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Folder labelled ' Virus Unit Correspondence 1960-69 mainly re staff': (mainly re the VRUs move to Norwich on 1 Nov 1968, retaining, terminating employment, references etc.) Btw RM and W Ness (ARC) re Spino ultracentrifuge, 13 Dec 1960, 4, 10, 16, 17 Jan 1961. To RM from J H Shimwell, ARC, re duty on import licence, 1 June 1961. Btw RM, Alexander Oates (ARC), Richard Keynes (Inst. of Animal Physiology, Cambridge), Dr W E Berry (ARC), Katherine A Parent (Patents Dept., Div. of Research Grants, USA) re inventions and patents, 18, 24, 24 Jun, 2, 2 July 1963 and 1 nd [ c1963]. From Nick Xeros, University of Melbourne to RM and btw RM and Dr T Tinsley, University of Oxford re Virologist position, 15 May, 31 July, 5 Aug 1964. From P Ramsden to C F Rivers, VRU re being transferred to the Insect Pathology Dept., Oxford, 3 May 1968. From Reg to RM, job acceptance, 18 May 1968. Btw RM and Cambridge County Council re reference for Miss B A Childs, 17, 22 May 1968. 2 letters to VRU staff re employment arrangements after move to Norwich, 2 Aug 1968. Btw RM and Miss Yvonne R Carter and a testimonial for YRC to Dr H E Huxley, Cambridge Med. Research Council, 28 June, 2, 9 July, 23, 25 Sep 1968. From RM to Beryl Lean, Cambridge, 11 Nov 1968. Btw RM and Miss B Yule, Country Planning Officer, Cambridge, re an industry questionnaire, 9, 14 April 1969. Report by Council for Scientific Policy on the VRU: 15 pages, 1 page per research department detailing overall description, title, staff, explanation of project, equipment, when started and duration, nd [c 1967-8].

Glass slides, negatives and some prints of viruses and diagrams, some marked R Horne (Robert W Horne): 6 Ilford Plate Special Lantern Contrasty boxes (5 labelled: 12 plates 6.5 x 9 cm), 1 Ilford Plate Thin Film Half Tone 12 plates 2.5 X 3.5 in, 1 Kodak Plates 8.2 x 8.2 cm, 1 : hand written labels include 'Bacteria', 'Polio', 'L & C + Saponin-Reversable'; yellow kodak box (22.5 x 17.5) labelled '5 x 4 negs, virus models, diagrams etc.' containing assorted glass slides and negatives; shoe box of loose/enveloped negatives, some with handwritten labels ('adenovirus', 'herpes', 'Asian flu', 'Sendai virus', 'Mumps virus' 'published polio virus plates', published herpes virus plates', 'Mycoplasma virus (Compton), 'published ORF virus', 'symmetry diagrams, virus models etc.', 'phage diagrams and published data', 'Kew Wallis'.

Correspondence regarding exchanges of virus samples, specimens to analyse, results, methods, advice etc., from Britain, Europe and USA, mainly 1960-63.

Virus Research Unit correspondence and photographs

Memo. re. virology budget

'Virus Diseases of Plants' by AD Hall

Letter to Roy Markham from Robert W Fulton, Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, USA, re a manuscript ('Amino acid composition of a non-functional tobacco mosaic virus protein' by M Zaitlin and W F McCaughey) for comments on by Markham, 11 Mar 1965. Manuscript (x 2) of 'A Study of the Self-Assembly Process in a Small Spherical Virus Formation of Organized Structures from Protein Subunits in Vitro', J Bancroft, G Hills and R Markham, 1966. 8 pages of photographs, illustrations and list, c 1965. Leaflet: proof copy instructions, Waverly Press Inc. Letters btw Roy Markham and Dr Myron K Brakke, University of Nabraska, USA, re return of manuscript with suggested amendments, 29 Aug, 14 Sep, 24 Oct 1966.

Letter, notes and prints.

Contents of a small envelope so inscribed. 8pp manuscript notes, chiefly in Bateson's hand, apparently relating to the work of J.-M.-P.L. de Vilmorin.