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Dr. Joshua Lederberg wAT EVE OCT 27 1979_

The Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue

New York, N.Y. 10021

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Dear Josh: BROADWAY AT 65 ST 580-9630,

8:00 PM
This is a belated reply to your letters of September 26,
October 2 and your note of October 16. As for my donation,
I was highly pleased to find myself in a position to help in
your efforts to advance the "continuing progress of the
Universities' research and educational programs". I am
one of the few remaining veterans of the Rockefeller Institute
where I received a sound training in the scientific method
which continues to yield to me profitable dividends.

I place the highest value in our relationship over your first
year at the helm. We at the Memorial Sloan Kettering are so
preoccupied with daily routines that there is altogether too
little opportunity for free and open discussions and evaluation
of our various research endeavors. And so I am most grateful
that you manage to find time in your busy schedule to allow

me to think out loud with you and discuss my research projects
and science in general.

Taking all into account only the fondest memories remain of

my seven years at the Institute and any unpleasant association
with a one-sided and a most "unhappy fellow" of the genius
variety no longer surface to disturb me. In closing I should
like to quote from Julian Huxley's plea to the gifted and
highly creative individual that they promote man to evolve
from the status of homo sapiens to that of homo humanus.
To: Dr. Joshua Lederberg October 23, 1979
Page 2

I look forward to the December 3 event and my list of guests
include among others the newly married Stewart Mott. The /
names and addresses are in the hands of Bob van Valer. ~~

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Philip Levine, M.D., F.R.C.P.

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P.S. The delay in my reply is the result of preoccupation
with the grant application, moving back to the Lotos
Club and other sundry matters.

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