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STATE UNIVERSITY

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DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER ¢ DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY

Psychology Laboratory

Box 32

July 22, 1971

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California

Dear Marguerite and Josh:

This will be a very brief note, intended mainly to say hello, though
the past year has been quite an eventful one, so that there is really much
to tell.

As you may know, Evy was laid up - and in and out of hospitals - from
September to mid-March, when she finally had surgery for removal of a disc
and a fusion, Recovery from such surgery is slow but Evy has been doing
well. On top of that we are leaving Downstate, after many, many good years,
and Brooklyn too. Evy will be teaching at Rutgers and we are moving our
whole lab to the Division of Psychological Studies of the Educational
Testing Service at Princeton, where we are really going to have an excep-
tionally fine research setup. Equally exciting, we have bought a house on
the outskirts of Princeton, toward New Brunswick. [It is a beautiful house,
on a wooded acre and a half, and ridiculously large, so we can put up all
three of you for a visit, which we hope will take place real soon. (Our
Princeton home address is 88 Balcort Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. )
Our boys are also set up in new independent quarters. Joe as you know was
married last fall and lives near Albert Einstein. Andy, who is at Columbia,
just got an apartment of his own.

As a final bit of reporting, | should mention that we have succeeded in
setting up a really fine study of noninstitutionalized XYYs in Denmark, The
social records there make it a far better place than the United States to do

the study. I will tell you more on a later occasion about the set up we
have created for the study in Denmark. | am sure you will find it most
interesting.

So, anyway, the Witkins are alive and well, but in Princeton instead
of Brooklyn. We are eager to hear how things go with all of you. Tell
David that | am taking his captain hat with me into our new life and in
fact | am taking it with me to wear on the ship on our trip to Europe in
August.

Love from house to house.

Cordially,

HAW /hw Herman'A, Witkin

MAILING ADDRESS: 450 CLARKSON AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11203 TPHONE: (212) 270-1000

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