Rosalind Franklin (45 page)

‘the pleasantest possible memories': RF to LP, 19 Oct. 1954, PA.

 

SIXTEEN
New Friends, New Enemies

‘She needed a collaborator': Judson, op. cit., p. 172.

‘old cronies': Jacob, op. cit., p. 262.

‘No one could match': Watson,
The Double Helix,
p. 72.

‘As you probably expected': N.W. Pirie to RF, 6 Dec. 1954, FRNK 2/33, CAC.

‘Many thanks': RF to N.W. Pirie, 7 Dec. 1954, FRNK 2/33, CAC.

‘There not being an ultracentrifuge': RF to Barry Commoner, 4 Mar. 1955, FRNK 2/33, CAC.

‘Facts are facts': author's conversation with DC, 6 Dec. 1999.

‘registered for a PhD degree': Carlisle, op. cit., p. 36; RF to KCH, 6 Jun. 1955, JNC.

‘It takes imagination': AS interview with AK, and speech at St Paul's: ‘She worked beautifully': Heather Brigstocke, ‘Report by the High Mistress at Prizegiving', 27 Sep. 1983,
Paulina,
1983.

‘would have gone': JC interview with KCH, 23 Jun. 1985.

‘We want to make': author's interviews with KCH, 24 Jan. 2000 and 30 Oct. 2001.

‘C'est un endroit': VL interview with author, 26 Oct. 1998.

‘She questioned his intellectual abilities': author's interview with Bryon Wilson, 8 Feb. 1999.

‘We never looked back': author's interview with Stan Lenton, 13 Jul. 1999.

‘if he might work with her': DC to RF, 9 Apr. 1955, FRNK 2/33, CAC.

‘if that doesn't put you off ‘: RF to DC, 19 May 1955, CAC.

‘and she turned out': DC to author, 6 Dec. 1999.

‘Hey, Ros!': KCH to author, email, 5 Aug. 2001.

‘She didn't seem to know': Evi Wolgemuth to author, 11 Jan. 1999.

‘She was a good aunt': author's interview with AK, 9 May 2000.

‘girl of eighteen': W.G. Alexander to JDB, 2 May 1956, ARC archive/Cox.

‘a rather concentrated solution': RF to Dr P. Kaesberg, 18 Jul. 1955, FRNK 2/33, CAC.

‘Crick suggested': FHCC to RF, 3 Jun. 1955, FRNK 2/33, CAC.

‘I've had a long talk': JDW to RF, 22 Jul. 1955, FRNK 2/33, CAC.

‘cut back': A.J. Caraffi to RF, 15 Dec., 1955, FRNK, CAC.

‘My age is 35': RF to JDB, 25 Jul. 1955, Birkbeck College Crystallography Laboratory, CAC.

‘her annual salary': A.J. Caraffi to RF, 15 Dec. 1955, CAC.

‘Slater refused': see RF's ‘Notes on meeting with Slater', 29 Sep. 1955, CAC.

‘exceptionally distinguished': Glynn, op. cit., p. 267.

‘Presumably somebody': RF's notes on meeting with Sir William Slater, 29 Sep. 1955, CAC.

‘we must remain dependent': R. Franklin, ‘Progress Report of the Agricultural Research Council group in Birkbeck Crystallography Laboratory, for the year 1955 (accompanying application for renewal of grant)', FRNK 2/36, CAC.

‘his position is such': ibid.

‘Meeting Rosalind': author's interview with Dan Jacobson, 16 Aug. 2000.

‘tea party': Prof. Dr D. Grdenic to AS, 11 May 1970.

‘even capable': Fred Dainton to AS, 8 Nov. 1976, ASA.

‘The wives': The Ciba Foundation programme for symposium on ‘The Biophysics and Biochemistry of Viruses', 26-28 Mar. 1956, Novartis Foundation.

‘As I have never been': RF to AW, 25 Feb. 1956, ASA.

