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[stamped, JAN 7 1977]
Y. Hirota
Dec. 30th, 1976
Professor J. Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California 94304
U.S.A.
Dear Joshua:
As I have telephoned to you this September, I shall visit California at Santa Barbara on Jan. 2nd to Jan 8th of 1977, in order to attend the Gordon Conference on Bacterial Cell surface.
Taking this opportunity, I would like to visit you very much.
There is a little problem about the date and time of my visit you, and I would like to know, how I should be able to manage it.
Because of my visit of U.S. this time is strictly regulated by the administration of Japanese Government which sponcered [sic] my visit of Santa Barbara. I am ordered by them to arrive Jan. 2nd, stay Santa Barbara, and leave US on Jan. 9th to come back Japan. No modification of this schedule is allowed to me.
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Y. Hirota
The Conference will over at Jan. 7th (Fri), noon.
Under these circumstances, I am able to visit Stanford on Jan 8th (Sat) morning, or Jan 7th (Fri) late afternoon.
I am worrying a case if you could not be in your office on these data and time, then it become difficult to see you there. If this is the case, I might skip the Conference a day to see you, althugh [sic] I would very much like to attend the whole Conference.
I shall telephone you at your office from Santa Barbara regarding this matter. I feel very sorry to give you my tight schedule at this late, but I could not do it the sooner.
Under the separate mail, I sent to you the 2nd version of a manuscript to P.N.A.S. (Matsuhashi et. al). Two Zerox [sic] copies are included. Please find it, and I would like to learn your opinion on it when I visit Stanford.
Jack Strominger, Michio Matsuhashi, and me shall meet at the Gordon Conference to discuss about the manuscript. So that please keep it in your hands.
[cut off digital scan, Thank you very much,
and Sincerely yours,
Yuki]