4 letters between Roy Markham and David Lipkin: Dates RM to DL: 13 Jun, Maggie Markham to DL: 6 Sept. DL to RM: 30 Jan, 11 Sep.
11 letters between Roy Markham and David Lipkin: breakdown of turnip yellow mosaic virus nucleic acid by ethanol, 'coding', cyclic adenylic acid, TYM virus, Leon Heppel, iodoguanosine, visit to America. Dates RM to DL: 5 Mar, 5 Oct, 15 Oct, 22 Nov and 19 Dec. DL to RM: 19 Feb, 15 May, 18 Sep, 6 Nov, 3 Dec (x2).
7 letters: RM to DL: 31 March, 6 June, 6 July, 25 Dec. DL to RM: 4 June, 30 Nov 1963 and 23 Jan 1964, : general personal news, electron microscopy, ncyclic nucleitide compounds; David Dunn and Jack Hitchborn, Mick Johnson, acyl groupings in viruses, coding with synthetic polynucleotides, TMV, RNA and other chemical/enzyme experiments with hand drawn diagrams; Waldo Cohn, building of the new labs at the John Innes Centre.
4 letters RM to DL: 14 April DL to RM: 8 April, 7 July, 2 Dec: taking on Jack Abrell as a lab assistant, research, Waldo Cohn, preparation of iodoadenosine
3 letters: RM to DL: 27 April. DL to RM: 21 Jan, 18 April: visit to C P Snow, Mick Johnson, Jack Arbell, Arthur Bancroft, making barbituric acid riboside and doxy riboside, cyclocytidine, iodinating s-RNA, 6- fluorocytidine, design for some sort of electric circuit?.
2 letters: RM to DL: 24 Feb, DL to RM 6 March: Leon Heppel, Jack Abrell, gas chromatography, new glass-house (JIC),
5 letters: RM to DL: 3 Sep 1967, 7 March, 22 April 1968. DL to RM: 8 March, 24 April 1968. RM about taking on the directorship of John Innes and the move to Norwich; the current state of staff, facilities, finances etc., Bert Baker, Sidney Elsden, Maurice Rees, Dick Synge, Waldo Cohn, Mick Johnson, work/research, family news, riots in Washington, Baltimore and Nashville, the Vietnam war, parcel sent to Roy of Mallinckrodt nickel sulfate.
16 letters: 14/11/1970: to RM: congratulatory note from Lord Todd on move to Norwich. 5/1/1972: to RM from 'Kev' (ARC) 12/1972: to DL from Maggie Markham 2/4/1973: to DL from RM: financing of science in the US and England, John Bancroft 16/4/1973: to RM from DL: short, family news 21/2/1974: to RM from W M Henderson (ARC): on talk RM gave about the John Innes Institute. 9/10/1975: to RM from DL: asking about a lab assistant in JII who had evidence of a plant converting pyrimidine into nicotinamide derivative and DL's subsequent own experiments and results with diagram, mass spectrometry (sequencing polypeptides and polynucleotides) 17/10/1975: to DL from RM: family, colleagues (Maurice Rees, death of David Cooper). Photograph of David Cooper attached as the person that might have asked DL about pyrimidine being converted to nicotinamide derivative. 16/3/1977: to DL from RM: coming US visit, electron microscope, Sidney Elsden, Mick Johnson 30/3/1977: to RM from DL: short reply to above 21/11/1977: to DL from RM: RM supplied ref for DL for Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for proposed sabbatical visit to Rome. 8/2/1978: to RM from DL: DL's trip to South America, difficulties with Rome sabbatical at Rita Levi-Montalcini's laboratory due to the political and economic situation in Italy, asks RM if he can come to labs at JII instead 15/2/1978: to DL from RM: short reply to above 27/2/1978: to RM from DL: coming visit to England. 7/3/1978: to DL from RM: as above 5/5/1978: to DL from RM: request for nickel sulphate Loose papers: table seating plan for the Athenaeum. 21 Dec 1972 and the programme for the first John Innes Symposium, 4-6 July 1972.