‘But, did anyone': author's interview with FHCC and Odile Crick, 22 Apr. 1999.

‘is concerned with': R. Franklin, ‘Note on the Future of the ARC Research Group in Birkbeck College Crystallography Laboratory', 9 Mar. 1956, CAC.

 

SEVENTEEN
Postponed Departure

‘Newcastle supplier': RF to R.H. Joyce, 29 May 1956, JNC.

‘Her work': JDB to Sir William Slater, 18 Apr. 1956, FRNK 2/31, CAC.

‘a table with a copious': RF to MF, 16 Jun. 1956.

‘an abnormal patch': RF to MF, 24 Jun. 1956.

‘but on an American scale': ibid.

‘by quite a large amount': RF to MF, 24 Jun. 1956.

‘However, as it's better': RF to AK, 21 Jun. 1956, JNC.

‘Don is injecting': RF to AK, 25 Jun. 1956, JNC.

‘His young staff': WLB to RF, 26 Jun. 1956, JNC.

‘The quality and quantity': RF to MF, 15 Jul. 1956.

‘Eh wot?': author's conversation with William Ginoza, 5 Mar. 2001.

‘The answer': Betty Siegel to author, 9 Aug. 2001.

‘a very brilliant ex-Italian': RF to parents, 15 Jul. 1956. This and subsequent details of the mountain trip from the same letter.

‘sharp pains': AS to GCD, 23 Jun. 1976; also author's interview with Mair Livingstone, 15 Feb. 1999.

‘or alternatively on bribing': RF to parents, 26 Jul. 1956.

‘As on my last trip': ibid.

‘Rosalind used to glow': Ethel Tessman to AS, I Jan. 1976, ASA.

‘I'm going to see Don': RF to AK, 5 Aug. 1956, JNC.

‘friend from the East': RF to MF, 9 Aug. 1956.

‘Then, in spite of everything': ibid.

‘chaste': author's interview with DC, 19 Dec. 1999.

‘might have loved': Sayre, op. cit., p. 184.

‘a delightful man': AS, two-page letter to John Simmons, archivist of All Souls College, Oxford; post-publication correspondence, ASA.

‘Most telling for me': Irwin Tessman to author, 19 Dec. 1999.

‘I've been waiting twenty years': author's interview with Dr June Goodfield, 27 Feb. 2001.
‘very
good looking': Caroline Carlson to author, 4 May 2000.

‘You're not pregnant?': author's interview with Dr Mair Livingstone, 15 Feb. 1999.

‘there is no reason': Dr Linken to Mr Norman Morris, 30 Aug. 1956, UCH.

‘URGENT': W.C.W. Nixon, UCH Case No. AD 1651.

‘treatment with ribonuclease': RF to Wendell Stanley, 30 Aug. 1956, JNC.

‘a large proportion': RF to Dr Pomerat of Rockefeller Foundation, 31 Aug. 1956, JNC.

‘the findings are most unfortunate': Prof. W.C.W. Nixon to Dr Linken, 5 Sep. 1956, UCH Case No. AD 1651.

‘size of a croquet ball': Prof. Nixon, UCH notes for Miss Rosalind Franklyn [sic], ‘Right oophorectomy and left ovarian cystectomy', Case No. AD 1651, 4 Sep. 1956.

 

EIGHTEEN
Private Health, Public Health

‘second operation': Prof. Nixon to Dr Linken, 3 Oct. 1956; also Histology report, 3 Oct. 1956, UCH Case No. AD 1651.

‘agitated': AS notes following Jacques Mering interview, 28 May 1970, ASA.

‘much in love with Mering': AS to Einar Flint, May/Jun. 1970, ASA.

‘a truly immense': ibid.

‘Use my flat': Kerlogue, op. cit.

‘everything is going very well': RF to AS, postmarked 25 Oct. 1956, ASA.

‘I think it is my bedtime': M. Franklin, op. cit., p. 20.

