THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

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May 7, 1987

JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Ms. Yoshiko Hirota

Research Facility for Nucleic Acids
Institute for Chemical Research
Kyoto University

Uji, Kyoto-Fu 611

Japan

Dear Yoshiko Hirota:

Thank you for writing me about your mother's and
your feelings about Yukinori's death. It was such a
. Shock to me: I can only imagine what it must have been
to you as part of his family.

I appreciate your very kind words about the role
that I was very happy to play in helping your father
gain his place in science. Of course I only wish that
could have reached a complete fulfillment, with the

usual span of time that we should feel we have allotted
to us.

But now please tell me about yourself: I have not
had much news about you since you were a little girl.
I see that you are in research in nucleic acids in
Kyoto. Would you tell me a little more about what you
are doing, just what stage you are at in your own
career?

Yours sincerely,
bo

. shua Lederberg