Dear Dr. Tatums

I have the pleasure of handing you herewith the
Secretary's letter announcing your appointment to a General
Education Board fellowship. I wish to congratulate you upon
the outcome of your application and to express the hope that
you will have a most happy and profitable experience.

You will note that this award is for a twelve months!
period, although your request was for ten months. It is the
expectation of the officers that if you are able to carry out
your plans and complete your work within the ten months' period
you will do so without availaing yourself of the additional
period provided. If, however, toward the end of the ten
months! period it becomes apparent that you have not com
pleted your work and if the summer closing of the laboratory
and absence of the professor do not prevent you from working
effectively, you would be at liberty to continue for the
additional two months or such part thereof as may be necessary.
In either event I shall wish to have a letter from you after
about nine months, telling me whether you plan to terminate
your work at the end of the ten months’ period or at a later
date.

Sincerely yours,

dao ft Bia Manor

Frank Blair Hanson.

Dr. Edward L. Tatum

University of Wisconsin
Department of Agric, Bacteriology
Madison, Wisconsin

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