rosenberg, James D. Watson, and attorneys.
Box 20, Folder 1
DOUBLE HELIX film project
1985
General note
Part 2. Contains correspondence and typescript screenplay by Christopher Wood based on the book by James D. Watson.
Box 20, Folder 2
LIFE STORY television project
1984 - 1987
General note
Part 1. Contains correspondence, audience reactions, advertisements, and reviews. This BBC made-for-TV film was later released
in the United States as "THE RACE FOR THE DOUBLE HELIX."
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
LIFE STORY television project
1987
General note
Part 2. Contains an oversized copy of the British Broadcasting Corporation's RADIO TIMES entitled, "Gene Geniuses: They're
brash, they're brilliant - and they're racing to unravel the secret of life."
WRITINGS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 8) WRITINGS: Drafts and outlines in preparation of lectures and papers dealing with various scientific subjects including
molecular biology, consciousness, neurobiology, the visual cortex, science and religion, and dream theories. Also included
are Crick’s tributes to his friend, Sydney Brenner, notes on Jacob Bronowski, and a proposal prepared at the end of World
War II regarding employing German scientists.
Box 20, Folder 3
Bronowski, Jacob
General note
ca. 1974. Crick's handwritten notes about Bronowski as a scientist and friend.
Box 20, Folder 4
"Cambridge and the Code"
2002
General note
Article in THE SCIENTIST Special Supplement to mark the 75th birthday of Sydney Brenner. Includes articles by Phillip Tobias,
Leslie Orgel, Paul Berg, Jonathan Karn, Jonathan Hodgkin, Y.H. (Chris) Tan, Roger Brent and Horace Freeland Judson.
Box 20, Folder 5
"Consciousness and Neuroscience"
2001
General note
Contains handwritten notes and typescript drafts in folder annotated "Prolegomenon to the Study of Consciousness."
Box 20, Folder 6
"An Information-processing Approach to Understanding the Visual Cortex"
1979 - 1980
General note
Part 1. With D.C. Marr and T. Poggio. Published in THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX, edited by E.O. Schmitt, F.G. Worden
and G.S. Denis, MIT Press Cambridge, MA, 505-533, 1980. Contains handwritten notes, photographs, and lecture notes entitled,
"Woods Hole Meeting" dated May 4, 1979.
Box 20, Folder 7
"An Information-processing Approach to Understanding the Visual Cortex"
1979 - 1980
General note
Part 2. With D.C. Marr and T. Poggio. Contains handwritten and photocopied notes and graphs.
Box 20, Folder 8
Notes on biocomputing
1981
General note
Contains handwritten notes and Salk VAX/VMS Newsletter, Vol. 1.81, No. 1.
Box 20, Folder 9
Notes on molecular biology
1970
General note
Handwritten notes including notes annotated "plan for book," dated August 24.
Box 20, Folder 10
Notes on neurobiology
1981
General note
Contains handwritten notes and typescript annotated drafts regarding neural nets.
Box 20, Folder 11
Notes on science and religion
General note
ca. 1970s. Contains miscellaneous handwritten notes on existence of God, efficacy of prayer, what science has revealed, character
outlines, and notes on modern culture.
Box 20, Folder 12
"Proposal to employ German Technicians recruited from the British zone in postwar Berlin"
Box 20, Folder 13
Rem Sleep Theory
1982
General note
Part 1. Contains handwritten notes, correspondence with Graeme Mitchinson, and handwritten outline of letter to William Dement,
Stanford University sleep researcher.
Box 20, Folder 14
Rem Sleep Theory
1982
General note
Part 2. Contains correspondence, referee comments and responses, editorial comment from NATURE editors, and handwritten and
printed research notes regarding "The Function of Dream Sleep," by Francis Crick and Graeme Mitchinson, published in NATURE,
July, 1983,
Box 20, Folder 15
Visual system
General note
ca. 1996. Miscellaneous handwritten notes and diagrams on the visual cortex, consciousness and qualia. Includes "Note for
Mind-Brain Talk," handwritten draft entitled, "Consciousness, Where are We Now?," dated July 1996, and outline entitled, "My
Talk at Resner [?] Meeting."
