Item RM/20/1 - Interview with Margaret Markham Notes and Photographs

Extent: 1 folder

Envelope labelled 'Roy Markham, April 1997', connected with conversations and a proposed recorded interview with Margaret Markham (Roy's wife) conducted by Rosemary Harvey/Elizabeth Stratton (JIC Archivists). Reprint: R E F Matthews, 'Roy Markham: Pioneer in Plant Pathology' (1989), Annu. Rev. Phytopathol., 1989, 27: 13-22. VRU Christmas card showing the Surface Structure of Tobacco Mosaic virus. Letter from Rosemary Harvey (JIC Archivist) to Elizabeth [Stratton], the successive JIC Archivist, April 1997, with a list of questions to ask Margaret Markham concerning her memories of Roy and the VRU, includes some anecdotes about Roy Markham and the unit, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Rough notes by Rosemary [?] about the interview. Newspaper clipping, ' Norfolk plant propagation has big future', showing a photograph of Roy Markham presenting a certificate to Jane Saunders at the Norfolk Sch. of Horticulture and quotes from Markham about work at the VRU, no date, c 1960s. Photographs: An early photograph of Roy Markham, no date, c 1950s. Maurice Rees and Roy Markham drinking in Hull? no date, c 1960s. Roy Markham with unidentified man, Leningrad, Russia, 1960. Entrance to the Virus Unit, c 1962. Roy Markham, his wife Margaret and unknown man, Tokyo 1974. 3 microscopy [?] photographs, one in mount folder.