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PALO ALTO, CAL. 94301

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Dear John and Betty

We did have a marvelous time in Borrego. We stopped at Culp Valley, then Coyote
Creek and Fish Creek Wash. One night we had Font's Potnt to ourself. The week
before Xmas is certainly the time to go; and the weather was superb. The warmth
of your own welcome and hospitality was a great sendoff; and I hope you will let
us reciprocate around San Francisco.

You were teasing us to question us about the desert. We found out where Harper
‘Flats are; but we had no means of getting there (and not the time to backpack).

Thank you for the remarks about Pollister and Dunn. I hope you will also keep
in mind recording some of your own mem recollections about disciplinary parochialism.

My own note to Natute fs too kind, in some ways, to the "classical geneticists"--
of which, by the way, Stent calls me the Last; but whatever impediments there were
to the free growth of molecular biology in the late 40s surely were not based an
ignorance of the work of Avery and others. I have tom give high marks to the people
at Yale and Wisconsin for providing homes for Tatum and myself respectively; at a time
when Tatum was unpromotable from an asst. professorship at Stanford (This was 1944!).
Ravin has also quoted a rather bitter remark of Harriett's. (encl.)

Anyhow, I hope it's not too long before we can get together again;

all the best from Marguerite and

P.S. Take no trouble about it, please; but if you stumble across a very thin
leather glove, _ it may be maxn mine, and will fit neadily in the ehclosed self-
addressed( My concern ts more sentimental than practuétal,)