To RM from Robert van Tubergen (Robert Peter van Tubergen, Yale Biophysics Dept., New Haven, Connecticut, USA) re working as research fellow at VRU, 10 Mar 1959. Btw RM and Springer-Verlag, Heidleberg/Berlin, Germany, re payment, 'Moderne Methoden der Pflanzenanalyse', 10 Jul, 28 Aug 1959. To Dr E Reid (cc to RM), Chester Beatty Research Inst., London from A G Ogston, Chairman of Editorial Board of the Biochemical Journal, re papers not suitable for publication, 1 Aug 1959. To RM from Barbara E Holmes, re meeting of the Faraday Society, Cambridge, 6 Aug c 1959. Btw RM and C J O R Morris, Dept of Experimental Biochemistry, The London Hospital Medical College, London, re Frank Hogarth to work at VRU, 6, 10, 31 Aug, 7 Sep 1959. To RM from E Otto, Heidelberg, Germany, re Cellulose Ion Exchangers, request for bulletin, experimental kit, 10 Aug 1959. To RM from E C Webb, Dept of Biochemistry, Cambridge, re lectures for postgraduates, 10 Aug 1959. To RM from Gerald Smilovitz, University of Washington, USA, re request for article 'Paper Chromatography of Mononucleotides and Oligonnucleotides' for uridine derivative detection, 18 Aug 1959. Btw RM and Dr A I McMullen, The British Rubber Producer's Research Assoc., Welwyn Garden City, re visits, 18 Aug, 7 Sep 1959. To Dr Milton Paul Gordon, University of Washington, USA from F A Johnson, Chief of Tech. Advisory Staff, re permit to import virus material, 25 Aug, 1959. To RM from Martin Pollock, Med. Research Council, London, re Munro's viva, 26 Aug 1959. Btw RM and Dr Harvey I Scudder, Virology and Rickettsiology, USA Public Health Service, Bethesda, USA, re Dr John W Littlefield, reference request for grant for Harvard Med. Sch., 2, 7 Sep 1959. Btw RM and Prof. Michael Stoker, Virology, Glasgow University, Ph.D candidate, Davidson, 14, 21 Sep 1959. Btw RM and W V Thorpe, The Biochemical Journal, London, re dinner for A G Ogston, RMs role on committee, 14, 21 Sep 1959, 8 Mar, 13 May 1960. Receipt for 'Cruelty to Animals Act 1876', from the Under Secretary of State, Home Office, London, 15 Sep 1959. To RM from M J Orvis, Unicam Instruments Ltd., Cambridge, re SP 700 recording spectrophotometer, 16 Sep 1959. To RM from Osvaldo Lovisolo, Ministero Dell'Agricoltura E Delle Foreste, Rome, Italy, re comments on Vol. II of 'The Viruses' and relevance to work in Italy, eg., TBSV in Italy, Petunia virus, 5 Oct 1959. To RM from Matthys Staehelin, Basel University, Switzerland, re visit to VRU with some S-RNA of rat liver, 2 Oct 1959. Paper: 'Some Footnotes on Protein Synthesis, A Note for the RNA Tie Club' by F H C Crick and S Brenner, Dec 1959. To RM from Gobind[?] (H Gobind Khorana?), Madison, USA, re abbreviation and nomenclature rules, 16 Feb 1960. Btw RM and the Leaf Manager, Ceylon Tobacco Co. Ltd., Ceylon, re unidentified virus infection in tobacco plants, 9, 9, 13 May 1960. Btw RM and Frank R Naden, Buckingham Education Committee, Aylesbury, Bucks., reprints/subscriptions, 9, 13 May 1960. Btw RM and Roderick MacLeod, Glasgow, re starting research work at the VRU, 10, 13 May 1960. CV of Milton J Schlesinger, nd, c 1959-1960.
One letter to F.W. Maitland, Downing Professor of Law, University of Cambridge, 1899; the other to Sir Joseph Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1918.