Medical Research Council

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
University Medical School
Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH
England

telephone Cambridge ( 0223 ) 48011

telex - 81532

4th October 1979

PrAfessor F.H.C. Crick,  FRS
TV& Salk Institut
P,OBox 1809
Fan Diego,   California 92112

[Dear Francis,

                      I
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  i      At the end of last week we had a cheerful
           celebration and I gave the enclosed talk, at the
           end of which I handed Sydney the key to the
             laboratory -  an absurdly large golden key which
        ;,the workshop had made for me, with the amber codon
           i,carved out as the part that fits the lock. We
L---.Ic.. - .- - _ -   _.   were all as cheerful as the enclosed picture
                indicates.  Next evening,  a car knocked Sydney off
             his motorbike with the result that he is now in
           Addenbrookes with a compound fracture of the tibia
            and fibula and an injured knee.   He is in traction
          but luckily not at all concussed nor has he any
            internal injuries,  so that he is able to read and
           conduct the lab's business from his bed, but what
            an unfortunate thing to happen!

    May I remind you to send me those pictures
of yourself which you promised me?

Yours ever,

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