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JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Professor Richard Wilson

Energy and Environmental Policy Center
Harvard University

79 Boylston Street

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Professor Wilson:

I was very glad that you sent your proposal to the
Department of Erergy and that I had an opportunity to com-
ment on it. I am certainly hopeful that you will be given
the opportunity to continue this vitally important work.

In the event that doesn't work out (and I have no
reason to predict the result one way or the other) it oc-
curred to me that there might be a couple of other places
that might be interested in the effort. Amongst the foun-
dations in New York, I think of Jack Sawyer at the Mellon
Foundation and Bob Ebert at the Milbank Fund. And I have
every reason to think that Chauncey Starr at the Electric
Power Research Institute in Palo Alto would be quite in-
terested in trying to help arrange support; I suspect that.
they are not bereft of funds either.

Tf there is anything that you would like me to do --
including sending an informal copy of the proposal you sent
to DOE or making any other. introduction that you believe
would be helpful, please just let me know. I will be in
Palo Alto a good part of the summer (care of the Genetics
Department, Stanford) and would be happy tc talk directly
to Chauncey or to try to help arrange a meeting if that
isn't adding the superfluous. Sometime, too, I hope you
have a chance to meet D. Warner North who has a contract
from EPA to explore the whole decision analysis framework:
it is hard to see what would be more important inputs than
your own analysis.
Professor Richard Wilson
July 2, 1980

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My secretary here in New York will of course forward
any mail but if there is any question of needing to contact
me more urgently I suggest that you call here first to get
my immediate whereabouts.

You (and good luck) sincerely,

 
    

hua Lederberg