WRITINGS OF OTHERS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 9) WRITINGS OF OTHERS: Articles and advertisements featuring or quoting Crick, including articles commemorating the
40th anniversary of the double helix discovery in 1993, articles about Crick's family, Linus Pauling's 85th birthday celebration,
Sydney Brenner's 2002 Nobel Prize, and an article about James D. Watson's tenure as head of the Human Genome Project at the
National Institute of Health. The series also includes scientific reprints, a book review of Crick's
What Mad Pursuit, and numerous poems mentioning or inscribed to Crick.
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
"ADN: les 40 ans de la double helice"
1993
General note
Oversized article in newspaper LE QUOTIDIEN DU MEDECIN regarding 40th Anniversary of double helix discovery. In French.
Box 20, Folder 16
Anderson, E.S. "Up the Krick with Watson" - Poem
Box 20, Folder 17
Angell, Roger
1981
General note
Printed copy of poem entitled, "Greeting Friends" published in the December issue of THE NEW YORKER that mentions Crick.
Box 20, Folder 18
Baum, Rudy
1986
General note
Contains article entitled, "Caltech Celebrates Pauling's 85th Birthday" in CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS, with photograph
of Pauling and Crick.
Box 20, Folder 19
Bradford, Robert
2003
General note
Article entitled "A Man, a Worm, and a Nobel" published in SALK SIGNALS about Sydney Brenner's receipt of the 2002 Nobel Prize
quoting Crick, his longtime friend and scientific collaborator.
Box 20, Folder 20
Calvin, William H.
1988
General note
Book review entitled, "Gene Genius" of Crick's WHAT MAD PURSUIT: A PERSONAL VIEW OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, published in the
SEATTLE WEEKLY, on November 9.
Box 20, Folder 21
Casement, Richard
1980
General note
Article entitled "How to Get a Bright Idea" published in THE ECONOMIST and includes a biography of Crick and a crossword puzzle
based on his life and work.
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
"Challenge Spirit"
1987
General note
Oversized full-page newspaper article featuring Crick. In Japanese.
Box 20, Folder 22
Chohan, N. Anubhava
1979
General note
Photocopy of poem entitled, "Magic."
Oversize FB-447, Folder 1
"Constellation"
General note
Undated, unsigned broadside [possibly associated with composer Christopher Gaynor].
Box 20, Folder 23
"Dream Kitchen"
General note
Undated and unidentified poet. Includes poem entitled, "The Park."
Box 21, Folder 1
Hofstader, Douglas R.
1976
General note
Contains typescript of working outline entitled, "Godel, Escher, Bach" and musical score and dialogue entitled, "Crab Canon."
Box 21, Folder 2
Kung, Chiang
1981 - 1984
General note
Contains photocopies of ten scientific papers and abstracts regarding Kung's research into ion channels in Paramecium.
Box 21, Folder 3
Melnechuk, Theodore
1983
General note
Article entitled, "Dreaming: A Startling New Analysis from the Man Who Brought You DNA" published in PSYCHOLOGY TODAY as the
cover story regarding Crick and Mitchinson's dream theory.
Box 21, Folder 4
"People at Home"
1965
General note
Article in the NORTHAMPTON AND COUNTY INDEPENDENT regarding the Dickens family. Crick's paternal aunt was Mrs. Arnold (Winifred)
Dickens.
Box 21, Folder 5
Poems
General note
Undated. Contains two typescript poems by unidentified authors.
Box 21, Folder 6
Rothschild, Victor (Lord)
General note
Undated magazine interview mentioning Crick.
Box 21, Folder 7
"Salk has New President, CEO"
1995
General note
Copy of SALK INSTITUTE NEWSLETTER article announcing official election of Crick as president and Charles L. Massey as chief
executive officer.
Box 21, Folder 8
SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK: Proceeding 'B' of the Sixth Indian Congress of College Going Scientists
1983
General note
Article entitled, "Scientists Mystify Science" quoting Crick from his book, OF MOLECULES AND MEN.
