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Box MS Add.7955/19-23(part)

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Contains 2 Results:

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Letters on genetics, 1895-1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7955/1-22
Scope and Contents

Letters to Hurst 1895-1946 and to Mrs Hurst 1948-1971. The letters are arranged chronologically in bundles 1-22, and have handwritten notes by Mrs Hurst about writers and subjects filed with them.

Dates: 1895-1971
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Evolution of Genetics, 8 Jan. 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7955/23
Scope and Contents

Typescript of unpublished book by Rona Hurst, based on the letters: "I have been working on them for some years, and after much research in genetical and scientific literature I have written them up into a continuous story of early genetics." Preface dated 8 January 1971, 26 chapters (2897 pp.), and an appendix added in 1974, when Hurst's letters to Bateson came to light in the Bateson papers in the USA.

Dates: 8 Jan. 1971
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).