UNITED STATES
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON 28, D. C.

September 16, 1955

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

Please excuse my delayed reply to your letter of September 3.
First of all, I want to tell you how glad I am that the
present, revised and detailed, version of your paper makes
your point of view entirely clear to me. I find myself in
agreement with it; in the previous correspondence, I think
that we were discussing rather different approaches and
different things.

There is a great deal I would like to add to this, by way of
discussing and comparing our respective standpoints. I agree
with you that the best way to do this will be in oral dis-

cussion. I may be away from Washington October 27, but I xX
expect to be here on the 28th and 29th. Could you give my s
office a ring when you get here? We should then have very 2

little trouble in adjusting our respective plans for those >
days in getting tozether. ny
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Looking forward to seeing you, 3
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Sincerely yours, 2

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Palm tm inna

John von Neumann

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Prof. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
College of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

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