Box 21, Folder 9
Woddis, Roger
1977
General note
Contains photocopy of poem entitled, "Howl of Anguish: (After Browning)," originally published in THE NEW STATESMAN alluding
that Crick's move to America was prompted by Britain's high taxes.
Box 21, Folder 10
Wright, Robert
1990
General note
Contains article entitled, "Achilles' Helix: Mr. Huxley, Mr. Darwin: Meet Dr. Watson," originally published in THE NEW REPUBLIC,
July 9 and 16, regarding James D. Watson's appointment as head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institute of Health.
ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 10) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES: Originals of brittle or high acid content documents that have been photocopied.
Box 21, Folder 11
Originals of preservation photocopies
Accession processed in 2007
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 11) CORRESPONDENCE: Letters from four generations of the Crick family (including Crick's mother, aunts, cousins, and
grandchildren) as well as from numerous long-time personal friends including: Sumi Adachi, Eprime Eshag, Jan Ellison, Pauline
Finbow, John Gayer-Anderson, Patsy Lambe, Peter Lawrence and Brigitta Haraldson, Robin Marris, Francoise and Dominic Michaelis,
Walter and Judy Rosenblith, Gunter and Mirji Sachs, Kirsti Simonsuuri, Vanji Thorgerson, and Edith Weisz. The correspondence
is arranged alphabetically by last name.
Box 22, Folder 4
Bergelin, Marthe (Odile's cousin)
1951
Box 22, Folder 5
Bergelin-Mettai, Elaine (Odile's cousin)
1977 - 2001
Box 22, Folder 6
Bhargava, Manorama
1981 - 2007
Box 22, Folder 7
Binkley, Nick
1999 - 2006
Box 22, Folder 8
Bonnaud, Evelyn
1981 - 2004
Box 22, Folder 9
Boulesteix, Guiton and Mado (Odile's maternal aunts)
1951 - 1988
Box 22, Folder 10
Boulesteix, Madeline (Odile's cousin), ca. 1990s - 2007
Box 22, Folder 11
Boulesteix, Michel (Odile's cousin)
1987 - 2002
Box 22, Folder 12
Braitenberg, Elizabeth
1978 - 2001
Box 22, Folder 16
Crick, Annie Elizabeth (Francis' mother)
1954
Box 22, Folder 17
Crick, Camberley (granddaughter)
1990 - 2003
Box 22, Folder 18
Crick, Elizabeth (Mrs. Alfred) (Francis' aunt)
1948 - 1950
Box 22, Folder 19
Crick, Gabrielle (daughter)
1978 - 2007
Box 22, Folder 20
Crick, Michael (son)
1954 - 1980
Box 22, Folder 21
Crick, Odile (wife)
1951 - 2007
Box 22, Folder 22
Crick-Langdon, Kindra (granddaughter)
2001 - 2005
Box 22, Folder 23
Crick-Nichols, Jacqueline (daughter)
1976 - 2007
Box 22, Folder 25
Darking, Sue (Francis' cousin)
1985 - 1992
Box 22, Folder 28
Eshag, Eprime
1978 - 1999
Box 23, Folder 3
Finbow, Pauline
1989 - 2005
Box 23, Folder 4
Fost, Harold and Doreen
1999 - 2006
Box 23, Folder 6
Gayer - Anderson, John
1977 - 1992
Box 23, Folder 9
Hurt, John and Tammy, ca. 1970s - 2006
Box 23, Folder 11
Jumsai, Sumet
1987 - 2003
Box 23, Folder 13
Karstens, Peter and Renee
1985 - 2007
Box 23, Folder 16
Lawrence, Peter and Brigitta Haraldson
1991 - 2007
Box 23, Folder 17
Lyons, Francoise (née Speed - Odile's niece)
1980 - 2006
Box 23, Folder 19
Malrick, Mary Ann (née Crick - Francis' niece) and Ward
1976 - 2006
Box 23, Folder 20
Marris, Robin
1988 - 2003
Box 23, Folder 21
Masnell, Jennifer
1991 - 2007
Box 23, Folder 22
Michaelis, Francoise and Dominic
1987 - 2007
Box 23, Folder 23
Morgan, Howard
2000 - 2007
Box 23, Folder 28
Ramsay, Linda
1995 - 2006
Box 23, Folder 29
Rosenblith, Walter and Judy
1982 - 2004
Box 24, Folder 1
Sachs, Gunter and Mirji, 1980 - ca. 2000s
Box 24, Folder 2
Sarrud, Lawrence (née Bergelin - Odile's cousin)
1992 - 2002
Box 24, Folder 3
Seuss, Alisse
1989 - 2004
Box 24, Folder 4
Simonsuuri, Kirsti
1976 - 2006
Box 24, Folder 5
Speed, Alain (Odile's nephew), 1999 - ca. 2000s
Box 24, Folder 6
Speed, Bruno (Odile's nephew)
1973 - 2006
Box 24, Folder 7
Speed, Maria-Therese (Odile's mother)
1949 - 1951
Box 24, Folder 8
Speed, Philippe and Marguerite (Odile's brother)
1977 - 2006
Box 24, Folder 9
Southgate, Peter and Monica, ca. 2000s
Box 24, Folder 10
Southwell, Clover
1981 - 2002
Box 24, Folder 11
Stapp, Monique
1979 - 1999
Box 24, Folder 12
Sugden, Marian
1954 - 2000
Box 24, Folder 13
Swanson, Larry and Neely, ca. 2000s
Box 24, Folder 15
Thorgerson, Vanji
1977 - 2006
Box 24, Folder 16
Tomkins, Millicent
1987 - 2006
Box 24, Folder 18
Unwin, Nigel and Janet
1995 - 2006
Box 24, Folder 20
Vandenbergh, Nancy (née Scott ?)
1979 - 2004
Box 24, Folder 21
Vaughan, Debbie, 1976 - ca. 2000s
Box 24, Folder 24
Watson, Jim and Liz
2000 - 2004
Box 24, Folder 26
Wilkens, Esther (Francis' aunt)
1954
Box 24, Folder 28
Zhang, Shuguang
2003 - 2006
CONDOLENCE CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 12: CONDOLENCE CORRESPONDENCE: One folder with approximately 25 sympathy cards and letters received by Odile Crick
in late-2004 and 2005. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by last name.
Box 24, Folder 30
Condolence letters
2004 - 2005
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 13) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS: Biographical materials such as Crick's alien registration card (1976); an invitation to
a reception on Queen Elizabeth's yacht (1983); pen and ink portraits of Crick by his wife, Odile; photographs of Crick and
others; writings by Crick; and a small metal double helix model.
Box 24, Folder 31
Alien registration card
1976
Box 24, Folder 32
Churchill College - Fortieth Anniversary Messages from the Founding Fellows
1980
General note
Printed copy of the CHURCHILL REVIEW with Crick remembrances of the chapel incident and the issue of allowing women to dine
at High Table.
Box 24, Folder 33
Consciousness
General note
ca. 2002. Handwritten notes on consciousness and a handwritten draft of a letter discussing a paper to be entitled, "A Framework
for Consciousness," (later published with Christof Koch in NATURE NEUROSCIENCE, February, 2003).
Box 25, Folder 1
DNA modeling material
General note
Undated. Metal modeling material in a double helix shape.
Box 26, Folder 1
Invitation
1983
General note
Printed invitation from Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to a reception on board the yacht, HMY
Britannia , at San Diego, February 26, 1983, at 10 pm.
Box 26, Folder 2
Landscape and gardening notes, ca. 1990s
General note
Handwritten notes on desirable plants, sketches of landscaping schemes for the desert house, and watering schedules.
Box 26, Folder 3
Miscellaneous materials
General note
Poems, newspaper articles, and a photocopied typescript of "Love is a Fallacy," by Max Shulman.
Oversize FB-473, Folder 1
Portrait
General note
Undated pen and ink drawing by Odile Crick of Francis Crick in various postures sitting in a chair reading.