‘female' and ‘I'm afraid': Boston University Prof. I. Dorothy Raacke, Biological Science Center, to AS, 22 Jan. 1976, ASA.

‘Reactions': RF to AS, 18 Mar. 1957, ASA.

‘emotional and confused': RF to AS, 8 Oct. 1957, ASA.

‘I have heard': JDW to AK, 13 Nov. 1956, JNC.

‘Please give Dr Klug': MW to Biophysics Research Unit, 22 Nov. 1956, JNC.

‘Recent work has shown': R. Franklin, ‘Application for Research Grant E-1772, Department of Health, Education and Welfare', p. 3, JNC.

‘The thing that impressed': RF to AS, 18 Mar. 1957, ASA.

‘Dear Sage': Lord Rothschild to JDB, 25 Mar. 1957, ARC 253/57 Council Minutes, 19 Mar. 1957.

‘I feel in the long run': FHCC to AK, 14 Dec. 1956, JNC.

‘Rosalind is well': AK to Dr P. Newmark, University of Kansas, 27 Feb. 1957, JNC.

‘the final year': W.C. Alexander to JDB, 17 Apr. 1957, ARC 177/57.

‘rat liver nucleoprotein': Mary L. Petermann to RF, 28 Nov. 1956, JNC.

‘The models, he said': R.W. Moulder to RF, 7 Oct. 1957, JNC.

 

NINETEEN
Clarity and Perfection

‘cobalt therapy': begun 15 May 1957, ended 14 Jun. 1957, radiotherapy record, UCH Case No. AD 1651. Observations on': Robley Williams, Friday evening discourse, Royal Institution, 14 Jun. 1957. There is absolutely': FHCC to RF, 23 May 1957, ASA.

‘ One so easily': MP to RF, postscript to previous letter.

‘preliminarily': J. Palmer Saunders to RF, 9 Jul. 1957, JNC.

‘pelvic mass': second opinion, entry for 4 Jul. 1957, radiotherapy record and medical history, UCH Case No. AD 1651.

‘did not have the strength': author's interview with DC.

‘glorious weekend in Zermatt': RF to AS, 8 Oct. 1957, ASA.

‘This was my first': ibid.

‘Luzzati's mother': VL to author, 20 Sep. 2001.

‘In view of the extremely small': JDB to J.F. Lockwood, 4 Jul. 1957.

‘You'll never guess': M. Franklin, op. cit., p. 17; Glynn, op. cit., p. 281.

‘I am myself quite sure': Prof. E.T.C. Spooner to JDB, 10 Oct. 1957, ARC.

‘From Oct. 57' RF curriculum vitae, FRNK, CAC.

‘her stomach had swelled': author's interview with A. Piper, 13 Jan. 1999.

‘chemotherapy': the Royal Marsden Hospital archives are not available.

‘She had seen a parcel': GCD to AS, 9 Jun. 1976, ASA.

‘Why are you going': author's interview with Nina Franklin, 12 Apr. 1999.

‘my old Nurse': will of Rosalind E. Franklin, Central Probate Registry.

‘What does Aaron need?': author's interview with Dan Jacobson.

‘not
that
ill': JG to author, 20 Apr. 2001.

‘
parasseuse'
: RF to VL, 12 Feb. 1958, JNC.

‘If you feel you want': WLB to MP, 12 Apr. 1958, JNC.

‘waiting for some neutral glass': AK to Dr Taverne, 22 Apr. JNC.

‘Still fighting': AK and RF to JDB, 18 Feb. 1958, Cruickshank archive.

‘lack of heavy atoms derivating': AK to DC, 8 May 1958, JNC.

‘most of the winter . . . over together': RF to DC, 16 Mar. 1958, JNC.

‘Perutz came personally': interview with I. Hargittai,
Chemical Intelligencer,
Oct. 2000, p. 29.

‘crawl up': AS to GCD, 23 Jun. 1976, ASA.

