McClintock thanked Burnham for assisting her attempts to get Peter Peterson, who would become a noted maize geneticist in his own right, into a graduate program. She informs Burnham that Peterson decided to attend the University of Illinois. Writing just months before her first long "memo" to Marcus Rhoades, McClintock also mentioned the "exciting" direction her research had taken.
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