Oversize FB-473, Folder 1
Portrait
General note
Undated pen and ink drawing by Odile Crick of Francis Crick at a desk writing.
Box 26, Folder 4
Photographs
General note
ca. 1930s - 2004. Photographs of Francis and Jim Watson, Odile as a young woman, three of Odile's paintings, Francis with
Odile and others, and May Brenner.
Box 26, Folder 5
"A Structure for DNA"
General note
ca. 1950s. Undated, handwritten draft on blue note paper with annotations.
ODILE CRICK MATERIALS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 14) ODILE CRICK MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS: Contains appointment calendars kept by Odile Crick; a notebook of expenses
associated with her art; the printed card she used to respond to the voluminous amount of condolence correspondence she received
after Crick's death, a printed memorial card (featuring one of her watercolors) and photocopied newspaper obituaries printed
after her own death on July 5, 2007.
Box 26, Folder 6
Book-lending notebook
1962-1973
General note
Hard-bound notebook listing book titles borrowed from the Cricks' home library, with borrowers' names and return dates.
Box 26, Folder 7-14
Calendars, appointment
1953, 1966-1970, 1975-1976
Box 27, Folder 1-12
Calendars, appointment
1977-1988
Box 28, Folder 1-11
Calendars, appointment
1989-1996
Box 29, Folder 1-5
Calendars, appointment
1997-2002
Box 30, Folder 1-5
Calendars, appointment
2003-2007
Box 30, Folder 6
Condolence thank you card
2004
General note
Printed card Odile used to reply to the large amount of correspondence she received after the death of Francis Crick.
Box 30, Folder 8-9
Dinner notebooks
1976-1996
General note
Spiral notebooks listing dinner guests, meals served, and comments on successfulness, quantities, food preferences, etc.
Box 30, Folder 10
Family transactions book
1974-1986
General note
Handwritten notations of loans and other financial transactions among the family.
Box 30, Folder 11
Jaeger family of Walchied
1993
General
Genealogical materials on the family of Odile Crick.
Box 30, Folder 12
Ledger - Art expenses
1982-1989
General note
Printed accounting book with handwritten annotations.
Box 31, Folder 1
Memoir fragments
1995 and undated
General
One handwritten and one photocopied short memoirs by Odile Crick describing her experiences in World War II and meeting Francis
Crick.
Box 31, Folder 2
Memorial card
2007
General note
Proofs and final printed card the Crick family sent out after Odile's death. Includes a reproduction of one of her watercolors.
Box 31, Folder 3
Name and address books
General note
ca. 1990s. Printed books with handwritten annotations.
Box 31, Folder 4
Passports
1969-1998
General note
British passports of Odile Crick.
Box 31, Folder 5
Obituaries
2007
General note
Photocopies of Odile Crick obituaries that appeared in the NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, UK INDEPENDENT and the ASSOCIATED
PRESS.
Box 31, Folder 6
Salk Institute
1991-2003
General
Correspondence, notes and ephemera regarding the Salk Institute Association and special events at the Salk Institute.
Accessions processed in 2016
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 15) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS: Awards, clippings, obituaries, ephemera and other biographical information regarding Francis
Crick. Includes photographs, correspondence, and neuroscience diagrams that Crick kept on his office bulletin boards at the
Salk Institute, and a personal narrative by Crick on his childhood in Northampton. The series also contains correspondence,
ephemera and a booklet for Crick's two memorial services at the Salk Institute. See the VIDEO RECORDINGS series for videos
of both services.
Box 31, Folder 7
Program for the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scientist of the Year event
1999
Box 31, Folder 9-11
Bulletin board materials
1976-2004
General note
Correspondence, photographs, ephemera, and diagrams of the brain and neural systems that Crick kept on his office bulletin
boards.
Box 31, Folder 12-13
Clippings and magazine articles regarding Francis Crick
1976-2005
Oversize MC-006-04
Garden folly (viewing platform) inspection records and plans for the Crick residence in La Jolla
1989
Box 31, Folder 14
Northampton
1999-2006
General note
Includes recollections by Crick of his childhood in Northampton, and images and information on the Francis Crick memorial
sculpture.
