November 20, 1958

Dr. Ee. Le. Tatum
Rockefeller Institute
66th and York

New York 21, Now York

Dear Ed;

Thank you for your two notes. J am enclosing a :nemorandum concerning
avalluble jet schedules out of New York. I think that you will find that
the schedule from New York to London does fit a bit better from the point
of view of reasonasle connections to Stockholm It seems to me that the
speed that the jet offers makes a daytime flight a more reasonable propos
{tion than would be the case with earlier aircraft. + have a definite
booking on the flight indicated and gather that they are not so crowded
as to discourage the possibility of your being able to join the same flight
if you care to do so. But I do think it would be advisable for you to get
som reservations to protect yourself.

You will also have heard from Ciba Housa, which I had occasion to con-
tact on unother .zatter. tf you have never stayed there I would ernestly
reccommend it to you for the experience itaelf as well as for the assur-
ance of excellent accomod:.tions without having to worry about advance
reservations in London or the cost. You will have to contact Ur. .iolstenholme
directly and 1 hope it wiil not put you out if you decide not to accept.

Besta wrote asking about plans for the Nobel lectures. I don't see
any probl :m at all here although 4 am, of course, counting on the backe
ground tiat you and he will develup as the very basis of the later work
Iwill report. JI had in mind a somewhat simplified version, brought up
to date, of the review of mechania..1 of recombination that 1 wrote for the
Oak Ridge symposium in 1955. It certainly is not the most exciting thing
in the world to zo over old material in this fashion, but f hope to be able
to find some different slant to it. I should mention that I'm going to make
every effort within tiie legal terms of the award to postpone my own present-
ation to a later visit to Stuckholm this coming gnring. I don't know how
well the authorities there will take to this idea.

I've just received, (by surface mail!) a very cursory stateme:.t from the
Nobel Foundation about the affairs. But I also saw Enders and vieller at
Harvard last week and they gave me somewhat more detailed information about
the ceremonios. I rially think the only thing to do is to contact some of
tae previous sward winners like Lippmann or Du Vigneaud.

4 have to mention the strong possibility that Ester will not be accom
panying me after all. ‘The problems of getting the lab closed up and moving
within three weeks after returning from Stockholm are beginning to sound
somewhat too formidable,

ror the tine being I wouldn't make an issue

of this except as between ourselves.

I imagine we will all be rather relieved when all the ceremonial
is over, Looking forward to seeing you, und to that tine,

AS ever,