Letters mainly concerning successful work on penicillin ('Am extremely cheerful' 11 Jan.); visit from K. Lonsdale with news that 'M.R.C. would back me up to £3000' 4 Mar.; Bernal's proposed research institute 11 Mar. (Ferry p.225); appointment as University Demonstrator n.d. (Ferry p.224)

Contains letters regarding election to the Royal Society 14 Mar. (Ferry p.229) and refusal of visas for eight UK scientists to visit Soviet Union 24 June; letters from America, Oct.-Nov., on Hodgkin's first trip to USA (Ferry pp.231-235)

Family now living at Powder Hill, Oxford. Some letters include contributions from the children.

Contains letters regarding Hodgkin's postponed visit to Holland and news of Stalin's death 'comes as a sad blow' 7 Mar.; from Moscow, Sept., on Hodgkin's first visit to the Soviet Union, led by Bernal, very enthusiastic (Ferry pp.266-271)

No letters survive for 1955 but letter of 8 Jan. 1956 refers to correspondence of the previous year.

The Hodgkins were now living, together with her sister, Joan Payne and her children, at 94 Woodstock Road, Oxford.

Contains letters regarding Margery Fry's memorial service and Honorary Degree for J.W. Crowfoot, Hodgkin's father; to Thomas at Institute of Islamic Studies, Montreal, Canada, Oct.-Dec., includes letter on 'Nobel Prize troubles', news of Anna Davin's pregnancy and marriage 'come Christmas' to Luke, (Ferry p.282 and p.288) and deputation on disarmament to House of Commons 11 Dec.

Contains discussion of possible career moves to Leeds, or to Imperial College London; appointment to Wolfson Chair May (Ferry pp.283-284)

Letters include brief reference to Cuban Missile Crisis 'expecting the worst from Kennedy at midnight' 23 Oct., and award of Nobel Prize in Chemistry to M.F. Perutz and J.C. Kendrew 'which is extremely nice and wholly deserved', 6 Nov.