Box 32, Folder 1-2
Remembering Francis Crick - Memorial service at the Salk Institute
2004
General note
Includes a booklet of the slide presentation, correspondence, invitation lists and ephemera. See the VIDEO RECORDINGS series
for a video of the event.
Box 32, Folder 3
A Visit with Francis Crick - Interview transcript courtesy of Carolina Biological Supply Company
1989
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 16) CORRESPONDENCE: Correspondence between Crick and his family, friends, colleagues and publishers. Includes a color
reproduction of Crick's 1953 letter to his son Michael explaining the structure of DNA. Additional correspondence may be located
throughout the collection.
Box 32, Folder 4
Birthday cards and letters
1997-2001
Oversize FB-473, Folder 11
80th birthday card
1996
General note
Poster board card with photograph of the Salk Institute and signatures of the staff.
Box 32, Folder 5
Churchill College, University of Cambridge
2002-2004
Box 32, Folder 6
Color reproduction of letter from Francis Crick to his son Michael on structure of the DNA double helix
1953 March 19
Oversize MC-006-05
Get well cards
undated
General note
Poster board cards with photographs of the Salk Institute and signatures of the staff.
Box 32, Folder 9
Petitto, Laura
1985-1995
General note
Includes photographs of Francis and Odile Crick.
Box 32, Folder 11
Smith, Elizabeth G.
1984-1997
General note
Includes photographs of Francis Crick.
SUBJECT FILES
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 17) SUBJECT FILES: Ephemera, clippings, correspondence, and other materials regarding universities attended by Crick,
organizations and special events, and the 50 Anniversary of the Double Helix celebration. Includes photographs and information
on artwork commemorating Crick in Northampton and Cambridge.
Box 32, Folder 13
50th Anniversary of the Double Helix - Publicity and ephemera
2002-2003
Oversize FB-473, Folder 11
Beyond the Double Helix - Poster for presentation by the Deans' Council College of Letters and Science at UCLA
undated
Box 32, Folder 14
Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
1981-1992
General note
Includes photographs and information on the stained glass windows commemorating Francis Crick and the double helix.
Box 33, Folder 1
Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
1993-2005
Oversize FB-473, Folder 11
Koch, Christof. A Framework for Thinking About Consciousness. Salk Institute for Biological Studies Francis Crick Lecture
poster
2004 March 10
Box 33, Folder 2
Nobel Laureate Park at La Jolla Shores - Plans
undated
Oversize FB-473, Folder 11
The Problem of Visual Awareness - Poster for lecture by Crick at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1994 June 13
Box 33, Folder 3
Secular Humanist associations
1996-2002
Box 33, Folder 4
University College London
1991-2005
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 18) WRITINGS: Drafts, correspondence, agreements and reviews for Crick's published and unpublished writings, including
his books
The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994),
Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature (1984), and
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery (1988). See also the Northampton file in the series 15) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS for a personal narrative by Crick on his childhood.
Box 33, Folder 5-6
The Astonishing Hypothesis (The Neural Basis of Consciousness) (1994) - Correspondence, agreements, and reviews
1985-1999
Box 33, Folder 7
The Central Problem of Molecular Biology - Book outline
undated
Box 33, Folder 8
The Conformation of Nucleic Acid - Lecture manuscript by F.H.C. Crick and J.D. Watson
undated
Box 33, Folder 9-10
Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature (Directed Panspermia) (1984) - Agreements and review
1979-1985
Box 33, Folder 11
"Proteins - The Simple Picture" and "Proteins - The Complications." Chapter drafts
undated
Box 33, Folder 12-14
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery (1988) - Correspondence and reviews in English and German
1987-1997
WRITINGS OF OTHERS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 19) WRITINGS OF OTHERS: Manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, ephemera, and reviews of published biographies of Crick
and histories of molecular biology and neuroscience research that concern Crick. Includes drafts of
Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets (Robert Olby, 2009),
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Matt Ridley, 2006), and "Remembering Francis Crick" by Oliver Sacks.
