March 13, 1989
Dear Professor Anfinsen:
Many thanks for your prompt response to my letter requesting your views on the origin of the universe, of life and of homo sapiens (I enclose a copy of the letter).  I found your replies to the questions profoundly illuminating as well as deeply moving.  It is a great honor for me to include them in the anthology Origins: Scientific Perspectives.
I was particularly impressed by your comment that "We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place."  If you have the time I would greatly appreciate your expanding a little further on this theme for the anthology.  My home address is the one above.  You can write me either here or at the Yale Physics Department.  Thank you very much again for your collaboration in this challenging venture.
Cordially yours,
Henry Margenau