‘five pages': RF scientific papers, notes for 28 Mar. 1958, JNC.

‘when both she and I knew': GCD to AS, 31 May 1977, ASA.

‘There is no doubt': ibid.

‘with defiance': AS interview with Jacques Mering, 28 May 1970, ASA.

‘He suspected': ibid.

‘There she is': GCD to AS, 9 Jun. 1976.

‘a brief flicker': [initial illegible] Haddow to JDB, 21 Apr. 1958, FRNK 2/31, CAC.

‘She imagined': M. Franklin, op. cit., p. 15.

‘I'm glad you've come': GCD to AS, 9 Jun. 1976, ASA. Special Correspondent, ‘Atomic Crystal Gazing in Brussels, Glamour of British Tradition',
The Times,
15 Apr. 1958, p. 9.

‘A Research Scientist': Rosalind E. Franklin, death certificate.

‘His senses': W.B. Yeats, ‘Ego Dominus Tuus',
Collected Poems,
p. 367.

‘Rosalind Franklin, Virus Researcher':
New York Times,
20 Apr. 1958.

‘Rosalind Franklin's early and tragic death': J.D. Bernal, ‘Obituary: Dr Rosalind Franklin',
The Times,
19 Apr. 1958.

‘As a scientist': J.D. Bernal, ‘Obituary: Rosalind Franklin',
Nature.

‘She was very modest': Alice Franklin to AS, 24 Apr. 1958, ASA.

‘Rosalind was always good': author's interview with AK, 6 Jul. 1999.

 

EPILOGUE
Life After Death

‘Concerning Rosalind': MW to JDW, 25 Jul. 1966, JNC.

‘dowdier': Watson's phrase in
The Double Helix
is ‘at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed the imagination of English bluestocking adolescent'.

‘required the written consent': JDW to MP, 27 Sep. 1966, JNC.

‘Francis Crick and Wilkins': JDW to MP, 26 Sep. 1966, JNC.

‘In a fierce letter': LP to FHCC, 25 Apr. 1967, JNC.

‘a rather hysterical reaction': Sayre, op. cit., p. 219.

‘I was furious': M. Perutz, ‘How the secret of life itself was discovered'.

‘unfair to me': MW to T.J. Wilson, 4 May 1967, JNC. Wilkins's handwritten notes on an early version of Watson's
The Double Helix
shows that he tried to amend Watson's disparagement of her attractiveness, writing in the margin, ‘often held that she was a very handsome girl', King's College London Archive. In retrospect, Wilkins acknowledges that there was more depth to Watson's book than he recognised at the time, and that the personal interactions of scientists merit recording.

‘Harvard's Board': Watson, op. cit., p. xxii.

‘I would rather': Dr June Goodfield, film proposal, ‘Rosalind', quotes AK hearing this from MF.

‘Professor Watson's Memoirs',
Nature,
217, 23 Mar. 1968.

‘communicates the spirit': G. Stent, ‘A Review of the Reviews', in Watson, op. cit., p. 167.

‘a decisive breakthrough': J.D. Bernal, ‘The Material Theory of Life', p. 325.

‘lines such as': J.D. Watson,
The Double Helix,
pp. 14, 15, 45.

‘the scientist as human being': Mary Ellmann, in
The Double Helix,
from
Yale Review,
57 (Summer 1968), pp. 631-5.

‘Elizabeth Janeway attacked': E. Janeway,
Man's World, Woman's Place,
p. III.

‘had been exacerbated': C. Pert,
Molecules of Emotion,
p. III.

‘Base Pairs': Watson says he meant this interim title to be ironic, a riposte to Crick for disliking ‘Honest Jim', JDW to author, Jan. 2002.

‘quite horribly well done': ‘Lucky Jim',
New Statesman,
29 Nov. 1999, reprint of 1954 review, p. 62.

‘Let's just start': JDW speech at Harvard, 30 Sep. 1999.