Aug 20 56 Dear Dr Kornberg It is with the greatest interest that we hear of your experiments on the syntheses of DNA. We are now finishing the details of our X ray diffraction work on DNA and would be very interested to widen our studies somewhat. I wonder if your work has yet reached a stage where you might be able to produce sufficient material for X ray study? (one or 2 mgms would do). In any case we would be very glad if you could send in reprints of your publications on this subject. Yours sincerely MHF Wilkins