January 23, 1974

Dr. T.A. Lambo

Deputy Director-General
WorH Health Organization
1211 Geneva 27 SWITZERLAND

Dear Tom,

Thank you for your rather flattering letter of January 14th.
Of course, I will be delighted to send you whatever material I still
have available that would be helpful to you in completing your collection.
IT am not sure there is very much that will be very exciting from a

bibliophilic standpoint but I will send you a package under separate
cover by surface-mail.

In fact, I have become somewhat interested in the historical aspects
of my own field and have been distressed at the extent to which revealing
documents have been rather carelessly destroyed by those of my colleagues
who have a rather anti-historical temperament. Fortunately there is a
concerted effort, particularly by people in the American Association of
Arts and Sciences, to try to remedy this but I am sad to say that there is
already a great deal of material as recent as the 1940's that would have

shed light on some very interesting developments and which is now no
longer recoverable,

I am sorry too that my personal commitments did not allow me to
join you on the present occasion for the tour in Africa but I will
certainly be eager to look for further opportunities where I can
possibly be of assistance. I hope conversely ‘that we may have an
opportunity to see you here before too much longer.

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg

JL/rr