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Y 335+ December 11, 1978

JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Professor W. Gordon Whaley
313 East 35th Street
Austin, Texas 78705

Dear Gordon:

Coming back to New York, and rediscovering my old
friends like yourself, is also a way that I can recap~
ture my origins and my youth. I have never had a
chance to express my appreciation for what you did offer
to me as a teacher many years ago; and now again I have
the pleasure of acknowledging your very kind and thought-
ful gift to the University which accompanied your letter
of November 29th.

Your letter also brought up a number of other matters,
some of which I think we should defer for personal conver-
sation; and some of which I will reply to more fully, when
I have a few minutes after the trip I am about to leave
on for a couple of weeks.

I would not be at all surprised if heterosaccharides
do feed back to the control of gene expression; and of
course in situations where their own synthesis must be
regulated some such process is a logical necessity. When
the papers you mentioned arrive I will certainly give
them close attention. Meantime, I hope you have also
been following the work of our colleague here, Dr. Gunter
Blobel.

I will also arrange for you to get those copies of
the excerpts from my inaugural address. I wonder if you
have run into David Mumford who might be one of the Texas
people you were hinting at in your letter. Certainly he
was most helpful to me a number of years ago while I was
at Stanford and I have been looking for some chance to
connect with him again. .
Professor W. Gordon Whaley
December ll, 1978

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In a few weeks I will finish what I should have
included in this letter. Meanwhile, my best wishes.

Yo Sincerely,

   
 

Shua Lederberg