Jamusry Th, 1957
Air Mail

Mr, A. Tomasz

c/o F, Gorog

9%=50 43rd Drive
Forest Hills

Long Island, New York

Dear Mr. Tomasz:

Thank you for your very welcomed letter of January 20, I am very
pleased to learn that you have succeeded in making your way to this country,
after your trouble, and in establishing a new relationship, The best of
suecess to you,

You should find your experience at the Sloanekettering Institute a
very profitable one, Please give my best regards to Dr, Grown,

Actually I am locking forward to a somewhat crreater chemical emphasis
in my work in the near future, I would have made every effort to accome-
modate you immediately, owing to the emergency situation, but in fact a
later date would be more convenient, I will be very oleased to continue
to hear from you concerning your progress and future plans, ‘rder separate
cover I am mailing a set of reprints which may be of interest to you.

As I may have written to you, my colleague Professor Halvorsen was
interested in the plans of your colleacue “Mr, Lengyel, I have told him of
this letter that I just received, In addition, Vice President I, L, Saldwin
of this university had also attempted to communicate with Mr. Lengyel and
yourself with regard to the possibilities of coming to this university, It
would be a point of some courtesy if you could tommunicate briefly with Dr.
Baldwin yourself ard tell him of your present situation.

I will be very havpy to write to Professor Gyorffy, as I am especially
interested in learning of his recent work, I had looked forward to mecting
him at the symposium at London in March, and will be disappointed if he is
unable to attend, However, it seems to me that any attempt on my part to
intervene in such a matter would be at best futile and at worse directly
harmful, ‘what concretely would you suggest?

I have recently been in some correspomence with your countryman Juhasz,
who is apparently still in Hungary. He has recently been working along lines
somewhat similar to our own investigations, At some future time, when this
becomes possible, it would be of some interest if he could visit this laboratory.
Do you know anything of him?

For the present I will close by merely again wishing you the very best
of success,
Yours very sincerely,

/nbn Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics