In this letter to Lederberg, Davis regretted that he could not provide more first-hand experience as to the reception of Avery's "transforming principle" during the mid-1940s. Davis directed Lederberg to Stent's "Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology," which he referred to as "a much more serious distortion of [Avery's] early history."
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