Box 33, Folder 15
Koch, Christof.
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach (foreword by Crick, 2004) - Reviews, ephemera and correspondence
2004
Box 33, Folder 16-18
Olby, Robert.
Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets (2009) - Correspondence and annotated drafts
2003-2005
Box 33, Folder 19
Olby, Robert. On Becoming a Molecular Biologist: The Early Career of Francis Crick - Correspondence and annotated manuscript
2003
Box 34, Folder 1
Ridley, Matt.
Francis Crick: A Short Biography (Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code) (2006) - Annotated manuscript
2005
Box 34, Folder 2
Sacks, Oliver. Remembering Francis Crick - Manuscript
2005
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 20) PHOTOGRAPHS: Photographs of Francis and Odile Crick, James Watson, and researchers from the Salk Institute and
other research institutions.
Box 34, Folder 3
Contact prints - Roll D
undated
General note
Includes Francis Crick, Dr. Dixon of SCARF, Renato and Maureen Dulbecco, Gerald Edelman, Niels Kaj Jerne, Betty Lang, Harry
Resinar, and Ed Self.
Box 34, Folder 4
Photograph of a circular staircase inscribed, "DNA Model!"
undated
Box 34, Folder 5
Fondazione Carlo Erba group photographs
1963
Box 34, Folder 6-7
Francis Crick
1987-2003 and undated
Box 34, Folder 8
Francis Crick and James Watson
undated
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Francis Crick lecture
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Group photographs include Francis and Odile Crick; Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein; Princess Grace of Monaco; Dianne Day;
Marq Debary; Frederic and Pat de Hoffmann; Curt Mileikowsky; Conte Theo Rossi; Mary, Viscountess Rothermere; George Sulzer;
Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Jr.; Léon and Miriam Velge; and Odette Wurzburger.
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Marvin Minsky. Erevan, Soviet Armenia
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Meeting photographs
1979-1988
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Group photographs from neuroscience conferences, featuring prominent colleagues.
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Odile and Francis Crick
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Royal Artillery course, Edinburgh University
1944
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Group photograph; inscribed "Speed" (family of Odile Crick).
SOUND RECORDINGS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 21) SOUND RECORDINGS: Audiocassette tape recordings of interviews and lectures by Crick on DNA and neuroscience research.
Original media formats are restricted, though researchers may request that listening copies be produced in advance of their
visit.
Box 35, Folder 1
The Biggest Diamond: 40 Years of DNA
1993 April 27
General note
Francis Crick, James Watson, Max Perutz, Fred Sanger, Aaron Klug and Andrew Griffiths interviewed by John Newell for
Discovery.
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Frontiers of Medicine
1983 November 19
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Lecture by Crick on "The DNA Revolution" at the Frontiers of Medicine Symposium, Denver.
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The Future of Man
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Lectures by Francis Crick and Joshua Lederberg, and a reading of Hermann Muller by Gordon Wolstenholme.
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Just Gossiping
1984 November 12
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Francis Crick interviewed by BBC on his education, research, and Nobel prize.
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On the Function of Dream Sleep
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Interview with Francis Crick for
Science Now.
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These Days, KPBS Radio
1994 January 18
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Francis Crick interviewed by Dan Erwin on
These Days, KPBS Radio, about human consciousness.
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VIDEO RECORDINGS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 22) VIDEO RECORDINGS: Video recordings of Francis Crick's interviews, lectures, award acceptance speeches, and memorial
services. Original media formats are restricted; researchers may request that user copies be produced in advance of their
visit. Arranged in two subseries: A) Digital Video and B) Videocassette.
A) Digital Video: An interview of Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel by Soraya de Chadarevian in 1997 and a video recording of
the September 2004 memorial service for Crick at the Salk Institute.
B) Videocassette: VHS video recordings of lectures, interviews, award speeches, building dedications, and the August 2004
memorial service for Francis Crick. Includes home footage of Francis and Odile Crick, and footage of the MRC Laboratory of
Molecular Biology researchers. Includes both American and European format videocassettes.
Digital_file 1
Francis Crick in conversation with Leslie Orgel and Soraya de Chadarevian. Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology
1997 October 14
General note
Part 1: Crick's early career and DNA research. Part 2: Research after the double helix. Part 3: Later research at the Salk
Institute.
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The Chemistry of Memory
1988 December 1
General note
Lecture by Francis Crick at California State University, Northridge for science teachers as part of NSF project 8650081.
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Comments on the Docudrama
1991 February 2 and 1992 February 20
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Francis Crick compares the discovery of DNA structure to the television film
The Race for the Double Helix (1987) at California State University, Northridge. Two lectures for NSF science teacher programs and Eisenhower fellows.
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Consciousness: The Nature of the Problem. From DNA to Consciousness
1999 March 4
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Lecture by Francis Crick on the neurobiology of perception at the Salk Institute as part of the Stephen W. Kuffler lecture
series.
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Dream Sleep
1986 November 20
General note
Lecture by Francis Crick at California State University, Northridge on the neurobiology of dreaming. Introduction by Steven
Oppenheimer.
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Francis and Odile During Visit of Hans Noll in La Jolla
1985
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Footage of Francis and Odile Crick and Johanne Noll in La Jolla and Switzerland. Includes footage of paintings by Odile Crick.
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Francis Crick Memorial
2004 August 3
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Memorial service for Crick at the Salk Institute. Includes recollections of Crick by Christopher Kintner, Renato Dulbecco,
Kathleen Murray, Leslie Orgel, Jacqueline Crick Nichols, and Michael Crick.
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Franklin-Wilkins Building Dedication, King's College London
2000 March 22
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Remarks by Francis Crick on DNA research for the dedication of the Franklin-Wilkins Building, taped in advance.
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Hinxton Hall Conference Centre Naming Ceremony
2000 November 24
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Dedications of the Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and James Watson Pavilions, and of the Francis Crick Auditorium at the
Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge. Speakers include Maurice Wilkins and James Watson.
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How do We See?
1988 February 4 and 1997 February 20
General note
Lectures by Francis Crick on human and primate visual systems at California State University, Northridge as part of a NSF
science teacher education program.
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Human Brain and Vision
1995 February 16
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Lecture by Francis Crick on visual psychology at California State University, Northridge, as part of a NSF teacher enhancement
program.
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Interview with Crick and Watson, La Jolla
1998
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Francis Crick and James Watson discuss their DNA research.
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Liberty Medal Presentation Acceptance Remarks
2000 July 4
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Francis Crick's acceptance speech for the Liberty Medal, recorded in advance, on DNA research and its implications for society.
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Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England.
DNA in Reflection
1962-1983
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Footage of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology researchers, including Crick, 1962-1963. Also a short film by Anand Sarabhai
and Hans Boye depicting Crick's DNA model as seen through a kaleidoscope, 1982-1983.
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Origins of Life on Earth
1993 February 18
General note
Lecture by Francis Crick on the molecular origins of life given at California State University, Northridge as part of a NSF
science teacher enrichment program.
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Roda de premsa. Trobada amb professors a Cas Jai. Conferencia. Universitat de les Illes Balears
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Lectures by Crick on neuroscience and visual perception at a press conference and meeting with teachers at the University
of the Balearic Islands. In English and Spanish.
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San Diego Pathfinders with Sir Francis Crick
1994 August 11
General note
Francis Crick interviewed by UCSD Chancellor Richard Atkinson and
San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Neil Morgan on his neuroscience research. Produced by UCSD-TV.
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Die Stillen Stars (The Silent Stars)
1986
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Francis Crick interviewed by Frank Elstner on his Nobel prize and research. In English and German. European format video cassette.
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Trotter Prize Acceptance Speech
2001 October 26
General note
Crick's acceptance speech for the 2002 Trotter Prize, recorded at the Salk Institute, on
The Astonishing Hypothesis.
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University College Northampton, Opening of Library Extension
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Remarks by Francis Crick for the dedication of the University College Northampton Library Extension, taped in advance.
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