Sep 13 '72
Dear Beets
Some of the enclosed may amuse, more than enlighten, you.  I can't understand
how Wyatt could underestimate how well you had passed the word in 1944-45!
I write particularly to ask if you have any copies of correspondence from Francis or from me, esp. 1944-45 relating to the origins of ideas about (1) transforming Neurospora, or (2) recombination in E. coli.  I would like to write in some more detail about that period, before other mythologies crystallize; and better documentation would be most helpful.  If you have anything else on the subject, I would certainly appreciate that too.  The matter could get very large if it also encompassed the threads from Luria/Delbruck/Demerec and perhaps Salva should be encouraged to put his on the record. PATOOMB has already recorded, larger than life, that particular side of things.
I will be writing about this to others, especially of course to Ed.
Sincerely,
Josh