Vier Maid

July 15, 1958

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Dear Keeas §

- I have been looking forward to writing this letter, to be able te tell
you for myself that all the obstacles seem to have been overcame and we
can hope for a formal announcement fram the medic&a school perhaps by the
time you receive this letter. This is in a way a reply to your last long
letter of a year ago, Barring some ridiculous calamity, all the isaues
have been stated and clarified, and there are only a few remaining for~

_, malities, essentially to sign a contract already enthushestically agreed
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The discouragements and setbacks last year could hardly have been better
designed, in retrospect, to ultimately bring about an arrangement that could
hardly be more satisfactory, especially fran the standpoint of a close asso~-
ciation with Arthur and his group, and also for the mission of deserved
emphasis on science in general and genetica in particular in training for
medicine and for medical research, In other words, this looks very good
and we could hardly be more delighted at the prospective outcone,

So I will repeat my speech of last year, no less sincerely if more sub-
atentially, how pleased and grateful I have been for your longstanding
interest, and now how much Esther and I look forward to the opportunity
of seeing you more often, I know that my students (who will be youra) will
feel the same way about it.

Our detailed moving plana are indefinite; July is the most libbay date
for our actual move, but it may come sooner, We're flying off to Paris and
Stockholm next week (any remote possibility of your attending the microbiology
congress? though I shouldn't ine} on an affair like that would be any more
to your taste than it is to mine) and will be back at Palo Alto about Sept.
3-10, actually before we get home to Madison again.

With a toast to more and better microbiophily,

Sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg